Latest Topics ZDNet.By registering you become a member of the CBS Interactive family of sites and you have read and agree to the Terms of Use, Privacy Policy and Video Services Policy.You agree to receive updates, alerts and promotions from CBS and that CBS may share information about you with our marketing partners so that they may contact you by email or otherwise about their products or services.You will also receive a complimentary subscription to the ZDNets Tech Update Today and ZDNet Announcement newsletters.You may unsubscribe from these newsletters at any time.Bay 1. 2 Games Dwarf Fortress.Two main things this week were testing encountering an artifact quester in the woods while holding their artifact, and some quibbling with fort mode artifact questers.The woodland artifact quester didnt go so well at first.I used my debug power to manifest as the Manifestation, holding the quest crossbow, which I immediately handed over.When I asked the quester about it, he said An unknown creature has given an unknown creature lt correct artifact name.I dont care one way or another.There was an obscure bug causing his inability to reflect on the situation properly visual IDs required some third party to have seen the handover, and Id done all the testing up until this point in crowded mead halls.So I sorted it out and got a happy reply about turning over the crossbow properly.Reloaded, tested out various personality combinations, got mugged, etc.Time Standards Swimming Time Standard and Record Files.USA Swimming Age Group Motivational Time Standards Updated 9102017 You can use the FileUn Small talk will never not be awkward, because to get to know someone you have to ask some fraught questions.Some questions should stay offlimits, but its almost.Daily updated digital multimedia news, covering DVD, next generation optical storage formats, P2P, legal issues and much more.Doors Down Here Without You Downloads' title='3 Doors Down Here Without You Downloads' />Still racing against the clock What have we got, ten days left in October Hmm.Back in May, I mentioned invader demands for artifacts, and the petition system there, where you can choose to send a dwarf out to negotiate.You can then bring the siegers the artifact they are demanding if you have it and choose to do so, and I mentioned then that there were a few bits to finish.So those bits are done now, and the testing as well.Ha ha ha. So many deaths, so many misunderstandings.Human soldiers spooked by a barn owl and then blasting everything that moves, diplomats shot in the back on their walk out, satisfied invaders leaving stragglers lingering forever on the map, and on and on.Okay, everything has been handled heres a recording of the relevant part of the stream from the Experimental AI in Games workshop.Tanya X. Short from Kitfox Games kicks the day off, then I appear at 3.You can find the other talks on their channel.It was much earlier than Im used to getting upAlso, heres the Future of the Fortress for the month. How Do I Verify Microsoft Certifications Map more. Now for our yummy yummy dev nuggets.Heres the report The Future of the Fortress will be a little late, but should be along soon.Lets see if we cant take care of it all this month Mostly been playing around with post world generation secret agents lately, since most of the testing Id done up to this point had been on their world generation histories.And there were lots of tells.Elves showing up as peddlars, but the game giving them away as Warrior in their travel logs, their printed color being according to their soldier type instead of their cover, and that sort of thing.The old vampire secret identity code wasnt helping since vampires didnt try to hide these types of professions.But Ive confirmed that they try to collect the correct type of rumors from your dwarves and can successfully bring them out of your fortress and back home, as well as being able to successfully target the other sites they visit throughout the world once world generation is over.Hopefully thats the last well hear about agents as we check these last things off.Sorry about the delay as mentioned in the B1.I was at the Progression Mechanics conference at Northwestern, but I was unexpectedly unable to get a post up here.Work continues and I should have another entry up before too long about how thats all going.For now, heres a video of my emergent narrative talk.The entire conference is here Day 1, Day 2 part 1 same link as my talk, and Day 2 part 2.I set a lone dwarf to travel over to a dragon cave to recover a cotton chausse.The treasure had belonged to the humans, a favorite piece of clothing and now holy relic of their first nature priest, but the dragon had taken it almost a century earlier.So, hey, why not bring it to the fortressMaybe give it back to the humans to improve relations, or failing a visit from them, keep it in a little museum in a display case for the dwarves to admire.Uzol, my questing dwarf, managed to sneak by the dragon, but found no chausse.So he decided to go barhopping to the east to see if he could pick up any signs thats all I was testing, the barhopping code.I didnt expect him to actually find a rumor, but he did.Apparently, a mercenary had gotten to the dragon cave two seasons earlier, and brought the chausse back to the human temple, to its rightful place.Uzol had orders, though, and he followed them to the letter.He broke into the temple and brought me back the relic.I guess I have a save if I want to test being invaded by angry humans.This is the report, and this is the Future of the Fortress reply.There had been a promise to get pet war dogs to travel with squads that you send on raids, rather than having them stay home waiting for their masters.So thats now properly completed.If your vision of dwarves is less about crafting in the mountains, and more about a lone dwarf descending from the hills to attack a village with a pack of a dozen hounds, your vision is now a reality.Thats how I tested it, anyway.Five of the dogs were struck down, but the humans will now think twice about whatever it was they were thinking about, thats for sure.Along with this, the game now more properly handles babies that are carried off on site raids.There are still a few issues which Im not going to handle for the first release.For instance, if a baby is the lone survivor of a failed raid, they will unerringly crawl back to your fortress all on their own.At least they are no longer active combatants.Also fixed various issues with cancelling squad orders.Made your off site raids a bit more interesting if you lose, sometimes a part of your surviving force can be imprisoned, and you can go rescue them if youd like to try.The prisoners caused various problems with position selection.My imprisoned expedition leader just walked home while still considered a prisoner due to some erroneous travel code exclusive to position holders.The game would also select imprisoned dwarves to be position holders which stopped the fortress from working properly since they couldnt be replaced or do their jobs or make appointments.I fixed every one of these problems I could find, but Im sure there will be some ongoing issues with that.Various other fixes to squad reports, their injuries, etc.Last month around this time, there were about 2.That number went up and down as work happened and crap popped up now there are about a dozen.So progress Not as much progress as I had hoped, as usual, but not so bad either.Ill keep plugging away at it.Main thing this week was replacing the giant unintelligible newsrumor dump from the outpost liaison with a display on the world map, over in the new mission map screen.So you can see where the wars are being fought and where the sites are being foundedreclaimed, rather than just hearing the names and not having any idea whats going on.The replacement isnt great, but its better than the less than worthless confusion we used to have.I also fixed some problems where artifact reputation from rumors was getting confused as the state of the world changed that is, artifact rumors needed to carry a bit more data with them to remain understandable as sites changed hands etc., and a few other issues.The various fixes have continued.There was a hot potato artifact bug during world gen sometimes during events like forgotten beast attacks an entire extended family would die but still manage to meticulously pass off the artifact as the beast tromped around, sometimes 2.This can happen in the upcoming release, but far less often.I did a bit with the adventure artifact log, prophecies, and finally got some good tests in on destroying artifacts in fort mode vs.Poked around and fixed a bug causing divergent world gen results.The weather report said Smoke instead of Clear or Partially Cloudy, with a little wavy smoke icon Id never seen before instead of a sun.Cant see across the little inlet here, and the moon has been red.Has been the case for the last few days, but the icon was new.Heres the Future of the Fortress reply.I posted it a few days ago but in my traditional August heat addlement forgot to link it here.We dont have AC, so Scampss freezer packs have been deployed They are placed in a bag he likes, and he hangs out there.Heres the report for the month.I should have the Future of the Fortress post ready around tomorrow.
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