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Here's something I wrote. Better check it for grammer and typos, since I'm not a native speaker.

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<BookText>
<li>It was the third day of a long and painfull siege,</li>
<li>James and Rookie were dead and burried, and I had my right ear blown off.</li>
<li>David, our sniper, decided to take it upon himself to free us from this nightmare.</li>
<li>As he stealthly sneaked about the grass, looking for the raiders' base,</li>
<li>he suddenly wispered urgently at the coms.</li>
<li>With my one ear I could make out that one distress signal we never want to hear;</li>
<li>"MAD BOOMRAT!"</li>
<li>A loud bang sounded far off.</li>
<li>with my pistol in hand, and the coms eerily silent, I opened the colony door.</li>
<li>The entire plain was on fire.</li>
<li>Looking far away, I saw the fire slowly crawling towards the raiders' base.</li>
<li>As the fires reached their cannons, 2 horrible explosions burned at my eyes</li>
<li>I was never as happy to feel the rain pour, as that night.</li>
<li>I never did find David's body, </li>
<li>but as soon as I could, I built a statue in his honour.</li>
</BookText>



I'm thinking about something like a flavour for the victory and losing messages.
For instance, when dying in a desert biome, the message should show some kind of visualization, like this mockup:


With a different splash screen for each biome.
The victory (space ship) screen should probably be the same whatever biome you choose.

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Could these help?

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Just a thought, I thought I should share with you guys;
Could we add a locust type animal that will eat metal/stone walls?
Maybe make an event to cause a "Rockroach" to come and eat holes through your stone walls, or even burrow inside your cave and cause cave-ins.
Same with a metal variation, a "Slugroach" or something.

Maybe it will leave stones/metal slugs in its wake, so it's not a total disaster.

A simpler solution would be to make the walls themselves a type of decorative wall (like DF).

Yeah that's an awesome idea! Btw welcome to the forums Elerd, way to make a stomping impact! I make alot of different wall types, all unreleased. I considered recolorations, but nothing like this. Could have a whole mod set of different pretty walls.  This wouldn't work for painting so much, as the same painting would be repeated constantly. But maybe a wall type where every section of the wall has a different picture?

Thanks for the warm welcome I've been lurking for a few weeks, but thought I'd give my 2 cents.
Decorative walls from different materials could be a nice addition. The painting problem will probably have to wait for a future release, since right now it will bug out when rotated, as mrofa said.

I want this as a mod..

Though instead of making them more beautiful than plants how about making plants a wee bit more beautiful and the statues slightly lower?

I'm working on a mod based on what mrofa posted before. I'm still not sure what the beauty possibilities are (in mrofa's mod, the statue has a <beauty>Gorgeous</beauty> statement), so I'll have to look into that later.

I think you could make a poster or painting if you use the same shape and overdraw,
basically just retexture and make standable, but cut off part of the statue, leave only what is in front of the light grey of the wall.
Would still need rotational faces to work properly, but I think this would be a possible way to currently mod posters over walls?
Sorry for my crappy paint work, just to show how it would work in principle. [/URL]

A simpler solution would be to make the walls themselves a type of decorative wall (like DF).
Made a mockup of what I was thinking


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Just couldnt helped myself since they just look sooo awsome
So i did you a example mod so you can learn and make more of them. Download it here
Added also a .psb file so you know how to resize it and generaly where to palce it.
And it looks like this in game:
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Thanks, mrofa, That's amazing!
That'll make it a lot easier for me to add new statues.
I'll get to work on this.

Ooh, looks cool. Perhaps it would give a small beautiful enviroment bonus, like a larger -more powerful- plant pot?

That's mainly what I thought. But how would you remove the need to water the pot? I think it's hardcoded.

I was thinking about having more decorations and since I'm not much of a modder, I tried my best to mock up a statue. I don't know exactly how to add this to the game, or what would be the stats and requirments for it, but I thought maybe some of you will have some idea what to do with this.

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