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Elves

22 (11.8%)

Humans

56 (29.9%)

Goblins

109 (58.3%)

Total Members Voted: 186

[CJN]

So, if one day Toady offers to make one race of your choice playable in fortress mode. Which one would you pick then of Goblins, Elves and Humans?

[Shurikane]

Goblins for sure.

I guess playing them would be fairly neat, building an aboveground fort and creating underground roads to other goblin forts, then send out parties across the world map that report on victory or defeat.

One fun part would be that you could send warriors trained at your fort out to pillage and plunder.  The farther you go and the bigger the enemy civ, the lesser the chance your soldiers have of coming back alive.  Eventually, stronger civs launch counterattacks.

[GaxkangtheUnbound]

Goblins.
'Cause snatching slaves is fun.

[Gergination]

Towering Quadrepeds made of Clear Diamond.

Oh, from those three choices...

[Uzu Bash]

Imagine running a fort with a bunch of kidnapping murderers. Even if you had a sheriff, he'd be killing his fellow goblins at random, too. By second generation, you'd have about as many dwarves, elves and/or humans as goblins due to the abductions and goblin-on-goblin crime, which there doesn't seem to be any consequence for.

[KillerClowns]

Ooh, tough one.  I'm assuming you mean "playable with additions to make their playstyle tenable."  I eventually had to go with the humans.  They're an impressively competent bunch, with very real megaproject potential, even if being stuck in the bronze age is suboptimal.  The gobbos are tempting, but I'd rather not see my Legendary Masons getting randomly murdered by jealous neighbors, or my population replaced with *shudder* elves.

[GaxkangtheUnbound]

Elves
    - 1 (7.7%)
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What jackwagon voted for those hippies?

[Vicid]

I would love to see a goblin fort.  Do goblins reproduce a lot faster than dwarves/ other civs? How would they maintain their population otherwise?

[Askot Bokbondeler]

no love for kobbos?

[G-Flex]

I'm going to say elves, because they probably have the most alien society of them all (except maybe goblins, but goblins would get a little tiring and hard to manage). And their jungle forts would be pretty nice, along with communing with spirits and so forth.

Of course, they'd have a lot less industry to speak of.

[FleshForge]

Why so limited?  The race system is pretty open ended, why not a lizard man or plump helmet man?

[KillerClowns]

I'm going to say elves, because they probably have the most alien society of them all (except maybe goblins, but goblins would get a little tiring and hard to manage). And their jungle forts would be pretty nice, along with communing with spirits and so forth.

Of course, they'd have a lot less industry to speak of.

That... actually makes a lot of sense.  Hadn't thought of it like that, but it could be interesting to see the world from the view of those hippie buggers.
*Patiently awaits cliché cries of "burn the elf!"*

[Root Infinity]

*Patiently awaits cliché cries of "burn the elf!"*

BURN THE ELF!

Sorry, G-Flex... No offence intended.

[Untelligent]

Magma Men.

[SkyRender]

 You know, the Elf hate has gotten really pointless since 0.31.x made Elves bring mostly rare delights instead of metric tonnes of cloth.  I know it's tradition, but it's a stupid tradition, and I for one will not participate in it any more.

 All hail Elf Fortress!  Forest-dwellers unite!