Warsim: The Realm of Aslona News

Day six of the Develop-a-thon, the end is almost near! Thank god too because this is getting hard, today's update contains a bunch of work done on Chelob, more bugfixes from defender, some new name suffixes, 100k new helmets in game and a bunch of other tweaks and smaller features.

**CHELOB REVISITED**

I passed by Chelob's Well to fix a reported text bug and realized the whole place was in need of a rework, now there are sounds (thanks to defenders suggestion) as well as an aftermath for good old Chelob if you can answer his riddles.

* Added special new hut in Goblinwood if you win chelobs riddles (he'll move there)
* Added ability to speak to Chelob in Goblinwood (8 dialogues)
* Updated chelobs victory screen description
* Added sound effect to getting chelob question right (credit defender)
* Added sound effect to getting chelob question wrong (credit defender)
* Added sound effect for winning chelobs riddles
* Fixed Chelobs text colour turning green like his skin
* Fixed missing lines in chelobs well
* Fixed hint on second question not appearing if ascii disabled

**HOLD YOUR HELMS**

You'll never see them all, you probably won't even see 10 of them, so here's a

* Expanded the helmet system (106'752 new helmets added to the game)

https://i.imgur.com/SBIicfT.png

**NAME SUFFIXES**

More name suffixes to keep things fresh, can't believe I didn't already have the Scavenger!

* Added new name suffix 'the Scavenger' (+30 battlscore) (credit /u/animalsbite)
* Added new name suffix 'the Vault-Raider' (+36 battlescore)
* Added new name suffix 'the Door-Watcher' (+6 battlescore)
* Added new name suffix 'the Vapourman' (+9 battlescore) (credit /u/animalsbite)
* Added new name suffix 'the Positive' (+10 battlescore) (can be mixed to make 50+ other suffixes)
* Added new name suffix 'the Negative' (-10 battlescore) (can be mixed to make 50+ other suffixes)
* Added new name suffix 'the Mask' (+10 battlescore) (can be mixed to make 50+ other suffixes)
* Added new name suffix 'the Mask-Hater' (+3 battlescore)
* Added new name suffix 'One-Eye' (+14 battlescore)
* Added new name suffix 'the Eye-Gouger' (+34 battlescore)

**BUGFIXES**

Another heap of text bugs reported mostly by Defender and his gigantic list!

* Fixed goblin slaver dialogue bug (credit 71)
* Fixed mr yaeba intro dialogue (credit /u/animalsbite)
* Fixed old cabin description bug
* Fixed pitside tavern text bug (credit defender)
* Fixed savegame rejection text wordwrap issue
* Fixed champion title text bug (credit defender)
* Fixed some goblins tale text bugs (credit defender)
* Fixed Naga race description (credit defender)
* Fixed 4 scorpion pit patron dialogue text errors (credit defender)
* Fixed the grand galleon text bug (credit defender)
* Fixed skull key description bug (credit defender)
* Fixed blackmarket mushroom stall bug (credit defender)
* Fixed 3 artifact market dialogue bugs (credit defender)
* Fixed textwrap when speaking to brawl pit master
* Fixed independent celebration support text bug (credit defender)
* Fixed blackmarket guildrow text bug (credit defender)
* Fixed slumfolk trustiness text bug (credit defender)
* Fixed train pit fight text bug (credit defender)
* Fixed billowing text bug (credit defender)
* Fixed evil wizard blackmarket dialogue bug (credit defender)
* Fixed each other text bug (credit defender)

**EVERYTHING ELSE**

* Rewrote ancient rubble text description (credit defender)
* Added new cheat code (22) to monster fight pit (adds 100 new monster challengers)
* Rewrote artifact market dialogue
* Reduced mining sound volume (credit defender)
* Added 5 new artifact market dialogues
* Rewrote guildrow dialogue
* Rewrote theives casing guildrow dialogue

Day five of the develop-a-thon! we're still going, today is a big bunch of fixes thanks to a megalist of bugfinds from defender @audiogames.net as well as a bunch of new races and some blackmarket improvements!

