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I think there is another potential solution to the issue of taking injuries in different forms, which might not be quite as punishing as most people are thinking of, but would probably be easier and still be better than what we currently have. Basically, just keep injuries consistant in each form that don't get changed with transformation. If you transform into a weremammoth and get two legs cut off, then transform back to human then you'd still be a full human, but if you transform into a weremammoth again then you'll still be missing two legs. It's not the best solution, but i think it's the simplest one.

It's like 1/100 chances though. Probably lower really. It's hard to tell through experiments because it's so infrequent it would be mind-numbing to actually count the many repeated strikes to the lower body until one happens.

Also for the ones choosing spidermen with many weapons, the way I understand it choosing many more shields is superior since it increases the chance to block stuff by a lot while still allowing you to attack with them.

Well you can also block with weapons, so I imagine at the point of having six weapons, the difference between shield and weapon doesn't matter much because you're pretty much invincible anyway. Except when taking ranged weapons and fire into account. Arrows are a lot harder to block with weapons, and fire cones can't be blocked with them at all. I'd go with, 2 shields then 4 different weapons as pretty much ideal.

Quote from: vjmdhzgr on May 01, 2016, 12:52:25 am

Quote from: IndigoFenix on May 01, 2016, 12:31:50 am

Also, murderers are already in the game, but dwarven personality and ethics makes them rare.  If you mod dwarves to be more like goblins (higher cruelty, less empathy, less of a punishment for murder), you'll see a lot more murders.

Wait really? Like, in fortress mode? Just randomly? What do you mean?

Every race has a range of personality traits which they fall in commonly. It's a 0-100 distribution scale as I recall in the RAWs, with 0 being not at all and 100 being always, with a scaling deviation range, which I think defaults to 20 for most traits. Might be misremembering how it works though.

Dwarven society is naturally inclined to be loyal, hard working, value law and order and generally not be in favour of casual murder. Goblin society on the other hand is designed to encourage random acts of violence with empathy being rare, laws nonexistant, sadism common.

If you check the Legends you'll find a lot of goblins murder each other during worldgen. If you slanted the dwarves default mentality closer to the goblins on average there'd be a lot more random violence in the fort and it would probably be more severe, leading to strings of murders by fort members.

That's not how personality traits work at all. They're all 0 to 100 with 50 as the average by default. It can be changed to be between 50 and 100 with an average of 75, or even between 25 and 50 with an average of 25. There's no, not at all or always thing though. You say it as if there's a chance of having a trait entirely or not at all, when it's just sliding how much of a trait they have. Like altruism, which goblins don't have much of.
Anyway, it makes more sense that it's just related to world generation, I've seen demons just murder goblins with no explanation.

So I respectfully call your post an asdostel bushos.

Eshononrel.

Is that dwarven? Badmost spawn? This post is the only result on Google for asdostel bushos. Also, goodexit? Really? I'd recommend just not speaking any dwarven. At least not until it's actually possible to do so in a way other than just replacing most English words with dwarven, but then leaving ones like with, and having no form of plural or tense to your words, and even then outside of slight novelty, it just makes it seem like you're intentionally being difficult to communicate with.

Is your suggestion to remove a feature? A lot of your suggestions seem to have been well thought out, but this one seems to amount to, "I don't like it!"

Anyway, there's an advanced world generation option to change the amount I believe.

Will human residents drink water instead of booze?

If you go halfway across the world to a legendary dwarven tavern, would you drink water instead of booze?

What exactly was that update though? I assume those additional races are in there, as is all that fraymotif stuff, but is that early stage feature you might be implementing in there? What do the fraymotifs do? I feel like there's barely any information on this update.