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[Lycaeon]

The names and youtube links of the title songs are in the first post under the Credits section.

[Maklak]

An article about scrap furniture got linked in the Fallout thread. I just want to share it here.

http://www.dvice.com/archives/2010/10/furniture-made-1.php

[tahujdt]

I can haz explanation of telekenesis?

Right now, in the rawa it says that magic master unicorns have +99 tele. What's that supposed to mean? Does it mean they have 100 tele grips? How?

[KingofstarrySkies]

So, how can abuse Use my water talisman to give me water?

[Lycaeon]

> An article about scrap furniture
Interesting. Guess you really can make furniture out of the scrap that litters the wastes.

> I can haz explanation of telekenesis?
All unicorns have two telekinetic graspers. The notes in the raws were placeholders for my original plan to give magically talented unicorns more graspers, but it turned out five was enough.

> So, how can abuse Use my water talisman to give me water?
The fountain is the building you want. Other buildings of interest you may want to check out are listed in the Workshops and Industries Guide in the first post.

Edit: ASCII version has been released with corrected vermin tiles.

[KingofstarrySkies]

Thanks.
Also, feral dogs are now my mortal enemy for the rest of time.
My god damn hunter was torn to bits.......

[Maklak]

Always disable hunting with this mod. Hunters will only ever pick BB guns and they are a joke. BBs can be used for training or just some fire support, but on their own they will barely even dent or bruise the skin with metal pellets and much of the wasteland wildlife won't simply run away from your hunter, but rather rage for the +4 bonus, charge and tear her to shreds. 

I asked Lycaeon to un-nerf BB guns and he said yes. I've noticed some changes in item_weapon_ranged.txt, but BBs are still at [SHOOT_FORCE:2] and [SHOOT_MAXVEL:50]. I guess I'll just mod them myself to [SHOOT_FORCE:50] (Joules?) and [SHOOT_MAXVEL:300] (m/s?) and see what happens.

I think that if you can make a 4.5 mm BB gun, making a higher calibre one is not that much more difficult and the best Air guns were on par with 1800s gunpowder rifles and the Stables would figure out pretty quickly that they want weapons that can wound at least, not just dent the skin. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airgun

I'm aware that the counter-argument is that pistols should be enough of an upgrade to make the player want to switch, despite the higher cost, but there is still some space between the pistols and the nerfed BBs we have now.

Another possibility would be to default hunters to combat pistols and allow bringing combat pistols and small calibre ammo on embark. That way hunters become more viable and the BBs are still available for low-cost training.

[tahujdt]

Note: Cyberdogs should be war-trainable.

[tahujdt]

I would like to recommend that energy weapons just use an ordinary ammo type, but they are called "spark pack-powered bolt" or whatever. Maybe the gun ejects the drained battery after each shot, and we can assume that the ponies recover them and recharge them.

[Deon]

The ejection speed of the drained battery is extremely fast, I must say . It hits people across the screen.

[Maklak]

I imagine there are some problems with energy rifles. Such as temperature of ammo and reusing stuck ammo. The closest thing I can imagine to an energy weapon, other than an upgrade with interactions is Gauss gun: Ammo is made from a bar and charged battery (possibly depleting it) and contains a syndrome transmitted by blood. The damage of the bullet is at least on par with an AMR and the syndrome is a destruction spell.

[KingofstarrySkies]

I try so hard to play adventure mode......
ITS SO IMPOSSIBRU

[Pokon]

I just had the most horrible/wonderful idea for the megabeast to end all megabeast:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

A balefire missile. Sure, Legends will look odd, but if any survive to attack your fort....

It arrives in a flash. You can see the cursed thing, a name in strange zebra-script on its side. It hits the closest living thing in sight, possibly some poor pony or animal. The inital blast is a gigantic burst of baleflame, but a reminent of it still exists for a time unleashing a horrible irradated cloud. Ponies near it are almost certiant to die, or even worse become a ghoul. If the "stable" is mostly underground, it might survive with no losses at all. However, the surface will remain unusable for years. 

[Deon]

It will emit only in a small radius around it.

[Lycaeon]

> BB guns
I didn't get a chance to test improved airguns, so I'll work on adding them in for the next release. I can't do much with pistols as adding small caliber ammunition would allow Stable citizens to make bullets without gunpowder.

> Cyberdogs should be war-trainable.
That they should. Thanks for pointing that out!

> Energy weapons.
I've mulled over several options, none of which are perfect:
- A glob shooting interaction akin to the ones used by robots and miniguns. They're crippling weapons though, and don't have the desired effects of energy weapons like disintegration and melting. One possibility though is giving the globs high temperature so that they set the victim on fire should they get stuck.
- A glob shooting interaction coupled with a ranged interaction that imparts the melting/disintegration syndrome to victims wounded by the glob (Through a blood contact tag). This is a convoluted method that won't work 100% of the time, due to enemies already covered in blood also being targeted, difficulties in pairing the glob and syndrome interactions, and so on.
- A ranged weapon that uses plasma charge ammunition that explodes into boiling plasma upon getting stuck in the victim. The ammunition may boil prematurely though from being handled by your ponies.

The melting from plasma contact is a must, otherwise plasma rifles would be no different from conventional ranged weapons.

There were no gauss rifles in the novel, and anti-machine rifles pretty much fill their role in combat.

> I try so hard to play adventure mode...
Can you provide information on the problems you're having? (Like what tends to kill you the most). It will help me identify what areas need fixing when I get around to adventure mode.

> I just had the most horrible/wonderful idea for the megabeast to end all megabeast.

The current late-game technologies are mid-, or even semi-early-game, in the grand scheme of things.
Another way of looking at it - the Ministry of Awesome and Ministry of Arcane Sciences crates are half empty as they are now.

Thanks for the feedback everyone!