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Hate to burst the bubble chaps but the best I've done even on my 64-bit system is 2010 years on a large map.  Memory usage was reeeeeally tight (something like 1.8G) - the issue being that while my computer might be able to run in 64-bits, DF is 32-bit. 

I can't see getting to year 10k without gearing down to at the very least a medium map. 

The thing is, regardless of wether it fits in with the world and immersion or not if it's harming the game experience it shouldn't be there. Personally I was annoied because it means I get to know each one of my dwarves less and having grandmaster migrants lessens that feeling of accomplishment when you train a dwarf yourself.

This.

So...is anyone else getting a LOT of engravings of various humans taming giant eagles?  Every fort I start in every world ends up with like a million of the bloody things. 

My current master engraver is plastering them everywhere and doesn't have a preference for giant eagles or anything.  Perhaps it is just a very common vent from worldgen history or something.  I have to say I wold much rather see some engravings of demons, titans, dragons, and bronze collossi beating on eachother (the legends of my world includes some pretty impressive battles of that nature). 

My other thought is that somewhere in the game files "tamed a giant eagle" is given WAY too high of an importance setting or something. 

Anywho - anyone else getting these?

I was attacked quite early (12 dwarves) by a forgotten beast with poison blood, the only weapon available being an artifact golden sword (fuck yeah) made only a month or so earlier.  With no military to speak of I drafted the carpenter and told them to attack the thing, and was quite successful since the beast seemed so intent on killing my masons and miners slowly and painfully that it failed to notice its thorax being hacked off. 

-several years pass-

The carpenter with the golden sword is now the commander to my army, and has racked up a suspiciously large number of kills compared to her comrades - especially since a gold sword should kind of suck.  I finally notice during an encounter with a giant leopard that the leopard is paralyzed.  Further inspection shows me that the golden sword is covered in "frozen forgotten beast extract" and is paralyzing everything it hits extremely effectively. 

deep down farms are cooler anyway, no pumps needed

Hear Hear!

Real Dorfs dig down to the caverns and wall off some muddy floor on embark.  I don't care what Toady says - the irrigation "bug" thing is a feature.  Fending off hordes of zombie tiger men while paging through job cancellations caused by a rampaging elk bird are what lets you know you're alive!

awesome

It's torture. I am moving on the 1st of April. And probably won't have internet for atleast 1-2 weeks.

Friend with the internet and a memory stick.  Else, you shall surely go insane.