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[Lord Zack]

Does "replacing losses" mean births in the world after world gen (rather than just in you're fortress?

If so I suppose that might lead into entities founding new sites (need to have someplace to put all those new citizens) or reclaiming abandoned ones. Might be reading too much into it I suppose but that sort of thing is planned right? The question is though, will it be sooner or later?

[Putnam]

Does "replacing losses" mean births in the world after world gen (rather than just in your fortress?)

Yes. The entire sentence is talking explicitly about entities other than you.

[cephalo]

I have a world gen question.

For the tile counts in designating good/evil regions, for a given map size, what exactly is a small, medium or large region?

I'd like to see that configurable actually, maybe even with a cap on the large region size so it isn't always the ocean. Large evil mountain ranges are hard to come by because of that.

[MaximumZero]

Semi-off-topic twofer, because I'm not good at staying away from caffiene.

A) How often do you look at mods?
B) Do you ever look at the forums and think to yourself "What the hell is my playerbase on?"

[Rose]

Toady mentioned before that he only looks at mods when somebody sends him a bugged save that uses them.

[Naryar]

Yay ! More enemies to slay !

[rex mortis]

I find it awesome how the systems Toady has created in the past are usable for new features. In retrospect, a militia squad and a bandit gang are nearly the same thing.

[mendonca]

The bandit gang will probably have a more functional moral compass.

[CaptainArchmage]

With these new features, are we actually going to have more interactions between civilisations? For instance, if we embark next to a gigantic city, or on a road, we might end up in conflict with the humans?

It sounds like we will finally be able to haul thugs into the local jail.

[MrWiggles]

With these new features, are we actually going to have more interactions between civilisations? For instance, if we embark next to a gigantic city, or on a road, we might end up in conflict with the humans?

It sounds like we will finally be able to haul thugs into the local jail.

That's the eventual goal. The Caravan Release, was more about getting the world more living, and thinking on its own. From my understanding, the only real interaction is going to be largely trading.
The Army Ark is more about Civs interacting between each other. After the Caravan Arc is done, the world will hopefully be progressing and changing after World Gen is done. And from there, civilizations will be able to realize that there is a Dorf Fortress on their Sites and then decided what to do with it. That might include military action.

[Heedicalking]

Will local thugs be aware of what you are wearing? A guy with a knife shouldn't pick a fight with someone armored head to toe in steel.
Will we be able to increase the danger level in confrontations? For example, if a guy starts punching me, and I draw my sword and stab him once, will he start spilling the beans quicker than he would in fist-fight?

[MrWiggles]

Will local thugs be aware of what you are wearing? A guy with a knife shouldn't pick a fight with someone armored head to toe in steel.

There is an eventual goal for NPCs to be aware of what you're wearing, and what each other are wearing. There a plethora of associated game play capabilities and interactions with wearing different clothing effecting the world. (Such as but not limited to: Disguises, Uniforms, and being recognized as a Foreigner.)

Will we be able to increase the danger level in confrontations? For example, if a guy starts punching me, and I draw my sword and stab him once, will he start spilling the beans quicker than he would in fist-fight?

For your specific example of interrogation, yes. In a more general sense, like, say in a bare fisted Bar Fight, then you pull out a sword. I dont know. I'd imagine that the answer is yes, eventually. But I dont recall any goal where that is explicitly stated. That might be emergent behavior from the interrogation stuff though.

[King_of_the_weasels]

Will local thugs be aware of what you are wearing? A guy with a knife shouldn't pick a fight with someone armored head to toe in steel.

There is an eventual goal for NPCs to be aware of what you're wearing, and what each other are wearing. There a plethora of associated game play capabilities and interactions with wearing different clothing effecting the world. (Such as but not limited to: Disguises, Uniforms, and being recognized as a Foreigner.)

Pants? What are ya a woman?

[eataTREE]

So with the new complex faction interactions, will it be possible during Fort mode play for, say, some humans (for example) to show up on your map, without your being sure of what their intentions are; ie, you wouldn't know at first whether they were peaceful traders or bandits come to attack you?

[UristMcWanderer]

Will we be able to embark on other settlements anytime soon? I noticed I was able to embark on top of human towns way back in 40d, but the game wouldn't let me embark onto sections of them in 31.25 up through now.

_{I'd like to be able to use the houses in human towns so I don't have to do the work of chopping down trees/gathering a ton of clay to build all the houses myself.}