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I first reported this issue for the September 2010 release, and my first worldgen today is like deja vu. There is a well-developed civ in every square of the world map that is embarkable, which is making it very difficult to find a good place for my fortress. Can someone refresh my memory on where the options are to turn this world sprawl off, aside from just starting at a much earlier year? (This is a medium world with a 250 embark date.)

I don't want to re-open my bugtracker ticket on this if I can help it.  Thanks.

So that it matches the same functionality in Internet browsers and other applications.  Scrolling the mousewheel up should increase the size of things on the screen.  It currently does the opposite until you reverse the keybindings yourself.

Thanks.

Possible spilers here, so look away:

Remember when one platinum ring could buy out an entire caravan?  Not anymore.  I just gave up five platinum crafts for an assortment of leathers and meats, leaving behind steel armor, stone crafts, and metal cages to name a few.  Here are some theories:

- You really need someone with a high negotiating skill, or appraising.
- Platinum is ridiculously lower in value.
- Item quality affects things at a steeper value than before, meaning my base-quality metalcrafts aren't gonna cut it.
- Requires a much larger focus on the items that your liaison asks you to trade--for instance, mine put nearly 200% priority on ammo and something else.  I'm going to change my strategy and make some bolts and see how they like those.

Post here if this intrigues you at all, or you have some insight on it.

So far, these new things are the most confusing for me.  What are grates for and how do they work?  "Floor bars"?  I assume they're used to regulate water, but I can't seem to make them work, and the movie Toady released showing grates was not demonstrative of what was actually being done, except that it could be done.

Thanks in advance.

After observing how expensive some ammo was earlier, I went ahead and encrusted some wooden bolts of my own with some green tourmaline.  The bolts went from 25$ to 29000$.  This was by a first-time jeweler.

Clearly there is a bug here (the prices of the ammo are all divisible by 25), as I can buy out entire caravans now with one stack of encrusted ammo.

[ November 01, 2007: Message edited by: oolon1 ]

I'm in my first year on a new fortress, and have a pretty hefty farming operation going.  I'm getting tons of "Cancels plant seed:  needs such-and-such seeds."  Now this isn't unusual to get one error, but I'm getting them en masse, and it's a bit annoying.  I've been through summer and most of autumn with these messages, and no amount of brewing or processing rids of it for long.  Once the seeds are gone, the error message flood returns.

Any ideas?

If I designate a series of fortifications to be carved, sometimes only half of the tiles I designated will be completed, the rest will be reset.  There are no errors involved in this, they just get wiped off.  If I continue to redesignate, they eventually get carved.

Was carving fortifications into a smooth flint wall, and they became loam fortifications.  This is the level below a loam layer, but this seems like a small bug.