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[Mesa]

Nevemind, dream count is at 4 now.
Also, I love going through the early pages of this thread. Instantly gets me pumped for the release again.

Back when we still had hopes for DF2013 and DF2014 was considered a joke.
Good times...

[Mesa]

Bumping for the sake of soon-to-be DF2014.
Freakin' finally...The bugfixing phase.

(I do remember someone saying that there'll probably be a new thread for this, but still, until that happens this one exists.)

[Elephant Parade]

Mastahcheese, the OP still refers to DF2014 as DF2013. That should probably be fixed.

[Mesa]

Mastahcheese, the OP still refers to DF2014 as DF2013. That should probably be fixed.

People actually read the OP these days?
MADNESS!

[mastahcheese]

Fixed it!

[Eric Blank]

Mastahcheese, the OP still refers to DF2014 as DF2013. That should probably be fixed.

People actually read the OP these days?
MADNESS!

You just said you went back to read the OP a few days ago!

[Mesa]

Mastahcheese, the OP still refers to DF2014 as DF2013. That should probably be fixed.

People actually read the OP these days?
MADNESS!

You just said you went back to read the OP a few days ago!

Because I AM mad!

[Baffler]

Posting to show interest.

[Mesa]

Something just struck me.
Why hasn't anyone tried to replicate the Valley of Mines, Khorinis (either as the island or just the city) or Jarkendar from the Gothic series (I refuse to accept the existance of abominations that are Gothic 3 and Arcania)?

That universe has more in common with Dwarf Fortress than most cRPGs out there - you too got necromancers who live in towers (heck, Xardas even mentioned that he built his towers with the help of his undead minions), nasty megabeasts in the form of dragons, goblins and kobolds (well, orcs and goblins, in this case, but they fulfill similar roles) etc.
As well as gods who grant powers to their followers, I guess.

And with all the new mechanics that DF2014 will bring, it could become that much more fun and !!FUN!!.

Plus it's not like the Isle of Khorinis was spectacularly big...

Spoiler: Maps galore (click to show/hide)

Of course I don't know how up to scale those maps are, but as I said, the whole thing shouldn't be much larger than a pocket DF world.
Whether that's a good idea to make this part of our main (or side) succession world is a different matter altogether, I'm just pitching the concept here.

[WillowLuman]

Goblins and kobolds as megabeasts? What?

[Eric Blank]

I understood that they existed and were assholes just like in Df, not that they were megabeasts.

You could probably set up a world like that for yourself in perfect world (the utility) and as long as the syntax for world gen settings doesn't change much it should work with the new version. You might have to remove or add some tags to the file afterwards but that's all I ever had to worry about to make maps for 34.01+ with the 31.x version of perfect world.

[Mesa]

Should've put a semicolon there, I guess. :v
But yeah, my point was that Gothic orcs and goblins are DF goblins and kobolds, not that they're megabeasts.

Now if we could also simulate Gothic's storyline in Dwarf Fortress, or see how else it would go, now that would be awesome. Although I would imagine that with more than 6 dragons the whole place would be either left in ruin by the time worldgen history is completed or the Valley of Mines would be a seriously !!FUN!! place for adventurers.

[MDFification]

Not sure if this is fit for the main Succession World, but I do have a challenge that a Succession World could use: Colonization.

Gen a world without dwarves, then embark as an Outlander caravan. Your 7 dwarves will be the only dwarves in the world. (We might have to embark a few times till we get 2 or more females) Your goal: ensure the world enters the Dwarven Age.
Each player keeps track of the dwarven population. Forts that lower the overall population before they can be safely retired or fail to raise it get scummed, at least until we reached a point where we had enough dwarves that it would be worth it to lose some to inflict disproportionate casualties. Other than that, there's no rules except no modding.

The best strategy would probably be to increase our numbers via fortresses on islands inaccessible to goblins. Since our migrants can still get anywhere regardless of water (hopefully) we could raise our population there, build massive, danger-room-trained hordes and invade the coastline. That way we wouldn't loose dwarves very quickly to the AI, because as soon as we set foot on the mainland the AI will start reclaiming forts and our population will bleed out in numerous wars.

[WillowLuman]

Except you can't embark as dwarves in a world without dwarves. There'd have to be dwarves at the start that went extinct.

[pisskop]

Dwarves on an island.