Ok, I planned to start out a new fort with the new version that came out a few days ago. Therefore i started to look for a nice location and generated quite a few worlds to find one with a location with the finder that had everything I want for a long lived fort.
And the location I have found exceeds my wildest dreams. It is the most awesome site I have ever found, seen, or heard of. Therefor I said that I have to share this site with you and make the most of it.
I therefore suggest a contest of some sorts. We each take the exact same starting location, the same 7 starting dwarves and we decide on what we are to do with the place.
The location is quite big (6x5), and has a magma pipe, sand, chasm, river, flux stone and HFS. But that is not what is so fucking great about it. Not only are there 7 pages of different monsters living inside the chasm, but I started inside the dead volcano.
The location is on a corner of a mountain (almost 90 degrees), where the magma pipe is located 5 levels beneath us. and the chasm streches out for about 8 levels above the magma. This is where we start. So it looks like a normal circular open chasm, but the lower half of it is full of magma, and I will build the fort inside the upper half the chasm, just above the very said magma! which is located on the "ground level", so one would have to pass a bridge over the magma to reach the fort stretching out above! Basicly it enables all sort of fun stuff. Everything from no drainage magma falls, obsidian factories, enourmous glass towers, or a military fort centered around killing of almost a 100 different mosterns such as troglodytes, rat men, ant men, trolls, giant rats, Giant spiders etc. This is without any doubt the best location I have ever seen.
This is a Linux save, from the df linux version but there shouldn't be any problems with it. Observe that there are only 10 downloads, so please continue to upload it til we have a group willing for the contest. We also need to set some rules, guidelines or what not, altough participating, discussing, sharing ideas and bragging is more important that actually having a winner.
http://rapidshare.com/files/180422051/region5.rar.htmlPlease let's have some real fun with this.