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I can't say for certain, since my experience with 64bit DF has been on a newly built computer that I never ran 32bit on, but for Rewardpages, I have a population of 154 dwarves, and have been hovering at 45-51 FPS for a year, even during sieges. This will likely go up as there are a couple hundred corpses on the map, along with assorted junk. The caverns are also burning eternally, as there's a flame-bodied FB wandering around setting crundles on fire. I'm currently cleaning up the corpse problem, and have a chute to the magma sea for trash, so part of the issue will be taken care of shortly.

I run 1, mostly open, cavern layer for FPS reasons. My fortress is also relatively compact, though again I have a LOT of trash.

My old computer would have been running around 20-30fps at a similar stage of development, with significant drops during sieges.

The last I was in Rewardpages, a Hydra came to visit. As I have been rebuilding the entrance to a more formidable structure, and it was incomplete (the gates weren't linked to levers yet), I sent in the veteran units of my military. 7 dead, 1 crippled later, the Hydra was dead.

One of the dwarves, a recent recruit, had his arm ripped off, and then proceeded to smash the Hydra repeatedly with his shield. Another bit the thing hard enough to tear into it's flesh. Of course, a veteran macelord got her head torn off without accomplishing anything. In the end, my commander did the most damage, removing 4 heads and two limbs, and walked away without so much a scratch, though someone else got credit for the kill. She also never feels anything seeing her charges killed, even though it was her direct squad which lost half it's number in the fight. She never feels anything at all, and never has, even from the very first skirmish with goblins.   

Quote from: StarWars1981 on August 29, 2016, 06:34:02 pm

Not quite sure what's going on, some bug of some kind, I believe. Also if you know, I'd love a workaround.
So my dwarves have been ordered to "k"ill a Goblin bowman who's jumped some walls into the animal pen. Not an issue, they're like Master shield users and whatnot, and there's 28 of them. And one goblin. But they've gotten there, and they're ignoring him, except to prove just how good they are at dodging his ineffectual crossbow-bashes. They're all armed, all on the kill order, and even putting them on "Move" and "Nothing" didn't work. I even took them off the training alert while trying to get them to kill him. They just WON'T DO IT... I don't know why.
So, other than training Legendary dodging (I think - though they may not even get THAT little bonus), they're accomplishing NOTHING.
Idiot dwarves. So yeah, dumb things they do. Well, this is 28 Dwarves, dodging a single Goblin but refusing to kill him.
Taunting? Hmm... I didn't know they'd mock yet. Is that coded in?

You said there master shield users, you're made sure they have actual combat skills as well?
If your dwarves do have actual weapon skills though, then yes, their idiots.

Even with just shields, they should attack. I just had a werepossum get his skull bashed in by a recruit with an iron shield. The werepossum bit him in the hand, mangling it and causing the recruit to turn into Captain Urist and just beat the stuffing out of the werepossum with his shield. Too bad he ended up occupying a wing of my hospital instead, walled in with the other bit recruit. They were building a tower and so were caught by surprise.

The funny part was that the werepossum was actually a militia commander from a prior fort of mine in that world. I'd left it after an armless, legless fireman killed half the population and the rest were tantruming. The werepossum was quarantined, but still managed to leave and come for a visit.

@azrael: Sounds like your weapon trap weapons are wearing out, causing game to crash.

Unless you can prevent that happening, the save is lost.

They were brand new, so I doubt they were worn out. That siege was the first time the trap entrance was used.

I was able to get through the siege by using . to step it through frame by frame, saving every 20 frames, and developing an intense hatred for all humanity and elves. Save isn't lost, though I'm simply turtling for the current siege. All they'll do is delay the construction of my duck.

Make an artifact Golden Goose Egg Statue of a goose.

WWUD with a Fireman King?

I just started a new fort in the 64bit DF. Akirmorul.

It's almost a perfect site; my bottomless pit of despair reached past the caverns and all the way to the magma sea without breaching the caverns, I have an organized work force despite not having Therapist (just took two hours going through the unit list painstakingly). Iron is in abundance under the desert sands, and I have Limestone... Steel production is a tree farm away. Glass (even clear glass) is not only possible, I've already set up the class furnaces down at the magma shops. The desert, surprisingly, has an aquifer beneath it, so water is in abundance as well. Even if that wasn't enough, the caverns are flooded as well (I run only one cavern layer for fps reasons, and I prefer them wide open because I like the looks). 

Then I start getting migrant waves. The first wave was 2 adults with their 5 children. Next? 4 children. Next? 18 children. Next? 23 children. 50 children immigrated in a year. Nearly half my fortress' population. Unfortunately, the pit of despair is for elvesrapid pathing to the lowest reaches for the nobles. It's not designed to accommodate mass removal of citizens.   

At least I have yemeni Wanalalolama, the craftsdwarf.

*Edit* Well that solves the problem of too many children. A goblin force arrived, and I ordered the gate shut. It was never connected to the lever. Cue 7 goblins gaining access to a mostly child-filled barracks. Lost 22 Dwarves, 14 of them children.

*Edit 2* Looks like they only had two military dwarves, and a miner and a doctor to contend with until I realized they were inside. Then they had the inferno of rage that is Zas, my commander. She practiced vivisection via axe on several goblins. She would have had more kills, but a macedwarf exploded the head of one, and a sworddwarf gutted the other. But for the most part, one dwarf dealt with the entire group. Then she went to pick plants out of the farm.   

*Edit 3*
On a sad note, I found out that my 2nd squad's captain was married with and had 5 children with (they apparently were the ones from the first wave) one of the members of his squad. She was also badly wounded, and my chief medical dwarf was one of the dead civilians. So her prognosis is grim. All 5 of their children also died in the fight.

*Edit 4* And I'm back to having a large percentage of underage dwarves in my fortress. A migrant wave pushed me to 66 children, 143 total, despite my pop cap being set at 120. At least I rebuilt my military, then strengthened it, and have a medical corps again, even if they're completely untrained.

Made it to my first siege on Wordytown. Despite a lack of training, no military-grade metals to make weapons or armor from, and a complete lack of armor in general, they made it through with only 4 wounded and 2 dead. Two of the wounded, however, are training in the own time, one with a broken arm, and the other with a broken freaking neck. They both got tombs and a title for this.