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On a separate note, i have a confession. I have never breached ANY caverns.

Be warned, your poor FPS will likely worsen after breaching the cavern. All the extra critters and twisty hallways make for complicated pathfinding.

You could set a burrow and assign that one single dwarf to it. Include the temple(s), some food stockpiles, maybe a workshop to grant the satisfaction of labour, but exclude problematic areas such as the meeting areas. Think of it as a "spa sabbatical".

Thanks for this suggestion. I currently have a dwarf who is "badly distracted" after being unable to pray to so-and-so, even though I have a fine temple to the deity in question. Burrows never crossed my mind.

Purely by chance, the starting 7 dwarves in my newest 40.02 fortress are all female. "Huh, that's odd," I said to myself. Then I played for an hour before going to bed.

When I woke up, I had the idea that this would is a fortuitous good setup for a challenge fortress. I considered making an amazon fortress by killing any male immigrants, but I like to look after all my dwarves, and mass murder conflicts a bit with my ethos. So I ask of you, Bay12 forumites, to provide suggestions for challenges that would derive from an all-female starting group.

You're quite welcome. I'm glad it has worked out for you.

I'm The Minstrel Boy on Steam. I'm a lvl. 6 medic, and I would like to play some more Killing Floor, but as in L4D, pubbing around can be a hair-pulling experience, so my play time as of late has dropped off.

A few wee pointers from an experienced medic:

All players should heal each other rather than themselves if it's viable to do so. By healing others you (a) use less of your syringe charge; (b) earn a few pounds; and (c) earn a few points to your medic perk. (Of course, if you're in mortal danger or far away from your teammates go ahead and shoot yourself up, but you get none of the above benefits by doing so.)
If you have a medic on your team, let him heal you. As Metalax said, don't hop around if you're waiting for a healing dart. Keep line of sight with your medic, and a good medic will heal you within a couple of seconds of injury as long as he can get the shot off.
Medics can't kill as effectively as other classes, so they rely on healing to make their quid, and that quid will often be given back to the team. I've even played rounds with other players that would self-harm by jumping off cliffs near the ends of rounds so that I could earn more money and creep ever closer to the next level up.

I remember playing The Ship when it was a Half-Life mod. Never got around to trying it on Source. Would really like to do so now.

The Minstrel Boy is my name, at this link: http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197960661675.

Thanks a bunch.

A friend of mine generated a world with a mountain range called The Wall of Fondling. I quipped that it was the dwarven equivalent of a red-light district.

"Reg Idennoglesh, Hunter cancels Hunt: Hunting for vermin."

I guess she grew frustrated with larger game.