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[vjmdhzgr]

Seems totally possible to me. Maybe even to a minor extent with just raws alone!

Off the top of my head, you could pretty easily make "researching" reactions that have very low probabilities of giving you something representing an advancement and have to succeed several times in a row. Or perhaps more realistically, a low chance of a more advance thing coming out of normal jobs, which you can use to open up already-included-but-previously-inaccessible workshops and reactions as far along as you want. All with just Raws. At some point it will start seeming a little bit silly that you're still doing hand-farming, etc. But even so, you could easily represent a technology tree all the way from like, late stone age, to maybe renaissance no problem.

And if you're willing to use dfhack scripts, then you can do a lot more like this, including simple passage of time etc. as a prerequisite, and fairly custom invasion setups and things.

Would be a huge amount of work though.

"No, not some research system, but simply having the tech level of a world change with time."
So, not actually that easy.

[GavJ]

What? No I'm still talking about a tech tree. But simply catalysts being generated after a certain amount of time, for instance, instead of by research reactions.

That's not hard at all with dfhack. I generate items out of thin air all the time.

[Amperzand]

Admittedly, if all civs would separately do research, that might open up some interesting dynamics. Such as the badly organized goblins ending up stuck with swords against dwarves with mechs.

Or vice versa, if the silly dorfs were too busy ticking off the elves.