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DF Gameplay Questions / Problem with early sieges

« on: September 03, 2014, 12:16:08 pm »

Hey guys,

I tried to embark on a place near goblins.
After about one year I had the first siege of 5 or six goblins. At this time I had 6 dwarfs in a squad who trained for a few months. Everyone of them just had a copper short sword or battle axe and a copper mail shirt, because I didnt have the ore and workforce for more. As you can image, my military got slaughtered.

I then pulled my bridge up, so they couldnt come into my fortress, but all my pastured animals got slaughtered.

So my questions:

1) What do you do against early sieges if you dont have good ores and your dwarves arent trained well? I thought of cage traps before my entrance, but how do I get the invaders to walk onto them when my bridge is raised?

2) How can I secure my pastures without using too much workforce and materials?

3) Is copper a better material for armor than leather?

4) How well armed and trained do my dwarves have to be when facing a siege?

5) When I trap a goblin, how can I take away all his items without opening the cage?

Thank you very much!

DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / FPS problem

« on: August 28, 2014, 08:24:02 am »

Hey guys,

I just started a new fortress.. Im in year two or three now with about 80 dwarfes, about 10 children and about 20 animals in my pasture. I didnt do huge projects or mined out much, but my FPS are already down to about 60.
My PC is pretty new (CPU is Intel Core i5 4570 @ 3,2 GHz). When I watched quill18s new series of DF he always had ~99 fps...

So i wanted to ask if this FPS drop is normal or if somethings is wrong with my DF or my PC? I'm using Starter Pack 40.10.

Thanks in advance!

Skyline

Edit:
I uploaded my savegame here, if that helps...
http://www.file-upload.net/download-9447842/save.rar.html

DF Gameplay Questions / Lost my first fortress :(

« on: August 25, 2014, 09:33:30 am »

Hey guys,

I just lost my first fortress... The only dwarf who survived is a stonecrafter who went insane, so i had to block him in a room...

I really dont understand why this happened. The undead sieged me and came into my fortress on the marked placed:

I removed all ramps in that area so nobody can come into the fortress... What did I do wrong?

Greetings,
Skyline

DF Gameplay Questions / Is Dwarf Fortress the ultimate game for me?

« on: July 29, 2013, 03:37:56 am »

Hey guys,

I already checked out some tutorials, but I'm totally overwhelmed by this game.
Before I spend hours and hours into this game, maybe you can tell me if DF is the right game for me...

Heres a list of my favorite game components:

- every game is totally random

- you start small and get bigger and bigger

- you have some functions to get things done automatically (e.g. chains for food, weapons... so that you dont have to micro every bit)

- you have very deep production chains (deeper than Anno 2070)

- you can play peacefully if you want

- you can explore dangerous dungeons where you might find gold or very strong items/materials

- like in RL, bad things can happen every time (diseases, war, attacks, lack of water/food etc.)

- there is no end where the game calls "Game over"

I'd be very thankfull if someone could check this list for me.