Currently nobles mandate creation of items, placement of items in their possession (e.g. build me a platinum statue for my bedroom) and forbidding of trade for items.
One of the development goals for scenarios mentions holding fairs as part of improving trade.
I suggest that nobles should be able to mandate events like fairs or celebrating their birthdays, weddings, coronations, or even something like the date of some battle they won.
Some of that, particularly the celebration of a battle, would require tracking the dates of events from history or marking events in the fortress for this purpose. The latter would be needed if a noble immigrated and wants to celebrate the hug-to-death (wrestling kill) by a recruit of a Snow Giant in the great year XYZ from a previous fort. Or the writing of a particularly awful book that affected that noble. Perhaps the noble could require an event to commemorate a very terrible performance in a tavern by a travelling troupe. (These do happen and I've got dwarves who do nothing but comment on them every time they have to speak.)
A lot of this depends on the player control over designating an event, what kind of materials need to be crafted and placed for it, and the interface for events. For instance, holding an event in commemoration of something would require a user interface similar to how statue detailing works.
Of course, having a wholly new annoying thing for nobles to request, sometimes yearly, is not going to endear them any more to the players. Just like in history.
It is too bad dwarves cannot side with the player and revolt against the nobles to kick them off the map. Although they would be just as likely to kick off the map a noble who only asked for something useful. Like more bone bolts or more booze.
At the worst Fortresses now they elect new mayors when the death toll starts to climb. Particularly when the mayors are the ones doing the dying brave leadership of the single-man cavern expedition squad or !!!Mayor Urist McLavanat!!! suddenly takes up cave diving. Into Magma Pools.
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