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I'm a married female in my 60s.  My male husband is in his 70s.  We were both chemists before we retired.  I play DF but my husband does not.  His vision isn't very good and he has trouble seeing the little letters.  He plays turn-based military strategy games (The Operational Art of War, for example), and sometimes real-time action games (Dungeon Siege, for example).  We use gaming rigs from Alienware.  We just bought a PS4 and are awaiting delivery of Diablo 3.  We played the original game together and are hoping we can play this one with more enjoyment.  Playing the original on our home network led to some nasty situations due to lag, as in I used to fill him with arrows and he used to electrocute me.  But we are willing to try again.  *grin*

He has two living children, six living grandchildren, and one great-grandchild on the way.  We have two cats, who rule the house, as it should be.  We live far enough away from all of both of our families that our time is our own.

We can both program, although it has been a decade or more since I programmed for a living.  We don't program anymore because we are too lazy.

So are we normal?  Probably not, but who cares?

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Sorry for the drunk post, it made sense at the time!

   Goatmaan

Actually I thought it was quite funny, but then I was probably really drunk at the time too.

Just three more years away from experiencing the most meta way of playing Dwarf Fortress: Drinking while watching your Dwarves get drunk. One day.....

I tried to drink and dwarf once. Got a little out of hand. Auffice to say, several walls were torn down and replaced with rose gold. And the whole tavern smelled of old batteries.

Quote py- wait, batteries?

Okay, I also have to hear how old batteries got into this.  I presume it refers to the sulphurous smell of an over-driven battery?

Thank you, DeKaFu!  This was a masterly work of science.  I really enjoyed reading it.

Have you limited the soap-maker shop to just the stockpile containing the tallow?  If so, then add the stockpile containing the lye to its suppliers.  I had a similar error when I was trying to make scrolls.  I forgot I had limited the craft shop to the mudstone stockpile.

Thank you so very much for sharing, sv-esk.   

We're talking about an obsolete feature here. Discovering adamantine used to mean the King would come in your next migrant wave regardless of other factors- but it hasn't been that way in a long long time.
It changed around the time caverns were added (and therefore adamantine became more abundant), or at least I haven't seen it happen since then.

Quite possibly so.  I generally don't seek out adamantine, but this time there was a spike of it that I couldn't refuse.  I do recall it used to work, but my problem this time is that the exports aren't registering which appears to be a known bug.  I jumped to the conclusion that the royal family was supposed to have arrived, as they used to.  Didn't the military also stop working for a time, once the the caverns were added?  That was when I stopped indulging in combat, and therefore ceased seeking out adamantine.

In my first year, I discovered a spike of adamantine which opened into the HFS.  I quickly sealed the breach, resulting in a largish quantity of mined adamantine and zero hazard.

According to my understanding of the game over the past ten or so years, that should have resulted in the king immigrating with his entourage.  That has not happened.  However, no matter how much I trade, my Exported Wealth remains zero and I have not been offered the chance to become a barony.  While I am enjoying being able to continue ordering what I desire from the Mountainhome, it is a little bit of a disappointment not to be able to use the nice quarters I had outfitted for my nobles.

Is this a known issue?