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I don't lower the population cap.

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[Siber]

I set my pop cap to, at most, 10. Often I try to set it to zero. I still get some immigrants though... nothing a good locked front door and some roaming alligators won't fix. Why? Well I have a computer with relatively limited performance, so I like to keep the FPS up with small maps and small populations. But more than that I find I enjoy it more, and develop more of a connection with both my dwarves and fort when there are fewer of them. Things take time to get done, sure, but the frame rate makes up for it. I suspect in the next version all these factors will be even more true.

[Grax]

Do you think i have a need to limit population? ;-)

[andrea]

i never lower capt ( i capped it to 190 in a past fortress, to avoid being pushed over 200, but that is all). in fact, now i am seriously thinking about making it higher, since i need more dwarves to start a massive clothing industry. i already have 20, i need 20 more, or all i can get. this would, however, leave me without marksdwarves on the wall, which is something i would like to have since i have walls.
i will run at 30 fps at the end, but i have played with half of that in the past.

[2xMachina]

Hmm, I've plenty of industries (only 1 of each worshop or so), but I'm kinda stumped on what to have my immigrants do (i have about 60 now)... Probably dedicated haulers.

[andrea]

that is probably because you don't have 70 dwarves who do only building jobs, and a 20 years building plan. it does wonders against idlers. for everyone else, that is why i decided to get one of the most massive cloth industries ever seen.  i plan to use 3-4 10x10 farm plots just for the cloth itself, and probably just as much for the dye. even after i reconvert the whole building industry, i still shouldn't have idle problems. stockpile problems, however, will be huge.

only FPS is stopping me... and that is something i can change (d# don't work well for me)

[darkflagrance]

that is probably because you don't have 70 dwarves who do only building jobs, and a 20 years building plan. it does wonders against idlers. for everyone else, that is why i decided to get one of the most massive cloth industries ever seen.  i plan to use 3-4 10x10 farm plots just for the cloth itself, and probably just as much for the dye. even after i reconvert the whole building industry, i still shouldn't have idle problems. stockpile problems, however, will be huge.

only FPS is stopping me... and that is something i can change (d# don't work well for me)

Instead of clothing, why not glass? Then you can pave the sky with glass blocks!

[Im_Sparks]

Hahah, I RAISE the limit to 250, just for the difficulty.

I have never reached it, though. I end up in a tantrum spiral, so I just conscript all the useless and unhappy dwarves to become spear-dwarves.

[Beefree]

I typically keep my cap around 100 until I'm well prepared for another 100 Dwarves to wander in and settle down.