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[Niyazov]

You gonna do an empty wagon - no skills embark? Woodcutting, hunting  and plant gathering for the first two seasons and then trade for a pick?

Also I think with short worldgens you may not get high-quality-modifier goods in the caravans or dwarves with high skills, but I suppose you'll find out!

[Ubiq]

Uhh...Kill them?  Why would you suffer such beasts to live and clog up your migrant pipes?

Sending the military after them reminds the formerly Friendly weremigrant of its status as a monstrous, untrappable killing machine, which is bad when one of them is a fairly high level Miner (as in the picture below) and an amazing annoyance in those instances when one of them is a Hunter. I could drop a constructed floor on them, but they have a tendency to scatter when my dwarves get near them. They move back towards their origin point, but in loose groups that move around much more frequently. If I only injure some of them, that would turn them against me and that's a real nuisance in a fort where you have almost as many weremigrants as inhabitants or more if your first four or five waves consist of four or five weremigrants each. As is, they just hang around the map corner and choke off more immigrants, which isn't a bad thing early on.

Wrong. This is the DAWN OF TIME. There hasn't been any time for necromancers, vampires and werebeasts to be 'appointed' by curse or whatnot. They don't get created when the world is born (unlike megabeasts and forgotten beasts). They are made by converting historical figures - this takes time. This is why if you want lots of these sorts of horrors, the optimal worldgen length is about 100 years.

[Crossroads Inc.]

People People!
*ahems*

Here is currently plan.
I will be generating a world using vanilla version.
world gen will end a year 10.
Thats 10 years for "Stuff" to happen.
After that, I will be inviting people to adventure the wild new world.
You can adventure for up to a half a year before you must retire.
The more Epic your life the better.

After that we will BEGIN!
Cave Dwarves at the Dawn Of TIME!!![/i]
initial skills WILL be allowed but nothing beyond the rank of Novice.

Embark points reduced to only a 1000.

I am going to gen a few words for testing and then pick one to post in about 30min
Question?

[Orky_Boss]

Is everyone going to live for half a year? Or are we choosing one guy to be Mr. Epic?

[Crossroads Inc.]

Right now I am hoping to take turns.  PLay for half a year (or less), save game, upload, and someone else picks up.
Hoping to have seven people play in total before starting Fort, so we have a history of Seven Brave might warriors.

[Corai]

I want to be your first soldier. Male.


Now move this to community games.

[Orky_Boss]

I'll be second. How long do we have to take our turn? Note that I am not that good a DF player, so if I end up taking a turn, I might send the whole thing tumbling down.

[Crossroads Inc.]

I am not used to adventuring myself. I am thinking of one week "Real" time so as to not bog down play..

Also BEHOLD! I give you Licevaathira, The Legendary Plane

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A mighty name for our world.
A world ringed by Mighty mountains.
I think Armok has blessed us.

I have uncovered man "Interesting" features so far.
For one, something I have called "The Cradle of Dwarf-cvilization"

A tiny mountain valley leading to one of the starting Dwarf Civs.
Its name? The Bronze Tower

I am liking this land!!!

[Orky_Boss]

Good. We could potentially embark in that valley, do a 3x8 fort. Also make sense so the caravan and migrants don't have to travel far. And we can set up a great wall to block off the valley from intruders! Sure, we'd still have to worry about people travelling through the mountains, but those that could traverse such lands and still be a formidable sieging army would be pretty badass. That or the invaders could fly.

Still, just an idea. We can still embark in the middle of nowhere if you like.

[Corai]

Embark on that mountain-home using Embark Anywhere.

[Crossroads Inc.]

Ok, here are thus far my favorite spots for a starting for
(AFTER of course we have our 7 mighty Warriors)

Spot One:
The Valley of the Dwarves:

This spot has MASSIVE cliffs, and it could span one side of the valley to the other.  a good spot for building a Mighty city.

Spot Two:
The Desolate Volcano:

In a grassland area, 30+ tall cliffs, in the middle of nowhere, tempting.

Spot Three:
The Overgrown Volcano:

This one is even better.  In the middle of a dense forested area, a 30+ tall volcano.
On the one hand, mountain home in middle of Forrest is creepy.  On other hand. MAGMA

This last one isn't a spot so much as something freaky:
TWIN VOLCANOS!

AND It is on a glacier too! Seriously, flat ice, and suddenly VOLCANO.

[Corai]

It is required cave/near the first-home in my opinion, I doubt your 7 warriors knows anything of the world yet. So they would stay in there canyon.

[Orky_Boss]

It is required cave/near the first-home in my opinion, I doubt your 7 warriors knows anything of the world yet. So they would stay in there canyon.

No. We will explore the strange lands beyond, meet new races, find beasts to slay, or explore the mountains to find a home.

[Crossroads Inc.]

But in Adventurer, start location is random.
you could start anywhere.
Our goal should be to work to Getting to the valley!

EDIT: fffffucccckkkkkk
This may not be such a perfect world, I did a test embark, and found chalk, tons of coal...
But almost NO ore! dug all the way to the Magma sea and ALL I found was tin ore.
I even set mineral scarcity to 1000, there should be TONS of ore!

[Corai]

Lower is more! You make ore not-existant!