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Domicrow

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Best world gen?
« on: February 25, 2013, 11:07:30 am »

What would you guys say is the best settings for creating a world for Adventure Mode, I dont want it TOO dificult but i want it to be interesting and dynamic... and vampirey  :P
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Re: Best world gen?
« Reply #1 on: February 25, 2013, 11:17:30 am »

go to the advanced worldgen option from the game's start menu, and copy one of the world presets, like a medium region (I like medium regions, but if that's too big for you or your computer, a smaller size should do fine.

When I do this, I always turn up the number of megabeasts. Depending on the initial size of the region in question, you'd want to use different values, because it might be problematic to have 3000 mega and semi-mega beasts in a small world. For medium, go with ~200 semi-mega beasts and ~100 mega. Turning titan population up might also be fun, but I wouldn't make it any higher than the megabeast population.

I'm not sure if there's many ways to force the game to introduce more vampires all over the place, but you could go to the night creature counts and turn the value way up on vampires. I don't think there'd be too much a (negative) impact for maxing it out. I generally don't turn up the werebeast species count, though, because there's usually a ton of them as-is. You could, though, turn up the regional interactions, and evil weather and rain counts, as well as the secrets and disturbance interactions. Then you might see more variety of horrible toxins raining from the sky while trying to navigate evil regions. :P
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Re: Best world gen?
« Reply #2 on: February 25, 2013, 11:35:08 am »

Good Lord! that seems awfully complicated, probably just me that's stupid though, i will see if i can get my head around it, thanks!  :)
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Re: Best world gen?
« Reply #3 on: February 25, 2013, 12:08:28 pm »

All you have to do is go into the "Design new world with Advanced Parameters", select the "Medium Region" preset, press e, scroll down a bit, set the options (they're pretty much all on the same page), press esc to get out of there, then press enter and y.

Because I just had to do it in a leading-the-way-to-eternity-hand-in-hand kind of way.

though you've probably figured it out by now :foreveralone:
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Re: Best world gen?
« Reply #4 on: February 25, 2013, 12:38:14 pm »

actually i had'nt figured it out yet, i was trying to learn the german national anthem for some strange reason buut thanks =)
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Re: Best world gen?
« Reply #5 on: February 25, 2013, 01:13:22 pm »

actually i had'nt figured it out yet, i was trying to learn the german national anthem for some strange reason buut thanks =)

While you're at it, you might want to check out the Polish National Anthem - wave goodbye to your straight tongue!
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« Reply #6 on: February 25, 2013, 02:13:17 pm »

good lord, i know a polish guy and even when he speaks polish i seriously thought that in poland a tongue operation was done at birth to make that possible, and whats with all the z's?
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Re: Best world gen?
« Reply #7 on: February 26, 2013, 07:29:23 am »

In Poland, even some natives have problem with saying some stuff. Believe me.
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Re: Best world gen?
« Reply #8 on: February 26, 2013, 01:23:24 pm »

Heres some help
http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2012:Advanced_world_generation
If its rejected many times try
http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2012:World_rejection

I find that tripling the amount of evil zones, semimegabeast, titans, night trolls, vampire curses, werebeast curses a.s.o. while also increasing the amount of civs usually makes an interesting world.

Could be troubly with placing the cities though.

Dont forget to remove bogeymen if you hate them like me. Sleeping in the dark outside is honestly one of the most dangerous things you can do anyway.
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