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« on: November 29, 2013, 11:40:39 pm »
Off topic: I just joined the forums now, after a healthy dosage of being absoulutely overwhelmed, and mass-killing my fort through dehydration.
I made my first fort (well, first with the intention of playing for longer than half an hour). Things were going extremely slow, due to me just starting. I didn't know about the population cap (well, I did, but I didn't know how to change it / that it would be so absurd by default). doing all the work I could manage, still had 60+ Urist McFarmer/Potter/Potashmaker/Peasant doing nothing but stand around crowding the fort. I barely breached the second caverns, decided I'd fiddled around enough and had a good enough feel of the mechanics to start a semisuccessful fort after this one, closed the bridge and waited. The only survivor was the vampire dwarf mayor who was promptly pincushioned by a goblin after opening the bridge.
I tried revisiting with a demigod adventurer. I was murdered by a goblin halfway through exploring, as he caught me off guard and broke my leg.
I've since reduced the pop. cap to 80 to be more reasonable, since that's more than I'll ever need. I'm trying to stay away from using the quickstart guide on the wiki, I have glanced at it for pointers. I've been a long time wiki and forum lurker, but I've never applied my knowledge.
I had a good deal of FUN from that. Personally hoping next time is !!FUN!! instead, or some variant.
