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spik

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a new fortress
« on: February 22, 2013, 09:52:02 am »

Hello, I started playing  fortress mode but after a while I gave up and started playing in adventure mode, but then i decided to try again in fortress mode, now things are going well :D , but the immigrants arrived and I never had received  immigrants before and I do not know how to handle with them, by now I've just left them alone
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lollypox

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Re: a new fortress
« Reply #1 on: February 22, 2013, 01:30:27 pm »

You should move this to the fortress mode forum.

But what I typically do is check each migrant as they arrive, anyone with a usable skill that I don't already have enough skilled workers in gets assigned to it.
Otherwise they're drafted to the military, or used for hauling.

Any of them with combat skills= drafted to a squad, all others= hauling, until I have enough haulers, then I put them into a suicide special forces squad and send them into the caverns.
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Re: a new fortress
« Reply #2 on: February 22, 2013, 10:24:32 pm »

Even though this should be in the fortress forum what I do is
If the guy has 7 or more of a type of skill he works in that skill if its lower then he gets sent as a hauler if he has a high combat skill instant draft into the military for training
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Re: a new fortress
« Reply #3 on: February 27, 2013, 06:06:11 pm »

Well, I discovered that the immigrants were a minor problem  :D, but now a new problem appeared with the arrival of traders :'(, I do not know how to negotiate with the caravans, I think this should be an easy thing to do but I am a "newbie" and the newbies often ask these things that all players know,  :-\I think ...
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Soulbourne

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Re: a new fortress
« Reply #4 on: February 27, 2013, 09:29:09 pm »

http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2012:Quickstart_guide

That'll explain the basics.  Use Q to interfact with buildings, and follow the keys listed in the interaction section.  You need to movee goods to the trade depot first, before you have anything to trade.
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