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Quote from: a1s on December 07, 2020, 10:58:15 am

Quote from: Death Dragon on November 26, 2020, 04:12:35 pm

SE is currently 20% off on the publisher store:
https://www.matrixgames.com/game/shadow-empire
Buy it there, just so Vic gets a bit of a bigger cut than on steam.

Are we sure this is true?

doubt it, matrix takes high percentage of sales price compared to steam, IIRC 40% or some crazyness, steam is far less.

If you buy it on Steam, then both Valve and Matrix get a cut.

The airforce update has moved out of beta by the way. You can update with the "check for updates" button in the launcher now.

I'm sure there still are a lot of bugs anyway though.
This game is just so hard to properly bugtest with how complex everything is.

There apparently just was a little devlog post thing about the new alien fauna from the airforce update:
https://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=4918751

I've probably spent 100 hours wasting time on rerolls as I watch shows on my other monitor. Nothing else to do since waiting for cyberpunk and was doing other stuff so time went by fast. And not all in one day. But I can't get a dune planet with life, that isnt filled with moss or whatever that plant life is. Its supposedly possible, but someone else earlier in the thread didn't have much luck either and they tried longer than me.

I think if you want a Dune-like planet in SE, you have to make some compromises.
A true Arrakis would:
- Be a dry desert planet, but with water in the atmosphere (no windtraps without atmospheric water)
- Have a human breathable atmosphere, without plant life
- Have alien animals, without plant life
I'm not sure if any of these three things are actually possible. If they're possible, then it might be a ridiculously low chance.
You're probably gonna have to settle with a planet that has some surface water and/or one that has some minimal alien shrubs like this one: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/382518915630366721/781862233642762261/alien_shrubs.jpg.

someone doing vids early on in shadow empire got a arrakis type planet with sandworms after rerolling alot. I remember the playthrough pretty well, pure luck though.

If you mean Tortuga's Arrakis LP, I'm pretty sure he just did a planet without alien life and without water. That was from before the history classes were added, too, else he might have tried a bit more.

It seems to me that the "worldgen -> post-worldgen -> adventure mode -> fort mode" development process causes most of the new features to just be applied to the game's history generation, because by the time the actual gameplay parts of the development cycle are reached, there isn't much development time left.
Do you still prefer this development structure or would it be better for the game to go through it backwards and start development of new features in adv/fort mode?

Thanks for the answers, Toady.

Actions like flattery can increase trust but decrease respect, for example, depending on the personality of the NPC.

Does that mean we can flatter and flirt with any random person in adventure mode?

You can fill these jobs yourself with any worshipper you like - we thought it would be too cruel to randomly take one of your best dwarves away.

I think this is too bad. 1: Because I was hoping for entities like religious organisations and craftguilds to be factions inside your fort that you don't have direct control over. 2: The question of if the ruler gets to assign a religious head or not is a classic conflict in history. 3: Because I think it gives your dwarves additional personality when they themselves decide they want to apply for a position like this.

Does manually assigning someone to the priest position cause a negative thought in your religious population similar to how overruling the vote for mayor does when you just manually assign a new mayor, or does assigning a priest work similar to how assigning a barkeeper works with no strings attached?
I assume you're intending to put off the work on the power and influence of these uncontrollable factions inside your fortress to when you get into the status/laws/etc update after magic, right?

Can you explain what you meant with:
"The first part was to add some new per-character variables to every conversation - how much a person wants to stay, whether they are pleased with things, and how confident/dominant/composed they are feeling"
Does that maybe mean there will be less "it was inevitable/ it is terrifying" and more actual emotion in people's reactions while talking?

"beta testing"

Huh, with paid beta testers or volunteer testers from the community?

Are these summonable "larger, nightmarish beings" basically the typical, random hell dwelling demons, or are they special in some specific way?

With the adventurers as villains content, and the new actions necromancers and demons (with the death sphere I presume) can do in creating experimental creatures and undead types, could player necromancers do the same things when it comes time for adventure mode villainy?

I was just about to ask this, too. Would be pretty nice, but probably too difficult to implement right now, especially because it's still kinda a tangent. Not even sure if these Frankenstein experiments will happen outside of worldgen.
Did Toady ever confirm if player necromancers can summon intelligent undead by the way?

On a more serious note, is the time limit for summoned creatures a hardcoded part of the interaction or will that be definable?[/color]

In the reply, he said: "If the summon doesn't have a timer, they are just a person/animal/etc., though they don't have cultural links and so forth. "
So I guess it might be doable, but who knows.