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Umm maybe a solution would be making walls with some floors over them like a "T" or a upside down "L" where the floor on top serves as roof for the assaulting units.

Unless they a re mounting giant spiders, in which case you are pretty much f**ked up.

I for one, welcome our new crap titans overlords.... ;P

For the looks of them yes, at least some of them. I'm guessing not all of them but the most important/ancient/central or starting locations ones.

One have to keep in mind that this alternate reality simulator is a monumental task to be done. It's both deeply boring over the long time and incommensurately exciting to watch over it's development at the same time (I'm talking developing-wise for the spectators).

However, from the dev page it'self:

It has also proven too time-consuming to maintain all of the notes in a presentable form, so we're sticking with incomplete lists for the foreseeable future. This page doesn't represent everything we'd like to do. It just has some of the things we're thinking about doing sooner rather than later. We'll be adding to it as specific roadmaps are drawn up and we are closer to using them.

In that approach you could have the best of both worlds. Perhaps craft inclined dwarves would make crafts on their free time or as an occupation, filling your deposits in time. But if the need arises you could still order X amount of crafts from X dwarfs or from "professional" craft dwarfs only, something you can already make.

But honestly, in this regard I think that a better manager would suffice. Better as in being able to tell him to "maintain booze stockpile at this levels" or "always have X logs in the deposit". Then the manager would either send the jobs, and if the jobs are not available (i.e. no trees left in the map), then the manager could even make suggestions on the trade agreement screen. If we go a tad further down the road, we could even let the manager auto manage the entire trade agreement if you choose to.

Exactly as Monk12 has said.

Well as a curse, the subject might try to redeem him/her self by pleasing the God? Maybe if is the God of Life and Hugs the vampire could try to be good, but if is the God of War and Death... well you see where I'm going with this.

Or maybe the vampire does exactly the opposite to redeem itself, just in spite of the curse put upon him. Or maybe he doesn't care for anything and exploit it's own powers to his benefit or that of other simply because. But yes I agree, vampires by definition should be evil creatures, be it ravaging savage animals or scheming and sophisticated.

As for the feeding. I know that by most definitions if not all vampires need life force, be it blood or something more ethereal like the soul, vital energy or feelings of a person. I too consider that a defining trait on a vampire. Then we have vampires that drink the color red out of things leaving them intact.... >.>

However given the nature of Dwarf Fortress (and that's why I asked Toady about specifics to round up this debate), if Toady chooses to we could have vampires that simply suffer from blood thirst but really don't needed to survive, being basically thinking zombies that don't root and might have some extra powers.

My position to have negative consequences on a vampire that don't feed upon whatever the Dice God decides (once that is implemented) goes beyond the folkloric fidelity and is more focused on gameplay balance. You should be able to yes, allow or seek out to have a vampire only fortress that yes, would have combat advantages but it should not come with it's own disadvantages or at least extra share of challenge.

Such challenges could be anything really, given a procedurally generation process we could have vampires that don't need to drink blood but just to regenerate and heal injuries in one world (a interesting option and a compromise between your and Hugo position) and have vampires that will burst into flames if don't drink blood at least once every year. However all this is highly speculative, hence, again, why I asked Toady about specific possibilities.

I can't answer your questions unless you put them in... let me thing... blue, but I'll pass it this time.