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[Guillaume777]

Hello,

I played a small fortress for about 5 years. However looking at legends, it seems that during these 5 years nothing happened in the world other than events related directly to my fortress.

Is this intended?

[Mondark]

I'm afraid so.  However, you're in luck, because (I think) world gen type events occurring during normal play is supposed to be getting in with one of the next few releases, as part of the Caravan Arc, I think.
Footkerchief or somebody correct me if I'm wrong here.

Also, Welcome to the Forums!

[soup_alex]

I have seen minor instances of fortresses started after an adventurer retired containing engravings detailing that hero's exploits. No "ongoing" history in the rest of the world, though, it seems.

[Ieb]

Recent experience seem to tell me that history DOES happen while you play your fort, assuming there is something going on.

To sum it up, a race that I modded in had Winter/Spring as their active trading seasons. However, they seemed only to send a caravan in the Winter, and not in the Spring as they should, and there wasn't anything stopping them. No sieges and so on.

So I checked a bit. Note, playing with Civilization Forge, slightly related, because I found out that the civ I was trading with was in war with the Frost Giants. So I figured "maybe that's keeping them from trading normally".

Then last year in the current camp, they didn't show up. At all. So I check the civilization list again. There they are. Then the Frost Giants.

"This land has no important leaders."

So I figure, genocide kept them busy. Up until that point, Frost Giants had one town listed, but not anymore.

[Mondark]

Maybe I've just never looked hard enough, or had a world with anything interesting happening.  I hope that's the case, because that's a pretty cool story.

[grendel]

I have had the age change during my games both as an adventurer and in fort mode

Went from the golden age to the age of heroes, or something like that.

[Murphy]

The only history that continues to take place is your local history, wherever your fortress might be. At other locations people don't even die of old age, nor are they killed by rampaging megabeasts anymore.

I tested this purposefully and had one last dwarf from (almost) dead civilization live past 170 years (max dwarven age). And when I ran the worldgen for the same amount of years instead of playing, he was killed by a beast and the civ crumbled into nothing.

[onodera]

I once created a Spirit of Fire adventurer to depopulate the world. When I retired him for a while and started a fortress, the world immediately entered the Age of the Elf. Now I'm busy killing the tree-hugging bastards to see if I can advance the history further.