Lets inspect the main elements of mindflayer economy that center around interaction with outsiders:
- enslave: some creatures will rather fight to the death, while others will accept subjugation without complaints. In all cases, the creatures must be in a vulnerable or obedient state before they can be enslaved.
- impregnate: same preconditions as enslave, just needs to be in the brain chamber.
- eat: Flayers eat brains. Thralls are fed other thralls. I'll allow flayers eating severed brains to survive, but to avoid a negative thought they'll have to eat directly out of a skull ever so often. Same preconditions as enslave, with the side note just harvesting the brain would provide some sustenance as well.
- trade/diplomacy: Hey, wanna trade this brain for your mirror? :D Or: gimme 100 gold or I'll eat your brain. Needs at least a non-hostile creature.
- exterminate: requires swatting a target until it is dead.
Translated into building blocks:
- Approach a Thing (creature or object) [until in weapon range].
- Attack a creature [until dead] [until incapacitated] [until scared away] [until mentally beaten] [with weapon].
- Transport a Thing to location.
- Order a creature to location.
- Take thing into inventory.
- Consume thing
We'll also need to provide systems for:
- Relationships between Flayers and the various towns and species. Some species are natural enemies, others tolerate flayers or collapse into crying heaps of brain the moment Flayers appear.
- Basic object and inventories. If possible the first stockpiles.
- Basic combat. I'll keep it simple for now (x hitpoints, y damage per second). We'll replace this later
- Blood splatter and corpses!
- Better system to handle actor-centric (timmy pick up that stone) or target-centric (someone attack that dwarf) orders.
Chaaaaaaaarge.
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