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Are you referring to an older version of DF, I'm not entirely clear on what you mean to suggest.I think that in older versions of DF, historical figures appeared in towns. I agree, this should go back in.
I'm reading your escaped lunatic description, might want to make a few posts before starting a thread. People don't take lunatics seiriously.I agree with this, except I must point out that we are all lunatics to some extent or another.
peregarette has been pm'edFair enough, no clue when the laptop's going to get fixed thanks to RL.
Oh. So, all GreatWyrm's progress was left out? And I have to reclaim again? Shit.Yeah, sadly. Maybe my dwarf'll survive, if I get dorfed. Anyone with mining skill? Also, whose ghosts have been seen? Either of mine?
Ok, I'll try.
Starting off, it's not much like any point in history. Once dwarves start having hopes and dreams and an actual social hierarchy and such, maybe we'll be able to judge where it fits. For now, let's dissect what you've said.The 1400s cut off isn't for technological cut off, but also for social concepts as well. The game is aiming for more medieval fantasy centric, and not industrial revolution.
I would say the game is very little medieval when it comes to social concepts.
-Organized and centralized economy and trade.In an individual fort, yes. Once you get outside of the group of individuals trying to survive against a hostile wilderness and invaders and insanity and other nice things, trade currently seems to be based on little caravans buying and selling random things, with the only "organization" being that the royal government lets them know what's "hot" in a given fortress.
-Centralized aristocracy, not decentralized.Centralized in the player, with duties given to the manager, bookkeeper, broker, hammerer, sheriff, and so forth (some of which are often combined), and also demands from a few other dwarves. Once the player stops giving orders directly to the dwarves, so to speak, this'll happen properly. Besides, how decentralized is any town or other small community? Forts top out at a couple hundred.
-No teocracy.Assuming you mean theocracy, there's no religion to speak of right now aside from the occasional person being cursed. If you mean rule by Spanish or Latin American tea, I have no comment.
-Monarchy is not absolute.Monarchy isn't particularly implemented.
The terrain situation is generally way too fluid for something like that to work. I wouldn't mind a flood fill burrow option, though. Close a couple doors, point. "Everything you can reach from here is one, figure it out."I'd like this. It shouldn't be hard, right? Maybe a few seconds of delay whilst the computer figures out which tiles can be accesed, for large areas?
Perhaps all Dining Rooms become burrows, as well as an uber-burrow consisting of all Bedrooms? That way it generates the burrows at the same time as the most important rooms of a fortress.Meh. I'm not sure how useful those burrows would be.
Shouldn't there be some additional vermin remains showing up around the Mills and Querns? I'm finding it a little hard to understand why the cats in this Fortress are not finding vermin around these two locations. Mills and Querns. Especially since DF doesn't have a floor cleaning broom tool, or sweeping job task. Knutor
...Why would there be vermin there to BEGIN with? And are your cats roaming the fortress, or pastured in the two or three places where the need for getting rid of vermin exceeds the dislike of vermin remains?
Because of the spilled grain. Mice eat grain preferably.
Could someone summarize the issues brought up with having a variable speed toggle?Aside from the major issues required to remake the Fortress Mode engine, and to make dwarves function at equal resource consumption and job completion levels in either speed, this would also screw up everything with combat. If combat is "supposed" to happen at Adventure-Mode speeds, what happens if you're in Fort-Mode speed? Does the game say "Ok, you're at A-M speed?" Or do you let combat occur at F-M speed, invalidating one of the biggest benifets to this suggestion (and also requiring a bunch of unneeded abstraction of blows, if we don't want fights to be decided by who can avoid dehydration the fastest). Those are the biggest downsides I see, and I think the upsides (a synchronization between modes, alleged realism) aren't worth it.
Anser for the quatum storage wagon- W8 limetW8 limet? Do you mean some kind of limit? What is a W8 limet/limit?
Ultimately it would be nice to be able to select where on the map the wagon is initially placedI suppose, but actually being able to push wagons would also be good.
I live in NYC, and I can tell you, It was shit storm out there today, absolutely bizare weather. Big hail,massive amounts of water, some flooding, Lightning to make ou shit your pants.So far, so good, aside from the Footkerchief-bait thing.
Well, we all know that there is some weather in the game, not much. But What I'm going for here is a more effects of weather on your game. Right now, wind is preset, and rain has virtually no effect on my fort whatso ever. But IRL, weather has huge effects. Tornados, flooding, hail, drought, heatwave, and much of this can be modeled in DF easily! We could make the likelyhood of any particular thing dependant on enviroment.
Flooding is obviously the easiest, with rain already a thing. It would just be a matter of making water periodically form on the ground with rain, and alot more often during heavy rain.More alots during heavy rain?
Hail is harder, but dropping small pieces of ice from a height would work, it it could be like rain, with larger pieces being dangerous.Hail can be kinda like snow, except for causing worse thoughts to un(der?)protected dwarves and perhaps the really big stuff actually hurting. Being a Hoosier, I've occasionally encountered hail, and it's not really much more than an annoyance 99% of the time. Savage areas could easily fill the 1%...
Drought, Easyy enough. Make brooks and rivers lower, Hell thats practically already in the game, just a question of degree.And have murky pools dry. The current stuff is more from heat than drought, which makes sense but is underthinking it.
Heatwave could be like reverse freezing to death, but with more degree related effects, i.e. burning of skin, thirsty more often.Just have the temperature rise for heat waves, and fall for cold snaps. Then have those other things occur by the temperature.
Tornadoes would be more difficult, but I could imagine a center of gravity where things neabry rotate around, with building destroyer status.Obligatory TCV Tropes link, showing what's wrong and what's mostly right about your train of thought. Bear in mind that most areas rarely see tornadoes and that those that do won't affect most dwarves much. After all, the best place to be in a tornado is in the basement, no?
