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If you want elephants, set up a choke point using constructed walls where they usually migrate through, and fill it with cage traps. That way you can haul them to a place where they can be killed easily, tame and bread them, and turn them into war elephants elephant nuggets.

Quote from: Graknorke on January 01, 2015, 09:05:12 pm

There are definitely reasons for monogamy. Social stability being a big one. The bigger a social circle is the more volatile it's going to be, it's kind of unavoidable. And on a stability related note, avoiding population growth, which dwarves really can't deal with very well.

Now we're getting somewhere. I still think biologically no animal will ever not try to reproduce every chance it gets. Dwarves need to have sex drives, which is why discussing their evolution would be relevant. Small tribes of primitive people practice polygamy and have no problems with social stability. In fact, in such a society crimes of passion are less likely to happen.

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You would need some kind of detect and switch sensor in proximity to every stop, and some way to emit a signal VERY long distances, such as perhaps, some companion weighted carts on adjacent tracks.  When the cart is nearing the next loop, it gets shunted into a round-a-bout until the signal carts arrive at the next station, and trigger the next set of destination signal cars to be released, and urist is switched out of the round-a-bout.

While this is going on, all of the logic involved is loaded in the local region, so it should still work. 

As I said, very complex-- but it could be made to work.

Quote from: Aslandus on January 01, 2015, 04:55:40 pm

I will say this about dwarven society: it is NOT human society, we can't expect them to act exactly the same as humans would act. Though DF humans might be modified in the future to feature polygamy and religious dogma and such, I don't think dwarves will be moving in that direction at all.

What I want is for us to discuss why things are the way they are in DF. Monogamy might seem normal and the default state in a society because we happen to live in a society where it is the norm. We might even say it was the norm in European medieval Europe and that's why DF also includes it. But guess what? Homossexuality and gender equality weren't the norm and I think sexual and gender repression go hand in hand with monogamy and patriarchy.

And Noddhoger failed to mention that the haughty self righteous hippies come to YOUR fortress and demand that you stop chopping down YOUR trees, including the not-actually-tree-at-all mushroom trees underground. If you don't have magma (yet) and not coal, that can seriously impact your steel production.

Oh, the hippies probably don't wash either, since soap uses ash in its production...