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Thank you wierd. I think I understand what you did, and I was just trying to understand if you already have any strict means of ruling out the hypothesis that equator is "somewhere further south". I of course agree that yours is a valid solution, and it is better than my vague assumption about arbitrary latitudes.

There are still issues with it however. One you have derived yourself and that's extremely small planet size (it's twice as big if we take Toady's assumed 2m per tile, but still tiny), and the second is that in your model, the entire top line of the map should be one actual point (the pole) of the sphere, with all distances in it's immediate vicinity being scaled down tremendously. So embarking anywhere near the top line of the map should place us roughly in the same area, and this is not the case with DF regions.

Would a peg-leg have a blunt attack, or a piercing one?

Blunt I think, sharp peglegs would hardly be practical. Slashing bladed pegleg may sound amusing but what are you supposed to do if it gets stuck in a woulnd on in armor?

check the combat log for any biting attacks that penetrated the skin.
An important thing to note is that it should be the attack itself penetrating skin layer, not subsequent shaking.
So you want lines like this:
Werelizard bites the Recruit in the upperbody, tearing apart the skin and bruising the muscle!

If all biting attacks ended with bruises, your soldiers are safe from the curse.

alternatively as a cheaty way you could check with the legends mode.

I use the 6*6 blocks with quadruple up/down staris in the middle as a basic building unit. Usually 1 z-leve is a square of nine such blocks. It has place for 9 noble rroms, 36 ordinary bedrooms, 4 workshops with adjacent stockpiles, 4 blocks of 9 coffins or 1 noble grave each. Now 10-12 of these levels make a fortress. The longest path inside is something like 50 tiles.

I think an easy fix to this and other related issues would be to implement some sort of cap or restriction on the amount of exp you can gain in a skill in a given time. It just doesn't make sense for anyone to become a legendary whatever in a matter of weeks/months that goes by when special circumstances such as this occur. In my opinion a decade at the very least would be suitable for someone to reach the higher skill levels when starting fresh, regardless of skill.

And fighting unconscious/incapacitated targets shouldn't give any exp at all over a certain point. A completely fresh recruit might learn some basics from slashing at the giant sponge for a while, but not much more after that.

attacking unconscious targets is already useless for xp. As for "incapacitated", that's a difficult term in DF to define. As you know, giant sponges are pretty dangerous despite being immobile, and even a limbless BC is still a huge bronze barrel that rolls at will, so definitely a dangerous opponent.
 Maybe exp from attacking a prone target should be cut down a bit, but I'm not sure if it doesn't happen already. Besides, that wouldn't eliminate the exploit, just mitigate it.

I would like to point out that this is actually the "999 prone dragons" problem that's preventing the game from having a meaningful representation of attack reach. The "slash one tile & poke two" system proposed by Maklak seems far too simplified and rough for me to be a proper feature to implement, while it's still certainly better than what we have now.
I think that it should be more complicated than this, and I specifically like the three number model(closest possible, optimal, farthest possible ranges), or, to generalize it, representation of attack possibility and effectivenes as a function of range. Sadly, I don't see how this can be implemented feasibly without tackling the size-of-tile and proneness problems first.

to address this:
I belive they no longer have problems with putting on their undershirts and loincloths while steel wearing leggings and mail. So putting socks on top of boots is perfectly fine - I think it's meant to represent that the game abstracts the boring "take off boot", "put on boot" operations around the "put on sock" command. What I'm not sure about is whether the order of items in the uniforms screen does have any reliable effects on the actual order in which items are claimed and put on.

Moving dwarves between squads is a nightmare. This makes them recalculate the whole assignment priority once again, starting from the dwarf's former position and downwards, so moving the second dwarf in your soldier list to another squad or position will cause all of your soldiers except one (the first) to undress and reequip. This alone may cause undesired consequences, but they are made worse because some of those soldiers might be sleeping and thus they halt the reequip process for others, causing them to stay naked.