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Well, I can't really do that since all of my dwarves would then rush out and loot the corpses. The goblins would inevitably kill them. Setting orders to military-dwarves only creates a bigger problem because of the skylights leading to the bedrooms in order to prevent cave adaptation. The dwarves wouldn't be able to get to their bedrooms and sleep, and they'd go crazy.

I also don't want to forbid every single item on every single already-dead goblin. That'd take more time than it would take the live goblins to do something.

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Originally posted by Dareon Clearwater:
<STRONG>Channeling water/magma across an open space of any sort would require building walls and floors to keep the fluid in.  A bridge will just dump more off than flows across.  Although you could build a long bridge, then wall it in.  Just be careful how you build your walls, a bridge will let a dwarf build a wall, but won't actually support the wall.

In fact, that gives me an idea for a trap.  Something like a boiling oil chute that dumps magma (or large quantities of water) on invaders.</STRONG>

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Excellent. Glad my griping could help.
Although the floor/wall idea is a good one. I'm a bit worried about cave-ins, but I guess turning them off would help.

I actually don't code.

The point still stands and the population cap is broken.
Hopefully Toady will have time to fix it in the next year or so. I'm fine with it being broken, but it just limits my fortress possibilities.

My latest foray into the [POP_CAP] values has failed once more.

I set it to 20, again, and it climbed above it and kept climbing until I abandoned the fortress, again.

I set it to 7, and immigrants came as if it was set to 200.

They seem to completely ignore values under 30 all of the time, and values from 30 to 80 about 50% of the time.

Longnose Gars are more dangerous than Carp. In my latest fortress, I have a river full of carp. Just FULL. My dwarves won't even come close to the river.

But the two longnose gar that reside there are the only fish with names...

I had this amazing waterfall system set up, and it was going to work fine. I triple-checked everything, and even build a 7-floor pit leading into a chasm to make sure it wouldn't flood.

The problem was that I didn't want any of the batmen in the chasm to invade my fortress through the meeting room waterfall, so I decided to not mine all the way through to it until I started the pumps.

So, I started the pumps, and forgot that dwarves are stupid and won't mine in 4/7 water.

My entire fortress flooded.

With <90 dwarves on a 2x2 map, weather and temperature disabled, pop cap at 90, I get a nice 40-90FPS, depending on whether all the dwarves are working or not.
I find that the constant parties make most of the dwarves useless and generally processor drains, so I usually limit the count at 40 or 50. It is kind of crap that I don't get sieges. I can't handle enough dwarves to get sieges without suffering tremendous FPS loss.

Still, it's forgivable because it's a work in progress.