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Grand Sage

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Custom noble positions
« on: August 12, 2017, 10:19:39 pm »

I just wondered if it would be a good idea for players to be able to assign custom noble positions. I'm thinking mainly non-functional ones like master off the arena or foreman of the miners(or anything the player can come up with). Any customization in the way of generic functions might work too, like having meetings with mayor or needing an office for paperwork. What do you think?
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Re: Custom noble positions
« Reply #1 on: August 13, 2017, 02:12:48 am »

I just wondered if it would be a good idea for players to be able to assign custom noble positions. I'm thinking mainly non-functional ones like master off the arena or foreman of the miners(or anything the player can come up with). Any customization in the way of generic functions might work too, like having meetings with mayor or needing an office for paperwork. What do you think?

Do you think the nobles might cotton on to us, if we give them positions such as: drowning chamber victim, magma chamber victim, ETC?
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Re: Custom noble positions
« Reply #2 on: August 13, 2017, 03:53:21 pm »

Technically, this exists already, although A) it requires you go to the raws, and that means B) you have to set it before you start and it's entity-wide, and C) the functionality is essentially limited to only doing things current nobles can already do. 

Outside of some sort of dynamic mid-game changes, though, this is planned to be put in gradually as more noble functions are put into the game.
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