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Law of doors :

Building door in high-traffic areas is useless, since a dwarf will eventually drop something that will block it open. And the items blocking door are instantly classified as "ultra low priority" for haulers, meaning it will never be picked up. At least, not before the first wave of what you want to seal off (miasma, goblins, water...)

Laws of remove building :

"Remove building" is the HIGHEST job of all. That's all.

Laws of refuse hauler :

No matter how much people you draft into the "refuse hauler" cohort, the large roach remain will still spread his violet cloud of despair before someone took it away.

Laws of trades :

As the years go by, your broker negotiatior's skill will increase. Sadly, the usefulness of trade will also decrease, so by the time you can safely reject counter-offers and approach a trader profit of 0, you won't need import good any longer.

Second laws of elven trees :

The probability that an elven diplomat appear to tell you to reduce your wood consumption is actually inversely proportionnal to the number of trees you're really cutting.

It will be nice to see what dwarves build by themselves, but Toady had to re-program all the AI to reach this.... But yes, it will be entertaining to see how they carve out their places, what do they build, how do they deal with invaders....

I think even toady can't guess how long will the different parts of the release take to implement. IIRC, he said he'll try to finish before christmas, but he wasn't sure at all if this will be possible.

It's described as a "Modern" map of Europe (which mean "after cold war"). This explain why there's almost no country left in Eastern Europe.

And yes, Estonia and Finland are both "finnish" countries. And since the baltic countries are often seen as an unique block, if Estonia is in northern Europe, Lithuania and Latvia should be northern as well.

Hot springs ? Be sure to include a rocky biome to avoid aquifers.

Ah yes, interresting.

I have to admit that, from Europe, USA look like a large and rather uniform country, that may be divided into a "west coast" with sunny beaches and surfers and canyons and palmtrees, and a "east coast" with wooden houses and grey industrial cities and paddle steamer on large rivers and snowy conifers forests. The usual stereotype also include central plains with stupid patriotic farmers, indians in camps and neverending freeways.

Yeah, I know, that's terrible.

I'm in the US.  Don't we get more than one option, too?  :p  Culturally speaking, there are serious differences.

Huh... I was expecting something like that (with californian people :p), but my knowledge about America isn't large enough to cut it into regions At least, I separated you from Canadian and Mexicans.

Never thought there will be so much Oceanian players.

Also, sorry for the lack of a Central Europa, I included some of central countries in the western part (germany, netherlands..), and the rest in the eastern part, but that's probably innacurrate. I'm changing it.