DWMagus wrote:Yeah, but you can disable it. DFHack is not a necessity in order to play the game, even in a succession environment. Tal, if you prefer, we can get together first and see what's happening on my end.

Edit: Is it possible you're not using 0.43.03? If you're using 43.05, then that would explain everything you've mentioned. You need to use 43.03. If you don't, LNP would break. I'd consider LNP a requirement for this succession game, because so few people here actually regularly play DF.

Talvieno wrote:Maps and things

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Evil clouds cause more serious syndromes than evil rains, similar to those of forgotten beasts, titans and demons. Certain evil clouds transform living beings caught in them into dangerous zombie-like thralls, turning them against all life while significantly increasing their strength and toughness attributes.

Evil clouds inflict worse syndromes than evil rains; thralling clouds are especially dangerous in the extreme, as the zombies produced are much stronger than those produced via ambient effects. These undead are very hard to kill and are much stronger than their original forms. Evil clouds have a tendency to roll over your outdoor trade depot and convert traveling merchants into a band of dwarf-hungry savages, which can be crippling to a fortress reliant on trade.

Certain kinds of evil weather can instantly turn any syndrome-vulnerable creature into a bloodthirsty undead killer, opposed to all life. These creatures are referred to be the sort of weather that transformed them, an identifier as a thrall, husk, or zombie, and their original creature name-- for example, a stray guineahen unholy gloom husk. The specific procedurally generated syndromes of thralling evil clouds are functionally identical to that of animate dead, with the same extreme gains in physical stats, lack of pain or breath, etc.

Because the interaction can happen without first killing the target, thrall-like creatures retain any armor or weapons they were carrying. Perhaps worst of all, they may still be contaminated with the material leading to the transformation, "infecting" those with whom they wrestle in a chain reaction that can rapidly destroy a fortress if they are not stopped immediately.

Evil weather thralls may also require utmost caution. Any thrall carrying a melee weapon or armour (let alone any combat skills of its own, which it will retain the use of) can dispatch a full squad in short order even with average combat skills, making direct confrontation an unwise choice- Armok help you if the thrall in question used to be one of your best soldiers. A particularly dire possibility is that, if the responsible evil cloud is in dust form, the thrall is still contaminated with whatever substance transformed it. If this is the case, any dwarves sent to fight the thrall will become thralls themselves if the thrall tries to wrestle them. From there, the new thralls might spread the contaminant further still, which can easily lead to a full-fledged zombie apocalypse.

DWMagus wrote:So that's it folks, DF succession game is canceled.

DWMagus wrote:So that's it folks, DF succession game is canceled.

Dinosawer wrote:Actually, Tal, Dwm -
I propose A COMPROMISE!
Since there are ten of us and each of us has 4 weeks, meaning it could take years until the last people get to play - why not make 2 forts at the same time and shuffle the turn order for the second (if people want it to)?
That way you can keep Dwm's embark to see how fast it goes to hell, and you can have an easier embark where the newbs will not fail as horribly, and people get to play more.
Whadya say?