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[Philosoraptor]

What causes the world to advance ages? I have been slowly and methodically slaughtering all the night creatures and monsters of the world and I got this message just as the new year came around.

[thatkid]

Primarily the number of megabeasts and demons alive, and their respective kill-lists.

You entered the age of heroes because there were still enough megabeasts for adventuring to be fun and interesting, but there was a certain percentage that had been killed. I'm inclined to believe that it's 80% killed, but I'm not too sure.

[Philosoraptor]

The timing makes me think that it checks the percentage of megabeasts and monsters alive every year, but the fact that it entered the age of heroes is what I'm more curious about. Aren't there other ages it could have entered? I doubt there are more heroes than monsters now so I'm not sure.

[thatkid]

The Age of Heroes doesn't so much count the number of heroes as it counts the percentage of living monsters, I believe. I suppose in that sense the name is a bit of a misnomer. You could reach it with a fort full of lyemakers and miners, just by dropping a cave-in on any megabeasts who show their ugly heads...that would take a while though.

[Yoink]

I had the golden age, once!
But it was a Fortress Defence world, and just about everything was dead except for frogmen and elephants. :/

[Kynrael]

I never went past the Age of Myths, but I've only been playing for a few months, no mods (aside graphic).
I'm sure my region is sort of free at least, I did quite a scourge of bandits and monsters.

[EmperorJon]

You've not played DF until you've reached the Age of Emptiness.

Or, of course, the DWARVEN AGE!

[Philosoraptor]

Apparently according to Legends, "The Age of Heroes was a time when the last of the powers fought their final battles."

[Ieb]

I think you might trigger the Age of the *Creature name here* if you killed off all the other major powers present in the world.
Then whatever is left will rule the world! Until you find it and kill it of course.

Then it's probably to Golden Age.
Maybe Fairy Tales. Can't remember how the ages work again.

I hope though that at some point we'll get some more variety to 'em.
Every world I gen always finishes at Age of Myth. Legends and Heroes is hard to get when I crank the Titan numbers to the MAX because of the fun they provide.

[MrAnderson]

http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/DF2010:Calendar#Ages

[metime00]

The age of Fairy Tales and the age of Twilight are perhaps my favorites that I strive to reach, as fairy tales requires about 90% humans and 10% dwarves, elves, and fantastical creatures. Twilight is cool because it's going out with a whimper and not a bang, plus twilight is a melancholy word. It really is.

[Cespinarve]

The age of Fairy Tales and the age of Twilight are perhaps my favorites that I strive to reach, as fairy tales requires about 90% humans and 10% dwarves, elves, and fantastical creatures. Twilight is cool because it's going out with a whimper and not a bang, plus twilight is a melancholy word. It really is.

I just like the word Twilight.

I wish Stephanie Myer hadn't fucked it up for the rest of us. Let's start the Committe to Liberate Inky Twilight.

Wait...

[Kynrael]

Twilight is indeed a beautiful word.
But what are the prerequisites to get to the Age of Twilight ?

Oh, and with next update coming, we might have more ages... Like the age of the Necromancer or something.

[nenjin]

    "I finally saw a world arrive at the Age of Fairy Tales, which happens if mundane creatures (ie humans) make up at least 90% of the world's civilized population with the requirement that there are still a few fantasy creatures lurking around. In this case, it was a kobold cave that their scouts never found. I guess all of the fairy tales were about people having their crap stolen."

Ironically, that does seem to be the basis for a lot of Fairy Tale stories