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Region preferably, it's just more fun to explore a fully open world than a bunch narrowly connected island continents (at least until boats and seafaring Fun are worked in), one full-sided ocean with however many partial-side oceans is acceptable. Remove the site and population caps (they're unnecessary) and leave the embark points, mineral scarcity, and civquantity at their defaults. I'd say the end year should be around 500, that way we have big bandit camps, well-developed civilizations with history, and plenty of monsters still around. Boost the night creatures(assuming their worldgen impact has been toned down in the next release)/demons/titans/megabeasts to compensate for the fact that we'll be killing a lot of them. Quadruple (at least) the number of Good and Evil squares for more embark variety. Increase the minimum volcanoes slightly for the heck of it.

Hiding historical events is completely up to you; it would make discovering things and looking at legends in general more fun, and I think there's a way to hide history after the world's been gen'd and its history checked (or regenning the world under the same seeds after you've looked at its history). Culling unimportant historical figures is better for larger worlds, though I'm not sure if it has any effect on adventure/dwarf mode (especially with history hidden). Making cave entrances visible, not sure about that; there doesn't seem to be any way to find hidden cave entrances beyond extreme luck, but there isn't much to do in caves anyway (although... you can embark over them).

DFHack also has a lair mode.  I don't think creatures wander over sites anyways, so that won't matter.  At least, I've never been attacked on any site, only in wilderness.

I mean the creatures that spawn inside the fortress for the sake of adventure mode. I left a crippled goblin soldier at a fortress entrance; when I was leaving, I found 6 troglodytes and a pair of trolls from the nearby mine entrance beating on him. (this was after I supposedly killed everything in the mines)

Quote from: monk12 on January 05, 2012, 02:17:25 pm

I suppose it would depend on whether all the rain was magically transformed to blood, or just a few of the showers. I imagine the whole place would stink to high heaven after a storm, too.

I would imagine the miasma will be terrible.

Miasma doesn't happen outdoors.

I think my favorite was when I turned some dude paraplegic by throwing my own severed hand at him.

Sleep and pray.

(also, nerve damage will NEVER heal)

Quote from: UltraValican on January 01, 2012, 06:15:20 pm

Quote from: IamanElfCollaborator on January 01, 2012, 06:13:01 pm

I'm sure you can somehow exact revenge on him by killing all of his relatives, friends and lovers and burning their towns down, and feeding their ashes to caged elves.

People are generated on the spot in this version, they most likely do not have family.

I can second this. I slept in someone's house, when they interrupted me until I recruited all of them. Went to sleep in the empty house, new family spawned. Same thing happened when I recruited that family

Unless they live in a fortress. Anyone who lives in the main hall of a fortress is a notable historical figure. Of course, you usually don't see them because they have a tendency to get killed off by beasts in this version.

Although the last world I genned had a ton of them, about 8 or 9 in every fortress, most of them related in some way. I was even able to recruit a "Lord Consort"/husband of a local Lady as a companion, dude was a crazy good fighter.

a dagger is the second most dangerous weapon in the game. The first being scourges/whips. Neither can be produced by your dwarves.

Dwarves have something worse than either of those: picks. The limb severingness of an axe, the armor penetratingness of a spear, and the raw, bone-crushing power of a hammer... all rolled into one.

The Fighter skill also affects one's ability to avoid damage. A legendary fighter (even with no dodgin' skill) pitted against a bunch of novice mooks will parry everything. But I value the dodging skill more because it is much, much harder to raise.

Ooh, neverending eh? I really like the idea behind this, I'm guessing the current state of deadness has a lot to with the fortress being really freaking outdated. Shame, but it's not like we can do anything about all this damn progress. Someone should really do a sequel next stable version we get, even though it'll probably suffer the same fate in the end.