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[KittyTac]

Because it kinda fits with Squamous' questions:
When could NPC sites become moddable?
I think that if sites were moddable, you could ultimately save development time by essentially outsourcing the design work of NPC sites to community members who would probably come up with some interesting stuff. Of course, I know nothing about the code behind NPC sites, so I have no idea how difficult it would be to make them moddable, but could this potentially become more achievable after the map rewrite in the magic update?

Magic procgen civs will have procgen sites, I think.

[Urlance Woolsbane]

Because it kinda fits with Squamous' questions:
When could NPC sites become moddable?
I think that if sites were moddable, you could ultimately save development time by essentially outsourcing the design work of NPC sites to community members who would probably come up with some interesting stuff. Of course, I know nothing about the code behind NPC sites, so I have no idea how difficult it would be to make them moddable, but could this potentially become more achievable after the map rewrite in the magic update?

Magic procgen civs will have procgen sites, I think.

Do you have a source for this? They'll definitely need to be more generalized, but all I've seen from Toady is a statement that sites will eventually be more modular. I don't recall him giving a timeframe.

[KittyTac]

Because it kinda fits with Squamous' questions:
When could NPC sites become moddable?
I think that if sites were moddable, you could ultimately save development time by essentially outsourcing the design work of NPC sites to community members who would probably come up with some interesting stuff. Of course, I know nothing about the code behind NPC sites, so I have no idea how difficult it would be to make them moddable, but could this potentially become more achievable after the map rewrite in the magic update?

Magic procgen civs will have procgen sites, I think.

Do you have a source for this? They'll definitely need to be more generalized, but all I've seen from Toady is a statement that sites will eventually be more modular. I don't recall him giving a timeframe.

I don't remember.

[Urist McVoyager]

What kind of turn based Adventure mechanics are we going to see in the next release? I know we can use multi-move for most of it, but from what I've seen there are moves we can make, like actually moving to another tile, that can set off a turn. Will we get a way to hold off a turn until every member of our party has set their actions?

I plan on forming a D&D style party of my friends after I get comfortable with making parties in Adventure mode later on.

Lime green is the convention.

Adventurer Mode isn't turn based. Everything takes a specific amount of time to happen. If your speed is higher than normal then moving takes less time. You can see this in action by moving through a crowd of talking NPCs. If you crawl then they talk more during a single movement - if you sprint then they talk less per move.

I know Adventure mode isn't turn based itself, but with this new party mode being directly inspired by D&D, there could be allowances and modes made. We already have some leeway there with the multi-attack option allowing us to queue up moves in a single turn. All I'm asking is will there be more mechanics in place to let everybody in the party set their moves before actually committing them?

[KittyTac]

Will night trolls be classified as villains?

[Knight Otu]

Will night trolls be classified as villains?

It doesn't seem particularly likely for the first pass. Villainous plots right now seem to rely on connections between civilized people, and night trolls either aren't part of civilizations in the first place, or leave civilization once forcefully converted. Eventually though, I imagine that they will be able to become villains (or more ambiguous figures, for that matter).

[Rockphed]

I look forward to a bug where a villain is turned in to a night troll spouse and proceeds to terrorize the world from their lair.

[scourge728]

I look forward to a bug where a villain is turned in to a night troll spouse and proceeds to terrorize the world from their lair.

I see no bug, only emergent gameplay

[Shonai_Dweller]

Will night trolls be classified as villains?

It doesn't seem particularly likely for the first pass. Villainous plots right now seem to rely on connections between civilized people, and night trolls either aren't part of civilizations in the first place, or leave civilization once forcefully converted. Eventually though, I imagine that they will be able to become villains (or more ambiguous figures, for that matter).

That said, how does a necromancer be a villain? They're mentioned in most of the villain update posts. These are the guys who hang out with zombies and spend centuries by themselves writing books in their towers, with occasional time-out to teach someone else the joys of such an existence. Not much different from a night-troll really.

What exactly are necromancers getting up to as villains? Do they have more outside interaction now? Hanging out in taverns making future zombie candidate false friendships and such?

[Urlance Woolsbane]

That said, how does a necromancer be a villain? They're mentioned in most of the villain update posts. These are the guys who hang out with zombies and spend centuries by themselves writing books in their towers, with occasional time-out to teach someone else the joys of such an existence. Not much different from a night-troll really.

Ah, but unlike a night-troll a necromancer can pass for your ordinary Joe. It's rather harder for a one-eyed freak with non-Euclidean limbs to hang about inconspicuously in a tavern. Furthermore, I imagine a necromancer entity would treated from the out as a criminal network. You'd have the founder, with his various acolytes acting as lieutenants, all presiding over a network of mortal agents. The nonstop writing could replaced, or at least interspersed, with endless plotting to retrieve artifacts, "acquire" valuable specimens, or the like.

[Shonai_Dweller]

That said, how does a necromancer be a villain? They're mentioned in most of the villain update posts. These are the guys who hang out with zombies and spend centuries by themselves writing books in their towers, with occasional time-out to teach someone else the joys of such an existence. Not much different from a night-troll really.

Ah, but unlike a night-troll a necromancer can pass for your ordinary Joe. It's rather harder for a one-eyed freak with non-Euclidean limbs to hang about inconspicuously in a tavern. Furthermore, I imagine a necromancer entity would treated from the out as a criminal network. You'd have the founder, with his various acolytes acting as lieutenants, all presiding over a network of mortal agents. The nonstop writing could replaced, or at least interspersed, with endless plotting to retrieve artifacts, "acquire" valuable specimens, or the like.

Maybe we'll see letter writing introduced. That way necromancers can stay at home and do all their scheming by mail.
They're represented with a night beast symbol Ñ right now, so I always imagined them as evil looking liche dudes who don't blend in well.

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Another question:
Are elves getting any more positions?

They don't have many basic positions, unlike dwarves and the new variable position humans and goblins, so scheming network opportunities would seem to be fewer.

Although, maybe it suits the mood to have elves fairly resiliant to the rest of the world's scheming shenanigans (besides all those who wander far from the home tree to live the dream of being a naked troupe dancer).

[KittyTac]

Will we be able to play villains?

[Shonai_Dweller]

Will we be able to play villains?

Yes. Isn't that in the devblog already? Has been covered in fotf at least. You can give orders to your party members, which can be of the villanous kind. So essentially you can set up a bandit camp and play warlord.

[KittyTac]

Will we be able to play villains?

Yes. Isn't that in the devblog already? Has been covered in fotf at least. You can give orders to your party members, which can be of the villanous kind. So essentially you can set up a bandit camp and play warlord.

Time to violence the entire world with style, then.

[h3lblad3]

I may have missed this, and I'm sorry if I have, but...

Are you planning on working on Guilds and/or Societies relatively soon, now that you're trying to create reasons for people to form relationships?