eh, in the interests of having a good start to the game, I'll let shofet start with six. Frankly, I had no idea that so many people were going to want to crowd in to the first year. Shofet's 7th Founder is "A Disembodied Voice".
Of course, this also means that there won't be any unclaimed dwarves to fetch and carry things, nor to build things, until the next wave of migrants. We may have to look at an extreme labor shortage for some time, if those new migrants get snatched up by new Players in the following years.
!SCIENCE! time.
I see that everyone will have their design, and the "bottle neck," so to speak is the global labors / haulers for resource.
Issues:
1. Limited pick-axes. For science, how long will 1 dabbling miner take to dig out 1z level of 42x42 size?
2. Eventually, that miner will need to take a break, or if no food around, will instead waste time hunting vermin, ha!
3. Now I am seeing some priority conflicts; and our blue prints may not progress much further if we still have this bottle-neck with limited pick-axes.
4. Now I'm not sure how TimelessBob will actually play it out. But he will prioritize one thing or another. Us player can probably influence this after the first round of blueprints are submitted. For example, I can ask / vote / offer opinion that Shofet dig stone quarry and make xxx stone blocks first for walls. And maybe Shofet and Gwolfski vote / offer opinion that digging for magma will be more lucrative sooner than walls.
5. Hunger and Thirsts issues. You guys realize we have 0 in that disctrict, and being burrowed there, we have 0 access to food and drink or water?
Our design will need to have those basic: maybe 3 beds for a 7 pop, food pile, drink pile, maybe 2 to 3 sets of table for each 7.
1 Dwarf eat 2 meals per season = 8 per year; so need [8] prepared meals / raw food.
1 Dwarf drink up to 5 booze per season = 20 per year; so need [20] booze.
6. Now for logistics. If let's say I offer wood cutting services to Shofet also because I want to get his logs hauled to my district so I can skill up carpenter--this can happen "sooner" if Sanctume "woodcutter and wood hauler" is both a citizen of the 2 districts for this year's blue print. That is to say, this is on top of the global free-loaders that cannot be relied on too much because they will have other hauling to do. At the same time, let's say I want the stone cleared from my basements; I can either dedicate another of my citizen as stone hauler for Shofet; or enable both wood hauling and stone hauling. Shofet can do the same thing.
The science is we will not know how many haulers will progress in the clearing for that year.