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foenix phyre

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« on: September 07, 2008, 05:25:34 am »
ok i give   whats it take to get migrants.  two fortresses now and both times   i get teh message  no migrants this season. 
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Re: migrants
« Reply #1 on: September 07, 2008, 05:53:05 am »
I believe you just need to wait a bit longer. You get that message in every game in the first summer because there hasn't been any trade caravans visiting your fort and spreading the word of how successfull a hamlet you have created.
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foenix phyre

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Re: migrants
« Reply #2 on: September 07, 2008, 05:56:59 am »
ah ha    a case of me getting frustrated too soon then.   Thanks.   SOrry for all the dumb questions  but i am so into this game. lol 

[edit] whoo hooo  i have migrants lol [edit]
« Last Edit: September 07, 2008, 08:59:26 am by foenix phyre »
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pavlov

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Re: migrants
« Reply #3 on: September 07, 2008, 02:03:46 pm »
Quote from: Oldin on September 07, 2008, 05:53:05 am
I believe you just need to wait a bit longer. You get that message in every game in the first summer because there hasn't been any trade caravans visiting your fort and spreading the word of how successfull a hamlet you have created.

Not necessarily - if you dig out enough squares and/or produce enough wealth very early they'll come in the first spring/summer.
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Re: migrants
« Reply #4 on: September 07, 2008, 02:43:42 pm »
yep ive had some show up the first year too, but its not easy. no ones really too certain, but yea, do a lot of digging and go for the wealth if you want lots of immigrants early on. easy to have a good army this way.
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andrea

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« Reply #5 on: September 08, 2008, 03:40:29 am »
the best i could get was getting migrants as soon as the dwarven caravan left the first year. i had a wealth lower than 10000, but i had mined a lot. also, i offered as gift  to the caravansome mechanism. trade was mainly mecganism and instruments. caravan left, after some days 13 migrants arrived.
only problem is that i am on a full glacier map, no water, no soil, no animals, no life. and now i get 13 more dwarves to feed. for meat, i have dogs, but no way to get drink soon.
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« Reply #6 on: September 09, 2008, 11:31:14 pm »
You need to melt some of that ice. Try to collapse a section of natural ice wall such that it falls down to a stone-level (there it will warm up and melt to form 7/7 water). This can be tricky.

The water can be a safety measure in case you run out of booze.

You can then take some buckets and dump water onto rock (or even ice?) and farm it.
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