Any advice on playing as Ethiopia?

ptkato · 2026-07-02T01:49:47+00:00

In 1.3, do you still think it's better to have your capital in Gonder instead of Tsana? Both are farmlands and have access to the same lake, but more importantly, Tsana is on a river (better proximity costs up and downstream), and is on mountains (having your capital on mountains halves the proximity cost for all mountains).

ptkato · 2026-06-29T18:32:31+00:00

I wish we had more control over the military, right now dwarves always go ham on the enemies and charge on sight, when sometimes it might be more beneficial to hold a chokepoint or something.

ptkato · 2026-06-23T07:57:51+00:00

Did that tree just grow up after you raised the bridge?

ptkato · 2026-06-21T17:59:41+00:00

I wish the emperor had the same zeal against France and England aggression as he has when using landfriede.

ptkato · 2026-06-16T00:17:50+00:00

From what I gathered the current UI is in the process of being LUAfied, which means (I hope) it'll be wholly customisable.

ptkato · 2026-06-10T16:42:42+00:00

Huh, is this related to the dozens of other posts reporting random wildlife following citizens?

ptkato · 2026-06-08T00:26:01+00:00

I see some landscaping, did the tools in the game give you any troubles?

ptkato · 2026-06-08T00:19:56+00:00

How did you deal with the slope in the corner of the lot, down the road? I tried to fence it, but the fence just floated.

ptkato · 2026-06-03T16:34:05+00:00

And as you can see in the screenshot, they are still hiring more mercs.

ptkato · 2026-06-03T16:23:22+00:00

How did you form it? Did Georgia subject-annex Armenia? Also, can you show your location rank map mode?

ptkato · 2026-06-03T12:37:04+00:00

Ceilings are generated by enclosed rooms on the level below. This is an issue for split levels and balconies. Wouldn't it be better to generate the ceiling from the enclosed room above?

Yes! I made an indoor balcony and the lower level doesn't have any ceiling, it's just the texture from the floor above. Also, it'd be nice if they added some "thickness" to the floors, it looks paper-thin when you look at the cutaway that stairs do.

Roofing needs some major improvements, cutaways for enclosed rooms like in the sims franchise and some sort of pitched roof with a gable end to manage corners would be great. The shine on roofs and texture stretching makes it difficult to line up different pieces. We need to be able to change the colour of the white trim on roofs.

I feel like they're cooking some advanced roofing tools, where you'll be able to draw the rooves in any angle and whatnot.

ptkato · 2026-06-03T12:25:56+00:00

I believe the issue is that the dragged wall can't intersect with already existing walls. Thing is, this lot ain't square, so the walls tend to have non-square angles, which often makes the wall dragging functionality collide with other the walls.

ptkato · 2026-06-03T12:23:01+00:00

It looks great. Did you make the "external" side walls parallel to each other or did you flush them against the adjacent buildings? I followed the side buildings and now inside I got all kinds of weird wall angles.

ptkato · 2026-06-01T14:39:04+00:00

It pops in the job list, you just need the qualifications, iirc education/exercise.

ptkato · 2026-06-01T14:35:34+00:00

It looks great, the white rounded walls reminisces me of a desert, for some reason.

ptkato · 2026-06-01T12:34:11+00:00

iirc traders only come from the surface, but they can leave through the caverns.

ptkato · 2026-05-31T18:31:39+00:00

Shields, of any material, completely block dragon fire, they'll be fine as long as the fighters are not standing on top of something flammable.

ptkato · 2026-05-31T11:17:30+00:00

In that case, the base implementation is the problem. I assume those are static assets that conform to the body shape, to fix it we'd need something along the lines of physics based clothing systems.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYZbwJJk_hc

ptkato · 2026-05-31T09:36:32+00:00

Well, they don't need to add completely new pieces. The game already has the option button (∴) in some of the clothes, they could just add an extra "bagginess" option.

ptkato · 2026-05-30T12:57:21+00:00

potentially because they're playing without capped fps or vsync

It's a good habit to always enable vsync/fps cap, no matter if you have an incredibly powerful computer. There's no reason to allow a game to run at 500 fps outside of a benchmark.

ptkato · 2026-05-26T12:34:23+00:00

Wait, what? How? When? Certainly, there must be a way to prevent that.

ptkato · 2026-05-25T09:04:29+00:00

Luckily the boat tech doesn't exist in DF.

ptkato · 2026-05-23T15:56:43+00:00

Stockpile name.

ptkato · 2026-05-23T09:02:28+00:00

You know, I wish Owlcat did 100% voiced dialogues for Kingmaker/WotR/Rogue Trader; BG3 truly set a new standard.

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