Dom III sitll gets some parental attention

[WraithLord]

Yoohoo, new patch soon

[NTJedi]

Kool beans on the new patch.

These look interesting from the patch:
New monster modding commands: #inquisitor, #shatteredsoul, #banefireshield, #uwdamage, #popkill.

[Maerlande]

Sombre is just a troll. He has warts on his rectum.

[Sombre]

Seriously though. Is anyone excited about those mod commands who actually might use them?

[Burnsaber]

Originally Posted by Sombre

Seriously though. Is anyone excited about those mod commands who actually might use them?

Not to sound harsh, but this is right to the point.

#inquistor is cool, but it's nothing that we didn't already have access to through simple #copystatting.

#shattersoul -> Meh. Cool, but extremely marginal command.

#banefireshield -> ditto.

#uwdamage -> as if we need to make accessing underwater even harder?

#popkill -> This is perhaps the single command I could find use for, depends on the range of values it can accept thought.

Not that I'm complaining, new commands are always cool and open a lot of new possibilities, but I *really* would like to see even basic fort modding tools (you know, admin values and so forth), but I'm not an programmer so I don't know if those commands are even possible to achieve.

[Foodstamp]

I would have rather had #homesick and darkness in cave provinces than any of the new commands, but you don't look a gift horse in the mouth. I won't use any of them very often but no way I am going to be disappointed in any new modding capabilities.

[Stavis_L]

I've seen several posts from modders looking for insanity mod commands; the shattered soul command is the closest we've got to that for "minor insanity", since all the basic insanity chassis are 50% or have other potentially undesirable attributes.

Also - it *could* be used by CBM type mods --> Tartarians could have 33% SS vs. current 25%, which would be a different way to tone them down without changing access costing.

Also - re: copystatting - personally, I find that to be a very non-intuitive way to go about things, and it does have a few buggy interactions (e.g. with the leadership commands, IIRC)

In any case, yay more modding commands :-)

[llamabeast]

#shattersoul and #popkill are both things I would find useful. I had to to quite a workaround to get access to popkill in my very-nearly-released SC mod.

What does #uwdamage do?

Anyway, I strongly approve of anything which brings the range of options available to modders closer to those available to KO.

[Sombre]

To clarify, I'm not complaining about the commands we're getting. Anything is great. I'm just not doing cartwheels, as a modder. I can't think of a single unit I've made or am planning to make that I'd use any of these on. I guess maybe if popkill gives you specific values you can enter (same with shattered soul) but I wouldn't assume either of those does.

[Edi]

#uwdamage means the unit takes a percentage of total hit points worth of damage each turn it stays underwater. Presumably it also can't heal underwater.