[Michal Brzozowski]

Try add RELEASE=true to the make command line.

You’re probably compiling with gcc, and only clang can compile a debug build, so try installing one if you want a debug build. (the differences are small, you’ll just get some debug features that are mostly hidden anyway).

[Michal Brzozowski]

empy wrote:

PS limit as I got 120 FPS normal, at peaks almost 180 FPS. After some time FPS fell down to less than 10 for unknown reasons

Could you please save the game the next time this happens and send the save file to miki@keeperrl.com?

empy wrote:

satiated info window shows twice, previously seen on ring of satiety

I don’t understand this one, in what situation does the window show up twice?

empy wrote:

One more idea: it would be nice if the player could set orcs (army minions) not to be on crafting by default. It is a little annoying having to do this by hand on every new orc, especially when recruiting bigger number.

Nice idea, I’ll think about it. I’ve been planning to overhaul the activity UI to make this possible with a couple of clicks, but for now setting it by default might help.

Thanks!

[Michal Brzozowski]

empy wrote:

M point is: the idea is great, but maybe players should have means to reach some amount of steel without having to go through the tough golems, but having to make other sacrifice (e.g. buy with gold? 1 steel = 1 gold or so) to not restrain some of the fun ways to play the game.

Very good point. I’ll make it possible to create adamantium with using alchemical conversion tech. I’ll also try to think of other alternative ways to get it.

red_kangaroo wrote:

@empy This shouldn’t be a problem, because from the screenshots, it seems that the golems are only near the ore – so you could carefully mine part of the vein without disturbing them, but probably cannot mine it all and still not fight them. Getting a few pieces of adamantine in the beginning if you’re careful and lucky, then all of it once you are strong enough sounds about right.

With the current implementation they’ll attack if you mine even a single piece. But it can be changed.

red_kangaroo wrote:

BTW, would it be possible to also make imps more intelligent when it comes to storing items in stockpiles? As in, when you bring back home several different items, your creatures then drop them at the door and imps go pick up one item each, even though all the items go into the same stockpile… But I guess this would require way too intelligent imps.

That’s the plan, but probably not this release.

RTester wrote:

Maybe said pockets could be semi-rare but at the same time digging out enough of certain resource could provoke off-map attacks the way gold does for bandits?

I like it because you can see the risk upfront.

[Michal Brzozowski]

Oops. Putting monsters behind the portal was a bad idea on my side.

There are some obscure ways to destroy walls, like if you manage to trigger a boulder trap or get some dwarves or ants to dig there. But it’s a very long shot.

Sorry for that.

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That was my first idea, but it’s a bit hard to implement.

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At some point I want to add water/lava moats, that should add a lot of diversity to dungeons, but I still need to figure out how to prevent or penalize the player from completely cutting themselves off from enemies.

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No problem, just PM me on Steam and I’ll give you an itch.io download link. Note that the Steam version is also DRM-free and is sometimes updated more often.

[Michal Brzozowski]

It’s most likely that these are 3 different orcs with 23 attack each owning a +4 club.

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It’s a known issue that a few people suffer from, and I haven’t solved it yet. If you’re on Steam that you can temporarily fix it by downloading the older Alpha22 build. You need to right click on the game in your library, go to properties->BETA and choose Alpha22 save compatibility.

If you don’t mind helping me a bit, I’ll get in touch with you in the new year and send you a few special builds that will help me pinpoint the issue.

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RTester wrote:

If anything would need to be added here, maybe a way to split an unit from the party (as long as the party is bigger than one creature) so then they can be sent back with the prisoners, letting the rest of the force continue the assault.

Yes, I was thinking about that too. There is another idea to have a special creature with a giant bag on their back that can hold all captures, as a slightly unrealistic and humorous alternative to the annoying micro-managing of a group of prisoners. You can continue raiding or split that creature from the team. If it dies then the prisoners are let loose, so there is still a risk element.

RTester wrote:

I threw a few ideas regarding capturing people in general in some huge thread I’ve made in the past (which I don’t know whether you read or not)

I probably read it, but I’ll go take another look.

RTester wrote:

At least till the village is captured, the villagers are counted as enemy combatants and that means that many of potential prisoners would be slaughtered.

I’ve already modified AI to not chase civilians (they will be attacked though if they get adjacent). They are also visibly tagged so the player knows who can be captured.

RTester wrote:

Unless one would combine both methods and be able to capture villagers – turning them into static/tied/chained props who then can be collected once the village is secured in about one in-game day or they can free themselves.

That’s also a nice idea.

RTester wrote:

prisoners would be already quite essential with mana system as it is where even at the very end of the game player rarely has enough mana to invent and build everything and it’s where prisoners come in

I’m probably going to remove the tie between torturing and mana.

RTester wrote:

What if some of them, like werewolves, some types of undeads like vampires or ghosts, magical creatures or one created through mutant-making projects would require live humanoids to be subjected to some transformation?

That’s a very cool idea, I’ll think about it.

RTester wrote:

and as I’ve mentioned in the past, some creatures are objectively much more capable than others despite not particularly greater requirements in acquisition

Also great point.

RTester wrote:

It’s already quite bad one has to limit their digging tendencies due to questionable geology mechanics

I was thinking here about something that could substitute the geology mechanic, which I also don’t like. I should have mentioned that in the post.

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[Michal Brzozowski]

red_kangaroo wrote:

Will some creatures retain permanent slow/fast speed? I suppose ogres and dark elves could loose their speed differences, but what about zombies, or bats and ravens?

The most extreme ones, yes. So: imps, ravens will have 2x speed, zombies will have half speed.

red_kangaroo wrote:

How will burden affect you under the new speed system? It seems that even in Alpha 23 burden has much lower effect on speed than it had before (or is it only me?), but will/how will burden affect you without the more fine-grained speed?

With the new changes burden doesn’t affect speed at all. So there’s just a hard limit. I think it’s a better system anyway, I didn’t really like creatures slowing down due to burden. But things may change depending on player feedback.

red_kangaroo wrote:

Are there any plans on adding intrinsic armor as well? Eg. heavy fur for bears which can be dropped by dead bears and worn by other creatures, or maybe dragon scales granting the appropriate resistance?

Yes, I’d like to do that some time.

red_kangaroo wrote:

Are you planning to balance different intrinsic attacks of a single creature to make them all interesting, rather than one simply being better?

Good point, I’ll have to think about it.

red_kangaroo wrote:

Apart from doppelgangers, will the mutation system be (one day, of course) extended so that you can eg. mutate one of your orcs to have claws and a beak?

That’s the long term plan. At some point I intend for the legendary creatures to be obtained in some other way, and the succubus breeding system to create regular, but mutated minions.

red_kangaroo wrote:

Heh heh, I want to see kobolds who overrun and slaughtered a castle.

Not going to happen, kobolds can only be on the receiving end of the mechanic 🙂

red_kangaroo wrote:

And completely unrelated to the above, will there be mistresses? I miss good old Dungeon Keeper mistresses.

You have succubi 🙂

[Michal Brzozowski]

The UI code is not flexible enough to have such an option, sorry. My resources to work on this kind of extra stuff are very limited.

[Michal Brzozowski]

That was likely the problem. The game should make it more clear how much space is needed. Thanks for bringing this up.

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The menu side was changed a long time ago, and the screenshots are out of date. There is no way to change it, sorry.

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Can you send a save file to miki@keeperrl.com? Thank you.

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