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[sev]

Well, I'm off on another worldgen obsession.   When I was writing up stories for Shotstockades I got to know the (small) world I embarked in fairly well, but the world was *small*, with a handful of civilizations and only 60 years of history.

When you've got a large world, how do you prefer to get to know the world?   I'm interested in how you as a player fall in love with the unique awesomeness of the history (and modernity) of the world you're playing in.

Do you pick one civ, and follow its interactions with other civilizations?  Do you use the historical maps to focus in on times and places where expanding civilizations suddenly intersect?  Do you just skim the text available in Legends mode and wait until something jumps out at you?  Do you wander about in Adventure mode and talk to the natives?  Do you choose "reveal all historical events" during worldgen so you can get it all at once, or do you keep some of it hidden so you have to play  the game to learn it all?

I've just generated a Large world and watching the humans conquer elven settlements during worldgen was fascinating, but now that worldgen is done, I'm drowning in data with no good way to figure out what's really interesting and what's  just another human settlement constructing yet another hovel in the middle of nowhere.

[Im_Sparks]

I talk to mine for a while, take it out to dinner and a movie. Explore it.

No, I'm just kidding. I usually quickly sift through legends, check out the different regions, and go from there.

[Greiger]

I usually go through legends mode and look at every battle of every war that happened.  Then I just look for recurring names, or anything else that jumps out at me.

I usually glance through the first few pages of the historical figures to look for particularly active megabeasts as well.  Note down the ones that do alot of hoarding and look for them in adventure mode later.  Easy money.

[Warlord255]

I start with the map of historical territory holdings to get an overview of potential wars, keeping an eye out for ruins, crushed civilizations and massive empires. Then I inspect the details of the ones that catch my eye.

[Volatar]

You know, in Adventure mode I always felt quite lost. I never considered searching through Legends for Megabeasts with treasure hoards, fallen civilizations, and the like. That makes the game feel so much more deep now. I must do some of this...

[Granite26]

I added an item to the eternal voting thread over in Suggestions from XML'izing history.  It would allow modders to create history readers that would behave like a Wiki from any generated world.
Linky .

[sev]

You know, in Adventure mode I always felt quite lost. I never considered searching through Legends for Megabeasts with treasure hoards, fallen civilizations, and the like. That makes the game feel so much more deep now. I must do some of this...

Please report back on whether it makes you feel less lost.  I'm a Legends junkie and I still feel kinda lost in Adventure mode...

[Draco18s]

I almost have always tried to determine the identities of the various megabeasts (I have a particular fondness for dragons) and see if they did anything cool.

I had a female dragon end up as an object of worship, but I was unable to find any of her worshipers in adventure mode (no, I did, but I couldn't talk to them about it).