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[timtek]

End_year = 419
This leaves you with a 420 embark. +++++++

I should have done that for my current fort. Fortress Sticky Plants.

[Tokkius]

Takes about 45 seconds for me to gen a large world at year 500.

[Shrugging Khan]

Fast for me, too. Large world takes a few minutes to hit year 1050, small world gets done in a matter of tens of seconds.

[Balathustrius]

Odd that I'm apparently the only one getting slow world gens.  My CPU isn't bad; it's 3 GHz in two cores, so I guess 1.5 GHz dedicated to DF.  I haven't really played for a year or so, but the last time I did, world gen was very fast. 

Thanks for the tips. 

[NW_Kohaku]

Hmm... It seems like longer, but I just timed how long it took my computer to generate a large world with all default settings, and it was 7 minutes. 

I have a Dual Core 3.0 Ghz, and I can't remember exactly, but I have either 2 or 4 gigs of RAM.

[revier]

I usually set world gen to stop at the year 999, so I strike the earth on the first day of the year 1000, because I like big round numbers.

I haven't noticed world-gen taking significantly longer, and my windows machine isn't so impressive that I wouldn't notice.

[Vercingetorix]

My most recent fort, I went to the extreme and generated a 8,087 year-old world...of course, this was a random number I generated between 8,000 and 10,000 years.  I wanted the age of civilization approximately equal to what it would be IRL, plus to give the world more backstory. This also resulted in the defeat of the elves by dwarves, so my fortress' walls are covered with inspiring engravings of dwarves striking down elves.

[Balathustrius]

Hmm... It seems like longer, but I just timed how long it took my computer to generate a large world with all default settings, and it was 7 minutes. 

I have a Dual Core 3.0 Ghz, and I can't remember exactly, but I have either 2 or 4 gigs of RAM.

Huh.  I have 3 gigs of RAM, and even getting to year 500 takes about 40 minutes. 

My most recent fort, I went to the extreme and generated a 8,087 year-old world...of course, this was a random number I generated between 8,000 and 10,000 years.

How long did that take?

[Balathustrius]

Ok, just as a test, I started DF and hit the "Create New World Now!" button.  It generated a default world in less than a minute.

Bizarre.  The only customization I was making was to add more z-levels of rock between the ground and the Underdark, but apparently this leads to hugely increased world-gen times. 

[greenwatering]

whenever i start a new world, i have at least 2500 yrs and a lot of z levels, i just let it run while i am sleeping or showering or something. it works, although the saves take a long time to go.

[JoRo]

I tend to stop world gen at 300 years, so it's long enough for interesting things to happen but usually no race has gotten wiped out by then.  Whenever I go for the 1050 I wind up missing elves or goblins or something.

[Adamantine Fist]

I generally like longer gens for the more interesting histories. However, playing with Civ Forge, I also find that longer world-gens have an unfortunate tendency to leave massive, insanely powerful and overpopulated High Elven empires. Steel equipment + infinite lifespan = horrifyingly large, well equipped armies.

[Teiwaz]

I find the bigger issue isn't that long world gens take a long time to generate, but that they can significantly increase save, load, and quit times. I find if I go much longer than 500 years, the agony of the long autosaves far outweighs having a younger, slightly more boring world.

[Suilenroc]

I've found that kobold civs always die off if I let history run its full course, so I've started stopping at around 400.

[Vercingetorix]

How long did that take?

No more than two hours; I played golf while it was generating and when I got back it was finished.  It was pretty much a conventional medium island with all specifications as set in the default worldgen, with the only difference being a few more civilizations and slightly higher volcanism; I think what really sped it up was the elimination of the elves by the 4th millennium.  It didn't really even slow down in the later years, more or less running at the same decent pace after the 1st millenium.

It may be a version thing, too; compared to 0.31.11 or .10, .12 is much, much faster during worldgen.