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How I wish DF could use more resources now . 2 GB of RAM and a single processor is very low usage by modern standards. If it could use more we could have much larger fortresses and far less lag.

Computers today are simply not powerful enough to manage that much awesomeness, give it a few years and it might work (unless DF complexity is increased enough to compensate). I run either 3x3 or 4x4 max, compy is a 2 year old laptop so can't manage much more :>

That's not the issue, this game has been running for me at the same FPS since the early days of dual cores. The problem is low RAM usage and only 1 processor being used, that's why 3x3 maps are the most you can do if you want a fortress of 200+ dwarves and 30-40+ FPS (any lower is unplayably slow)

What really kills it is when you hit that 2 GB RAM mark, that's when the game gets really fucked. At that point all you can do is mass destroy stone and unneeded animals.

Even bronze helms block all of the hits from a GCS. Against the military they're a joke.

That doesn't solve the security issue. One word. Flyers.

EDIT: although, it would be funny to see "the dragon has been stung by a honey bee" x100 while he flies down a bee tower. Your fort would then crumble to it's end, as your dwarves are trying to haul 100 !!bee remains!! to your refuse stockpile

Dragons can't fly.

This is an ancient bug - basically you can't trade anything living because only the cage will be hauled. Instead you need to figure out what to do with them on site.

Say I think that the old squad leader bug was fixed - I noticed that now when squad leaders die their squad  runs away right away.

Edit: I figured out the problem, to get magma  burrows working you need to turn off all of your other bar/block piles from accept metal.
2nd Edit: I found that locking the dwarves in the magma forge basement greatly speeds up the process.

I don't bother assigning ammo. Just go with default settings and let them shoot wooden and metal however they feel. Build one of those marksdwarf courses with the walls missing to recycle ammo.  If you need them to stay out of battle--fortifications and locked doors do wonders.

I used to be like this but then I figured out how to make them use bone for training and metal for combat and trust me it does make a huge difference. Enemies even with marginal armor will shrug off 90% of bone bolt shots, on the flip side only very well armored  enemies can resist  metal bolts . I went from a shower of bolts only marginally crippling a few goblins to a few marksdwarves killing a whole squad of gobbos and their mounts. With bone bolts a lot of headshots don't count as kills whereas with metal bolts 9 times out of 10 it goes right through their head, I get tons of 1 shot kills now.