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I think I managed to get at least part of the original site to load.  I did a 3x3 embark up in the northwest where the two rivers meet.  It was a mess.  It looked liked there were chunks of underground and above ground tiles scattered all over multiple z-levels.  The river itself looked like it might have been impressive, but I couldn't unpause the game after starting, I think the flow from all the water starting in midair and then plunging down all the levels was too much for my computer to handle.  So that's what a big bug looks like?
 
The other site was somewhat of a letdown.  How the heck am I supposed to get at all that delicious candy with that ugly semimolten rock in the way?  It looked like it took up an entire embark square.  Worse, DFHack reveal showed that the candy cane was hollow at least near the surface levels, that's not a good sign.  There is another candy spire down in the third cavern to the southeast.  The top levels of it are exposed in the cavern for easy extraction and it's not hollow for several levels.  There's also a nice magma pipe to the south.  Though I'm not sure if the map is even playable.

note to self: set mineral scarcity in all future worlds to 100.

That site is like Dorf Heaven.  Just about every metal imaginable, with an insane wealth of candy, piles of gems, and plenty of coal.

That's because no one is posting there.  After a time, posts get locked due to inactivity, which can be annoying, but it cuts down on necros.  PC games tend to have less discussion than console games, because they often have their own dedicated forums elsewhere on the web.

Last two trades with the dwarf caravans gave me profits of 600k+ dorfbucks.  That's because I have a ton of gold to crank out crafts, and I payed attention to the stuff Mountainhome wanted me to sell them.

Quote from: orius on January 30, 2012, 02:24:34 am

No real need.  There's already a ton of cash in adventure mode and not much to spend it on.  At least needing food will help drain off some of that cash.

The new shops will give us better a better ability to spend money too. Probably not enough that we'll covet coinage, but it should help a bit. Once we get sites and livestock become available we'll have a boundless cash-sink to boot. We can be ranchers.

Money changers would be a good addition to the cities.  I have an adventurer loaded down with loose change and big stacks of all sorts of random coinage.  A money changer could be useful in say taking those big stacks of copper coins [3000] and giving you back an equvalent amount of gold which takes up less space and weight.  Or exchanging coinage from other civiliaztions at a better rate than the shops.

Quote from: orius on January 29, 2012, 09:00:01 pm

Quote from: Owlbread on January 29, 2012, 04:17:31 pm

I predict the new version will come out within the first few days of February. Possibly 1/2/12.

Groundhog Day, eh?  If it doesn't come out, will we have to wait six more weeks?

Groundhog's Day is Feb 2.

Ah, in my haste to make yet another clever remark I misread that.  That looks like January 1, but since January is almost over, my brain skipped to the next month.

Hmm, it might be good to do some !!SCIENCE!! on this AND combine it with Dwarven Child Care.  This dwarf didn't look like a good candidate though, too weak.