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[kee]

I just realised that the founding fathers of our villages is also in the mapseed- that is, with the same mapseed you will get the same people to start with. And I've only been playing some 96 hours...

[solarscreen]

That's a very interesting find.  Hopefully we will get some verification from others on this.

[kee]

Of course, it might be just chance. Weird if 13 names would be equal at two startups, though. It was two completely identical maps btw- no change in climate, size etc.

[slink]

I noticed once that exactly the same child came of age at exactly the same time, on multiple restarts with the same seed and conditions.

[Kaldir]

Interesting find indeed.

I made a who-is-who screenshot of my current town when I started it, and just now restarted the same seed and indeed: exactly identical citizens.


Edit 1: with different Season and Disaster options, it's still identical citizens. They even all start at the same spot on the ground.

Edit 2: if you switch from Valleys to Mountains you get different citizens (and a different map ofcourse).

[slink]

I just tested it on kee's story challenge, using a different version of the game with his seed and conditions.  I got the same names with 1.0.0 and he did with 1.0.3 (or possibly 2).

[rkelly17]

So, the conclusion is that everything about the map, including people, is in the seed?

[Bobbi]

That has been my experience, when restarting the same seed

[solarscreen]

Wow!  Very interesting!

[slink]

Kind of limiting, with only 999,999,999 worlds to play.     But seriously, it did surprise me a little bit.  Dwarf Fortress generates your starting party independent of the map seed.  Of course, Dwarf Fortress gives you a lot of things that are different from Banished, so that's not a big deal.  Just a little surprising.