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[krige]

...reclaims. I usually make a new fortress, play it a bit until something nasty/unexpected shows up (large ambush by the wells?) that I don't feel like tackling. I ditch the fortress, come back few days later, reclaim, and voila! A new settlement that will run at least till the next update.

(on a side note, it's fun when I leave with merchant on site and find their goods still lying on the trade depot)

[Slartibartfast]

I don't like reclaiming. One reason for that is that I like designing new fortresses  

[Jaqie Fox]

To me reclaiming feels too easy, too much like a cop-out when it's done on purpouse like that.  You could argue that the dwarves 'ran back to civilization to get reinforcements the next season' but...

It just feels too easy, you get too many points to play with that way and too many dwarves to start with.

[puke]

true, but when i want to design a huge fortress quickly, i'll send in a suicide squad of miners, then reclaim the massive thing that they dug out.

[JT]

Huh, suicide squad of miners... that's an interesting strategy.  Wonder why I've never thought of that.

[qwip]

Hm... I've never had a fortress I wanted to return to. I usually get sick of them.

Now perhaps it would be cool to reclaim someone else's fortress by swapping Save files, especially if I didn't have a screenshot of their fortress so it would be a surprise.

We could create a section on the wiki (called "Pot Luck" or "Lost and Found"?) for saved fortresses that were saved and/or abandoned at interesting points. (I wouldn't want a fortress that was already mined out for 100 dwarves. I'd prefer something that had the stamp of the original player on it, but left room for me to expand...)

Geez, so many ways to play this game and never enough time!!

[krige]

If the fortress survives the first year without any major disasters, I don't reclaim it, either. Either I become too attached to it and get mad after losing it or don't want to bother with lenghty reclaims, which can be rather tiresome.