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fairly sure only tame animals can go on chains.

And don't forget to entomb a noble inside it, otherwise it isn't a real pyramid.

Disclaimer: not responsible for the health of said noble after entombment, or his level of 'already dead' before entombment.

There's no reason not to kill any noble really, only disadvantage is that a new one willl be coming along shortly. I dont generaly worry about my nobles unless they have mandates I can never fulfill (curse you crystal glass). In my current fortress Im planning on setting up a seperate area with rooms, a farm and watering hole to place all my guard/nobles in. The only non-noble they will have acsess to is a farmer. The rest of my population will be safe on the other side of the air lock :3

Agreed, no noble offers any sort of actual advantage (except maybe the mayor because he still works).  You could say the DM does, but honestly he starts with such low stats in everything that I tend to give my workshops to other dwarves to stop him messing up my legendary weapon/armor smith when making batches of steel equipment for my army.

Quote from: Karadan on April 02, 2009, 07:01:33 pm

So, I'd suggest not producing coins in the future (Everyone will be completely honest in keeping track of how much money they have anyway), and that alone should reduce clutter and time wasted moving around coins by about 75%

Wouldn't having no coins reduce time wasted by moving them by, um, 100%?

I meant reduce wasted time in the fortress overall by about 75%

For added fun, make all your coins either really cheap so their impossible to carry around, or really expensive so poor dwarves can't have any.

Not too sure about the second part of your question, but the rain won't mess up your magma moat.  Rain only forms into water in muddy pond tiles, so you don't need to worry about your moat turning into a roadway for the enemies.

I do know there are several threads and a wiki artical about what will and won't melt in magma (I think the wiki artical is called magma safe)

For comparison I have Intel core 2 duo 4400 @ 2.00GHz, and 2.00 GHz 2.00GB of RAM (If that makes sense, I suck at remembering how to find my computer's hardware.)

I can run a fortress with roughly 110 dwarves in a 4x4 area with a brook and bottom to open air magma pipe at about 30-45 FPS depending on how many dwarves are wandering around my exploratory tunnels (All 1 wide and tons of alternate routs, so lots of path blocking and recalculating)

Based on your stats I'd expect you could run about the same at 50-60 or so FPS, which is fairly good I think for that sized fortress.

Of course you could also run a somewhat smaller fortress, or one with fewer features, at the full 100FPS (Or more if you want to change the max FPS)

Edit: should note that I have a massive number of hauling jobs and am clear-cutting the entire area. (Roughly 60ish of my dwarves are on hauling jobs, maybe more)

The answer is obvious.  Armok took up smoking, and your fortress has been designated his ashtray.