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[Gorjo MacGrymm]

I have started 20 straight new games today and cant get Goblins in any of them.  The last 2 world gens did weird stuff; I had to use task manager to end the program after it got stuck in world gen on year 223 - for 15 minutes - after being previously stuck on year 177 for 10 minutes.  I have allready stopped all other programs.  My last world gen toook much longer than normal also to gen but then ended up without goblins of any sort again.  I have noticed a pattern developing in my gens.  Last month, every embark site put me on top of a chasm (13 straight times) and killed off my crew immediately via monsters and the "wagon destroyed" bug where it puts it on top of a mountian (surrounded by chasm of course).

Does my PC time/date involve in any way the RNG for world gen/embarkationpoint specifics?

BTW - I did not start my embarks in the first choice given, I naturally just found one i liked and hit chasms - 13 times - in a row.  I know people like chasms and they are useful/fun, but not what I am looking for currently in my games.  What I want at the moment is a good goblin murder world.  But now i cant gen a world with goblins, no matter how many times I try.  NO, I have not messed with any parameters, it is the vanilla version of 40d straight downloaded.


anyone got any clues?

Gorjo

EDIT:  1 hour later and 9 more tries and still no goblins.  I am wondering why I should play this game at all.

EDIT 2:  30 minutes later, re-installed game, 5 more attempts.  NO GOBLINS.  I give up.  Ya'll have fun.  I guess I will just wait for the next release and see if that works or not.

[Footkerchief]

Are you looking for goblins in the embark screen or in the civ screen after embark?

[Gorjo MacGrymm]

embark screen.  before embark, looking at civs in the world.

[Savok]

Ditto for me too. The goblins have a red line next to them.

[Demonic Gophers]

Ditto for me too. The goblins have a red line next to them.

That just means they'll invade instead of trading, even though they aren't at war with you.  There are still goblins in the area.

[Footkerchief]

embark screen.  before embark, looking at civs in the world.

Did you completely delete the old version and install the new version into a fresh folder?  Or did you install the new version "on top" of the old one?

[Gorjo MacGrymm]

installed it over the old version and hit "yes to all" on overwrite, then redid all my own init file preferences.

AFAIK:  The red line means the civ was destroyed/conquered.  I have allready had a thread about that 3 months ago (or so).  If I am wrong on that i am in for a serious head slap..........Oh....crap.


EDIT:  Oh God oh God Oh bloody Armok come slay me know.........I just found the thread about the red line and........  my brain is broken........  Uhoh, i think I just heard a hammerdwarf at my door talking about a warrant for "being too stupid to play" issued by my local noble............I hate days like these.


PLEASE IGNORE THIS ENTIRE USELESS POINTLESS ILL-BEGOTEN SHIT FOR BRAINS OP WHO JUST DISCOVERED THE STINK HE WAS SMELLING WAS DUE TO A PERSONAL RECTAL-CRANIUM PROBLEM.  This has been corrected.

[Andir]

PLEASE IGNORE THIS ENTIRE USELESS POINTLESS ILL-BEGOTEN SHIT FOR BRAINS OP WHO JUST DISCOVERED THE STINK HE WAS SMELLING WAS DUE TO A PERSONAL RECTAL-CRANIUM PROBLEM.  This has been corrected.

Hairball.