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[TheFreshPrince]

I know if affects what sort of threats become interested in your fortress, but does anyone have further information or specifics?

Does it affect the size of goblin sieges?

Anyone know the largest force a goblin siege can bring in terms of numbers?

Does it affect the likelihood of megabeast/FB/titan attacks?

Anything else?

[Aristion]

There's a wiki page answering everything you just asked about.

[Delioth]

There's a wiki page answering everything you just asked about.

To be more specific, it's here

Here's the section you want:

Wealth influences various game features, some of them good, some of them bad.

On the plus side, it increases the amount of migrants you get per wave. Assuming that you are equipped to handle the new dwarves, this is usually a good thing, except when you are producing so much wealth that your migrant arrivals outstrip your ability to house and feed them or give them useful things to do. Drowning in migrants is a very real danger; make sure you are always equipped with surplus beds and food.

A certain level of exports and overall wealth is required to go up the noble ladder: a baron requires 100k of wealth, a count 200k, and a duke 300k, while the monarch has some fairly complicated requirements based on a few different categories.

On the negative side, more wealth attracts more attacks. At first, this will be an above-average amount of thieves, but as the game progresses and your wealth continues to grow, this will develop into ambushes, sieges, and visits from megabeasts, all of which are attracted to increasing amounts of wealth. This keeps the game from being boring, but too much fun is also a bad thing; if you have a hard time dealing with the numerous waves of immigrants, you're probably not equipped to deal with a full-on siege.

[TheFreshPrince]

Does higher wealth correlate into bigger and badder goblin sieges? Or just more frequent sieges?

[TheFreshPrince]

Is that just not known?

[Witty]

AFAIK, wealth doesn't really effect the size of a goblin siege, but it may effect how frequent they are. Goblin sieges are incremental (at least they were in 34.11). It starts out as a single squad siege, then a second larger siege before "climaxing" at a large third siege that often is headed by some civ official. The size of the sieges, in my experience, depends on the power of the goblin civilization themselves and if they're actually at war with you or not. Not sure if this has been changed for the newer versions.

[Aristion]

It seems like it has changed in the update with unarmed/armoured recruits coming in many sieges.