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One of the best first moves for all of this is to unify the time scales between the two modes. If you don't do that first, every new fix for the economy would compound the work it takes later on to do it. Once you have the two modes synced, you can alter the time a task takes based on amount of ingredients, quality of the work, and skill of the worker. Then you can adjust the value of a good based on time as well as quality.

Beyond that, we also need the outside economy to sync with the in-fortress one. For our moves to have an impact on the economy of the actual Kingdom. To an extent they already do because of our effect on wars, with our raiding and tributary system, but it's indirect. The more we win the fewer soldiers the enemies can throw at the rest of our Kingdom, especially if they're too busy attacking us to get their settlements back. But we need to be able to truly fulfill the Kingdom's needs, as well as introduce new goods completely into the Kingdom. We tame new animals to the point they're counted as domesticated, and new fortresses can embark with those animals. We bring in new supplies through our tributaries, that should also be reflected in future embarks from that Kingdom. We should also see those animals and goods appear in future caravans from the homeland.

I have no idea. You might go to the community games forum on here and set up such a fort. See if any takers go for it. Show them screenshots of each dwarf's thoughts/preferences screen as they arrive, and let people pick dwarves based on that. They can learn, immerse themselves, and roleplay as their dwarves, casting their votes as they think their avatar would.

I agree with your points. I only have one quibble: Inter means between two different things, intRA means within one's self. I think you keep using the word inter-fort when you mean intra-fort.

Nice, but honestly I think this is over the top. But maybe I just want the Myth and Magic arc to finally start.

The big reason for a graphical update is to attract a bigger crowd that's turned off by the current graphics. The more of an idea we can have of something just by looking at it, and the less we have to read to figure out if we're even interested in something, I figure the more of a crowd Toady can attract with this thing.

All in all, it's for the good. Hell, we now have a secondary studio involved in the game. It's possible we could see a future where Toady shares some of the workload with them (without giving up control) and development speeds up. Between that and the money this will draw in, I can see it helping a lot.

It'd be fun to know how it started. The latest devlog mentions a loyalty cascade issue from anti-goblin spies keeping their fake identities when they visit or immigrate to your fort. Your people believe they're from goblin lands and attack them, but since they really are from your own civ, it counts as a loyalty cascade.

I just had to send a squad to beat the outpost liaison to death because my civilians kept treating him like a wild animal. No one else was missing, so I know he wasn't a monster in disguise. No loyalty cascade so far, thankfully. It was just damn annoying seeing cancellation spam from Outpost Liaison, and watching my guys run for the stairs then back away because he was on the other side of them.

Could this be related to me turning down barony status twice?

So I've started the fort of Dangerwheel, which is going to be a small military encampment of 200 dwarves with 150 of them being warriors to raid and conquer the nearby civilizations, and I've run something odd. It's probably a bug but I find it amusing enough to call it a feature. One of my guys had the dream of ruling the world. So naturally I made him the expedition leader. I'm not even done with my first Spring and I already have two hillocks linking themselves to me. In the last major version I played I could go through several years without this happening at all, so I figure this is a bug. But I'm going to play it off as those two hillocks having heard that we're going to conquer the world and deciding to hitch their stars to us.