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[Talanic]

I seem to recall using DFHack to forbid the first migrant waves.  Something along the lines of setting the population cap to 0 (or 7) and running fix/population_cap or something like that. 

Not that that has incredible bearing on the experiment, just suddenly remembered.

[TBeholder]

I'd very tentatively guess that socialising needs some kind of trigger now. Something like "can only have one socialising event per span of being "idle"" or somesuch; dwarfs who actually get to work and drag stuff around (and thus having many short stints of idle-ness) _seem_ to socialise better than a bunch of layabouts doing nothing but standing around in a fancy dining room.

My real-wagon-dwarfs did get a few "talked to a friend/lover" thoughts, but looking at how slowly social skills developed, that felt like they got something like six per season, i.e. about the number of interruptions of their idle time in the form of eating, drinking and sleeping.

That's all super speculative for now, but looking into "events" sounds like a promising avenue to me, and comparing a fort with a healthy mix of labours with substantial rates of idlers vs. busy-bee (no idlers on pain of death) and drone (nothing to do for a year or more) constellations.

Hmm. Setting up a loo small workshop behind the corner and another right on the square's border would allow to separate "meet/part" factor from "idle/busy". Or even better, mini-dormitories - they don't even need an office to be assigned, unlike profiling a workshop, and they won't add a little constant hauling that could exhaust dorfs slightly faster, thus affecting breaks rate.

[NomeQueEuLembro]

Hey, guys
I'm sorry, my teachers are all givin' me lots of works to do. I'm not having much time to play, so I just can't go on with the experiment.
When I have a little more time I'm comin' back!

Thank you all!