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[Thelogman]

With more and more happening during world gen, it seems more prudent than ever to give the history to write itself, so to speak. How long are you guys running your new update worlds for? Do you tend to aim for a particular Age? Is a hundred years or so good enough in this version for a civ to have military, political, scientific, and artistic history, or should we really be stewing them for a thousand?

Also up for discussion, preferences on running shorter world gens to increase chances of running into Megabeasts and Titans. 

[FantasticDorf]

I prefer to handle my fortressess as early on as possible for both FPS reasons and personal preference.

5 years or even 100 - 125 years suits me fine, i enjoy the process of making and shaping things.

[BoogieMan]

I usually generate to no less than 300 years. Most often right at 300, but never more than 500. Seems to work out alright.

[austinwelser]

anywhere from 125-175 works out pretty well for me, reasonably high amount of fun still to be had yet not so much fun as to be annoying.

[Sutremaine]

As short as possible. Sure, the history is a bit boring, but the saving and loading is much quicker. If I want to stir things up I can roll up an adventurer and lock the fortress behind me before I go.

[Torrenal]

I pick the '125' year option and leave it at that.


I want *some* history for artwork, but I don't want an old world either.

• Dead Civs never invade.  Old worlds more often have these.
• Old worlds have fewer megabeasts - less fun
• *Beware it's Deadly Dust!*  Oh dear, our liason has arrived again.  Get the pets penned, and nobody sneeze, we don't want him killing our fort this time.

[Immortal-D]

Depends on world size.  For a Medium world (129x129), I've found that a quarter century continues to be optimal in the new version.  It is enough time to allow several generations of activity without killing all the civs & critters, and short enough to make load times bearable.

[Baffler]

Usually not long. 100 years max, but usually between 50-75. I usually play on a craptop, so the lower numbers on everything really makes a difference. I use longer worldgens when I have access to my desktop so that the goblins and others are more invasion-happy, but that isn't a very frequent occurrence.

[Orkel]

200-300. Any longer takes unbearable amounts of time.

[Tawa]

I go with "Short". Very Short gives no history whatsoever and perhaps leaves too many megabeasts, while any longer than that seems to have a tendency to clog up the world with sites and such.