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[monk12]

You need to be well off to have enough free time to be evil. (also small farming villages can MORE then be evil... even outside of the horror genre)

*ahem* http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/lotry.html

Note that this story doesn't contain any tips on how to win the lottery, but rather is a chilling tale of conformity gone mad!

[rex mortis]

http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/imgs/city_41.png

I like how in this city, the castle is attached to the city wall. It might not happen all that often but seeing it occasionally will make the cities seem more, organic. I also like how the river could become a significant tactical (dis)advantage if the city is sieged. If ships can move freely, it might allow for resupply. On the other hand, the siegers could bring reinforcements and supplies on ships.

Once improved sieges are in, will they employ variable tactical and strategic situations? Say, the defenders can see the reinforcements of the sieging army in horizon. Would they wait to be starved or overwhelmed? Or perhaps mount a desperate charge to break the siege while there is still a better chance?

Also, would a powerful civilisation attempt massive megaprojects, say like the great wall? Completely walling off a huge area of land seems like a sound defensive strategy. Would we be able to take part in the construction? Completing the assigned section of the fall in schedule (or at least not too far behind schedule) might get the overseer a nice salary as well as secure future contracts. Fail, and it might be better to flee the sovereign's wrath.

[scriver]

Succeed, and you better hope they're willing to pay.
Or they'll seduce and steal your horses and bash in your head for good measure.

[B0013]

What? I am the first one?

Happy birthday Toady!

[TolyK]

HAPPY B-DAY, TOADY ONE THE GREAT!
...

What? I am the first one?

Happy birthday Toady!

dammit, you ninja!
 

[Mel_Vixen]

Herzlichen Glückwunsch zum Geburtstag Toady. (-> happy birthday) I hope you have some nice cake and many presents. 

[Acanthus117]

Happy Birthday, you magnificent man of toads and dwarves an fortress-making!

[Funk]

Happy Birthday Toady

[Osmosis Jones]

Happy Toadday today, Toady!

[Haspen]

Happy Toad Birth Day, Toady!

[Kogut]

Happy birthday!

And on-topic. [see pictures]

Spoiler: Streets in farmland, now (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Streets in farmland, better (?) (click to show/hide)

I removed part of roads to change road graph into tree. It can be addition to existing implementation.

[Rip0k]

Wszystkiego Najlepszego - Happy birthday!

[Jeoshua]

I really like what turning the roads into a tree-form instead of grid-form did to the feel of that map.

I REALLY HOPE TOADY TAKES NOTICE OF THAT!

Applying it to cities would be good too, leading to many "blind alleys".  And I'm sure we agree a blind alley can be just as good as an intersection, when it comes to ambiance.  Maybe even better.

[Jiri Petru]

Why would you voluntarily create road trees and blind alleys? The very purpose of roads is that they enable people getting from somewhere to somewhere else - in case of the farms, the roads should offer a straight and simple connection to the town. Even Toady's original roads were too twisted and nonsensical, why would you complicate them even more?

To show what I mean:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

It even shows how the farms are very impractically distributed because it's impossible to connect them without a dense street plan. They should stick to a couple of main roads.

[Kogut]

I wanted to show that improvement is possible with small addition to existing algorithm.