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...Huh?

Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on August 18, 2012, 07:56:26 pm

Could you draw a gold dragon or some such?

Eh, my motivation to create avatars has waned though I can easily find one for you.

Meh, I'm actually not that interested. Also, if I did get an avatar, I'd prefer it to be a high-quality Bay12 drawing.

He said something to me, too.

It's probably a bug. An awesome bug, at that. See if you can get the kobold to go into a meeting area or something. Also, look it up in Legends mode at some point.

He's drawing maybe four or five types of footprints, and presumably has tags in the creature raws to say which kind is which.
With faces, you need a couple dozen per race, minimum, AND  ways to code those pics to various traits, AND tags to define it all. That's tags, multiple; you'd probably need to define a picture for a face and then a bunch of numbers for the ranges of fatness, eye distance, nose size, hair length, and so forth. And that's assuming the picture is black-and-white--adding color for skin, eyes, hair, and so forth would be horrible; AND that the picture doesn't account for lost eyes, ears, etc, and scars or the like (which would require dozens more tags, probably, and hundreds more pictures per race). Also, footprints are a pretty important interface feature, while this would be a "meh" thing. I can use my imagination to make a dwarf's face and probably make a better image of it than the computer picking one out of a list of a few thousand potential pics, but I can't just "imagine" where the footprints go if I don't know.

The way air works in DF is that it basically doesn't exist. There's no sense of gaseous pressure at all. Miasma, steam, and mist will spread out and dissipate, but there's no sense of them carrying "pressure" per se, and when they're gone, they're gone totally.

It should be noted that DF is absolutely terrible about thermodynamics. For example, magma is always hot and thus could be used as an infinite heat source, and you've got plenty of cases of free-energy by using pumps and water-wheels.

Also, food is utterly destroyed by consumption--nothing excretes waste--and you can grow an infinite amount of crops from one tile of farmland. Also, animals that don't graze can create a theoretically infinite number of descendants.

Well, forgotten has two T's, but I'm the First Officer of the Really Great Organic Technology, Engineering of New Biological Equipment, And Stuff, Thing. Can you get another T in there? No.
(P.S: I run the Bioweapons, Internal Organs; Growing Lethal and/or Desireable Organics Section of this project.)

As to hive: What do YOU propose?