I think i am going to try and write a update every season, unless nothing happens somehow.
Right now, my fps is around 90, which is very good. when i started the map, it was hovering around 30. it seems that burros definitely help the speed, and if used properly, i think they could speed up a normal fort.
also, because burros actually make this fairly easy to manage, i think i am going to allow a few more people to grab immigrants and start a few more forts. i know 2 people posted about getting the next dwarfs, so i will give them to them. i will have a total of 12 city-states, so , the first 2 dwarfs go to gyron and nuker w. that leaves us with 3 empty slots. first come first serve. i am probably going to take a dwarf and make him a hole in the ground with farm plots. his entire life will be bookkeeping everything for my amusement.
Summer 1501 Update
After a short period of time moving stuff around, i finally got all the dwarfs separated into their own areas. some of them are doing well, and 2 of them are not. some dwarf listened better and got off to a good start. some did not.
Doomshifter
So far, you have a quarry and the beginnings of the temporary wall.
Max White
you have gotten most of your house built, and have grown a few plants allready.
Barbarossa
you couldn't find a hill, but you did manage to find a massive mountain, which seemed like a much better place.
ShadowRHK
you are in a panic. it appears that the entire map is entirely devoid of sand. this is odd, seeing as one of the biomes was named "The Furious Dunes". you even went so far as to dig a tunnel down into the earth in a desperate attempt to find some sand. you found a cool underground cavern, but that also had no sand.
SIGVARDR
you found a really cool place on top of a mountain, that branched into 3 separate peaks. for a while you decided that trying to help other people was a better idea than digging your farm and moving buckets of water. this is now fixed, but you don't have much to show right now.
Wurm
you have gotten a small house built, and part of a wall. right now the stream has very few fish in it, but they seem to be migrating in, because the stream started with 0 fish in it.
Sir Broccoli
you have gotten a underground farm set up, and you are searching for the elusive red stone. you have nothing to show for this yet, but by fall i hope to have found some.
EDIT: images spoilered for size (forgot about that)