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Cool, you were lucky enough to embark with a dying civ, as opposed to a dead one (note that the difference between the two doesn't make logical sense, as the dwarves could be extinct for 1000 years and the game could still think the civ is merely "dying").  That means that you should be able to rebuild the dwarven nation - if your civ were dead, you wouldn't get any migrants past the first couple few, you wouldn't get trade caravans, and most importantly, none of your dwarves would have become king/queen.  (Self appointed nobles are awesome - they remain useful)

You can theoretically bring the civ back out from dying if you make enough forts and retire them with high enough population - the tricky part is that the game likes to weight migrants with high skills, so dwarves tend to move from one fort to another, leaving the previous fort a ghost town.    The only way around this as far as I know is to set the migrant cap low on later forts, and let the dwarves breed up to pop cap.

I recommend making the fort as cool as possible - it is the new capitol after all. Go crazy, try and get every industry up and running, and get every dwarf a house close to their job. 

After thinking it over more, its possible that the inherent non-competitive nature of dwarf fortress, especially the "Losing is Fun" philosophy, prevents a lot of the dick measuring fights for nerd cred that causes drama and toxicity in other gaming communities.  So maybe it is the nature of the game that keeps the forums asshole free, who knows.  Definitely food for thought!

Its interesting, because our language is evolving that way - English lacked a singular they, so people took to using they/them/their in a singular way.  We can actually see this happen in our lifetime, as linguists are updating the rules to reflect the consensus

Dude, its a game, not your super cool special secret club.  The hell is a "true nerd" anyway?  I've honestly seen more people identifying themselves as "true nerds" be bullies and exclusionary assholes than any dudebro or "normie".

I think the main reason the boards don't need moderators is cause Toady is both insanely dedicated to the community and also a really nice person - that rubs off on the people who choose to stick around.

I like to make statues of all the gods and install them on different areas of the main aboveground roads along with coffers for instruments.   These basically act as little "wayshrines" ala Morrowind and both keep away cave adaptation and adds a little cultural flair to the fort

Was able to jump from baron to duke, skipping count, but not sure if you can skip the city tiers

Thanks!  I made the same mistake with cheesemaking - I guess that an important thing to think about with manager is that a single given job doesn't necessarily create/use a single unit of product/reagents.