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Quote from: Moonshadow101 on December 06, 2015, 06:16:56 pm

On a similar point - Is sparring broken? My militia say they're sparring, but no combat reports are entered. As far as I can tell, they're just kinda standing next to eachother.

I don't think my dwarves are sparring. However, demonstrations seem to do much more even for beginning recruits. All I know is, they don't seem to be sparring, but somehow their skill is increasing.

I noticed some missing combat reports too, specifically on invaders killing my animals.

Quote from: Codyo on December 02, 2015, 06:27:09 pm

Also, it's been a rule of thumb since 40.24 to never make worlds bigger than Medium size.

What's the reason behind that? I love my large worlds with lots of civs and short histories so...

Larger worlds houses a bigger population of individual entities; in 40.24 that slowed the game down since active world generation in the background became a thing. "FPS death" became more prevalent with fortresses slowing down significantly by year 2 or 3.

Fantastic mod. Sigging

Humans and Dwarves are the only ones capable of being necros anyway, besides cave civilizations.

Goblins and Elves are already immortal so they won't have that goal to become one.

The wiki probably has exact numbers about this under its FPS page, and it will have tips too.

I've seen numbers such as a 30% improvement in FPS going from 3x3 to 2x2. If you're comparing your own normal fort designs and population.
FPS gets drastically worse going up and up. Like from 3x3 to 4x4 would be around 50% worse. Since a 4x4 area would almost be twice the size.

Every embark is going to be different, and every world. The numbers won't always be the same. If your fort gets to 200 years you're going to face a FPS drop no matter what. Even by year 10 for a lot of people the FPS becomes bad.

From looking at the save, the dwarves just felt like deciding to join a fight they saw going on. Like the ranger, saw two fishermen fighting for whatever reason and when one killed the other. He decided to take revenge. Basically all this fighting were from dwarves taking revenge on somebody else taking revenge I think. They may be joining fights on the sides of their friends or those that are members of their own organization.

I would get rid of that dwarf Fikod Nishibesh, the peasant. Looks like she killed 5 dwarves from your fortress already and enjoys killing a bit. She seems to have great attributes for a fighter, if you rather put her in your military and send her to the caverns to redeem her lost honor.

The Baby_Child cap won't do anything for migrant waves and migrant pregnancies. It's a matter of luck with migrants, if parents migrate to the fort they're going to drag their kids along. It's easy for parents in legends to have a dozen kids. Then you'll have a large family coming in taking up most of the migrant wave.

You may be able to get less children by lowering the maturity age for dwarves. If you can find the RAWs for dwarves, you set the [CHILD:12] token from 12 years to 2 years, 5 years, or whatever you want. Even if you do get migrant children, they won't take too long to grow up in this case.

If you set the child pop cap to 10:1000 then the limit on children will be 10 kids at a time, unless migrants show up. I don't know what the second number really means, it's supposed to be a percentage of the adults in the fortress. Don't know what that is supposed to do with the cap though.

Sounds like real life in an non technological society. Birth rates were high because the kids kept dying. Of course, if you want less children, you can always set the child population cap to 0:0.

That's half of it, but the infant mortality rate was high too as you said, so huge families should not be common. Or we would have seen massive population booms in the middle ages.

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Quote from: Codyo on January 07, 2015, 01:02:04 am

Quote from: bluephoenix on January 06, 2015, 04:49:48 am

Changing your G_FPS cap down to 10 apparently helps a lot, locking off empty mines/hallways with doors helps, throw garbage into magma instead of stacking it all on one tile and I am sure some the wiki gives some more information on how to increase your FPS.

Realtime doesn't seem to work.

What do you mean it doesn't work? I use REALTIME and it works just fine.

Are you sure it's actually on realtime though when you change it in the init file? Checked in task manager? Mine stays on HIGH when I change it, and others have had the same thing.