**NEW RACES**

Bookrage sent me a huge list of ideas for races so we've now got 1'776'192 new races because of them

* Added new race prefix 'Taiga' (credit bookrage)
* Added new race prefix 'Toothy' +1 battlescore, double teeth (credit bookrage)
* Added new race prefix 'Treetop' (credit bookrage)
* Added new race prefix 'Academic' +4 civ level, +academy (credit bookrage)

Here's an example of some toothy race faces:



**NEW NAME SUFFIXES**

As I write this I'm hungover so those bottom two suffixes are personal

* Added new name suffix 'the Headstrong' (+39 battlescore)
* Added new name suffix 'the Hard-Head' (+16 battlescore)
* Added new name suffix 'the Painter' (+3 battlescore)
* Added new name suffix 'the Fleshpainter' (+37 battlescore)
* Added new name suffix 'the Corpsemaker' (+36 battlescore)
* Added new name suffix 'the Corpsetwister' (+41 battlescore)
* Added new name suffix 'the Corpsegrinder' (+42 battlescore)
* Added new name suffix 'the Corpsemangler' (+41 battlescore)
* Added new name suffix 'the Corpse-Eater' (+15 battlescore)
* Added new name suffix 'the Hungover' (-10 battlescore)
* Added new name suffix 'the Hammered' (-10 battlescore)

**BLACKMARKET IMPROVEMENTS**

Another little pile of Blackmarket improvements including the logical response to being charged a toll!

* Added new graphic and layout of blackmarket garrison inquest screen
* Added ability to ask 'Who dares charge TITLE YOURNAME a toll' (with answer from a startled guard)
* Fixed blackmarket guard face changing everytime he turns you away for having not enough gold
* Varied the blackmarket small shack text (credit defender)
* Reworked sewer bluetrii patch screen (credit defender)

**BUGFIXES**

You should seriously see the list of bugged text defender had! still got way more to work through :)

* Fixed Races of kingdom 3 having trouble with two and three headed races
* Fixed pointless line in the face drawing tool of the hero creator
* Fixed race system intro text saying 'over 300 thousand races' instead of 'over 73 million races' (hadn't update the text since the recent boom of the race generation system)
* Fixed missing 'are' in black opal blackmarket ship description (Credit defender)
* Fixed Ox head tavern text bug (credit defender)
* Fixed age of the sewer folk text bug (credit defender)
* Fixed cant feel my eyes text bug (credit defender)
* Fixed head my warning text bug (credit defender)
* Fixed i am glad I'm a mutant text bug (credit defender)
* Fixed what are you looking at normie text bug (credit defender)
* Fixed extra 'a' in blackmarket herald office description (credit defender)
* Fixed black alley text bug (credit defender)
* Fixed blackmarket sewer door description (credit defender)
* Fixed there is darkness is everything text bug (credit defender)
* Fixed goblin tour text bugs (credit defender)
* Fixed foreign messenger bringing gold coin's face bypassing ascii filter (credit defender)
* Fixed sharpest dagger blackmarket description bug (credit defender)
* Fixed blessing booth critic text bug (credit defender)
* Fixed wolf thorenson critic text bug (credit defender)
* Fixed blackrow tavern dialogue text bug (credit defender)
* Fixed gallows description text bug (credit defender)
* Fixed slums eswin dialogue text bug (credit defender)
* Fixed blackmarket slum pit text bug (credit defender)
* Fixed stall worker text bug (credit defender)
* Fixed lots of districts text bug (credit defender)
* Fixed musicians guild wulf text (credit defender)

**EVERYTHING ELSE**

A handful of little improvements and changes!

* Altered 'known knight' to 'well-known knight' in throne room (credit defender)
* Added 'old mine guards' mercenary group origin
* Added 'bitter war' mercenary group origin
* Added a new helm part to helmet generator

Day four of the develop-a-thon, today brings a feature I'm in love with, the custom champion creator! This is no joke either, this is real full blown customisation of your own heroes, check this out





**CUSTOM CHAMPION CREATOR**

This was a suggestion by a real life friend of mine who plays warsim, something I can't believe I haven't thought of yet, it allows you to create a custom hero, you can draw/generate or build their face, choose their battlescore, name and origin and then add them to your game, this allows for completely personal champions!

