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[Wanallo]

Hi,

Been playing for a little while now and have enjoyed creating new worlds. One thing I am not too sure of is just how long to leave the world to age before playing. So I was wondering at what point you prefer to stop aging your worlds and start playing?

Currently, my world is at around 200 years. I tend not to leave it too much longer than that simply because I'm not really sure what difference it makes.

[lastofthelight]

The age and map is pretty much broken in this release. The roads and tunnels never (seem?) to form, you can't visit nonhuman towns, and anything above a small/tiny map never leaves the age of legends.

So I let it run until I loose patience. 3-5 hundred years.

[vjek]

I set the initial to year 2 and the final to year 3.  It speeds up world generation, and I get caravans and sieges and ambushes and forgotten beasts all as usual.  If there is an impact to fortress mode for this, I haven't found it yet.

[Urist Imiknorris]

I set the initial to year 2 and the final to year 3.  It speeds up world generation, and I get caravans and sieges and ambushes and forgotten beasts all as usual.  If there is an impact to fortress mode for this, I haven't found it yet.

Your civ doesn't have much/any time to expand, so your mineral selection tends to be a bit poorer. I know because I do this too.

[UristMcHuman]

I tend to wait to stop world gen until around year 120. My dwarf civ selections are usually greater, my supply selections are greater, and I get to see exactly how old my adult dwarfs are.

[Kaleb702 Games]

One hundred and twenty five years.
'Cause it's shorter than medium, but longer than the shortest.

[lastofthelight]

I used to be an expert at getting all sorts of odd and funky things to happen with legends; the fourth age of Myths in the year 2525 and so on and so forth, but alas, all that is long behind us and shall not soon come again.

[Corneria]

I used to go to 1000 or further so that I could have fully grown dragons. Unfortunately, too many civs die out if I do that now.

[Noodz]

I still have a vanilla .21 world which is about 1200 years old and haves a single dorf civ with two mountain halls and an amazingly appropriate name, "rumored vessels". Because worlds that old tend to be overrun by elves, and dorf are but a rumor.

The thing about such old worlds is that by then many semimegabeasts have died of old age.

[Flaming Toadstool]

I let the world gen for 125 years, otherwise it takes too long.

[Megaman3321]

I've had a world cook for ten thousand years once. It was so huge and complicated that attempting to export the map and text made the game crash.

[gtmattz]

I let the world gen for 99 years, so that I embark in year 100, makes keeping track of the age of the fortress a little easier.