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How should libraries be set up

Single Giant library workroom. Takes a bit of set-up but once done is done.
- 90 (40%)
Specific Library sections. Books are in the library and the menu is managable.
- 111 (49.3%)
Generic library sections with free floating books. Messy, but flexible.
- 19 (8.4%)
Other: Describe (keep in mind the limits of modding)
- 5 (2.2%)

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quintin522

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Re: Civilization Forge 2.x
« Reply #15 on: May 12, 2009, 10:32:58 pm »

Dwarfmaids. Not female cleaning dwarfs. Nooooo, I mean Dwarfmaids. As in Urist McDwarf got really drunk one night and mistook a mermaid for his wife.
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Re: Civilization Forge 2.x
« Reply #16 on: May 12, 2009, 10:35:09 pm »

While that would be really cool, I can't really do anything with underwater or flying races until Toady makes them functional in Fortress Mode. Right now they'd just cancel all their jobs due to 'dangerous terrain'
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Re: Civilization Forge 2.x
« Reply #17 on: July 09, 2009, 12:51:16 pm »

Based on what Toady has been saying about the new moddable nobility, I'm thinking of adding in Guildmasters. Basically, once you get up to a Barony you'll be able to promote a Dwarf to Guildmaster. This guildmaster will be able to listen to grievances as well as perform the basic function of that guild, and will have some basic room requirements.

Current guild ideas:
Miners
Stoneworkers
Woodworkers
Metalsmiths
Farmers
Fishers/Hunters
Crafters
Weavers

This will do a few things, I think.
  1) It will let you promote your best dwarves to 'noble' status, where they should be immune to mandate punishments.
  2) It gives you more dwarves to listen to problems, which should help with tantrum spirals.
  3) It adds a little bit of overhead in the form of room requirements to offset the benefits. Although if you're like me your best dwarves usually have nice rooms anyway, so I don't think that'll be too much of a burden.

Thoughts?
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Re: Civilization Forge 2.x
« Reply #18 on: July 09, 2009, 02:37:53 pm »

On races:

I would add a demon race.

White: Good demons who trade (very) precious items with you.
Grey: Neutral in nearly every aspect.
Black: See them as the orcs in your mod, they attack soon, and with many once they notice your fort standing, they will know no fear, no danger and will spring as much traps as possible before finally dying. High damblock and gore attacks.
They will not use weapons, they will, however (should toady have implemented it) have a variety of poisons. (Paralyse, illness, near-instant death) The leaders will have poisons that can kill a dwarf with a scratch.

The names are just quickly put up and might need some adaption.

A zerg rush race would also be great :D just wait till you have hundreds of critters running at you and your traps, you'll never get enough traps up beforehand.

Hyrilleans: as stated above, the 'zerg' race. very fast, very weak, but extreme birthrate and numbers. they will attack with 10 times the amount of dwarves!
Some of the stronger ones hold minor poisons to near-permanent paralyse poisons.
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Re: Civilization Forge 2.x
« Reply #19 on: July 09, 2009, 03:09:28 pm »

Is this 'zerg rush' the new internet fad? Dunno what it is, but I oppose the idea of putting any fad in a mod. They are soooo lame...

Anyhow, on the guilds, I suggest adding a engineers guild, an administrators guild and perhaps also an architects guild. The later only when the architect job has some more use to it. I also sugest merging the weavers guild with the crafters guild. Alternatelly, you could make a clothworkers guild and merge the crafters guilds with the stone, wood and metal workers.

On the earlier idea you stated, about all the different races, you might want to narrow those down a bit. Its not possible to get those all to show up in a single world, and even if it was, then the weaker ones would die out very quickly.

Lastelly, you can allready mod in poisenous attacks, so long as they are innate creature attacks (not weapons). Creatures like GCS use it, you can give them stun, paralise or both. See the wiki for more details.
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Re: Civilization Forge 2.x
« Reply #20 on: July 09, 2009, 03:25:44 pm »

Is this 'zerg rush' the new internet fad? Dunno what it is, but I oppose the idea of putting any fad in a mod. They are soooo lame...

Anyhow, on the guilds, I suggest adding a engineers guild, an administrators guild and perhaps also an architects guild. The later only when the architect job has some more use to it. I also sugest merging the weavers guild with the crafters guild. Alternatelly, you could make a clothworkers guild and merge the crafters guilds with the stone, wood and metal workers.

On the earlier idea you stated, about all the different races, you might want to narrow those down a bit. Its not possible to get those all to show up in a single world, and even if it was, then the weaker ones would die out very quickly.

Lastelly, you can allready mod in poisenous attacks, so long as they are innate creature attacks (not weapons). Creatures like GCS use it, you can give them stun, paralise or both. See the wiki for more details.

On the subject of Races, one idea I have for version 2 is to provide lots of options for people, and to make it easy for people to pick which ones they want to include. So I'll have a folder of races, and each race will have their own separate creature and entity files. So I'm perfectly happy to have lots of options, even if any given world will only be genned with a subset of them.

I like the idea of an Engineering guild. I might just merge Architect in with that.
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Re: Civilization Forge 2.x
« Reply #21 on: July 15, 2009, 09:39:41 am »

The 'zerg' race is to make your traps wear out, I personally love to put up lots and lots of traps, but they always tend to break a siege, I hope that this will help out on that.
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Re: Civilization Forge 2.x
« Reply #22 on: July 15, 2009, 09:57:46 am »

Is this 'zerg rush' the new internet fad? Dunno what it is, but I oppose the idea of putting any fad in a mod. They are soooo lame...

For reference, it is a term from the game StarCraft refering to the fictional Zerg species.  To quote Wikipedia, "The phrase 'zerging' has entered video gaming jargon to describe using many low-cost and weak units to rush and overwhelm an enemy."
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Re: Civilization Forge 2.x
« Reply #23 on: July 15, 2009, 02:59:14 pm »

In any defence I plan I always look for strong enemy's so I'm always weak against zerg rushes.
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Re: Civilization Forge 2.x
« Reply #24 on: July 18, 2009, 03:03:22 am »

In DF, elves are also considered to be the Zerg equivalents- and my modded Shade leves aren't much better:

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Re: Civilization Forge 2.x
« Reply #25 on: July 31, 2009, 04:01:16 pm »

I've decided to go with Hill dwarves for the middle tier dwarves. They're much like the way the players use dwarves in DF, often cruel and warlike to other races.
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Re: Civilization Forge 2.x
« Reply #26 on: July 31, 2009, 07:54:20 pm »

Ooh! add a race of Landwhales!
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Re: Civilization Forge 2.x
« Reply #27 on: July 31, 2009, 08:06:25 pm »

Ooh! add a race of Landwhales!
With pet Land Sharks!
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Re: Civilization Forge 2.x
« Reply #28 on: October 07, 2009, 01:22:54 pm »

To be honest, I'd either change "chaos dwarves" to something else, or add a "chaos x" to every racial group (human, elf, goblinod, etc.) As it is, they really don't fit in with the other "evil" subraces.

Also, if you could make normal dwarves recognize "Hill" and "Chaos" dwarves as dwarves, the same way a goblin kidnapee is still a dwarf, that would be very good. Don't know if it will be possible.
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Re: Civilization Forge 2.x
« Reply #29 on: October 08, 2009, 12:15:03 am »

If ya have jawas as a desert race, what about the Fremen. They're like desert dwarves, but with a warrior bent, they'd all start off with proficient in at least 1 weapon if that's possible. (They can also build wells without water access, as long as it is underground.)
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