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Sir Ratburge

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The most evil map ever.
« on: February 08, 2013, 08:06:00 pm »
This may have been asked before, I apologize for not looking harder if there is a post out there.

I recently tried playing a fortress on haunted ground, it was really 'fun' ... Im talking about pets dying, destroying owners who then come back as zombies and then  basically destroying my entire fort which of course i tried to reclaim only to be slaughtered yet again, tried again only to be greeted by more zombies. Anyways!

I have played around with the custom world parameters but cant get a result at all - I want to make a world that is basically only haunted and evil (purple squares everywhere!), is this possible? upon world generation I keep running into messages like 'other races need places that aren't savage to generate'
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Liber celi

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Re: The most evil map ever.
« Reply #1 on: February 08, 2013, 08:18:18 pm »
There are two qualities of regions, savagery and... let's call it morality. Good vs. Bad.
Evil Regions are Sinister(low Savagery), haunted(medium Savagery) and Terrifying(high savagery).

Goblins are the only race that can start in evil regions. No race starts in savage regions.

You will need some neutral moutains for dwarves, neutral/good forests for elves, and neutral hills/plains for men. I am not sure if goblins need evil mountains or have a little more flexibility. Kobolds survive basically everything. Try adjusting the options and lower the number of civs.
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vjek

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Re: The most evil map ever.
« Reply #2 on: February 08, 2013, 08:52:24 pm »
This produces completely evil worlds (entirely purple!) except for one small mountainous area for the dwarves to make the mountainhome.
There are no other non-goblin civs.  If you want that too, it becomes more complicated.

Spoiler: worldgen (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: embark with profane murk! (click to show/hide)
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Re: The most evil map ever.
« Reply #3 on: February 08, 2013, 08:53:05 pm »
Quote from: Liber celi on February 08, 2013, 08:18:18 pm
Kobolds survive basically everything.
If you set the number of caves and mountain caves to zero, there are no Kobold civs. I'm not sure if there are no kobolds at all though.
« Last Edit: February 08, 2013, 09:34:25 pm by Helgrin »
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Re: The most evil map ever.
« Reply #4 on: February 08, 2013, 09:02:30 pm »
Go for Terrifying over Haunted. Savage evil means swarms of giant raven corpses, and bug corpses bigger than water buffalo.

If I want a world with lots of savagery or evil, I start with a moderately high figure and check out the resulting world. If it generated with no or few late-gen rejects, I go back and regen it with the savagery or evil tweaked upwards. Eventually that particular world will be rejected, and at that point you can either tweak the settings down or see if it'll give you another world.

The 'alignment' of an area is something that's painted over it after the terrain itself has been generated -- if you gen a world with some evil and some savagery and then go back and change those to 0 and regen, you'll get a world that has its mountains, forests, rivers etc. in the same place as they were before (but see below). History will be different though.

This is best done with the initial gen getting 0 rejects, because if any worlds in the initial gen were rejected on alignment grounds alone then they'll be accepted once everything is unaligned.
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Re: The most evil map ever.
« Reply #5 on: February 09, 2013, 05:52:10 am »
Quote from: vjek on February 08, 2013, 08:52:24 pm
This produces completely evil worlds (entirely purple!) except for one small mountainous area for the dwarves to make the mountainhome.
There are no other non-goblin civs.  If you want that too, it becomes more complicated.

Spoiler: worldgen (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: embark with profane murk! (click to show/hide)
HURRICANE EVIL D:
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Re: The most evil map ever.
« Reply #6 on: February 09, 2013, 09:21:01 am »
I laugh in the face of evil... then die.
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Re: The most evil map ever.
« Reply #7 on: February 09, 2013, 12:09:40 pm »
Lol Excellent Vjek, the most evil map I have ever seen thanks  :D
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