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[GenJeFT]

I am just making sure.

Time now passes while in fortress mode correct?

If so this new fortress starting in year 5 should be fun.

[greycat]

Time now passes while in fortress mode correct?

Yes, events happen in the world outside your fortress in 0.40.  However, the events do not progress exactly how they would during regular world generation.  Most strikingly, every attempted siege is successful.  The attacker always wins, regardless of numbers.  So, in most worlds, your liaison gives you a long string of reports of the goblins taking over dwarven settlements, one by one....

[Mardukker]

Not fun at all, if experience taught me right. I started in an early year and there are no invasions. The outpost liaison just tells me "the world is the same as it has always been".

Must be because I have a pocket map, though.

[Saiko Kila]

Yes, events happen in the world outside your fortress in 0.40.  However, the events do not progress exactly how they would during regular world generation.  Most strikingly, every attempted siege is successful.  The attacker always wins, regardless of numbers.  So, in most worlds, your liaison gives you a long string of reports of the goblins taking over dwarven settlements, one by one....

But there are often survivors ("few months ago refugees calling themselves The Quake of Carnality fled from area just before an army of The Small Vice led by the elf Kutsmob Fiendbaited the Grim Practice of Craziness descended upon the place"), do they erect new fortresses maybe? That would be awesome, because that would led to more and more ruins in time, until the whole world would be a wasteland with no place to hide.

[int_ua]

Answer.

What a descriptive subject.

[GenJeFT]

Time now passes while in fortress mode correct?

Yes, events happen in the world outside your fortress in 0.40.  However, the events do not progress exactly how they would during regular world generation.  Most strikingly, every attempted siege is successful.  The attacker always wins, regardless of numbers.  So, in most worlds, your liaison gives you a long string of reports of the goblins taking over dwarven settlements, one by one....

So for as long as you have a fortress running in the world then your civ turns into a bunch of pansies and losses every seige? Well then... that kinda ruins the fun in a way.

[Agent_Irons]

No, everyone loses every siege. Goblins are more likely to attack, and in worldgen they usually lose, which keeps everything balanced.

[GenJeFT]

No, everyone loses every siege. Goblins are more likely to attack, and in worldgen they usually lose, which keeps everything balanced.

So everyone turns into a bunch of pansies and you have the only real dwarfs in the world? Hell, lets take over the world! Where is Pinky and the Brain when you need them?

[TheFlame52]

Goblins are more likely to attack, and in worldgen they usually lose, which keeps everything balanced.

Up to a point. I've seen goblin nations pounded to near oblivion, then holding on for years because the last hundred goblins are all legendary warriors with titles.

[Torrenal]

This makes life more interesting than in past versions.


I've had goblin invasions composed entirely of elves.  I've had elvish traders walk over the dead bodies of the elvish invasions...

I've also had goblin run dwarf civs.

[flabort]

No, everyone loses every siege. Goblins are more likely to attack, and in worldgen they usually lose, which keeps everything balanced.

So everyone turns into a bunch of pansies and you have the only real dwarfs in the world? Hell, lets take over the world! Where is Pinky and the Brain when you need them?

Urist and the Socks, Socks, Socks, Socks, Socks.