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For me, it would have to be Oblivion.  For all its faults (and there are MANY), there were areas that truly inspire certain construction projects.  For those of you who played it to completion, do you recall the finale of the Gray Fox missions, where you had to go beneath the main city, wander through endless sewers and catacombs to steal the Elder Scrolls? 

I'm not attempting to reconstruct that area verbatim, but it certainly inspires my catacombs to be huge, twisting corridors, heavily adorned with statues, chests, and other odds and ends.  Beneath that will be the beast pits and prisons for my worst offenders.

The settings in Oblivion were huge, illogical, trap-filled corridors, populated by ghastly horrors and other oogly booglies.  Too bad I can't tell dorf ghosts to hang around the catacombs.

A friend of mine gorgeously recreated the Mines of Moria from LotR in Minecraft.  I expect that probably influenced a number of DF creators as well.

What game/movie settings have inspired your layouts?

I've done some searching through the forums and development feed and come up empty handed, so I'm guessing I missed Toady's detailed description of how cities will work, probably somewhere within the two hour long podcasts.

Are these city tiles only going to be interactive with Adventure mode?  Or are embarks going be able to branch somehow into cities?  Can someone explain a little better what it's going to entail and where I can read up a bit more on it?

Thanks

My dorfs are mining out and engraving a self-sustained Hall of Elites, in which only my legendaries and near-legendaries will live and work.  They'll have the best masons, cooks, nobles, soldiers, etc.  It should span about 20 z-levels once finished, and will be just over 100 levels beneath the surface (less magma pumping that way).  The key is, once it's finished and my legendaries have moved in, they'll pull the lever that raises the bridges and seals them off from the outside world until they absolutely need something (which ideally they shouldn't).  In the event of a horrible invasion my best workers should be totally unreachable and protected.  I also embarked on a glacier, which seems to have zeroed out invasions for the first few years, but I'm still getting migrants and some traders.

For those who have attempted a similar construct, what sort of thing should I bear in mind while putting this together?

Thanks.

.........You dream of smelting platinum ingots on a magma furnace.

...Seriously, it's gotten that bad..