Bay 12 Games Forum

The entity population rewrite should alleviate this situation, as individual soldiers, peasants, and such are abstracted out into large groups with much more interesting and compact histories. At that point, legends mode may become quite sufficient to handle most world-browsing needs.

Deciding what jobs your citizens are to perform is hardly godlike, especially with a population of less than 200. I don't think that you'll be able to see a proper economy running in a population that small. Sure, one could run on the sidelines, but the government -- that is, the player -- would have to be the driving force of labor.

This is probably a matter of personal taste, but I never liked the "cultural rainbow" mods tend to introduce. I like the blend of savage and sophisticated that the current elves have, as well as the mixture of strength and subservience that the goblins possess. Splitting them up -- at least to me -- cheapens them, so I would probably mod the civilizations to be closer to vanilla. I might keep the sorcerers though.

Theoretically, weight can reduce speed, and reduced speed means reduced firing rate. However, in all of my testing not a single dwarf has been even slightly encumbered by a full set of steel equipment, including gauntlets, boots, leggings, chain shirt, breastplate, helm, crossbow, and thirty bolts. Still, I would advise against outfitting marksdwarves in full steel; they're going to be protected by fortifications, so only the occasional ranged attack will make it through, and a single bolt is unlikely to kill a dwarf. Obviously, I don't know how abundant coal and iron are in your fort, or how good your smithing industry is, but a helmet and breastplate will make you damn near invincible to ranged fire, which is all they're gonna be taking. I'd save the full armor for melee troops, who tend to be more effective. Oh, and to address your other question, only the quality of a crossbow affects it's accuracy, so the material you make them out of should be a matter of how skilled your metalsmiths, bone carvers and bowyers are.

Wooden Pints by Korpiklaani is pretty appropriate. It's a folk metal song about underground dwellers that party and murder and drink all day. It also mentions what seems to be a legendary dining room, massive quantities of reindeer meat, and the dwarves' ability to continue reveling despite the numerous tragedies they have endured.

You managed to make those plump helmets look really appetizing. For some reason I imagine them tasting like common mushrooms that have been injected with tomato juice.

Will we be able to let the computer run a player created fortress? For instance, to play five years and then let it run itself while we play as adventurer or running other fortresses.

Will we be able to play a fortress, abandon it, then advance the world a set number of years?

New ideas that aren't related to the current development page should probably go in the suggestions forum.