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The closest thing to achievements I think should be in the game should be:
1.) Becoming the capital (Check)
2.) Changing the age the world is in (Check)
3.) Discovering cotton candy (Check)
4.) Defecting the clowns and/or taking over the circus (Check, but much harder than it sounds to those who think I'm actually referring to a traveling Big Top Toady One implemented in the last version...although he should implement actual circuses.)
5.) Some way for the game to recognize when you have made a "megaproject," ideally driving up fortress value and drawing in migrants.

If they can immediately tell what tiles have fire in them, why would they want to walk in them at all?  I would think they should be afraid of fire, and not walk through a fire, even if it was a really, really good shortcut.

Generally, I'm not sure about the way in which this all works at the lowest levels, but pathfinding is very, very CPU-intensive stuff, and if you make the pathfinding program start making checks on what tiles have certain stuffs in them, it will make the pathfinding code become even more bogged down in waiting for data fetching to see where all these little bumps on the map are.

Traffic designations are problematic as-is, but at least they aren't dynamic.  You stop the game to alter them, and a new pathfinding connection map can be built while you are paused with no real lag.  Sprouts and contaminants you can track need to be checked dynamically, however.

Again, I've not made myself an expert on the subject of pathfinding, but these are just some of the potential problems I can see off the top of my head.

...Woah. And I thought this sounded like a good idea at first...My fort's already running too slow.

Introduce a tag like [WALLSMASHER:X].

Wallsmashers can make holes in constructed (or soil?) walls. They smash he wall at a point, and all walls within X spaces of that tile (ideally as someone pathing through walls only would "fly") are deconstructed. Drawbridges will be smashed if their "height" is less than X and are directly smashed at, but otherwise will be untouched. Ideally, some form of this would precede multi-tile creatures being common. Even more ideally, wood walls would be easy to break down, soap walls even more so, but stone walls (especially obsidian) would be harder, with steel being the top material for walls (except cotton candy and, through modding, the big top's rock).

What does the forum community think? It'd mainly be clowns, megabeasts, and maybe other big critters, so it's not like greenskins would smash your entire defensive perimeter in your fort's first year, unless maybe you are at war with them, have a lot of civilians, and struck cotton candy.

You don't.  Not even killing its owner will un-assign an assigned war dog.

And here I thought murder was a way to solve all problems in dwarf fortress except the inevitable tantrum spiral.

It may not have the [Can_open_Doors]

Or a tag closely realted to that... But if your this far into adventure mode and just now encountering this problem I may be incorrect.

Maybe, but other gnomes could open the doors for me.

EDIT: Aw, crud...Yup, that's it. What a bunch of morons.

How do you break down doors?

how do you open doors?

In adventure mode, I mean; it's kinda sad if you can't open real-world doors.

Simplest model of s/d:

Every site and civ keeps track of what it has, how much it wants stuff, and how fast it uses/breaks/loses stuff. Go from there.