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Yes.

Regarding that "Immigrants .... danger .... we'll just go elsewhere" message, have a lot of the folk been dying lately?

And what if you don't mind or, in fact, desire those parties?

It's not like there's an end to time, after all.

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Quote from: Aachen on March 17, 2010, 01:22:31 am

I don't swap weapons back and forth, honestly. I train groups, and the trainees get silver weapons (hopefully lower quality) until I no longer want them to spar. I try to upgrade the various squads' armor as it becomes available. I play the game vanilla, so YMMV.

This is pretty much what I want to do, but how do you get them to switch from silver weapons to iron, steel?

O! Sorry, I misunderstood you.

I try to at least have a set of leather+chain, giving them time to grab their under-armor first. and a shield for each recruit in a squad I'm raising (I typically go with pairs, rather than larger squads). If possible, I go chain > plate directly, instead (Heavy?Deal with it, Edem).

Turn 'em loose to train wrestling/etc. as long as I feel. I usually only bother up to the range of proficient-talented for melee fighters. I know a lot of people will train 'em all up to legendary.

Weapons are sorted into separate stockpile rooms with doors based on composition (intended-for-training and post-training being my categories). When I decide a "class" of recruits is ready for weapons training, I put 'em on duty and station them in the former of the two stockpile-rooms. I lock the door, and tell them to use whichever weapon. They stay there till they get the idea.

When training is done(here's when I train them until they're a ledgendary foo), I order the squads back to the to Trainee Storage and disarm them (command them to fight unarmed). Then I send them over to Duty-Issue Storage and lock 'em in till they're equipped.

If I have to, at some point, get something out of a warrior's hands, I order them to have neither shield nor weapon, and order the offending item(s) dumped.

Of course, I think that a lot of this will be obsolete in the coming version.

Been keeping a log of the world generation? It would probably help establish the main parameter-culprits. init.txt has the option to log rejections (defaults to "OFF," I b'lieve).

I read somewhere that it takes about an 8th of an acre to support one human being.

I also came across some numbers from a guy trying to live off the grid....

What farming methods is that assuming are used?

Probably related to the FPS death, but mine's more laptop heat-death frustration. Spend a season busy work work working .... forget SESO .... sudden shutdown. After the fifth or sixth time it sets me back a few months, I've typically just started from scratch.

Happily, d19/2 has vastly better performance on this front. Current fort is in yr 13. Nothing indicates I'll have the same issues as earlier builds thus far (perhaps in the far future of the fort). I'm hoping to keep Rockmachine active till I've got the new version to toy with.