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I totally agree, I just happen to be doing the exact same thing. I think the whole game is too easy tbh I think it needs difficulty settings.

I am playing the following rules to make things harder:
Popcap 7
No farming (I still have far too much food from trading I think I'll ban trading for food too from now on)
Max map danger (i got magma, chasm, pit, river, underground river, underground lake)

It is sort of working only one of the original 7 is left, the casualties have been high.
From a players perspective though I am building a massive and very wealthy fort and work is processing very quickly. It seems like you get less work done with 100 dwarves than 7.

I tried to start a hardcore succession game with this model but the noob straight after me gumped the popcap and now its up to like 50 dwarves

Just to add to this I am using 40d and I had a similar problem that may be related.

I had a marksman and 3 immigrants and I set them all to wrestling sparring with a buckler and leather armour. The three immigrants got up to champion very fast but the marksman never levelled at any combat skill and I never saw him spar.

Heres the region folder if it helps: http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=540

Further (possibly) useful information:
Marksman was the last (bottom) soldier on the m and u lists
Marksman was not holding crossbow
Of course I checked if he was on duty and he wasn't
Marksman spent most of his time in the meeting area with the job 'soldier'
Marksman already had some wrestling skill from before he became a marksman
My military contained a total of only these 4 dwarves
I only had one barracks made from a bed
I tried making a second barracks but I saw no effect from this

Given the upcoming military overhaul this bug may not be worth fixing as it may only be caused by stand in code anyway. I just made the marksman into a peasant so I am happy

I am having trouble getting this to work. The map file is created without errors but when I try and load it it just crashes the 3d program. It is a very mountainous map does this sometimes cause problems? I can load the deafault maps that came with the visualiser without any problems

I don't know if you already skipped me or not but I got a PM and I am just confirming here that I will NOT be taking my turn due to fps issues.

But why do you want to kill them, anyway?

Man this is dwarf fortress, why would you not want to kill them.
Seriously though i often keep a low population for framerate, or the lack of water.

I also heartily endorse combat bunkers, although I find it is best to leave doors out entirely and simply have a square wall with only access from below.

On the same map as the bunkers I had a wall that ran from one side of the map to the other, with gaps right by my town walls and lots of cage traps in the gaps. This resulted in a huge army of war gorillas (they literally rip of your arms and beat you to death with them) and a small execution chamber/arena where a titan a dragon and many goblins met their end. The drainage holes in the floor for blood worked fine but the cistern underneath never got any reasonable amount in it I believe this is not implemented.

On another map I made a giant medeival style keep with white stone walls and hardwood floors. Also before the mass building patch this turned out to be a massive waste of time :-)

Normally I just plan massive underground complexes with perfect symmetry arrayed in a district system to minimise travel. This works for workshops and the like but hauling is still a b***h. You can have a lot of fun with designing the nobles and military districts.

Oh I almost forgot my last fun project was on a mountain peak that overhung a magma vent. I made my entrance hall in the peak and put floodgates on both ends of the hall. There was a lever to close the gates blocking all the attackers in the hall and another that opened the floor of the hall causing everything to fall into the magma vent. This solved a lot of goblin rubbish cleaning jobs. I even considered moving my trade depot inside to get rid of unwanted caravans.

You need to save the whole graphics folder, everything else can be overwritten. You will however need to reconfigure the init file (you can't keep it because it changes often between versions) this is as simple as

[GRAPHICS:YES]
[GRAPHICS_WINDOWEDX:1280]
[GRAPHICS_WINDOWEDY:400]
[GRAPHICS_FONT:font.bmp]
[GRAPHICS_FULLSCREENX:1280]
[GRAPHICS_FULLSCREENY:800]
[GRAPHICS_FULLFONT:font.bmp]
[GRAPHICS_BLACK_SPACE:YES]

I renamed my font file to font.bmp, everything else is default apart from the first YES

I don't care if you kill of migrants or not or how many. Does anyone have any more details on the pop cap thing though? What happens if we set it to 0?

This is definitely not my fort anymore and I am still dissapointed with how easy it is. I think glacier is the way to go for the next one.

Just to clarify why I built the fortress as I did (the complaints from RP were in character and valid but I thought I would mention anyway) I always build those masssive wide cross hallways and make everything in them because then I can design an endgame fortress and not have any of the early game necessities change the layout at all. I like to make districts with different purposes and I like to make everything symetrical and just using the hallways as temporary storage and rooms means you can make the most elaborate entrance hall traps and a 4-z level 80x80 dining room fit for a god right from the start without having to worry about making rooms for utilitarian purpposes. In a 7 dwarf fortress this is pointless but it still serves the RP of my character because he was just a miner looking for treasure.