0001875: body size appearance modifiers are dwarf-centric

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0001875

Dwarf Fortress

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public

2010-05-14 13:03

2010-06-09 06:45

Reporter

derigo

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Footkerchief

Priority

low

Severity

minor

Reproducibility

always

Status

closed

Resolution

duplicate

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Product Version

0.31.03

Target Version

Fixed in Version

Summary

0001875: body size appearance modifiers are dwarf-centric

Description

If you inspect any large creature, like a horse, 6/7 of the time you'll be informed that the creature is 'enourmous' or larger, because its so much larger than a horse. 1/7 of the time(when the horse is 'average for a horse') you won't be informed of anything at all. When a crerature has an average appearance modifier, it's omitted from the description.

If you had a huge dragonish creature with a very wide range of body sizes, like elephant sized to blue whale sized. All of them would be 'enormous,' even though they're so different, because relative to a dwarf, they ARE enourmous.

All other appearance modifiers are creature-centric. 'Huge' is only huge if its in the top percentile for the race.

Steps To Reproduce

inspect a bunch of animals.

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duplicate of

0000739

resolved

Toady One

All animals are described as "Gigantic"

Notes
(0006694) Footkerchief (manager) 2010-05-14 13:28	Is this report substantially different from 0000739?

(0006696) derigo (reporter) 2010-05-14 13:36	No. I searched but didn't see that one. My bad ;p My report is also wrong. Its not dwarf centrism. Kittens are also gigantic and fat. ;p

(0006697) Footkerchief (manager) 2010-05-14 14:09	Haha, kittens too... yeah, I really have no idea why this affects everything except sentients, and in the same direction too.

Issue History
Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2010-05-14 13:03	derigo	New Issue
2010-05-14 13:28	Footkerchief	Note Added: 0006694
2010-05-14 13:29	Footkerchief	Issue Monitored: Footkerchief
2010-05-14 13:36	derigo	Note Added: 0006696
2010-05-14 14:09	Footkerchief	Note Added: 0006697
2010-05-14 14:09	Footkerchief	Relationship added	duplicate of 0000739
2010-05-14 14:09	Footkerchief	Status	new => resolved
2010-05-14 14:09	Footkerchief	Resolution	open => duplicate
2010-05-14 14:09	Footkerchief	Assigned To	=> Footkerchief
2010-06-09 06:45	Toady One	Status	resolved => closed