Indigenous life
Posted: Thu May 11, 2017 2:07 pm
We need to re-drum up hype and ideas for the project now that the freeze is over.
I am wondering what the state of the planet natives will be like. I can only assume we are not planning on cutting our myriad ghost roles that we currently have for lava land, and I know there was talk of mushroom people natives. But what about lifebringers and ashwalkers? Before there was not really any issue of the ashwalkers leaving lavaland because the only way they can do this is by going through cargo, which draws natural conflict. However now the station will be surrounded by a great deal of wilderness that they hide away in and ambush people or plan an attack on the station.
Should we bother trying to discourage this at all? Maybe something like they can roam freely in the night but get burned in direct sunlight when on the surface? (assuming day/night cycle gets coded). How many points of egress from lavaland to the surface will there be, is it possible we can keep our existing system simply by having the only way up and down from the caverns be in the mining station area?
Could MMMiriacles dorfs (please for the love of god dont stop coding this) be an actually indigenous species, perhaps abhuman descendednts of ancient explorers, rather than just a sick Dorf Fort ref? Should we code a variant of ashwalkers that is just a normal lizardfolk tribe that lives on the surface, perhaps with agricultural means for reproduction rather than needing corpses, like maybe a tendril type structure that takes plant mass to encourage agriculture?
I am wondering what the state of the planet natives will be like. I can only assume we are not planning on cutting our myriad ghost roles that we currently have for lava land, and I know there was talk of mushroom people natives. But what about lifebringers and ashwalkers? Before there was not really any issue of the ashwalkers leaving lavaland because the only way they can do this is by going through cargo, which draws natural conflict. However now the station will be surrounded by a great deal of wilderness that they hide away in and ambush people or plan an attack on the station.
Should we bother trying to discourage this at all? Maybe something like they can roam freely in the night but get burned in direct sunlight when on the surface? (assuming day/night cycle gets coded). How many points of egress from lavaland to the surface will there be, is it possible we can keep our existing system simply by having the only way up and down from the caverns be in the mining station area?
Could MMMiriacles dorfs (please for the love of god dont stop coding this) be an actually indigenous species, perhaps abhuman descendednts of ancient explorers, rather than just a sick Dorf Fort ref? Should we code a variant of ashwalkers that is just a normal lizardfolk tribe that lives on the surface, perhaps with agricultural means for reproduction rather than needing corpses, like maybe a tendril type structure that takes plant mass to encourage agriculture?