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Ah. Still, if my civ had no king, it seems off that the game should announce it. Then again, DF is not yet a finished game

Accoring to my civ screen, I never had any significant leaders, only elves and goblins do.

My last two forts I have more or less abandoned due to lag. I am note sure what really makes the lag roll in, but I have tried making wide corridors (3 in width) and a large 3x3 central staricase in my forts accessing things straight from them. 4x4 embark.

I even used DF Hack clean once in a while to remove old and uneeded blood stain on the battlefields and such. But non the less, my fort does get laggy.

I even try not to have running water, or pumps at all due to lag. As well as killing off spare kittens and dogs.

Is there any good tips on fortress design for anti-lag? My processor is faitly new and should be OK. Should I try and limit my dwarf count severly?

Melt the strands asap into wafers. THen you only get the odd adamantine armor stand, or one lucky adamantine sword I got.

I don't usually build cloths industry, so my strands stay in the workshops. And I got dedicated workshops for strand extraction in my forges.

my coffers in my hospital is usually full with regular thread also. Not haven any admantine sewen into a dorf yet.

Indeed, my militia commander killed off two ambushes by himself while he was out gathering plants for some reason. I had him set to active duty training... so I made a move commabd and he then lept right into the gobbos with his steel battle axe and armor, shredding them to pieces and making the last few gobbos run away. Then he was back gatheirng plants (no idea what made my schedule so messed up).

he did have some prior skills, but not a whole lot, he had just been training for about a year.

I told my squads to sleep there. In my first fort I had the whole room engraved, and they seem happy enough.

In my last for I had them designated to sleep in a un-smoothed room. They are not really as happy anymore, and one of them even went berserk and had to be put down (a steel axe wielding crazy is dangerous).

I am smoothing and then engraving the room now to see if it helps.

Even tho it is a bit off topic here and there, I have still gotten quite a bit of useful info from this thread

I tried a new barracks now, just one big room in my new fort. So far I am having problem getting my only squad actually train there. I set them for 4/8 to train at a minimum, each month, but it is usually only 2-3 of the squad there only. But when I command the squad to do something, 7 usually show up. (Despite being failry skilled, they came with skills in the range of 2-4, so they are not total noobs, and manged to kill a hydra without injury, but a goblin hammerman mange to hurt their bons pretty bad, despite all steel armor).

I have not used danger rooms either. They kind seem a bit too easy and broken-ish. Now that I have a decent grasp on military and traps, I find regualr training seem enough for goblins, and the odd beast. I have yet to face a real super beast tho...

Yeah, rocks seem to be in abundance. Sometime I try to make marble crafts (assuming I have plenty of it) so that I get that nice 2x modifier on worth.

I usually make instruments or toys and sell

Building walls and having traps in thoose corridos helped a lot.

While my cages earlier was OK, the new spinning serrated glass discs I have (5 in each trap) wors wonders. Last siege was dissipated beofre I hardly had begun.

My dwarves fianlly begun sparring as well, and is now on their way to becomming decent weapon users, although the armor skill is still lower. I might even send my clownite clad and armed spear dwarves against a forgotten beast I have walled in a cavern now.

But still windeirng, 2 vs 3 mail shirts? Is tehre a very big difference? Consdiering I have limited metal, and I have now gotten up to 185 dwarves I want t ostart a new squad, but with limited metal and all...