[Mod Progress Thread] Democratic Race

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this took way too long to do.

cards with editable title.

now i'm tired.

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i spent a lot of time automatically generating issues and stances' localization strings. now when exporting the mod's pot file, it will include the various stances and their descriptions.

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unrelated, love the new rook's bog outfit on sal, although we knew that was going to happen eventually.

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testing out the new group support notification system. with the normal notification, the support changes too much that the notification goes on forever. however, no notification means the player won't know certain decisions are good or not for the target demographics. so here's the compromise. you will only know whether support level is increased or decreased from your action for a particular faction/wealth level.

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i tried to make two people argue, but they seems way too calm when they present their argument.

much better. had to custom define an "angrify" function that replaces all periods with exclamation marks. hopefully it works with other languages?

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do you side with Comrade Snack?

(side note: the "i can never remember how to spell this" is the placeholder description of laissez faire omg i finally spelt it correctly without looking it up)

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new mechanics: request quests. in random encounters, or during free time, you may receive requests from various people. these quests are optional, but if you complete them, your support will increase, especially among a particular faction, and there are many other benefits, such as getting veep here to love you.

i haven't decided whether you do this quest during the free time, or whether you do it in place of a side job.

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haven't posted anything since forever. here's some new screenshot.

a new mechanic: at certain situations, a person might demand one or more things from you. usually they will demand some money, but sometimes they will also demand some non-materialistic things, like forcefully taking a stance on an issue(which may cost you to lose support if you're not careful), or denouncing a person or a group(causing them to dislike you/lose support from them). Right now their demands are ridiculously high, but I will add a special negotiation that can reduce some of their demands.

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Trying to implement how you would actually deliver on the demand.

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After reading the wiki that I wrote, I realized how few people actually has renown 4+. So I adjusted the name for the new wealth classes, and used new icons. I didn't like the basic icon anyway.

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Finally I set up highlights for issues so you know what it is. It's like a codex entry, but instead of automatically replace valid strings, it only applies when you explicitly highlight them.

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Start making unique advisor defs instead of borrowing existing characters. Suggestions are welcome.

Diplomacy Advisor:

Manipulate Advisor:

Hostile Advisor:

I used existing builds and heads because 1: I have no artistic talent, and 2: I have no idea how to make those heads, and I have no intention of finding out because of reason 1.

And yes, I'm aware that the kradeshi has incorrect amount of fingers. I don't know if there's an easy way to fix it.

(The answer is not really. The Cultists defs with gloves all have no hand swaps, which means that the hand is not species dependent. I'm surprised that the cultists don't have species dependent gloves, despite being in the game since forever. I can probably get rid of the gloves.)

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Starts to modify pearl-on-form to suit our campaign. It's way more urban than Murder Bay, and has more buildings to work with.

Also the giant jellyfish is gone. Or maybe it never was there in the first place. Who knows?

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Now rise members actually tries to blend in with the other work forces. Takes way too long due to a bug? feature?

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You can now provoke kill people. You can do that before, but I changed it to a new convo.

There are slight adjustments, mainly, some request quests require you to punish a certain person for their wrong doing, which you can choose to finish them off, but that is used as a last resort. Provoking now counts as an aggression, and in this campaign, attacking someone will cost you support level. The fight is no longer no bystander and isolated, which means that don't provoke a spree in a spree bar 'cause you'll die. Also, killing anyone or be an accomplice to killing will always cause you to lose support.

Also, you can only provoke kill someone if they have higher or equal combat strengths than their renown because only these people prefer to solve their problems with fists rather than words. People with higher renown prefer to use other ways to make your life miserable, so there's no point in provoking them.

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I reworked the gifting option. Instead of gifting a fixed amount of money, the person will demand something, and you have to fulfill it to get them to like you. It will be costlier than normal, but you can pay with non-monetary things(such as taking a stance that they like).

Oh, and social drinking requires a living bartender and 1 free time action.

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A more or less final version of the campaign map.

It would be more impressive if locations from rook and smith campaign actually has icons.

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Here's a new, "peaceful" way of dealing with banes. Stripping away someone's influence.

It's currently under testing.

Oh, a question: is there a good way to listen for events on aspects?

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Slight UI change.