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[wuphonsreach]

Scarcity of 2500 makes finding an embark site tedious.  So I turn it down to 1500-1800.

[WealthyRadish]

I like freezing areas, because nothing drives me up the wall like having dwarves run outside to get a drink when booze supplies dip, and I hate leaving burrows on all the time;

Just a little note - you can thoroughly suppress drinkers and fishers (immigrants) by turning on Zone only drinking/fishing.

I don't think it works unless there is a designated zone available, as I've still had them flood outside with that on. It's nice when there is an interior well up, but that may take a while.

[orius]

Usually savage embark.  Calmer gets boring unless there's a siege.  Warm environment, don't really need water on the map freezing and thawing all the time.  Useful minerals near the surface, preferably something suitably ferrous.  Sand.  Enough elevation so I can carve fortifications into the side of a mountain.  Clay and a volcano are nice bonuses.

[Replica]

River, Flat, Warm, No Aquifier.
Bonus is access to hostile Elves.

Everything else is unimportant.

[Xob Ludosmbax]

As small an embark as possible.  2x2 is good.
At least 2 biomes for variety, more is better.
Deep metals, shallow metals, some source of water.
Lots of neighbors, friendly or otherwise

Lately it's been:
3x3 embarks.  Recent projects needed more space. 
Volcanoes, so I don't have to dig deep to get magma.  (less pathing = less of an fps hit)
no river, yes aquifer (infinite water with a smaller fps hit - I think)
sand
At least one evil biome, preferably terrifying and at least one non-evil biome. 

Advanced worldgen parameters:

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33x33 overall dimensions, in keeping with the smaller is better motif.  16x16 didn't produce enough variety. 
End Year 250 -- I tried 5 at first, but you need some time for vampires to come into being. 
X variances are in the 800 range and Y variances are in the 200 range. -- This makes interesting striped patterns.
Elevation & Volcanism Weighted Ranges 50:1:1:1:50 -- I like extremes.
Minimum volcano number 50 -- To try to increase the odds of finding a good one.
Lots of titans, beasts, caves, etc.
Erosion Cycle Count: 1000  & Periodically erode extreme cliffs: No -- In an attempt to get sheer cliffs.

Dwarven vampires must appear in legends mode.

I may be mistaken on how some advanced worldgen parameters work, and I left out the ones I didn't think worth mentioning.