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Clear out your data/objects folder (make a backup...) then reload.  Some things won't take effect until those are regenerated from the newly edited raws.  Try editing the cat body plan and just remove their lungs and/or throat.

I personally like dig deeper, it adds a bunch of stuff.  Some of its new and interesting like orcs and Mithril, some of its just MOAR... moar gems, more food creatures, another type of indoor plant, etc.   

From what I have seen and heard I would guess that:

-Trader profit influences trader happiness which is sortof a measure of how much they like you.  Killing traders and siezing their goods makes them significantly less happy (duh).  Happiness influences whether they show up at all, although probly not the quantity of goods they bring. 

-Triggers are just raw quantities and ignore profits and stuff.  If X dollars worth of your goods leave the map in a caravan, trigger condition X is met. 

-Offerings are tribute, or taxes or bribery or something to that effect.  They don't work because diplomatic relations have not yet been implemented and probly do very little.   

Well, increasing the elevation variance should help, as well as just increasing the number of subregions in general.  Also, I read somewhere that significantly decreasing the number of erosion cycles can cause mountains with soil layers. 

Also, I have a question.  What is the impact of more vs less years of worldgen history.  I know events happen and civs fight and get conquered and megabeasts die but:
1) will more years increase the average number of animals on the map?
2) will more years increase the number of skeleton creatures in evil regions?
3) in terms of say, the severity of goblin attacks, is there a difference between being next to one goblin tower with X population and being next to a dozen goblin towers each with X population?   

I try and set up my fortress for maximum craft industry efficiency, since that and metalworking is where most of my hauling comes from.  Ideally all my craft shops are right next to the central staircase, arrayed around a quantam stockpile with an atom smasher set up right above it.  All around that is a big open stockpile, plus probly another crafts/junk stockpile on a floor i'm not using.  At some point there isnt much to buy from the traders, other then wood and turtles, but its still a good way to clear stone. 

Hmm, how about an artifact quiver made with perpetually hot fire imp leather... loaded with wooden bolts that instantly catch fire.  What could be more dwarvenly then a fire launcher

... on the item is a picture of fire.  The fire is on fire. 

Anyway I have never tested it but I'm pretty sure an artifact bone weapon just isn't going to compare to a decent quality weapon made of ***  I would use it to make a noble suicide booth since it would massively add to the rooms value  when not in use  (right? Mechanisms seem to work at least...)

Obviously the traders turn around and sell all the narrow clothing back to goblins. 

g: wow where did you get all these nice clothes
H: Oh well, <fortressname> has tons of them

and so a hundred goblins come charging into a suspiciously empty hallway leading into the fortress and the cycle repeats itself. 

Release it back into the wild once you have enough migrants.