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Dwarf Fortress => DF Dwarf Mode Discussion => Topic started by: Squeegy on January 25, 2008, 11:49:00 pm

Title: Dealing with overly high populations
Post by: Squeegy on January 25, 2008, 11:49:00 pm

Not enough food to go around? Just draft all the useless people into a squad and have them spar by a chasm, pit or magma chamber.

Title: Re: Dealing with overly high populations
Post by: Pandarsenic on January 26, 2008, 01:00:00 am

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Originally posted by Squeegy:
<STRONG>Not enough food to go around? Just draft all the useless people into a squad and have them spar by a chasm, pit or magma chamber.</STRONG>

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Or draft them and send them after magma/pit/chasm monsters.

Title: Re: Dealing with overly high populations
Post by: Squeegy on January 26, 2008, 01:18:00 am

Additionally, build a floor that sticks out over a chasm, station the useless on it, and destroy the ties to land. I lost 27 people, but all my recruits moved off to drink/eat. =( I put a meeting place there.

Title: Re: Dealing with overly high populations
Post by: Skanky on January 26, 2008, 01:25:00 am

Or use the excess people to make more food?

Title: Re: Dealing with overly high populations
Post by: Mulch Diggums on January 26, 2008, 01:27:00 am

Or lock all the dwarves you want to keep away in a sealed off part of the fortress with all the food and work the others to build the very device that will kill them.

Title: Re: Dealing with overly high populations
Post by: Neskiairti on January 26, 2008, 01:58:00 am

lava death chamber! flood chamber! carve the celing out and collapse it on them! or do like I do.. :P cut them off from the rest of the group.. and have them build their own little fortress in a seperate part of the map and make it self sufficient.. then join them again when those noobs have become strong hard working dwarves!

Title: Re: Dealing with overly high populations
Post by: Earthquake Damage on January 26, 2008, 03:59:00 am

Don't neglect the comedy Dwarf Companion solution:  "Soylent Green is dwarves!"

Title: Re: Dealing with overly high populations
Post by: Caz on January 26, 2008, 07:19:00 am

I like to lock them in a large room with a leather workshop, craftshop and butchery.

Then I get a few nice artifacts along with less dwarves.