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[The Dog Delusion]

So when you gen a world, do you allow the history to run all 1050(?) years? do you set it to be longer? Do you stop it earlier? What's the difference?

I've been messing around with world gen settings recently, but I'm a little curious about this aspect, as the wiki doesn't have much to say about it.

[Namfuak]

All it does is add events to your area, and increases the chance of civs being killed off.  I've heard that it can make engraving lag your game (as the game is trying to decide what event to be engraved, and it has more options), but I once genned a world for 4000 years and didn't notice any particular difference in engraving time.  Without culling unimportant historical figures, I can gen a world to about year 2500 before the game freezes, and with culling I think I can do it indefinitely. 

I usually don't have that much history though, 550 or so.  It's effectively just numbers - if you want all your dwarves to have a birthdate (not just "the first of his kind, and he is xx years old), gen a hundred or more years, but beyond that it just means you are making a fortress 4000 years after written history started rather than 100.

[TheyTarget]

I think it can affect certain creatures. Example dragons take a thousand years to grow to full adult, and when world gen starts most of them are only a few hundred years old or so I've been told. So I always go the full 1050.