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[Derakon]

Generally, when I use the site finder, I'm looking for a specific type of embark area, and if the world I'm on doesn't have what I want, then I'll gen a new world and try that one. Depending on how picky I'm being, this can take awhile, and it's not an automated process, because I have to manually check every world that I generate.

I suggest that it be possible to combine worldgen with the site finder, so that the game will keep genning worlds using the parameters you specify until it finds one that has a site that matches your specifications. You should of course still be able to use the site finder normally after worldgen.

And yeah, I know that I should be willing to play less-than-perfect maps. I don't care. :p

[jaked122]

I second this interesting Idea.

[LegoLord]

Me too, although I can see it waiting until there are more improvements to the site finder (specific layers, biomes, caves).

I spent ages trying to get a world with a site that had all the basic good stuff and a cave.  By the time I do, it turns out the cave has kobolds, which wind up being friendly (although this does have the hilarious side effect of kobolds spawning on the map edge and stealing from the resident kobalds' caches).

[Fieari]

Real humans steal from humans all the time.  Why wouldn't our kobolds steal from other kobolds?

[LegoLord]

Well, the real funny thing is, since the civ I had settled on was the nearest civ, the kobolds stealing stuff were members of that cave.  So, stealing from themselves 

[Silverionmox]

Hey, in their own cave, they know where the good stuff is!

[eerr]

Hey, in their own cave, they know where the good stuff is!

The problem being, so does the guy they stole it from.

Not a problem if they steal from themself though

[nenjin]

I would love an automated command in the site finder to "Delete this realm and generate a new one." Currently I have to crash game, find the realm folder, delete it, and reload DF every time. Automate dat shiz!

[Aquillion]

And yeah, I know that I should be willing to play less-than-perfect maps. I don't care. :p

It could also be used to deliberately find less-than-perfect maps.  For instance, sometimes you might want HFS, a chasm, magma and have it all be a terrifying frozen wasteland crawling with zombies.

[LegoLord]

Without any sources of running water, on top of that.

[irmo]

I would love an automated command in the site finder to "Delete this realm and generate a new one." Currently I have to crash game, find the realm folder, delete it, and reload DF every time. Automate dat shiz!

If you're going to delete and recreate realms until you get a site that has water, trees, sand, a chasm, iron, magma, adamantine, and a partridge in a pear tree, what's the point of a procedurally generated world? Maybe DF should just ship with a pocket "demonstration world" that has every feature in one site.

[Derakon]

Irmo: because, as others noted, people aren't always looking for "every feature in one site". I know I try to avoid having too many features on my maps because of the FPS burden, for example.

[nenjin]

If you're going to delete and recreate realms until you get a site that has water, trees, sand, a chasm, iron, magma, adamantine, and a partridge in a pear tree, what's the point of a procedurally generated world? Maybe DF should just ship with a pocket "demonstration world" that has every feature in one site.

Gee I dunno, maybe try and have at least one ideal fortress set up before I just start playing realms straight out of the package? If Toady didn't want people to have a choice, he wouldn't have coded them in.

[Draco18s]

Currently I have to crash game

No you don't.  All you have to do is go back into the world generator and nuke the folder.

[jfs]

Please no.

Personally I consider it a bug that the game currently doesn't seem to make it interesting enough to keep playing in the same world. You aren't meant to worldgen constantly and then play a single game on the world when you find an interesting one.
Merging any site-finding into worldgen would only help to amplify that behaviour.

I think I read something about the upcoming version letting every site be potentially much more interesting, which I really hope will be true.