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Freezing

25 (32.1%)

Scorching

15 (19.2%)

Evil Freezing

14 (17.9%)

Evil Scorching

6 (7.7%)

Terrifying (Any Biome/Climate.)

18 (23.1%)

Total Members Voted: 78

[DavionFuxa]

same as in real life, scorching. as someone who spent several years working outdoors, I see it this way; heat is a misery, but cold is a pain. being really hot makes you miserable, but being really cold is a painful experience. I would rather be unhappy than in pain any day. while sunburns may be painful, at least you dont get them if you stay in the shade. In dwarf fortress, I like the hot climes because the water never freezes, snow never comes, and most of the really hot places are my favored biomes. deserts, grasslands, and really hot swamps.

Heh, I feel I'm your exact reverse; I prefer Freezing.

Where I live, I prefer to be inside, and being outside is a curse. The temperatures during the summertime are 'technically' pleasant, but the humidity here isn't. Only during the Mid Fall through to the Mid Spring does it really become pleasant to go outside. When it really begins to get cold, the temperatures are still tolerable.

I prefer colder climates to hotter ones. It makes for a fun challenge figuring out water concerns, plus if you are like me and have embarked in many different biomes recently, the blandness and confinemen of having to play underground comes as a refreshing change.

[WealthyRadish]

You sure? I had an incident (albeit a few years ago) where my dwarves started dying of dehydration since I didn't realize I ran out of booze and I had that order set. I don't think Toady changed that.

Yurp. Just tried a boozeless test embark, they ignore the order after a little while of thirst. It sounds like a tweak he would make, though.

[Loud Whispers]

Zombie GDS.

[Sus]

Scorchio!

Hate to admit it, but I don't yet have Teh Mad Skillz™ to survive in a place where finding liquid water is an epic-level challenge in and of itself or giant zombie eagles rip to shreds anyone who is not underground and barricaded within the first 5 ticks... 

[Castamere]

Evil Freezing
Nothing like sitting on a warm fungiwood throne in front of a magma fireplace, sipping the best dwarven whiskey and a nice bearded dwarven wench on your lap while the siege outside is freezing their ass of on the surface and fighting undead polar bears and racoons while getting pincushioned by goblin bone bolts.

[Di]

I believe evil is out of place in the poll here. It has been ascertained already that everyone loves evil embarks. As for hot/cold, I definitely prefer the latter. Glaciers and tundra remind me of those north myths even though there were no glaciers and tundras in them. Also rebel station on Hoth 

[Loud Whispers]

I believe evil is out of place in the poll here. It has been ascertained already that everyone loves evil embarks. As for hot/cold, I definitely prefer the latter. Glaciers and tundra remind me of those north myths even though there were no glaciers and tundras in them. Also rebel station on Hoth 

Erm... Iceland, Greenland?

[Anathema]

Freezing. I just like the aesthetic of any aboveground structure, road, etc. you build quickly becoming covered in snow. Your fortress just blends right into the landscape, hard to tell it's even there. And the inevitable trails of blood and vomit show up brilliantly against the snow for a time before they, too, are covered once again in white.

Also, ice. Towers made of ice are just awesome.

Not to mention it summons up nostalgia relating to Nist Akath, the mountains above Moria, Song of Ice and Fire, and so on.

[Hyndis]

Freezing. I just like the aesthetic of any aboveground structure, road, etc. you build quickly becoming covered in snow. Your fortress just blends right into the landscape, hard to tell it's even there. And the inevitable trails of blood and vomit show up brilliantly against the snow for a time before they, too, are covered once again in white.

Did the vomit thing get fixed? I know that blood seems to "decay" when its out in a freezing biome. The cold seems to get rid of it somehow. Falling snow cleans it up. But vomit seems to be immune to this, or at least last time I played which was several revisions ago.

[Hurize]

same as in real life, scorching. as someone who spent several years working outdoors, I see it this way; heat is a misery, but cold is a pain. being really hot makes you miserable, but being really cold is a painful experience. I would rather be unhappy than in pain any day. while sunburns may be painful, at least you dont get them if you stay in the shade. In dwarf fortress, I like the hot climes because the water never freezes, snow never comes, and most of the really hot places are my favored biomes. deserts, grasslands, and really hot swamps.

This dude just summed up all my feelings into one long awesome sentence

[GoombaGeek]

In Alberta, it's too bloody hot out right now. 30 degrees (Celsius) and sunny burns my delicate Canadian complexion, but -30 is fine if you've got a coat and sweats (and mittens and a hat!). Once I took my DS out of my warm house to -35 weather and the hinge snapped

So yeah, freezing is better because

• Glaciers are like aquifers that stay put
• If you can cave-in a bit of the glacier then fresh water isn't an issue, unlike Scorching where it evaporates

[Mura]

I prefer fat-burning levels of Scorching; the environment slaughters just about anything that tries to camp me. Of course, all bets are off if there isn't a water source.