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zakhad

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Merc's / Visitors
« on: October 11, 2016, 08:41:38 pm »
Do they count towards your total population? As in preventing migrants of dwarves etc, wondering if there's a downside to having like 20-30 merc's apart from having multiple equipment outfits for each size and whether they're melee or ranged.
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GhostDwemer

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Re: Merc's / Visitors
« Reply #1 on: October 11, 2016, 10:24:48 pm »
There is a separate visitor limit in d-init.txt. They do count towards demolishing your FPS, just like any other pathing creature on the map does.
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vonsch

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Re: Merc's / Visitors
« Reply #2 on: October 11, 2016, 11:29:05 pm »
Not sure if you mean visitors or resident aliens.

In my experience the ones you accept as residents do count towards the population limit.  I routinely run with low limits and gradually bump them about once a year (control fetish... why do I play THIS game?)  When I have X resident aliens (petitions accepted), I cap at chosen cap - X.

But the loose visitors don't count.  Until you accept a petition they are "loose" and can wander in and out at will.


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