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[alessar]

Hi! This is my first post on this forum, hi everyone (maybe you reminds me from Reddit r/alessar30, the one who post lot of 6yo IRL world).
I have a suggestion! Is it possible to add some fast forward of time so that if we have a world, and let's say we want to skip 100 years in the future, we can?
This because if there is an old world, like my favourite one, with the fast forward I can obtain new feature (I suppose that the inhabitants of the world will react to the new version...?)

Thanks!

[Taras]

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=175734.0

[Shonai_Dweller]

Hi!

Yes, this comes up a lot. Last suggestion wasn't that long ago, maybe just dropped off the front page.

Toady's talked about this and basically yes it's a long-term goal, but technically it's very, very difficult. Initial worldgen has everything in a very compressed form which speeds along year at a time with tons of events being added. Then it unpacks everything and the world starts chugging along in real time. The hard bit is taking the world and packing it all up again to add another hundred years of history.

Of course you can do it manually, start fortresses and adventurers to forward two weeks at a time (more may be possible with Dfhack) or run a tiny fortress with a vampire looked in a room and leave it running for years. But that's not very fun.

So, great suggestion, and one which a lot of people want. Generally in the Suggestions forum, there's no problem with searching for an old thread and necroing it to add ideas. It's a very long term project so no suggestion really gets "out of date".

(And people might just answer you by posting a link and assuming you know the rules like the poster above me...).