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[Slayerhero90]

Accidentaly press play now.
Get a miner, woodworker, woodcutter, stoneworker, gem-something expedition leader, fish cleaner, and fisherman of a river map.

[crazysheep]

Accidentaly press play now.
Get a miner, woodworker, woodcutter, stoneworker, gem-something expedition leader, fish cleaner, and fisherman of a river map.

Pretty sure that's the default setting for jobs - I almost always hit Play Now! and get that sort of jobs on embark. On any map.

[Slayerhero90]

The wiki never told me that... 

[tommy521]

Play now has the exact same settings every time as far as I know...

[SirAaronIII]

Toady did mention something about it using local historic dwarves, but I'm not sure if he actually implemented it or not. Probably not.

[Blizzlord]

That is only for migrants. The original 7 are still generated on the spot to my knowledge.

[i2amroy]

That is only for migrants. The original 7 are still generated on the spot to my knowledge.

Correct as of the current version.

[Snaake]

Would be a nice addition to use historic dwarves of your chosen civ though. Either for play now, or a separate "local dwarves" start option. Of course, you'd probably end up with a bunch of dwarves with tracking 11, sword/speardwarf 3, fighting/dodging/shield user/armor user 1, and a random smatter of low civilian skills. At least if your civ has been involved in wars. Would be cool to get the families&relatives of your starting seven as your first migrants though, instead of the families of your first migrants later on.

[Qwernt]

THe only annoying thing about the default is that the woodcutter is your only dwarf with grower experience... the most important guy grabs the axe.  I wish the fish cleaner was the woodcutter.

[Broseph Stalin]

One feature I'd like to see implemented in the future is the ability to choose your original seven from a random pile of historical dwarves. Instead of taking seven and assigning them skills you look through a few resumes that inevitably include some very skilled (and therefore expensive to hire) dwarves as well as the slough of garbage dwarves.

[krenshala]

Play now has the exact same settings every time as far as I know...

The expedition leader is selected randomly, possibly based on the randomly created attributes of the randomly created starting seven.

[Neckbeard]

Would be a nice addition to use historic dwarves of your chosen civ though. Either for play now, or a separate "local dwarves" start option. Of course, you'd probably end up with a bunch of dwarves with tracking 11, sword/speardwarf 3, fighting/dodging/shield user/armor user 1, and a random smatter of low civilian skills. At least if your civ has been involved in wars. Would be cool to get the families&relatives of your starting seven as your first migrants though, instead of the families of your first migrants later on.

Well those would be free skills so that's actually really good.  Especially the combat skills, if you don't use a danger room.

[Snaake]

Would be a nice addition to use historic dwarves of your chosen civ though. Either for play now, or a separate "local dwarves" start option. Of course, you'd probably end up with a bunch of dwarves with tracking 11, sword/speardwarf 3, fighting/dodging/shield user/armor user 1, and a random smatter of low civilian skills. At least if your civ has been involved in wars. Would be cool to get the families&relatives of your starting seven as your first migrants though, instead of the families of your first migrants later on.

Well those would be free skills so that's actually really good.  Especially the combat skills, if you don't use a danger room.

Well, the game could subtract at least some embark points depending on how skilled your dwarves are, possibly even way more than you can normally assign to your dwarves usually, leaving you with less points for supplies.

I also like Broseph Stalin's idea, hiring from a list of dwarves, and paying their full price in embark points. 1 axelord and you won't be able to afford much else than peasants after that. Would make for really interesting embarks.

I think in the long run, the important feature to add would be at least some kind of ability not to have your starting seven appear out of thin air, whether it's a random pick, or a hiring list, or something else.

[Lovecraft]

Would be a nice addition to use historic dwarves of your chosen civ though. Either for play now, or a separate "local dwarves" start option. Of course, you'd probably end up with a bunch of dwarves with tracking 11, sword/speardwarf 3, fighting/dodging/shield user/armor user 1, and a random smatter of low civilian skills. At least if your civ has been involved in wars. Would be cool to get the families&relatives of your starting seven as your first migrants though, instead of the families of your first migrants later on.

Well those would be free skills so that's actually really good.  Especially the combat skills, if you don't use a danger room.

Well, the game could subtract at least some embark points depending on how skilled your dwarves are, possibly even way more than you can normally assign to your dwarves usually, leaving you with less points for supplies.

I also like Broseph Stalin's idea, hiring from a list of dwarves, and paying their full price in embark points. 1 axelord and you won't be able to afford much else than peasants after that. Would make for really interesting embarks.

I think in the long run, the important feature to add would be at least some kind of ability not to have your starting seven appear out of thin air, whether it's a random pick, or a hiring list, or something else.

No, don't you see? When dwarves wish to found a new fortress they are essentially starting a new family tree. For the sake of dwarvish tradition they sever all previous ties. It's the same reason they only ever send seven dwarves. !!Dwarvish Tradition!!

[krenshala]

I've often wondered ... is it seven dwarves al a the Brothers Grimm, or is it seven dwarves al a Tolkien?