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A randroid, twisted into the shape of a human, has come. Beware his tedious haranguing!

Is a dwarf not entitled to the sweat of his brow?

A place where the artist need not fear the censor for engraving skinless demons in the dining room, where the fell mood is not bound by petty tantrums, where the legendary would not be constrained by the dabbling.

Also, another big thing here would be implementing a true tax system for the player as well as upkeep costs; right now, pretty much everything lasts indefinitely and can be used by an infinite number of dwarves without consequence.  If we include upkeep costs to reflect maintaining the fort as well as a tax/revenue system to pay for it (as well as finance the cost of new work orders), it would offset the problem of a massively wealthy fort being able to provide massively luxurious accommodations across the board because the cost of doing so would exceed the revenues produced by dwarves' labors.

Of course, this still has to involve a way to ensure there are labors for dwarves to do, but now without too much/too little autonomy.  This is complex, to say the least...

Of course, it's also true that bigger cities had much more connection with the outside world; while that's definitely true of a newly-founded outpost, a fully-developed Mountainhome would be a huge nexus of trade attracting far more than the four caravans per year we currently get (of course, we'll also need more goods in order to make more caravans useful). 

That being said, ultimately money will only work if it actually plays a role in production.  Shortages of currency should slow production (due to a switch to barter or alternative methods of payment) whereas having too many coins will drive inflation, forcing up the prices of goods and services and affecting wages, and in turn purchasing power.  This is going to add a twist to trade; no longer would you be able to dump large quantities of goods for trade or offerings without making up for it through minting coins or withdrawing them from circulation to balance the money supply. 

It would be complex to implement, but could be made much easier by simply having the tax collector or whomever estimate the number of coins that need to be minted or withdrawn from circulation and report it through the status screen.

I had a mystery dwarf show up on one of my maps in the past; it didn't produce an announcement to my knowledge and the dwarf wasn't associated with the caravan since it had long since left (this was in roughly mid-summer).  The @ wandered around for a while at the edge of the map before moving on...no clue who it was, since I forgot to check their name.  I'm hoping another one shows up again with my current fort so I can investigate further.

New fort on a standard world; the 8,100 year old world was just too stagnant to be interesting (I believe this is due to the isolation caused by island maps, which makes sites easy pickings for megabeasts).  So, I genned an old-fashioned medium region up to 1050 and settled in a good spot with flux and good metamorphic layers.  It's also got a lot of trees, but sadly no river...regardless, the pools are rich with fish which will be a good supplement to our food supplies.

I also made sure to choose a civilization with a young king so I can actually get him instead of having him die of old age when he arrives.

The cities in Heroes of Might and Magic are my main source of inspiration.
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=61010.msg1383642#msg1383642

Shoot, I was hoping you were going to build a HOMM3 Dungeon or Inferno town.  HOMM5 is too late for me. 

My mayor is currently dressed in a tattered cloak and a sock.  He seems happy enough.

The only well-dressed dwarves in my fort are in the military...we're like North Korea.