Bay 12 Games Forum

Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
Advanced search  

Author Topic: What do the two numbers for BABY_CAP mean?  (Read 387 times)

AzuredreamsXT

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
What do the two numbers for BABY_CAP mean?
« on: March 31, 2012, 12:30:33 pm »

Topic
Logged

NecroRebel

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: What do the two numbers for BABY_CAP mean?
« Reply #1 on: March 31, 2012, 12:39:50 pm »

The absolute number of pregnancies, babies, and children that are allowed in your fort before additional pregnancies are forbidden, and the number of same expressed as a percentage of your adult population before additional pregnancies are forbidden.

So, for instance, with the default 100:1000 numbers, as long as you have fewer than 100 babies, children, and pregnancies, the first of the two won't take effect, and as long as you have fewer than 10 babies, children, and pregnancies per 1 adult, the second won't take effect. Practically speaking this never happens, so those numbers are effectively a setting of "none." With a more sane 25:25 setting, you'll not get more than 25 young through births, and you won't get more than 1 child per 4 adults, meaning that no more than 20% of your population will be immature (4 adults could support 1 child, so that's a total population of 5).
Logged
A Better Magma Pump Stack: For all your high-FPS surface-level magma installation needs!

Garath

  • Bay Watcher
  • Helping to deforest the world
    • View Profile
Re: What do the two numbers for BABY_CAP mean?
« Reply #2 on: March 31, 2012, 12:56:17 pm »

2 adults, 20 babies/children, the horror
« Last Edit: March 31, 2012, 12:57:54 pm by Garath »
Logged
Quote from: Urist Imiknorris
Jam a door with its corpse and let all the goblins in. Hey, nobody said it had to be a weapon against your enemies.
Quote from: Frogwarrior
And then everyone melted.

GhostDwemer

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: What do the two numbers for BABY_CAP mean?
« Reply #3 on: March 31, 2012, 03:08:41 pm »

2 adults, 20 babies/children, the horror
Urist McMommy cancels everything, too busy cleaning diapers. Wait, they don't wear diapers.

Urist McMommy cancels everything, cleaning poop off the floor.
Logged