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I got the controls figured out and I could probably keep a fortress running for a million years underground if I wanted to, but I constantly want to build big and I want to build big from the start. I want everything to be 100% effecient. Anything less is a waste of time.
For example, coal is, for me, a waste of perfectly good tree, which can be used to make beds in my symetrically aligned and effeciently planned bedrooms, when you can use magma instead.

But then I can't find a magma pipe in the first 10 minutes, so I start over, trying to find a biome with a volcano or the like.
Or even something as simple as the layout of my fort fucks me up. I try to plan everything ahead, but there is simply so much to plan it gets impossible to keep track of.

My biggest problem in Dwarf Fortress is myself.

Same here, but for the opposite reason. My forts usually end up being a 20z high morass of random passages and rooms sized according to whim.

I find axes to be garbage against goblins unless they're made of steel, while even a copper spear goes right through iron armor.
Since there's no flux on my map, silver hammers and copper spears all the way

Quote from: bluephoenix on November 06, 2010, 08:53:35 pm

Build a barracks, assign the squad to it and let them train.

So basicly, I just let my wrestlers spar, then eventually they become swords-dwarves?

yep. when their sword skill catches up to their wrestling they'll become swordsdwarves

Just found out that two of my marksdwarves have apparently spent the last 2 years splitting apart stacks of food and claiming it for themselves. Now half the food in the fortress is owned by two dwarves and inedible by anyone else.
Hopefully starving them to death will release their ownership of the food.

The mysterious contruction begins!

Good luck...
It pissed me off to no end when I watched my metalsmith (who was already legendary) carry 12 good mats to the shop only to make a splint. I savescum....aaaand she makes a crutch.
Sometimes I think the game is spiting me.

finding random name generator goodness: 'Abdul' Skywheels the Pulley of Summits

Attention All Citizens:
The stockpile next to the millstone has whip vine enabled for a reason. It's the same reason whip vine has been forbidden in all the other stockpiles. This reason is that that when some douchebag decides it's a good idea to store the vine in some random stockpile in the depths of the fortress, Peg is forced to run 400 squares in order to make us that lovely flour.
It's just common sense to store the shit in the closer stockpile, even if it wasn't forbidden from the other ones. From now on any dwarf seen going down stairs with whip vine in hand will be locked in the cells to starve. This policy will remain in effect until either a stack of whip vine pancakes appears on my desk or we run out of dwarves.

Captain Abdul Skywheels the Pulley of Summits