* Added cheat code '6001' opens custom champion creator (credit Dylan)

**LAUNCHING ATTACK PREP IMPROVED**

Finally this pre-attack stuff is updated to fit with the rest of the games design, I've also made the text a little more dynamic and fixed some bugs with it!

* Added new screen for attacking without a general
* Added 3 new generals dialogues for launching a skirmish
* Added 3 new generals dialogues for launching a raid
* Added 3 new generals dialogues for launching an invasion
* Fixed spymaster before battle textwrap, grammar and misreference of title
* Fixed text colour issue of general text before attacking

**BAIAA POLISHED**

Passed through Baiaa and realized lots of it was in need of some good polish, so here we are!

* Fixed Baiaa maze gnomes broken intro dialogues
* Fixed old forgetful vampire text bugs
* Added new screen for demon painting in Blacktower maze
* Added new screen for red gate room in Blacktower maze
* Updated colour of all books in Blacktower Maze
* Added new screen and graphic for picking up coin from floor (in Blacktower maze)
* Updated cup game winning texts
* Fixed issues with Baiaa Blacktower maze
* Fixed Baiaa grammar bug in intro text
* Fixed Baiaa text colour in cup game
* Fixed reference to king instead of relevant title when entering baiaa as explorer
* Fixed mislabelled coin pickup option in Baiaa blacktower maze
* Updated description for two decorated door room in Baiaa maze (and updated option tags)

**NEW FACES**

Now we have a billion possible vampires!

* Added 345'071'232 new vampire faces (was 744 million, now 1 billion)

**NEW NAME SUFFIXES**

Tons of new possible champion prefixes this time, the Best is 'the Champion of Blood' with +72 battlescore which is obscene

* Added new name suffix 'the Lout' (-3 battlescore)
* Added new name suffix 'the Bigot' (-10 battlescore)
* Added new name suffix 'the Beast-Tamer' (+15 battlescore)
* Added new name suffix 'the Beast-Eater' (+49 battlescore)
* Added new name suffix 'the Winged' (+5 battlescore)
* Added new name suffix 'the Goldwinged' (+10 battlescore)
* Added new name suffix 'the Bladeswinger' (+16 battlescore)
* Added new name suffix 'the Spearswinger' (+17 battlescore)
* Added new name suffix 'the Champion of Dunes' (+45 battlescore)
* Added new name suffix 'the Champion of Hearts' (+50 battlescore)
* Added new name suffix 'the Champion of Hands' (+56 battlescore)
* Added new name suffix 'the Champion of Bones' (+59 battlescore)
* Added new name suffix 'the Champion of Blood' (+72 battlescore)
* Added new name suffix 'the Champion of the Hills' (+20 battlescore)
* Added new name suffix 'the Champion of Mountains' (+68 battlescore)
* Added new name suffix 'the Champion of the Depths' (+69 battlescore)

**NEW UNITS**

Haven't added any of these for a while, these are units that can be spawned for groups like mercenary companies

* Added new unit type 'Twiglancer'
* Added new unit type 'Polelancer'
* Added new unit type 'Pikelancer'
* Added new unit type 'Swordchief'
* Added new unit type 'Bowchief'

**BUGFIXES**

* Fixed missing line for brawls without a graphic
* Fixed duplicate parts in vampire face generator

**EVERYTHING ELSE**

A bunch of new stuff mostly dialogues!

* Added 5 Ice Watch tavern dialogues
* Added 5 goblinwood tavern dialogues
* Added 3 new crowns to the game
* Added 5 dialogues to rihhm village
* Added new advice joke to advice pool
* Chanced press space bar to skip text to say hold spacebar to skip (credit Dylan)

Day three of the develop-a-thon, today brings a brand new tavern with some interesting stuff inside it, a much more advanced and dynamic pre battle attack screen, and loads more

**THE ICE WATCH TAVERN**

Now the Ice Watch Tower ruins have something you can do in them, a punky little tavern build beside the desolate and ruined northern tower! This tavern includes a recording I made today, a mini punk song writen for warsim, let me know what you think.

