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Reading the dev blog, I understand less and less the rationale behind the priorities. One would think that implementing/fixing the basic stuff should go first, and complex, advanced and potentially problematic stuff later.

For example, I keep reading crazy stuff about undead, necromancy, spell system, witness reporting with multiple layers of added complexity (and, of course, bug potential).

Meanwhile, the game still lacks basic stuff (or it is buggy), like economy - salaries, hirelings, etc. The clothes bug would be nice to fix. Much effort should be spend optimizing the game, since many players report quitting due to FPS problems created by tracking dust/mist/vapor after a simple cave-in - how much worse will things happen after the game will also track stuff like who knows who is a werewolf and who does not (division of authentic and alleged information layers), who witnessed what when, and what chopped-off bodyparts have developed nice personalities.

Also, extending the development to one release per year brings practical problems - players will age and die too quickly to appreciate the final product!

Okay, the stuff I keep reading on the main page sounds too insane to believe. Chopping off one's arm, animating it with necromancy, and make it enter the Legends after countless deeds of valor? What next? Could it become a ruler of a nation, or perhaps found a dynasty?

The other day, you could just clip your fingernails and hair, animate them, and let them infiltrate an enemy faction, destroying it from the inside with acts of subterfuge. Or just spit by the road, having the spittle to become a teacher and founder of a new monastic order, changing the culture of the land forever.

Insane, I tell you...

I love them! Please post all the links to badger threads here!

Have you tasted the rendering modes? Which one is fastest/most stable?

I have noticed that ordinary animals started to appear in Legends. Is that intentional? I have looked at their history, but they are not special, like a cave bat that lives in some cave and does not do anything. Wolves, bats, cougars, stuff like that.

Have you seen them recently? IMO they were (temporarily?) removed from the game.

Reading a thread about a legendary axedwarf who lost his ability to grasp in both hands due to nerve damage, I thought about the pity this dwarf cannot put on armor by himself and so cannot join future battles as a biting, kicking tornado of pain.

If notable dwarves could be assigned squires who would take care of their equipment and dressed them to battle (it was common for middle-ages knights), he could still go into battle armored!

Creeping into a monster lair, my character smelled a horrible stench. Mustering all his will, he forced himself to proceed down the dim-lit corridor. Suddenly, a grisly scene opened before his eyes - a pestle, mortar, bumblebee remains all around, and in a clay dish in the middle of the room - bumblebee paste. The horror, the madness! What monster could grind those fluffy, buzzing balls of cuteness into such sinister luncheon? Overcome with panic, our hero flees the cursed cavern, never to return again...