# \[Discussion Thread\] Thoughts on the C:DDA Design Outline

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/discussion-thread-thoughts-on-the-c-dda-design-outline/5277>\
**Category:** The Drawing Board\
**Created:** [March 3, 2014, 6:00am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/discussion-thread-thoughts-on-the-c-dda-design-outline/5277 "2014-03-03T06:00:26Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![MormonPartyboat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8e7dd6/32.png) [@MormonPartyboat](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/MormonPartyboat)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2015, 8:02pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/discussion-thread-thoughts-on-the-c-dda-design-outline/5277/81 "2015-03-25T20:02:44Z")

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[quote=“Derpular, post:79, topic:5277”]Just one thought: near the bottom of page 6, change

> is xemself

to

> are themselves

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It’d be better English to just eliminate the phrase entirely, as it’s redundant. As a bonus, it’d shift the sentence’s focus from the player to the world: “Transcendence involves actively modifying parts of the world… bearing in mind that the player character is part of the world.”

> [@Derpular](#):
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> This isn’t the mid-nineties, we don’t need to prove how edgy we are by inventing new gender-neutral pronouns that sound like we’re gargling Lovecraftian summoning rituals. “They” has served just fine for this purpose since the middle ages.

just lol

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**Author:** ![FatherTed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e5b9ba/32.png) [@FatherTed](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/FatherTed)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2015, 12:49am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/discussion-thread-thoughts-on-the-c-dda-design-outline/5277/82 "2015-07-02T00:49:37Z")

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How strict is the “eschewing of fancy graphics”? I’m trying to get into making or editing tilesets and have thought of a few ideas in regards to the visuals/graphics. I’m guessing this is something that would be best made into a mod of some sort? My biggest problem is I have no idea what I’m doing.

Heres a link to the post that explains my ideas (and a link to another post that explains my ideas).

[http://smf.cataclysmdda.com/index.php?topic=10695.0](http://smf.cataclysmdda.com/index.php?topic=10695.0)

Edit: Well I’ve thought about my own question for a bit and I’m not sure it’s really necessary to post it here. If prompted I’ll remove it but otherwise ill just leave it here. (Honestly I’m just trying to funnel as many people as possible to my original post, with the hopes that some poor soul will actually read all of it and decide to help me.)

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**Author:** ![Pthalocy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/22d042/32.png) [@Pthalocy](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Pthalocy)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2015, 6:27am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/discussion-thread-thoughts-on-the-c-dda-design-outline/5277/83 "2015-07-02T06:27:05Z")

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Mmn, last post here was on March 25 of this year. This thread is a very open-ended one so I’m not calling anybody out for thread necro (we have no official rules against it at time of this post’s writing). Your post here’s primary intent seems to be promoting your other thread, which is not really a bad thing, but I don’t see how it will help your intended goal.

Don’t worry man. We’ll find and post in your desired thread if we have something to contribute! Sometimes we’re a little slow. If the thread is a flop for whatever reason and gets buried behind new topics, it is perfectly okay to start a new thread and try again sometime later.

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**Author:** ![FatherTed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e5b9ba/32.png) [@FatherTed](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/FatherTed)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2015, 2:58pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/discussion-thread-thoughts-on-the-c-dda-design-outline/5277/84 "2015-07-02T14:58:57Z")

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OK so I’ll stop relpying to old threads and leave them alone. I think I got a little carried away. I hope I didn’t do anything foolish.

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**Author:** ![Pthalocy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/22d042/32.png) [@Pthalocy](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Pthalocy)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2015, 4:42pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/discussion-thread-thoughts-on-the-c-dda-design-outline/5277/85 "2015-07-02T16:42:46Z")

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Nah, you’d have to be trying a lot harder to dredge so many old threads up that it buries genuinely new ones. You’ll do just fine here!

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