* Added Ice Watch tavern to the Ruins of Ice Watch Keep
* Added 10 Ice watch tavern goer dialogues
* Added ability to speak with tavern keep (3 dialogues)
* Added ability to watch local brawl and hire the victor
* Added ability to listen to the Ice Watch song (by me)

**PREBATTLE ATTACK CHOICE SCREEN**

In Warsim the pre-battle screen is seen quite a lot, so I figured why not try to make it far more dynamic, now there are lots of new screens for various different things as well as more dynamic and random text instead of preset lines everytime!

* Added 5 alternate dialogues for general when attacking rebellion
* Added 5 alternate dialogues for general when attacking bandits
* Added 5 alternate dialogues for general when attacking krut & erak
* Added 5 alternate dialogues for general when attacking a minor bandit gang
* Added 5 alternate dialogues for general when attacking independent kingdoms
* Added new screen for having no spymaster or diplomat when asking for information
* Added new screen for pre-battle without a general
* Fixed text colour of all prebattle text
* Fixed missing lines in all of pre-battle screens
* Fixed surrendering independent kingdom screen textwrap, grammar and colour issues
* Fixed burn the house down independent kingdom screen textwrap, grammar and colour issues
* Added special new screen for having no general and getting attacked

**INDEPENDENT REFUGEE EXPANSION**

The independent refugee system is used in the throne room when an independent unit comes from a foreign land, now their responses to why they have come to you are a little more varied!

* Added 'Put in a box' explanation of mistreatment
* Added 'I regret slapping the king' response to death sentence
* Added 'Not that interesting' response to why am I interesting
* Added 'Murdered before but not this one' response to murder accusation
* Fixed independent refugee system grammar issues

**NEW NAME SUFFIXES**

Bardbarians are so cool!

* Added new name suffix 'the Swiper' (+5 battlescore)
* Added new name suffix 'the Goldswiper' (+6 battlescore)
* Added new name suffix 'the Skullswitcher' (+39 battlescore)
* Added new name suffix 'the Switcher' (+3 battlescore)
* Added new name suffix 'the Swooper' (+6 battlescore)
* Added new name suffix 'the Bardbarian' (+35 battlescore)
* Added new name suffix 'the Battlebard' (+16 battlescore)
* Added new name suffix 'the Tourist' (+1 battlescore)
* Added new name suffix 'the False-Promiser' (-15 battlescore)

**BUGFIXES**

Most of these bugfixes are from the diplomacy screen, after having a look through it wasn't up to scratch, now it's been reworked to be a lot more clean!

* Fixed music not being checked for sound block with wild skalds band
* Fixed attack being skipped if you look at extra information on independent kingdoms (credit Cablenexus)
* Fixed witch name file being bugged
* Fixed text colour of adventurers screen
* Fixed slave revolt diplomacy screen text colour and grammar issue
* Fixed deserters diplomacy screen text colour and grammar issue
* Fixed pest group diplomacy screen text colour issue
* Fixed Demon diplomacy screen text colour issue
* Fixed refugee camp diplomacy text colour and grammar issue
* Fixed void army diplomacy text colour issue
* Fixed Baiaa vampire diplomacy text colour issue
* Fixed wild vampire diplomacy text colour issue

**EVERYTHING ELSE**

* Slightly reworked refugee camp diplomacy screen layout
* Slightly reworked pest group diplomacy screen layout
* Slightly reworked deserter diplomacy screen layout
* Added new text to adventurers screen
* Added 6 new minotaur names
* Added 5 new gnoll names
* Added 7 new witch names

Day two of the develop-a-thon, today brings 676 thousand new races, a polished entry fee system in
the Blackmarket, 4 new throne room encounters, a pack of name suffixes, a bunch of jokes
some bugfixes and some general alterations and changes!

**NEW RACES**

Now you can find evil wretched races and insanely tough colossal races, these two prefixes mixed with
the advanced race system results in a great deal of races.

