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[SuicideJunkie]

I was just thinking that volcanoes could be made a bit more lively with a very simple change;
Rather that only having magma spawn in the original magma pipe tiles, allow it to spawn *above* the magma pipe, and thus slowly spill over.

(Or, alternatively, make the obsidian walls of the pipe be one z-level shorter than currently.)

For an actual eruption, the magma spawn rate could just be increased significantly for a month or so.

[Agorp Stronden]

WRONG!

[CaptApollo12]

WRONG!

Thiiis - your fort would die - first of lava filling the country - and then of fps issues... or is it the otherway around?

[micelus]

I think Toady wrote this up some where in the Dev page...Can't remember though. But yes, your fort would die a horrible, laggy, yet lava-filled death.

[Rushmik]

Personally I don't see why lava topside would mean much death at all to subterranean dwarves, unless you're dumb enough to leave your doors and windows wide open to an erupting volcano.

The FPS hit seems the most deadly. Perhaps have active volcanoes periodically 'spit' lava out, just enough to run down the mountainside and turn the landscape a nice shade of gray, and act as natural selection for those dwarves with a thing for ‼socks‼.

[Di]

While some players with powerful computers could find those locations interesting to play, I don't think Toady would cater to only a small fraction of community. I haven't found anything regarding forces of nature in a dev page as well, but I'm sure, he'll get to it, right after he develops an even more optimized code or after quantum computers coming in widespread life.
And yes, it has been suggested several times before, even though it's not that  original idea the great one couldn't come up with by himself.

[Mel_Vixen]

Actually that was a bug once a long time ago [size=0](in a version far away)[/size] because the ofset for the refill algorithm was off. It is rather managable if you stay away from the volcano or if you wall it of. The magma "evaporates" rather quickly so a volcano cant flood the entire map.   

[SuicideJunkie]

Indeed.  Given the default rate of refilling, I would expect you to see only a few tiles of spillage, though if there is a hill to flow down, it would get farther.

Your map would not flood, and you wouldn't lose any more framerate than something like a water reactor eats.
It just wouldn't be safe to plop furnaces right on the lip; you'd have to do some channeling and maybe some pumping in order to make it safe.