DD#207 The Bearer of the Word
All I ever wanted was the truth, to build a world of greater pursuit, to bind all hearts in devotion's decree. The voice of truth shall be heard, for I am the Bearer of the Word!
Hi, everyone. Welcome to another week's developer's diary.
Have you ever wondered what would happen if you could spread your customized faith to every corner of the world, gaining followers and influence?
During this week's update, this is starting to come true. You can now convince random citizens in Liu to follow your faith. By passing a persuasion check, maybe you can let them reconsider their beliefs and learn the one truth that is your faith. There are many facts that can affect the difficulty of this persuasion skill check, such as the complicity of your faith and if they like you enough. Of course, a tenet like the "Word Bearer" can reduce the difficulty by about 30%.
In many religions, spreading the faith is a way to show your dedication and, in general, a good thing to do as you are trying to save other people's souls. Thus, you can now also find many of those belief cores that allow you to gain devotion by converting more people to your faith. But not all centers of belief have this feature, such as a certain elitism, one that prefers you to keep the truth to very few best people like you in the world while trying to rule the majority of talentless people from the shadow. However, a faith core is not everything. Some tenets can adjust this. Such as, once again, the Word Bearer tenet can allow you to gain devotion by converting others no matter what faith core is on your customized faith.
Things can be even more fun from here. You can even try to convince those Aten Cultists that your cult is better than theirs!
Of course, the Aten Cult as an organization will not be happy that you steal their followers.
However, from a game design perspective of view, if a feature you cannot see from the UI, it's not a feature at all. Thus, a relatively basic UI was also added to the game just so that you can see how far your efforts have been achieved.
Yes, there will be different effects in the future depending on your faith system and how much influence it has in a certain location.
That concludes the first part of this developer's diary.
Meanwhile, this week, we also received many other content updates, in addition to the feature of spreading all kinds of strange faiths for people to follow.
The "Family Honor" quest has been completed.
Two more endings, in addition to the one from last week, just arrived, giving this story three totally different endings. Sometimes, it may be easier to maintain a lie that people believe in than convince them to accept an ugly reality. That's also why many secret organizations prefer to keep the majority of the normal world in a blessed ignorance, isn't it?
More creatures appeared.
Are the outskirts of Hottle too peaceful, with only very cute animals?
Well, let's change this. Now we get more aggressive wild lives such as Boars.
You can turn them into your pets. You can butcher them for meat. You can take them for a walk and see them poop around. Basically, everything your other animal-type pets have, they have them too. This is also a part of efforts to restore the biodiversity in the Nise Federation. It shall not be a merely ancient memory from that Stone Age that we had so many interesting creatures all around those islands.
What about urban environments?
Have you ever considered that maybe your cleaning bots in your house are secretly plotting to murder you when they are recharging? Maybe not the normal ones. But, well, we live in a supernatural world where everything can be real.
Maybe there are just some bugs in their program. Maybe their AI somehow concludes that human beings are unclean and should be purged from this planet. Anyway, all of a sudden, those bots may decide it's a good idea to mop the floor of your group.
Fun fact: I got this idea from Street Fighter 6. But don't worry, fridges are not going to join those cleaning bots to murder you, at least for this week.
That's for this week. I'm looking forward to seeing how many followers you can gather and unite under your faith. :)
The Full Update Log of This Week:
20250104
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[Family Honor]The first stage is done, and you can get your first rewards of this mission unless you pick the quick ending. (If you pass a persuasion check, you can get more. Even if you fail the persuasion check, you still get more as long as you try.)
[Family Honor]Added another dialog option on John Emberwood about another character who just came into the picture of this mission.
[Wiki]Updated the "Family Honor" quest page.
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【家族荣誉】完成了该任务的第一阶段，并且你可以获得第一笔报酬。除非你选择了那个快速的结局。（通过一个说服检定，你可以获得更多的报酬。就算说服失败，也会比没有尝试获得更多奖励。）
【家族荣誉】为为约翰·安博伍德加入了另一个额外的对话选项，关于一个新的卷入这个任务的角色。
【维基】更新了【家族荣誉】任务页面。
20250105
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[Family Honor]Mission Complete. (For now. The mission has 3 different endings.)
[Family Honor]If you reject rewards at the end of the first part, you can gain more reputation and karma.
[Wiki]Updated the "Family Honor" quest page.
