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[Fisherdwarf]

I have heard several times that people like to spoil the starting 7, giving them the best of bedrooms(They have to be legendary once the enconomy starts to get it free), the best of tombs, and so on.

So, do you guys spoil your starting 7? I like to make special tombs for all of them, preferably with solid gold/platnum walls and floors, with masterwork statues made of electrum or rose gold, and then I stuff the rest of the space with riches and artifacts.

Kinda expensive huh... Only the best for my starting 7.

[Foa]

Considering that I started directly next to an exposed vein of platinum protruding out of rock salt, yeah these 7 are going to be one of the happier ones.

It is common tradition for me and many others.

[Limul Thak]

I wouldn't say that I spoil them... but I do treat them well. At least, until there are too many dwarves to keep track of. At that point, they're on their own.

[Jetsquirrel]

i do almost everytime but i always have 6 or 5 after the first year. 1 hunter dies by running behind that gaint eagle or some other monstrosisty on the map. the other 1 dies by fishing in a carp infested river.

[Aspgren]

I give the starting 7 nicknames, depending on their personality and (this time) first year experience in the fortress.

Others have to EARN their nicknames.

... they also get to decide what the fortress will be like. My latest fort I thought I'd go ahead and and look at who the dwarves worship. If they worship the god of oceans, then "oceans" gets 1 vote in the fortress policy. If the dwarf has a grudge, someone strongly disagrees with him and he loses 1 vote. If he has friends, the ocean god gains the same amount of votes as the dwarf has friends.

 Simply put I consider this "friendship vote" thing how strongly the dwarves make their case. On my current fortress the most votes were given to "Revenge" .. which didn't make much sense, so I looked up the history of my civilization. It was very uninteresting. No colonizations, no wars... they had only made a large amount of animal enemis. Cougars and wolves in particular ... so the number ONE priority of my fortress is to hunt down wild animals and kill them wherever they are found.

... priority number two is building a gem mine.

[Telcontar]

Oh yeah, I spoil those bastards. I also give them all nicknames so I can keep track of them more easily. I try not to enroll any in the military as well.

I figure they deserve the treatment, what with the 'delved alone into the savage wilds to find fame and fortune' thing.

[Skorpion]

Generally, the starting seven are the few specialists that make the fort RUN. The original pair of miners, the grower, the crafter, and the cook.
They have to EARN their status as my favourites.

[Untelligent]

Not usually.


In my current fort, however, four of the original seven died a fiery death in the first spring, the fifth was eaten by a dragon in the first winter, and the sixth starved in prison during the Great Riot of 55, so I've given the seventh a series of large rooms somewhere. Had an artifact cage with a goblin swordsmaster in it for a while until the baron came and got irritated by it.

[Canadark]

In my last fortress all seven were killed within a few seconds by a skeletal great white shark. So yeah, it sucked.

[Jetsquirrel]

pfftt thats weak

my dwarves survived exactly 1 second
it was like [Something] Strike the ground!
The cavern floor has collapsed
your settlement has crumbled to its end

[Revolver Ocelot]

I've recently started to name my dwarves after the seven snow white dwarves and making Dopey the mayor. I try to give them appropriate jobs (Grumpy being woodcutter/security, ect.) Spoiling them is never that high of a priority, though they might receive extra furniture. Strangely, they always seem to end up killed by Goblin Ambushes due to them trying to collect wood.

[Quantum Toast]

Not particularly, though they're always the first to move from the barracks into their own rooms.

pfftt thats weak

my dwarves survived exactly 1 second
it was like [Something] Strike the ground!
The cavern floor has collapsed
your settlement has crumbled to its end

You shouldn't have struck the ground so hard.

[Grendus]

Not intentionally, but yes.

I always spoil my crafters. My usual build is weaponsmith, armorsmith, crafter (bone and metal), furnituremaker (metalsmith with the extra 5 divided into carpentry and masonry), planter/cook/brewer, either a clothier or jewelcrafter, and a mayor. 6 of them are usually crafters who I dote on to make sure they don't fail a mood and die or wander into an ambush. 1 becomes the mayor, who depending on his/her likes is either constantly guarded or assigned the magma lever.

[KenboCalrissian]

I did in my first fortress, but then again I spoiled everybody for a while.  I just couldn't bear to give my dwarves 1x2 bedrooms, so all of my first twenty or so dwarves got 4x6 rooms with cabinets and chests.

Second fort, not so much.  1x2 for all.

[martinuzz]

Yeah. My starting 7 dwarves all get their nice shiny rooms long before any other dwarf.
Other dwarves have to earn theirs by becoming legendary.
I even give them personal tombs, if they don't die before that. For the rest, only military champions and pesky nobles get tombs. Civilians will be buried in the cheap mass catacombs, legendary or no.