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So, just to clarify: The mayor still keeps his position, but he's now a completely useless noble since liaisons path to my Baron instead?

He helps you test your magma traps, usually a bit after making a mandate. Mayors with unreasonable mandates also make great candidates for testing with minecarts.
"Okay, Lord Mayor, you simply push off. Enjoy the madien voyage! Let us know where you land, okay?"
"I wi...wait, what?"
*push*

About cage traps: A single 3X3 line would garuntee that the minotaur gets caught, usually. In case of bad luck (e.g. a swarm of wild vultures or something getting themselves caught), it's probably best to have at least two rows, maybe more.

If you're going to deconstruct the traps after catching the minotaur, don't worry about wagon access.

Ah, I see. I don't think they were "ghosts" so much as "people God dragged out of the afterlife," and I do not remember the story going into much detail about their abilities, but let's get back to the original topic.

Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on June 30, 2012, 08:41:26 pm

Bad luck can always kill you. Escpecially with archers. Escpecially especially with bogeymen. Especially escpecially especially with bogeymen archers...*shudder*

they have weapons now?

Thank Armok, no. I was just making a joke. Try not to leave bows around, though.

I'm insulted. What, I'm not someone? I feel sad when my notable dwarves die untimely deaths, I get angry at the little gray g's when they kill a baby in front of its mother, I'm glad when a particularly annoying dwarf finally kills itself through stupidity.
...Not all emotions are positive, you know.

Quote from: Corai on June 29, 2012, 11:42:14 pm

Dear elves,


HOW. How did you defeat my kobolds? And not even that, you went onto a 100 year long war. With one army, over and over! Destroying about umm, A ENTIRE GOBLIN CIV. Then you went on to cripple a human civ! How!

Sincerly, your kobold overseer



Dear kobolds, goblins, and humans

WHY ARE YOU SUCKING ALL THE SUDDEN?


Sincerly, your kobold overseer

Are they be led by a swilight freak or something? I've noticed that it is possible that bizzare creatures, like mole monsters, lead attackers and utterly own the opposing force. Seriously, It gets to the point where everyone BUT the leader of the force dies, and they still win. I imagine that the opponents just run after a hundred or two are killed single-handedly. It gets prety over-powered if it happens early in world-gen, I've seen utterly tiny defenders (5 kobolds, 3 Unicorns, 3 uh( i forgot, some sort of large cat, maybe a jaguar) and a twilight freak) slaughter 1 thousand elves. with 5 losses.

The twilight freak is probably a normal person who got turned into a night creature. All records on race get backdated.
Corai: Elves might have wooden weapons, but when you live longer than the trees and screw as fast as rabbis, numbers tend to build up. It's probably thousands of elves and some fuzzy-but-deadly animals versus several hundred kobolds. Also, kobolds lack the most important factor for worldgen combat: Size.

Dear Urist McSwordsman,
     Why wont you show that GCS who is the boss, when he has killed a doctor and a craft dorf and ate them?
It is trying to eat you too, but your helm is keeping you safe so do something about that spider!
 Signed,
The person with problems.

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He's probably paralysed. He can't do much when he's losing the battle to get his lungs to do stuff.

Quote from: Corai on June 30, 2012, 09:59:05 pm

Quote from: HugoLuman on June 30, 2012, 09:56:14 pm

You can add a text in the raws that makes it so that some creatures have different names for professions, but I think that all skills right now are pretty much hard-coded.

No. ENTIRE. NEW. SKILLS.


Disciple of Armok, Alchemist, etc etc etc.

Alchemist is already a skill ingame, though unused. He could also have renamed other skills (probably also unused, there are several). I'd like a link to what mod has these, if you will.

Sorry for the ninjaing.