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Uh, okay, so. I am apparently so super easily distracted lately that it's fairly likely I won't be completing this turn in any reasonable amount of time.

I'll try, but if you guys get impatient, feel free to go to the voting part without me.

As of right now, none of the three current players has finished the year, and that includes me.  The soonest I can possibly finish would be late this weekend.  There's no rush, muss, or fuss about this.  We'll see how it gels or doesn't.  The joys of full time work + more than full time school at once have made me very patient, and very slow myself.

I recommend you take a gander here - http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=28829.0

The above is a topic that covers mods of varying depths as well as many different utilities, from near-essentials (like Dwarf therapist) to sensory enrichment (like Soundsense) to visualizers (like Stonesense).

Every player who plays DF can give you their opinion on which mod to play, from 'none!' to 'this one!'.

You may have noticed there's the recent new release.  And that DF itself isn't a finished, bug-free game yet.

All the mods have bugs.  Many of these mods have not been updated (or not yet fully updated) to match the very newest release of DF (which came out.... yesterday.  Modders are good, but that good?  yeah.  A few of them probably have converted already).

Some of the mods slightly change the game, some hugely change it.  Some actually do have work arounds to various bugs that still trouble the current unmodded DF (am thinking about Dungeon Master, a few others).

How about you either peruse the list on that thread I offered a link to, or maybe describe what you are (and are not) looking for in a mod, so someone can make a suggestion that might mean something to you and not just whoever's offering their preference? 

Mine just kinda chill unless and until I give them something to do (alright, that's like 96% of the time, but still, they're mostly happy, calm, fairly reasonable folk, interested in their world and fairly kind to each other....  (What? I'm playing wrong?  Nah )

I see them kinda a synthesis of these images.

Breaktime after a good day:
Something's afoot, ooh, is that a sock needing a foot?
In we go, hup and don't dally, there's work to do, work work work.
The Caravans have come at last!  Yes!  Here, here's the map to the Hidden Trade Depot!  Do kindly follow the path?

7th of Granite, midmorning (Awake again)

5th of Felsite, late afternoon (Diplomacy ends)

28th of Felsite, early afternoon (steady and safe)

Did we just start a new year? I might jump in again.

With my extreme lack of time, -I- am just starting a new year, yes.     However this game is always open to new joiners, unless the first post says there is no CURRENT SAVE (this happens during voting, and rarely lasts more than a day).  I expect to get about half a year done this weekened, and the other half next weekend.  Voting I can keep up with, just next to no real playtime.  If we were to have a significant number of players join in, I'd probably step out of the playing for a bit if I couldn't keep up, and just run the metagame   

Barconis to my knowledge is still active as well.

Let me know, billybobfred, if I can add your name again to the active players!

There is only one way in.
No back doors or the like. The wiki mentions that if thieves step into the squad adjacent a tamed animal or dwarf they'll be discovered. Is that 100%? because otherwise the only other way for those 3 thieves to be where they were would be to teleport in.

The wiki cannot be 100%, especially not this early after the release of a new version (or even any update, but especially not after a major new release).  Players wrote the wiki, and players updated it from the previous DF2010 version.  We can be wrong, and as we cannot see the code that is making things happen, we can be -very- wrong about some things.  What if giant porcupines (and a handful of other creatures, perhaps) cannot detect stealthed units?  This is possible, and we would only find out through people like yourself testing this sort of thing.

For additional clues, check out the observer skill on the wiki - http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Observer.

This suggests that skills (and for all we know stats, species, and other factors) do affect detecting stealthed units.  Why doesn't the wiki article on thief (I assume that's the part of the wiki you checked  ) mention the observer skill?  Probably because it was written by us, and this stuff's still being play tested.

So sure, if a player or many are having experiences like what you describe, I'm far, far more likely to encourage you to playtest it than anything else.  Maybe you'll find a bug.  Maybe you'll discover new !!science!!.  Maybe new info will even be added to the wiki about it one day 

A lot of succession fortress games allocate a week (or more) just to play a single year of an ongoing fortress - I bet if people played to purposefully kill the fortress by the end of the week this could be possible to do - but almost everyone's fortress would be pretty small by the time it was abandoned/crumbled.

I recommend that you modify this game idea a little bit, and try to gather a group of like-playstyled people together and use this or a similar thread for people to post about uploaded saved game folders for people who want to play with established worlds in - and for people who want to further an established world to communicate and continue to upload after placing their mark(s) on whatever gameworlds they've touched.  It would probably be pretty chaotic, but anyone who tends towards organization could probably keep a post (first post?) updated on which world(s) were popular, being played by who, or whatnot.  It's an interesting idea (though my own playstyle doesn't lead me in this direction).