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[Vattic]

I prefer digging into a mountain, but find the lack of steep cliffs make it less than it could be.

[a troglodyte]

I've been doing 2x2 embarks in the most recent version, so I prefer digging straight down on flat maps. Digging into a mountain means I either lose too much of my map to empty space or put my entrance really near the map edge. Plus, flat areas give really nice, consistent layers to work with.

[azrael4h]

I like digging in, then down. But, lately all I've found are shallow hills, not real mountains, and I can't seem to find a site that excites me in any way.

then again, even when I do start a fort, the game crashes on regular intervals, so I've been getting a bit discouraged from that.

[Nikow]

Also, mountain is better for horizontal defenses such as magma or ballista traps.

Ballista traps? As far as i remember, balissta are not shoting on other z-levels (down or up). My current fort seems to prove it (i have some ballista based defenses), but meybe you are speaking about some other type of traps?

I like to dig down, it' just easier to make minecrarts from and to aboveground AND you do not must terraform mountains. Usualy in good developed fortress i have courple isolated towers, accessible only from underground and main fort with 3 wide walls and stairs INSIDE wall. Even when i lost my main above fort, i can still deal with it (and usualy drown atackers inside fortress).

When i am setting myself on side of mountain it's harder to do, but when i rarery doing it, i have courple entraces, only because my millitaria are usualy too weak to fight off enemies AND it's more funny to explore fortress as thief/assasin using not main entrace.