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Reudh

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Re: typical fortress lifespan?
« Reply #30 on: November 11, 2011, 02:26:28 am »
Creaturebolt lasted eight years before falling to a hydra + siege + dragon.
Boldropes I fell after four years before I accidentally caused a loyalty cascade.
Boldropes II fell after four more to HFS.
Zalisiden is still chugging along after eight years.
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Re: typical fortress lifespan?
« Reply #31 on: November 11, 2011, 02:28:26 am »
Well, Tombwhipped is about done.  Being a barony sucks, and there's only so many times staring eyeballs can grow near the crops before I start to wonder...
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Re: typical fortress lifespan?
« Reply #32 on: November 12, 2011, 05:17:06 am »
what are these loyalty cascades i heareth of?
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Reudh

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Re: typical fortress lifespan?
« Reply #33 on: November 12, 2011, 05:22:18 am »
When a dwarf attacks a member of his own civ (merchant, guard, etc.) he becomes labeled as an enemy AND a member of that civ.
As a result, as he is now an enemy, other dwarves attempt to fight him. They then get labeled as an enemy because they attacked a member of that civ, and so it continues until you have very few 'untainted' dwarves left.

They can be manipulated in such a way as to make two forts on the one map that are hostile to each other.
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Re: typical fortress lifespan?
« Reply #34 on: November 12, 2011, 05:23:27 am »
ah. i think that has happened to me once before. everyone started killing each other.
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Re: typical fortress lifespan?
« Reply #35 on: November 12, 2011, 05:29:09 am »
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Now I learnt that turning off weather and especially temperature helps A LOT

I keep trying to find a place on the forums that tells me how to do this but i   cant  find out how. Does anyone know? also is there a way to reduce my pop cap after world gen? my fort is technically in its 8th reclaim year and with NO pauses it takes 2-3 hours for a year to go  by
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Re: typical fortress lifespan?
« Reply #36 on: November 12, 2011, 05:31:30 am »
After world gen? Ah, hm... yes I think so. I believe it involves editing the raws for the dwarven creature entry in /save/regionname/raw/creature_standard.txt and changing the population size.

turning weather and temp off is a sin against armok, but if you really must do it to conserve FPS, it's in init.txt, i think.
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Re: typical fortress lifespan?
« Reply #37 on: November 12, 2011, 05:34:18 am »
ya i think i just found tha page

http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/40d:Maximizing_framerate#Water_control

why is it bad? there is no lava layer on my map, tghough i did put in a lava moat will lava be harmless now?
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« Reply #38 on: November 12, 2011, 05:38:17 am »
With temperature off, lava effectively operates as water that never freezes, that you have very poor sight when inside and the fact that you drown rather than burn.
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« Reply #39 on: November 12, 2011, 05:41:46 am »
thats bad. tho i read here that my water may be part to blame, ill drain my moat, it wasnt helping that much anyway
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Re: typical fortress lifespan?
« Reply #40 on: November 12, 2011, 07:45:50 am »
Yeah, having water logic flowing about, even if it's just swapping between 3 - 4/7 full puts the hurt on a CPU. Either have it at 7/7 or unfilled.
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