Additionally, maybe you could send wagons along with a few soldiers to go trade with other civilizations? (And by trade, I of course include demands of tribute in with more standard commerce.)
Yeah, giant mole rats. It'd be neat and you know it. ;-)
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Originally posted by Gakidou:
<STRONG>Hmm. Lets turn this the other way around, then: Your early nobles come on foot, and will occasionally mandate that a wagon be built, and that either horses or mules be provided for it's transport. This then gets sent off to fetch high ranking nobility. (If you never dismantled your original wagons, they can be used instead; that way the question of whether to dismantle your starting wagons becomes more than an issue of asthetics.)Additionally, maybe you could send wagons along with a few soldiers to go trade with other civilizations? (And by trade, I of course include demands of tribute in with more standard commerce.)</STRONG>
I like that. Nobles are snotty and may refuse to show up at all unless they are picked up by a transport of some sort. Especially higher ranking nobles. This could help ease the player into the nobles rather than getting a half dozen or more at a time.
So you prepare a wagon with supplies and guards. Then send it off in the early spring. The wagon brings back a handful (1-3?) of random nobles from those your fortress qualifies for. Maybe letting you pick one at the cost of the noble having more requirements/demands or just plain bribing him upfront with some masterwork offerings.
The flipside of this is the noble drowners could simply decide not to send the wagons. This might cause the mayor or highest ranking dwarf to deal out some extra punishment to the oppressed masses.
A twist for personalities is the nobles that arrive together could already be friends or enemies by the time they arrive. Being confined together for a few months really brings out the best/worst in them. Not much use with current interactions but has good potential if/when grudges get added.