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[dbay]

There's so many awesome new features in the upcoming release that I can't decide what to do first. I need help! I have several conflicting goals:
-I want to create and play a long-term, massive fortress with the new vampires, werewolves, and other ghastly things in one of the new 'hell-on-earth' biomes as quickly as possible, but I have to start after playing as adventurers in order for them to have a chance at migrating into my fort.
-I'm not wild about adventurer mode, but I want to explore the new cities, dungeons, sewers, and whatnot and heroically battle all the afforementioned ghastly things BUT I also want to be a necromancer and a vampire but I can't be both at once.
-I want to play in a long-history world so as to get the maximum amount of cities, vampires and necromancers but I want my adventurer(s) to  immigrate to my fortress, which is practically impossible with the number of historical figures a worldgen that long will create.
-I want to play a fortress with guards at all the corners armed with wooden spears to hunt down the undead vampire threat inquisition-style, but I actually want to have vampires plaguing the populace for Fun so I can't be too effective at protecting against them and in any case love the idea of having a vampire duke running the fort or superdwarven vampires in the army...

What do I do? I am locked in indecision! Long or short world gen? Play as a hero adventurer? become a vampire? become a necromancer? play multiple adventurers, thus delaying the time in which I can enjoy fortress mode (my favourite mode)? hunt down all the vampires? put the vampires in charge? create vampire stormtroopers? Is there a brilliant third option I'm missing?

Thanks in advance!

[Yoink]

Here: Quit your job/school/college and forgo any social interaction whatsoever as you submerge completely into the greatness of the new version, generating worlds and sampling its delights, fighting monsters, ransacking cities, creating great forts only to be destroyed from within by insidious vampires, and having lots, and lots, of !!FUN!!

...'Swhat I'm planning to do!

[Urist Imiknorris]

Make several fortresses/adventurers at once.

[dbay]

Make several fortresses/adventurers at once.

I considered it, but if they're all in the same world then my old dwarves can migrate into my new forts.

[Urist Imiknorris]

No. Separate worlds, separate fortresses, concurrently.

[Loud Whispers]

Flip a coin, then eat it.

[Koronii]

Learn necromancy, tear a bandit to pieces, and set his remains on his former allies.

[werechicken]

Two words: goblin massacres

I'll be embarking on an evil region attempting to weaponise necromancers, werecreatures, vampires and the evil mists.

Those green skinned b******s won't know what hit them (if they're lucky)

[UltraValican]

Mod in Goblin adventures, leather whips, pistols, and a fedora.
Goblinana Jones.

[612DwarfAvenue]

First i shall play the hell out the game so i can check out all the new features. Then i shall get back to work on my mod which i had to temporarily shelve because it needs the new features (but espectially the syndrome and were-creature stuff) to work right.

[Quietust]

I'll be digging through bits of its code with a disassembler, trying to determine the layouts of the new data structures, changes made to the existing structures, and offsets of various global variables so that I can help get DFHack working with it. I imagine that peterix and angavrilov will be doing the same thing.

[sneakey pete]

Come onto the forums and read about the awesome new stuff, probably.

[FearfulJesuit]

Drink vampire blood.

[loose nut]

Wait for the bug reports! And play if they are funny bugs.

[lastofthelight]

Set up the 'vampire blood well', transform the largest number of people I can in the largest fortress possible into vampires, wait as long as possible (until the fortress collapses), get way cool history, ensure TONS of vampiric children if possible, then abandon!


and ENJOY THE MIGRANT WAVES. YES. WAVES. FEASTING FOR YOUR SOFT, SUCCULANT DWARVEN BLOOD! KILL US WILL YOU, MORTALS? WE ARE VAMPIRIC MIGRANTS, AND WILL -FEAST UPON YOU- AS IS OUR DUE!

I mean, enjoy useful migrants for a change, without having to worry about sleeping quarters/feeding them/etc.