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Wait, now you need to train yourself in order to drown? I always thought it was pretty easy. Just toss the dwarves into a watery room and make sure they can't escape! Although I suppose it would make sense that the Drowning skill would increase endurance, seeing as if you survive to training regimen, you're probab...
...This doesn't have anything to do with the actual topic, does it?

It could be a loyalty cascade. Did you ever order these guys to kill a dwarven caravan/diplomat? If not, double-check everyone involved to make sure that none of them are werecritters/vampires/etc. If none of that is true, then my ideas are exhausted.

It's not your modding, I'm fairly certain about that. Probably some bug with historical migrants.

GCSs are [BUILDINGDESTROYER:1]s, which means they path through locked doors. The conclusion is valid, though. This version, spiders shoot webs at whatever they can see.

I draft anyone who's not married or important enough. My dwarves never get married, anyways, and if they're militia, they're going to have an even shorter life expectancy...

After more thought, I realized that I don't mind the general similarities to DF. I do, however, mind the specific ones. If I was making a game similar to a fairly popular one with a fanbase as devoted to the game as DF's (especially if it had as much of a tendency to lash out at similar games as ours does), then I would either make sure mine looks different (Forgotten Monsters, digging designations that look a lot like DF's) and plays different, or if not, I'd take the best features of DF and state in the trailer/whatever that it was inspired by Dwarf Fortress. Both of those would go a long way towards preventing hate from a well-established fanbase. Not even bothering to come up with names and interface colors either indicates ignorance of the features of DF and an unfortunate coincidence, or apathy and ignorance of the fanbase's attitudes. Paradox doesn't come off well any way you take it.

Not to diss on the guy, but I'm not sure if that qualifies him as a "good bugfixer." It's nice that he's finally getting around to fixing the bugs, but why has it taken so long anyway? Not that I have any idea of his schedule. Maybe I'd get it too if I had a crazy super-project that hundreds of players play the shit out of, and I kept coming up with ideas to make the game even better every single update and shit. Does that lead to "let's just fix these bugs LATER" thinking?

...He has a LOT on his plate. Did you notice the dearth of updates between this time last year and late last month? Toady wasn't sleeping in late and taking four days a week off, he was coding in tons of new stuff, fixing a few old bugs, cleaning up the UI some, and making sure it was relatively playable. He's ONE GUY. You can't expect him to clean up all the bugs as soon as they show up. If he did, we'd be playing a bugless version of 40d within a year, with some luck.
He fixes bugs. Not all programmers do. This makes him better than those bugfixers. The fact that he tries to do other stuff, too, doesn't make him a horrible bugfixer.

Besides, some bugs are as fun as the rest of the game!

Once worldgen gets to a certain point, those civs who are enemies (dwarves and goblins, dwarves and elves, humans and goblins, elves and goblins...) will end up with one side having a HUGE numbers advantage over the other. The smaller, weaker civ will then be prone to having heroic goblins/dwarves/etc who end up superpowerful warriors. Battles currently work by sending two random soldiers from the armies against each other, then pitting the survivor against a random member of the other army, and so on. This means that an experienced warrior can easily defeat armies of less-skilled, weaker, and/or worse-equipped foes.