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Seems a bit too... widespread. I like to think that magic's frequency across the land should be similar to that of necromancy.

partially disagree. every fortress after a certain state of development should have a spellcaster, but it should be so expensive that the magic isn't used everyday. if there an average of twenty gemstones of a certain type across an entire map and one spell required that sort of gemstone to work, you could only cast twenty of that spell. Trading for spellcasting materials may be an option, but they should be ten [or possibly a hundred, not really an expert on game balance] times more expensive than they normally would be becuase of their spellcasting use.

So in other words it shouldn't be common to see magic but it should still be widespread.

Also, stone digging should be allowed, as it wouldn't make sense not to from a standpoint of having a game-universe that makes sense.  And with an effective siege mining operation, your soldiers and combatants wouldn't be tired: your miners would.  And depending on how you do things, perhaps the goal wouldn't be to have a tunnel for funneling in troops into the opponents fort; perhaps you would just want to collapse their walls and stuff by making hollow areas underground with remotely-destructable (burnable) supports (like IRL)!

I think different civilisations should have different tech levels in different areas [and could be another factor in embark, want easy mode choose naibours with bad siege technology]. so a civilisation with a high mining/engineering level should be able to dig while ones with good woodcraft/engineering would build siege engines to knock down your walls or whatever.

Also, nobody shows supply routes in movies unless they are critical to the plot (eg. if the elves routed the orcs' supply caravans)

not putting decent logisstics into a book or movie seems like laziness to me. Not all authors/directors leave it out.

well there is a min/max savegery option. But it think if you put the min too high some civilisations won't spawn.

I'm not sure what all of those are. There are probably exceptions, but given the definition of a species they're very, very rare.

I've always considered dwarves and orcs or elves and humands to be separate races, not species. more like  the difference between a terrier and a rottweiler than the difference between a lion and a tiger.

I'd prefer it if half of the raws of each parent were randomly chosen for each child than a new one is created for each half race. it would take a lot more work to figure out but it would be a lot more flexible. not everything should randomly chosen, it should be based on logic, and there should be some raws controlling what could mate with what and how often it happens. maybe each tag could have a separate percentage on how often its chosen. so immortality would be rare but pointed ears would be common if you're dealing with half elves. maybe be considered similar to dominant and reccessive genes. though a bit simplified.
 
to have this work effectively you'd probably need a lot more tags for each race to up the diversity. but most could just be cosmetic.
 
So, yes, after a while the world would be made up entirely of hybrids, but whats the difference between a human and a human who likes fighting. the fighting tag/gene could come from an orc or whatever, but after ten generations they'd look like humans and have the stats of humans, it'd just be a random genetic trait.

of course you'd still need to make relationships between different races very rare to stop it from becoming a complete muddle. but that seems simple. a full blooded creature would only have a 1% chance of mating with enough race. a half blood would have a fifty % chance with its two parent races, a 0.5% chance with another race. maybe a five % chance with another halfblood to make it interesting. a three quarters would have a bigger chance of mating with what gave it the three quarters. if its less than half for everything than it'd have a bigger chance of mating with another mongrel.

Lol, the conversation was already there so may as well .

i've never understood whether its better to do some forum necromancy or just create a new thread. so i just ussually go with the second option.

I was messing around with the world gen data file and I found something kinda interesting.

Not sure how to post a picture. but on the embark screen I see at the bottom:
Pts:  21447116313

and next to the steel battle axe entry I have. [2712]

so that problems fixed. now I need to figure out how to get more dwarves at embark.

while o have no technocal knowledge i've had no problems doing this,