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【家族荣誉】任务完成。（至少之前计划的部分全部完成了。这个任务有三种结局。）
【家族荣誉】在任务第一阶段如果你拒绝了奖励，你会获得更多的声望和道德值。
【维基】更新了【家族荣誉】任务页面。
20250106
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[Enemy]New Enemy: Cleaning Bot
[Enemy]Added four random dialogs for Cleaning Bots when they attack you.
[Wonderland Travel Agency]Procedrually generated locations with a machine theme may now spawn cleaning bots as enemies. They will attack alongside other machines.
[An Adventurer's House]Some cleaning bots now spawn in this location.
[No.181 River Road]Those two secret rooms on the first floor may now have cleaning bots inside.
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【敌人】新敌人：扫地机器人
【敌人】为扫地机器人加入了四句会在攻击你的时候播放的随机的台词。
【奇幻之地旅行社】以机器生物为主题的过程生成的随机地点现在可能会出现扫地机器人，它们会和别的机器生物一起攻击。
【一位冒险家的房子】这个区域现在会出现扫地机器人。
【清河路181号】1楼的两个秘密房间内部现在可能会有扫地机器人。
20250107
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[Enemy]The cleaning bots now have randomized max hp.
[Loot]The cleaning bots now have their own item drop list.
[Faith]If you have a customized faith, you can now start to convert random citizens in Liu to your faith. (More about this will come in future updates.)
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【敌人】扫地机器人的最大生命值现在会随机化。
【掉落物】扫地机器人现在有了自己的物品掉落清单。
【信仰】如果你有自定义的信仰。你现在可以在疁城说服随机市民追随你的信仰。（更多这方面的内容会在之后加入。）
20250108
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[Animal/Pet]New wild animal: Boar. (You can turn them into pets.)
[Item]New Item: Boar Meat.
[Butcher]Added butchery support for boars.
[Passive Resource Generation]Boars can generate poops.
[Hottle]Boars now appear near this town.
[Wiki]Updated the wiki's pet page for boar information.
[Conversion]The number of tenets in your customized faith will now make it more difficult to convince someone to your faith.
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[Conversion]Fixed a bug that allows you to convert random citizens when you don't have a customized faith.
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【动物/宠物】新野生动物：野猪（可以变成宠物）
【物品】新物品：野猪肉
【屠宰】加入了对野猪的屠宰支持。
【被动资源生成】野猪可以生成便便。
【霍特尔】这个城镇周边现在有野猪。
【维基】更新了维基的宠物页面加入了野猪有关的信息。
【转化信仰】你的自定义信仰中的信条数量会增加转化别人追寻你的信仰的难度。
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【转化信仰】修复了你可以在没有自定义信仰的情况下依然对随机市民进行信仰转化的BUG
20250109
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[UI]Added a very basic new user interface to check your faith's current global influence.
[UI]Added a new option when you check your main character's faith to let you check your faith's influence.
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【界面】加入了一个非常基本的新用户界面可以检查当前你的信仰的全球影响力。
【界面】在你检查你的主角的信仰的时候，多了一个可以检查你的信仰的影响力的选项。
20250110
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[Special Attribution] A new special attribution that allows you to gain devotion when converting people was added.
[Faith]Many core beliefs now allow you to gain devotion by converting others. (But not all of them have this feature.)
[Faith]New Tenet: Word Bearer (Heavily built around converting people.)
[Enemy]The relationship threshold to trigger Aten Cultists to attack you on sight is now lowered to -40 from -20. (It means they are less likely to attack you on sight.)
[Conversion]You can now even try to convert Aten Cultists to follow your faith. (If you have a good relationship with the Aten Cult, they are easier to convert. However, such an action will damage your relationship with them. A failed attempt will directly lead to a battle.)
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[Conversion]Centerlized the code of converting people, making it much easier to maintain.
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【特殊属性】加入了一个新的特殊属性允许你通过转化别人追随你的信仰来获得虔诚。
【信仰】很多信仰核心现在允许你通过转化别人追随你的信仰而获得虔诚。（但是，并非全部的信仰核心都有这个特性。）
【信仰】新信条：怀言者 （这是一个针对转化别人而设计的信条）
【敌人】阿腾信徒直接攻击你的关系度阈值从-20进一步降低到了-40 （也就是说他们不会那么容易直接攻击你。）
【转化】你现在甚至可以尝试转化阿腾邪教徒来加入你的信仰。（如果你和阿腾教团的关系比较好，他们会更加容易加入你的信仰。但是，这种行为会导致你和他们的关系降低。失败的说服尝试会自动引发战斗。）
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【转化】将信仰转化的代码集中管理从而更容易维护。
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