* Added a total of 676'164 new possible races (from Colossal Swamp Trolls to Wretched Antmen)
* Added 'Colossal' race prefix (9x Battlescore, Population divided by 10) (credit u/AdministrativeTreat7)
* Added 'Wretched' race prefix (+1 Battlescore, -2 Civilisation level, Evil race, Always evil leaders) (credit Ash)
* Made Wraith Races have evil leaders
* Made Vile Races have evil leaders

**BLACKMARKET ENTRY FEE POLISHED**

This system was in dire need of a rework, now it's a little more interesting and random!

* Added new Blackmarket guard hat
* Added new screen before fee paid to Blackmarket (With 4 different random intro texts)
* Added new screen for paying fee to Blackmarket
* Added new screen for not having the gold to pay for Blackmarket (with sound effects)

**THRONE ROOM ENCOUNTERS**

Another one of u/ScarsAndStripes suggestions as well as a handful more to keep the throne room
interesting!

* Added 'exploration seer' throne room encounter (3 dynamic outcomes) (credit u/ScarsAndStripes)
* Added 'drunk compliment' throne room encounter
* Added 'Sacred Trees Dispute' throne room encounter
* Added 'Guided by gods' throne room encounter

**NEW NAME SUFFIXES**

Quite a few negative battlescore suffixes in this update, my favourite new one is 'the Roguelike'

* Added new name suffix 'the Roguelike' (+29 battlescore)
* Added new name suffix 'the Rogue' (+39 battlescore) (this suffix can also be mixed with random additions)
* Added new name suffix 'the Blighter' (+3 battlescore)
* Added new name suffix 'the Dastard' (+12 battlescore)
* Added new name suffix 'the Dastardly' (+11 battlescore) (this suffix can also be mixed with random additions)
* Added new name suffix 'the Lowlife' (-4 battlescore)
* Added new name suffix 'the Varlet' (-3 battlescore)
* Added new name suffix 'the Scallywag' (-2 battlescore)
* Added new name suffix 'the Ne'er-do-well' (+3 battlescore)
* Added new name suffix 'the Scrote' (+1 battlescore)
* Added new name suffix 'Scote' (+1 battlescore)
* Added new name suffix 'the Meany' (+6 battlescore)
* Added new name suffix 'the Wastrel' (-5 battlescore)
* Added new name suffix 'the Charlatan' (-15 battlescore) (this suffix can also be mixed with random additions)
* Added new name suffix 'the Miscreant' (-5 battlescore)
* Added new name suffix 'the Reprobate' (-3 battlescore)
* Added new name suffix 'Arrowfoot' (+5 battlescore)

**I'M ONLY JOKING**

A bunch of 'funny' jokes you will now find in the throne room and from jesters, consider
Warsim like bread, I ain't loafing around letting the content go stale.

* Added new joke 'Ghost jester' (level 1 jesters)
* Added new joke 'Ghost hearing' (level 2 jesters)
* Added new joke 'Ghost breakfast' (level 1 jesters)
* Added new joke 'Lieing Ghost' (level 2 jesters)
* Added new joke 'Greet a ghost' (level 1 jesters)
* Added new joke 'Ghost tree' (level 1 jesters)
* Added new joke 'Bad wizard' (level 2 jesters)
* Added new joke 'Wizard Marriage' (level 1 jesters)
* Added new joke 'Wizard test' (level 3 jesters)
* Added new joke 'Wizard school' (level 3 jesters)
* Added new joke 'Wizard and witch' (level 1 jesters)
* Added new joke 'Jumping Goblin' (level 4 jesters)
* Added new joke 'Orcs and friends' (level 1 jesters)

**BUGFIXES**

* Fixed grammar and text bugs in Blackmarket entry cost screen
* Fixed sound skip bug when exiting laws screen
* Fixed missing line after betgold recieved in arena

**EVERYTHING ELSE**

* Added 3 new dialogues for Ogloobs Blackrow Tavern
* Added if Blackmarket leader robs the market and runs, the economy goes stagnant for 3 years
* Updated layout of bet screen in arena
* Made throne room poem for you gender neutral