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Everybody's treating this like it's a creature tag, but I think it would make more sense as a behavior that just happens, depending upon the values.

The higher the individual's Family value, the higher the chance that they'll adopt an orphaned relative.
The higher the individual's Friendship value, the higher the chance that they'll adopt the orphaned child of a friend.
The higher the individual's Loyalty (or Cooperation?) value, the higher the chance that they'll adopt an orphaned entity member.
The higher the individual's Sacrifice value, the higher the chance that they'll adopt any orphan.

Animal adoption like the "raised by dragons" situation would be best off waiting for randomized animal personalities, IMO.

As I indicated, I just used the tags format as a way to outline a conceptual approach.  What you've written above is good and it makes sense.  However, we still might need some kind of additional attribute (or attributes) to get the full spectrum of possibilities.

well i'll do the obvious and just recommend the fanart thread, which is about as venerable as such threads come

Thanks. I have tried to dig a bit, here and there in the threads.  However, organising this event is taking a ton of my time, so I am hoping to get some specific submissions or references.

I don't think the "abandon, adopt, only own" spectrum makes sense. Perhaps the more negative something is, the more likely it is to abandon, and the more positive something is, the more likely it is to adopt?

And 0 would be 'wants only own children'.

That's actually the original layout I had - abandon, own, adopt.  The tricky part is that we're trying to get multiple things represented in one number: the abandon/want scale and the adopt/own scale.  It might be better to break it into:

1. [WANTS_CHILDREN:0]
-100 they will abandon kids, 0 they are open, 100 they absolutely want kids
2. [WANTS_CHILDREN:ADOPT:0]
-100 means they only want their own, 0 is netural, and 100 means they would prefer adoption to having their own

Basically, this tag would just allow a creature to adopt a child of the same species, or, if sapient, of any sapient species of the same faction. Why implement it as a tag? Partially because making custom species would be easier, but mostly because realistic vampire bat behavior would be fun. Otherwise, the obvious advantages (making it easier to save newborns whose parents just died, for example) apply. Preferably, said tag would include fields for how willing the species is to adopt and how willing they are to breed.

Nice idea.  I'd suggest something like this, where each value could be -100 to 100:

	-100	| 0	| 100
[WANTS_CHILDREN:0] [WANTS_CHILDREN:GENDER:0] [WANTS_CHILDREN:RACE:0]	abandon only female any race	| adopt | either | only friendly races	| only want own | only male | only own race

I think this would give us a good range.

Dwarf Fortress uses "code page 437" or CP437, though the character set is often, erroneously referred to as "ASCII" (which is a specific set of 128 codes and characters).  Here is a previous post about the topic.

You can download TTF conversions of some matching character sets here:
http://dffd.bay12games.com/file.php?id=1922

Woo hoo!  Finally got this ball rolling!  Please check out the new website.

Malaysia sucks. A lot of reasons which I won't get into now. With the direction society and politics is going, I'll be willing to change citizenship.

So what's a good country to go to?

I'm a software engineer. I've had some entrepreneurial background so anything that recognizes that would be good. But I'd like somewhere I can focus on writing really good code, instead of hacking one thing after another.

Silicon Valley/SF seems like an obvious choice, but visa is really tough. So any other secondary locations would be good.

I've heard that much of Asia can be a little racist and it'd be good to know that from an insider's perspective.

Scandinavia is good bet, though their immigration laws vary. Denmark is listed as "the happiest place". They have a good understanding of balancing work and downtime. It's not particularly warm but there are some nice summers.