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Fireborn

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4 straight world gens with no dwarves period?
« on: June 20, 2012, 03:12:49 pm »
Well, this is new.

Four world gens in a row in which all civilizations are humans, goblins and elves...  Hilarious really, but getting annoying.

Is this a bug in the current version?
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Re: 4 straight world gens with no dwarves period?
« Reply #1 on: June 20, 2012, 03:23:28 pm »
Try to redownload.
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Re: 4 straight world gens with no dwarves period?
« Reply #2 on: June 20, 2012, 03:25:40 pm »
Have you edited the RAWs in any way that might impede dwarf civilization?
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Re: 4 straight world gens with no dwarves period?
« Reply #3 on: June 20, 2012, 03:26:11 pm »
Quote from: Fireborn on June 20, 2012, 03:12:49 pm
Well, this is new.

Four world gens in a row in which all civilizations are humans, goblins and elves...  Hilarious really, but getting annoying.

Is this a bug in the current version?

What are your worldgen parameters?
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i had the elves bring me two tigermen, although i forgot to let them out of the cage and they died : ( i was sad : (

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Re: 4 straight world gens with no dwarves period?
« Reply #4 on: June 20, 2012, 03:32:28 pm »
First three were minimum 100 volcanoes, end year 100, nothing else changed from "small region" default. (Forgot to up minerals.)

fourth was "small island" default, 5th now was Basic Gen.

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That's my entity_default dwarf entry...
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Re: 4 straight world gens with no dwarves period?
« Reply #5 on: June 20, 2012, 03:33:27 pm »
In that case, it's entirely possible that the dwarves are getting repeatedly wiped out due to lack of habitat + belligerence on the part of other races.
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Quote from: ricky on July 15, 2010, 08:24:43 am
i had the elves bring me two tigermen, although i forgot to let them out of the cage and they died : ( i was sad : (

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Re: 4 straight world gens with no dwarves period?
« Reply #6 on: June 20, 2012, 03:36:21 pm »
If that were the case though, wouldn't a dwarven civ still be the first on the list?

In legends the first is all humans.
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Re: 4 straight world gens with no dwarves period?
« Reply #7 on: June 20, 2012, 03:37:34 pm »
Your world is literally not genning dwarves at all? Without even a preliminary spawn?
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Quote from: ricky on July 15, 2010, 08:24:43 am
i had the elves bring me two tigermen, although i forgot to let them out of the cage and they died : ( i was sad : (

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Re: 4 straight world gens with no dwarves period?
« Reply #8 on: June 20, 2012, 03:44:35 pm »
Quote from: Josephus on June 20, 2012, 03:37:34 pm
Your world is literally not genning dwarves at all? Without even a preliminary spawn?
1st, 312/383; First civ is human.
2nd, 257/320; ""
3rd, 322/391; ""
4th, 138/164; ""
5th, 466/538; ""

The first two I embarked under did seem to have all the dwarven supplies, their booze and seeds, in fact I thought where is said "Tab: Humans" was just an odd one off that I'd never noticed before, until I saw they were all "Medium Sized Creatures prone to great ambition."

It's possible somewhere in those "hidden" civ entries, the dwarves are hiding... but I've never genned a world and had this happen.

Quick-edit:

They all have sites marked "Mountian Halls" but eh... They're all listed as founded by the Human Civ that's first on the list...


Slow edit:

Well, lucky number seven genned me a dwarven civilization.  6 just kept rejecting regions because of... pretty much everything.  Lowering the number of volcanoes to 10 made 7 go through.
« Last Edit: June 20, 2012, 04:19:32 pm by Fireborn »
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Re: 4 straight world gens with no dwarves period?
« Reply #9 on: June 20, 2012, 04:23:31 pm »
Dredging up some info from the depths of my conscious here, so it could be wrong:
1. Dwarves require mountain peaks to spawn the mountainhome.
2. Volcanoes replace peaks.
3. Therefore, if you max out your volcano count all your peaks will be turned into volcanos, disallowing any dwarf spawns.

Anyone care to SCIENCE?
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Re: 4 straight world gens with no dwarves period?
« Reply #10 on: June 20, 2012, 05:35:08 pm »
Quote from: ZeroSumHappiness on June 20, 2012, 04:23:31 pm
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Re: 4 straight world gens with no dwarves period?
« Reply #11 on: June 20, 2012, 07:25:01 pm »
Have you messed with your raws at all? If you accidentally duplicated something somewhere then that could result in this happening.
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