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Zaphod

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Tired of boring embarks
« on: April 22, 2011, 02:02:54 am »

I love dwarf fort, I love almost everything about it. But one thing drives me mad. BORING EMBARK POINTS. I generate tons of maps until i get ones with tons of purple/ haunted/ terrifying places (I'm color blind so they may not actually be purple to the rest of you). But when I get there.....There isn't any thing fun at all...

Do any of you have some maps that are mostly evil or have devious things/ inhabitants of some good embark points? Please let me know and send them to me.
« Last Edit: April 22, 2011, 02:15:48 am by Zaphod »
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Re: Tired of boring embarks
« Reply #1 on: April 22, 2011, 06:07:19 am »

In the advanced map generator settings, is there a setting that lets you crank up the evil?

One way to find some nice places are to grab an adventurer or 2 and explore the map. I've found some pretty cool places that way that looked boring as hell from the embark view.
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Re: Tired of boring embarks
« Reply #2 on: April 22, 2011, 06:24:44 am »

Try mods? For example FD (link in signature) with multiple agressive races.
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Re: Tired of boring embarks
« Reply #3 on: April 22, 2011, 07:05:57 am »

Try out the PerfectWorldDF

It lets you make worlds that will suit your needs. You also can set where you want and how many evil/good biomes  there are going to be .

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=57428.0
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Re: Tired of boring embarks
« Reply #4 on: April 22, 2011, 08:44:50 am »

Buzzards and vultures are more amusing than many evil creatures.

But still, it's quite repetitive after a while. No sudden outbursts, mixed critters nor stuff able to spawn inside the fortress (i.e. slimes).
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Re: Tired of boring embarks
« Reply #5 on: April 22, 2011, 12:04:21 pm »

do any of you have a good map you'd be willing to email me?
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« Reply #6 on: April 22, 2011, 06:53:56 pm »

To make a map have alot of evil just make a custom one with custom parameters. Use one of the Large Region/Island or whatever you like. I just use pocket. Copy the map you want, rename it ("t"), and press "d" (I think) to change the parameters. All of it probably won't make sense if you never used this. What you want to look for is something like "Number of Evil Small Subregions", "Number of Evil Medium Subregions, "Number of Large Evil Subregions". Play around with that by making those numbers bigger. You need to find the right balance that will let your world be covered with evil but at the same time let other civilizations exist. Humans, Dwarfs, and Elves can't exist if all Hills+Grasslands, Mountains, and Forest are evil.

Another thing you'll want to do is increase the number of titans. I set it to 1000 and set all titan attack requirements to None so they come whenever they feel like it. Increase the number of Mega and Semi Beasts too. Increase the number of natural caves (mountain and non mountain) so that they have lairs in your embark sites. I don't touch the number of demon types and night monster types. For some reason that lags up my comp. Set "Reveal all Caves" (or is it "Reveal all Lairs") to yes if you want to see exactly where these monsters live on the embark map.

Have fun with a Titan sitting right next to your wagon the moment you load the game.

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Re: Tired of boring embarks
« Reply #7 on: April 22, 2011, 10:49:27 pm »

I'm currently on an awesome embark with a +20 z level mountain with a volcano in it, in the middle of a freezing tundra, no evil though, just goblins and the eventual polar bear. I could get the seed if I knew how.
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« Reply #8 on: April 23, 2011, 02:52:08 pm »

I tried using world perfect. Im not sure how to use it properly? Would some one mind generating a map for me (larger the better, but ill take what ever) where it's mostly evil stuff?
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« Reply #9 on: April 23, 2011, 03:30:16 pm »

I guess I can make you a map with all the things I described. Not large though, that freezes my old comp. Medium instead. 
Have you tried the evil swamp on the wiki here?

http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/DF2010:Worldgen_examples
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« Reply #10 on: April 23, 2011, 03:32:42 pm »

Have you tried the evil swamp on the wiki here?
file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/User/Desktop/DF%20Stuff/DF2010%20Worldgen_examples.htm

what?

Also thank you
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Re: Tired of boring embarks
« Reply #11 on: April 23, 2011, 03:40:24 pm »

Did you really just try to link to a file on YOUR hard drive?
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Re: Tired of boring embarks
« Reply #12 on: April 23, 2011, 04:04:19 pm »

Thats what I was wondering.....Could you also list your IP address, credit card expiration date, and blood type?

Just kidding.

Just save it and email it to me.
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« Reply #13 on: April 23, 2011, 04:11:35 pm »

Did you really just try to link to a file on YOUR hard drive?

Whoops. That's a page on the wiki. I saved it on my hardrive too lol. Fixing
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« Reply #14 on: April 23, 2011, 04:14:36 pm »

Ok, here's the world I made. The land of Gorging. About half of it is all evil.
http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=4259

You can also try The Swamp of Evil" on this page:
http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/DF2010:Worldgen_examples
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