I have a teeny tweak to suggest. When a ghol picks something up, it is supposedly placed in a little baggie around its neck. You select the ghol and reveal its character name and quote and stuff (F9?), and a tiny icon appears of that little sack in the upper right hand corner.
Instead of the baggie, could the icon actually show what the ghol is carrying? Suppose you have pus-satchel set up with three ghols carrying satchels and one with a big pus packet. It'd be cool to be able to see the contents of the little baggie rather than just be told the ghol is carrying something.
Ghol baggies
This wouldn't be possible without majorly reworking the way the monster tag works, because the icon in the status bar must be part of the unit's collection. In order to display an icon for every different thing a ghol can carry, you'd need to have the monster tag reference many different collections, something that is not really possible or practical.
Also, showing exactly what a ghol is carrying would upset game balance a lot, since ghols carrying puss would be much more important targets than those carrying dwarf heads. If you somehow wanted to make the actual contents of the ghol's inventory viewable to only the owner of the ghol, that too would require some major code rewriting.
Also, showing exactly what a ghol is carrying would upset game balance a lot, since ghols carrying puss would be much more important targets than those carrying dwarf heads. If you somehow wanted to make the actual contents of the ghol's inventory viewable to only the owner of the ghol, that too would require some major code rewriting.
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Would it be possible to group carried items? For example, if you are carrying an explosive it shows a satchel charge, if you are carrying puss, it shows a puss packet, and if its just some random thing off the ground, leave it as the ghol baggie. I don't think you'd even have to create new pics and textures either. Maybe someone can make a plugin or a patch after 1.5 comes out to implement this. I'll take a look into it.
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