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[Death Dragon]

Hello Toadi, thank you for the questions and answers.Little question,will the mode of Legends change, now without utilities it is difficult

He did say in a devlog and in previous questions that he made some changes to legends mode and its structure:
"I managed to scrunch the data down so that the historical figure legends display shows all of their various dalliances, which was a concern for a bit, as there is a lot of activity. I also made every battle a historical figure participates in, even as a regular soldier, part of the figure's chronology now, which helps reconstruct narratives such as the one to follow."
Some more info about the changes could be nice.

[Bumber]

Can mercenary companies downgrade some of their equipment to stay afloat for a while, or is that not something they consider?

Does the equipment belong to the company, or is it awarded to individuals?

[therahedwig]

Does the equipment belong to the company, or is it awarded to individuals?

Last two sentences of the devlog imply the equipment is owned by individuals:

Individual mercenaries can also use their money to upgrade their own equipment. This typically happens before their company (if any) steps up, but a wealthy company can pay to equip joining members if they are behind.

Don't know if mercenaries are smart enough to sell/downgrade either though, so that one still stands

[Aid]

Hello Toadi, thank you for the questions and answers.Little question,will the mode of Legends change, now without utilities it is difficult

He did say in a devlog and in previous questions that he made some changes to legends mode and its structure:
"I managed to scrunch the data down so that the historical figure legends display shows all of their various dalliances, which was a concern for a bit, as there is a lot of activity. I also made every battle a historical figure participates in, even as a regular soldier, part of the figure's chronology now, which helps reconstruct narratives such as the one to follow."
Some more info about the changes could be nice.

I did not hear about it, I'm very pleased to hear

[Random_Dragon]

I only just now realized, why does the adventurer carpentry menu allow you to craft splints, bins, cabinets, and other items you can't use or build with?

If it was just a straight conversion of the carpenter's workshop's contents it'd make sense, but you correctly omitted being able to make cages (useless in adventure mode as far as I can determine), along with a lot of furniture items you can't place in the construction menu, but ALSO omitted animal traps (available from a carpenter's workshop in fort mode, and useful in adventure mode for trading vermin) and minecarts (which are hilariously useful in adventure mode).

[Shonai_Dweller]

Same reason you can assign parts of your Adventurer camps as taverns and temples even though it doesn't do anything yet. It's not finished. It'll all do something eventially. Splints will surely be used in the upcoming medical upgrades for example.

[EternalCaveDragon]

Posting both to watch and these two questions just hit me. Feeling so hyped! 

First, is it planned for religiously affiliated mercenary companies to interact with the organized religions that they follow? For example sending guards with prophets/priests/pilgrims of the same religion, or perhaps their members will also undertake pilgrimages themselves? May be jumping ahead in terms of development with this one, been a while since I've read up on the posted future plans.

Second, do the new networking mechanics interact with entity ethics? Namely in regards to the [JUSTIFIED_IF_NO_REPERCUSSIONS] tag? Like say Entity Member A murders Entity Member B in broad daylight, while Entity Member C is the local law enforcement officer who would normally intervene. But in this instance, A has flipped C into their network beforehand, and thus evades the otherwise lawful consequences for their actions. I know this is what happens in the upcoming villain update regardless. But I'm wondering if this might have or be planned to have some special interaction?

[Laterigrade]

How will the new villain networks, mercenary bands and things interact with adventurer mode?

[Silverwing235]

Posting to watch myself, but Laterigrade needs a slight colour adjustment -
friendly reminder for the unaware and anyone else, Toady prefers lime green for his questions. Something about being able to distinguish it better, if I recall.

[PatrikLundell]

Posting to watch myself, but Laterigrade needs a slight colour adjustment -
friendly reminder for the unaware and anyone else, Toady prefers lime green for his questions. Something about being able to distinguish it better, if I recall.

The lime green is more readable than the "normal" green, but both work for Toady's purposes: to locate the questions among all the chaff when it comes time to read the next FotF (he reads the whole thread, if I understand it correctly, but it's helpful for the answer compilation phase to be able to locate the relevant parts quickly). Still, higher readability is better than a poorer one...

[Random_Dragon]

Same reason you can assign parts of your Adventurer camps as taverns and temples even though it doesn't do anything yet. It's not finished. It'll all do something eventially. Splints will surely be used in the upcoming medical upgrades for example.

Makes sense, though it does seem like an odd mishmash of reactions. Having useless zones in the camps may be odd, but it's more or less consistent with fort-mode handling, whereas the carpentry reaction section doesn't follow that translation from fort mode to adventure mode as neatly.

Which does make me think yeah, unfinished plans possibly, and omitting some things that do have niche uses in adventure mode was likely just forgetting about them briefly.

[Laterigrade]

Posting to watch myself, but Laterigrade needs a slight colour adjustment -
friendly reminder for the unaware and anyone else, Toady prefers lime green for his questions. Something about being able to distinguish it better, if I recall.

Thanks; fixed.

[Untrustedlife]

Have you considered allowing adventurers to put points into http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Appraiser at the start of the game, so that we can see goods prices in adventure mode? Or is there some mechanical blocker there?.

[Knight Otu]

Have you considered allowing adventurers to put points into http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Appraiser at the start of the game, so that we can see goods prices in adventure mode? Or is there some mechanical blocker there?.

I suspect that the adventure mode trade interface isn't set up to display prices, but I'm not sure. (Perhaps modding an adventurer reaction that trains appraiser could shed some light on this.)

[Untrustedlife]

Also, this is less of a question and more of a comment:





Awesome job on the updates to the tomb generator for the artifact release, they look beautiful. Im excited to see how you improve them further