Ok, so this is my first post up here in suggestions. Feelin' like I been dwarfin' about long enough now to make one. Did a search to see if this has been suggested before, and found this
which isn't quite what I have in mind.
Heres my idea. High level / particularly incredible forts could have a bit of persistance. I've got my first real fort here. At least, the first one to survive a decent amount of time. 47 years in fact. This place has traps, military, no want, piles of candy things, capital of the civ, ultraskyscraper serving as a megatomb blah blah everything a dwarf could want. But then I come to a problem.
I'm bored.
Understandable. The joy in this game (for me) is building the fort from the ground up. I mean, the fort practically maintains itself at this point. But why would the dwarves just up and leave this paradise? All I can do is abandon the capital of dwarven civilization if I want to start a new fort. My suggestion is to have a fort persist as a CPU controlled outpost after you abandon it. Not EVERY fort would do this, maybe after you fullfilled yet more requirements. Say, if it hits the 50 year mark? 100 years? Maybe a few billion in crafted objects? I dunno but whatever the requirements, they should be something that is a very difficult feat to accomplish, but it would add some.... lasting reward to building a fort that stands the test of time. Seems like sort of a letdown for me to just up and leave the place. Maybe after you reach said requirements, you could choose to abandon or to have it persist?
I'd love to gen a world, play it for a thousand years in game from year one, and look back and see that first dwarf city I built made into a bastion of the dorf way of life a millenium later.
Is this a good idea?
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