What I meant is that in my first playthroughs before the steam version, I ended up with 200 hundreds units I did not care about - and tended to lose interest in the fortress in general. I now have techniques: keeping a diary, having a few “main characters”, nicknaming a lot , and building the stories from here. Having a visual memory, the procedural faces feel blessed, I’ll be able to more quickly identify my main characters, and possibly I’ll start recognizing more of them and follow more individual stories.

I actually very rarely care about individual preferences, unless it’s for RP reason of making a nice room for a newly appointed Champion, stuff like that.