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Embark upon the cavern layer! Survive the depths!

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[Maloy]

Welcome to the Ageless World! Its chock full to the brim with hundreds of monsters and titans. Stuffed with elves, goblins and the living dead! We're going to conquer this oversized world and bring the age of the dwarf!

Our people were driven to extinction by the elves and humans! It's time for some sweet revenge!

This world is all about grand scale and epic proportions and so there's only a few rules.

Rules:
1.Every dwarf is to be named so we can track their family deeds across generations
2.One week turns, but you can use as much in-game time as you wanna use!
3.Don't hold back. This world is stuffed with threats and so there is absolutely no need to hold back or put in restricting rules for players! Break the world!

Posts:
Gateheaven
Maloy 1 2 3 4
Neblime 1
Salmeuk video link 1 2
Kesperan(Turn considered non-canon)
Otto_K 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Maloy 1 2
Neblime
Maloy Finishes Gateheaven

Adventure Mode
Kesperan Adventure 1 2

The Forests of Burning
Intro
Maloy 1 2
Otto 1 2 3
Salmeuk
World Update
Maloy
Kesperan
An alternate non-canon timeline 2
MaiseNow
Otto_K 1 2 3 4 5



Turn order:
Salmeuk
Neblime
LeftHandofGod
AvolitionBrit
Maloy
Kesperan
Maise_Now
Otto_K


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*Polling for interest or if this is even possible for most players computers*

What do we think about generating a world where civilization, megabeast, semi-mega, werecurse, demons, necromancer, etc are all set to extraordinarily high limits on the largest possible world?
Then we pick the civilization that is the worst off and we play them to eventually conquer the whole world?

The Goal:
-Build a fortress or series of fortresses that naturally see multiple generations live in throughout our playing
-At the same time work to take over the world without having to force ourselves to slow down(thus the world size)
-No in-game time limit on your turn so we can cover as much ground as we need

For added enjoyability require every dwarf to be named uniquely so when we are looking at the family tree of their great grand-children it is easier to figure out the long epic saga of that particular family
high number of monsters and such is so we don't run out of !Fun! halfway through the project; which has happened to me before.


My story of an attempt at this:
[spoiler]
I generated a world just like this and found a dwarf civ of all purple eyed dwarves who unleashed the clown apocalypse on themselves in world gen while also being surrounded by two goblin civs who had 50k+ populations. We picked up in a volcano for endless forging. Our food source was a beak dog farm from our raiding and merchants brought us all the alcohol we needed, although we did occasionally produce our own. To take out one civilization my army reached close to 1000 kills per-dwarf and we built literal highways from the melted gear of our enemies and then metal pillars of the same to create a roofed roadway. After first civ was defeated I sent an adventurer to go and find the slab of the other one's master and then used it to bind him and forced him to join us to help destroy his own civilization. It was epic seeing the named children of my named dwarves picking up the gear of their parents and continuing on the legacy!

[AvolitionBrit]

I love this idea

[BarlowJack]

I assume participation would require some higher end machines?

[Maloy]

I assume participation would require some higher end machines?

possibly? When I tried it was on my outdated and garbage work laptop. I'd pause the game, queue up tasks, unpause and then tab over to my office work and check in later lol

I reloaded same world on my gaming pc and it ran with no problems.
But it doesn't have to be as large a world as I played. especially if that prevents anyone from playing!

If it's so large of a scale that only like three of us can play, but 10 people are interested we can see how much we can scale down. If that makes sense?

[Maloy]

I could also try to see if people on other dwarf fortress sites are interested joining

but I'm not sure where other people go to start community fortresses? I look on steam and reddit and don't find any such posts

[brewer bob]

Possibly interested in this. Which DF version are you planning to use?

[Maloy]

Possibly interested in this. Which DF version are you planning to use?

I was thinking of the latest premium since adventure mode will be released soon. Would be fun to explore and potentially pacify our conquered lands as heroes inbetween fortresses!


@Avolition
I could just go ahead and make a world and see if anyone decides they're interested.
I might just drop info on steam and reddit even if it is sort of out of place there

[TheFlame52]

I don't have the time, patience, or hardware to participate, but I'd love to watch.

[MaiseNow]

I'm still a relative newbie but I'd love to participate! I have a pretty beefy computer too (built it with 2022 released hardware so it's not top of the newest line, but it's still pretty dang good)

(I just won't have time until mid-May...as much as I hate to admit it, writing my thesis so I can finish grad school on time does take precedence over dorfs)

[neblime]

sounds hype, i'd give it a turn.  I think steam version would be a good idea too, from what I've seen I think it runs a bit less laggy, and presumably improvements will continue in that regard.  Are you planning to wait for adventure mode patch then? thats a little bit of time away still

[Maloy]

According to Toady the adventure mode update will be compatible with previous premium saves so we can start now!

I have generated a potential world to use, but I'd also like to know if you guys can even make it run. I didn't have any problems with playing a fort for a short bit

https://dffd.bay12games.com/file.php?id=16982


World Features:
An elven kingdom that conquered two goblin civs and has taken huge swathes of land
A dwarven empire that rules an entire sub-continent
An alliance of goblin civilizations that purged dwarven civilization from the north-west
enough minotaurs to make an entire civilization
1000 titans leads to a world where it's commonplace for a settlement to be stomped out only to be reoccupied by refugees from elsewhere within the same year

There are 1000 clown variations ensuring each fortress to have a different kind of nightmare at the end
1000 variants of werebeasts, vampire curses, etc.
100 civilizations at the beginning, but plenty have been absorbed into the growing empires
Many necromancers rose up and died and new necromancers found so there's bound to be a huge variety of necromancy secrets
I stopped before the necromancer doom stack would appear and turn this into just a game about fighting experiments and zombies


The dwarven empire has 11k citizens in it so there's a headstart there.
Or we could play one of the two civilizations wiped out by the goblins in the north-west. They allied in their final days, but still all died out except for a few.

[Enemy post]

Has to be the dead civilization. Grudges gotta grudge. Also wanted to suggest that this fort should collect some big animals. In my experience, war animals excel at off-map genocide and you can get a lot of them together pretty easily.

[MaiseNow]

Has to be the dead civilization. Grudges gotta grudge. Also wanted to suggest that this fort should collect some big animals. In my experience, war animals excel at off-map genocide and you can get a lot of them together pretty easily.

I second this motion. Gotta rebuild the empire, like I was trying to do in Sealrim before the werebison came.

[Otto_K]

Hi! I would be interested in playing a game like this, especially that you're going with Steam edition! But...

I tried starting a fort in the world, and I instantly went under 20 visual FPS. I thought my gaming pc is pretty good but i guess not... (I've been mostly playing Medium worlds myself)

Anyways that's not very fun, and a full fort with industry and cave dwellers and everything would probably totally destroy my fps. So i guess i'm out

[Maloy]

Hi! I would be interested in playing a game like this, especially that you're going with Steam edition! But...

I tried starting a fort in the world, and I instantly went under 20 visual FPS. I thought my gaming pc is pretty good but i guess not... (I've been mostly playing Medium worlds myself)

Anyways that's not very fun, and a full fort with industry and cave dwellers and everything would probably totally destroy my fps. So i guess i'm out

It might be a problem for everyone else too! Let’s see and if so I’ll make another more dialed down version!