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[Fenrael]

Hello everyone!

I've recently started playing this mod and have been having a blast so far...much thanks to meph for taking the time to put it together!

However, in my first serious fortress I've had no ambushes or sieges by anyone so far, even though it's already five years in and I have a population of 140 in addition to over 100k exported wealth. In the civilizations screen it says I'm at peace with the goblins and succubi (They just happened to send along a few snatchers).

When I embarked on the site I was neighbors with all the races in the 250 year large region (Around 17 or so...default settings), and it listed wars with quite a few of them. So I expected attacks of some sort to happen early and often, not nothing as it is now.

Can I expect ambushes and sieges to happen eventually or is this a fluke that will force me to start over? I'm not exactly eager to invest more time in a fortress that ends up with no invasions, but at the same time I don't want to just abandon the place.

Thank you for your time!

[Emperor]

IIRC, embassy can be used to summon sieges. So, if you are eager to spend a few coins to get some action, the embassy is your way to go.

[Fenrael]

Yes, but it's less preferable to having invasions happen naturally.

[Meph]

I dont know if you changed anything on the GUI, but if you play Dwarves it should be impossible to be at peace with Goblins and Succubi. Simply, 100% impossible.

Try the embassy once. If nothing happens (it might start an ambush, which must be discovered first) the Goblin civ might be dead.

Usually there is no shortage of attacks in the mod, especially since you can add lots of additional invader races.

[Fenrael]

All I've changed in the GUI were turning off harder mining, diseases, and giant animals along with a few minor world gen edits that shouldn't affect civs.

I do recall that on the world map my embark site was surrounded by rivers, however, this didn't stop the elf/human trade caravans or snatchers.

So other than that given my fortress conditions an attack from somebody should have happened five years in.

[Meph]

As soon as you reach 200k fortress wealth, you should be fair game for any civ.

Which worldgen did you use? Maybe the world is a bit small, and with 250 years of history, it might be that many civs died, because there is not much space and they were constantly at war.

[Fenrael]

I used a large region with 40 civs. After checking legends for that world most of them were still alive and kicking after 250 years of world gen.

As for wealth, as of now the fortress has 220k created wealth, with 28k exported.

[Meph]

Maybe wait a bit longer. With 220k you just breached the threshold of 200k. You should see more snatcher, ambushes and attacks with the coming year(s).

[Fenrael]

Yes, just now several new snatchers from the orcs and kobold thieves showed up. I'm hoping that's a sign of ambushes in the future, so I'll keep going with my fingers crossed.

Thanks for taking the time to help out Meph! It's much appreciated!