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When do you abandon your fort?

When a significant portion of the population is killed
When every dwarf is dead
If you screw up your layout
Low FPS
Diplomacy (pissing off humans or elves without meaning to)
Boredom
Other (please specify)

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Garrie

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Re: When do you throw in the towel?
« Reply #30 on: March 14, 2010, 04:45:49 am »
When my computer has been ticking over all day, I've laid heaps of stuff out (semi-fractal bedrooms, patrol routes for millitary in expanding length depending on skill (which translates roughly to speed), etc) then my wife reboots the pc. Or logs me out. Or something.

The greatest threat to fotresses: The Players Spouse.   >:( ;D
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Re: When do you throw in the towel?
« Reply #31 on: March 14, 2010, 06:03:22 am »
When I screw up my layout in a way that really irks me, usually involving irrigation/water/fucking rivers in some way.

Or when I have about 100 dwarfs, none are idle, and nothing is getting done :|
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Re: When do you throw in the towel?
« Reply #32 on: March 14, 2010, 07:15:52 am »
When I realize my mega project that will take a RL year was started so close to the new version coming out...
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Re: When do you throw in the towel?
« Reply #33 on: March 14, 2010, 11:48:24 am »
Other: Partway through my current project I get an awesome idea that I can't do on the current map. I have a string of these unfinished forts, with the last being 'Oh man I got a great idea but I should wait for the next version; those custom workshops are going to be badassssssss'.
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Re: When do you throw in the towel?
« Reply #34 on: March 14, 2010, 03:26:12 pm »
Quote from: Foxbyte on March 14, 2010, 11:48:24 am
Other: Partway through my current project I get an awesome idea that I can't do on the current map. I have a string of these unfinished forts, with the last being 'Oh man I got a great idea but I should wait for the next version; those custom workshops are going to be badassssssss'.

Yeah, I've had a bit of "wait for the next version" since August.
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Re: When do you throw in the towel?
« Reply #35 on: March 14, 2010, 03:45:58 pm »
Knowing that there's no release date, I simply don't wait and play with what I have :P And since my megaprojects aren't that 'mega', I'm sure that I would die of heart attack when new version will pop up while I'm in middle of making a pyramid or something.
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Re: When do you throw in the towel?
« Reply #36 on: March 14, 2010, 04:07:15 pm »
When I am bored, or when the FPS gets too low.
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Re: When do you throw in the towel?
« Reply #37 on: March 14, 2010, 05:20:27 pm »
I usually get bored because the FPS gets too low.
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Re: When do you throw in the towel?
« Reply #38 on: March 14, 2010, 09:12:48 pm »
Equal parts boredom, FPS, and perceived success and "victory", especially in the later game. Earlier on, I'll abandon because my layout was crap, my starting resources were lacking, or any of half-a-dozen other quibbles that prevent this fortress from being absolute perfection, though I'll usually go back to an earlier save and try again rather than start an entirely new fortress.
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Re: When do you throw in the towel?
« Reply #39 on: March 14, 2010, 11:21:38 pm »
Quote from: Garrie on March 14, 2010, 04:45:49 am
When my computer has been ticking over all day, I've laid heaps of stuff out (semi-fractal bedrooms, patrol routes for millitary in expanding length depending on skill (which translates roughly to speed), etc) then my wife reboots the pc. Or logs me out. Or something.

The greatest threat to fotresses: The Players Spouse.   >:( ;D

That's why the most hardcore players are perpetually single.

It has nothing to do with weight, hygiene or social status.
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Re: When do you throw in the towel?
« Reply #40 on: March 15, 2010, 01:01:59 pm »
That's what you want to believe.
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Re: When do you throw in the towel?
« Reply #41 on: March 15, 2010, 01:58:08 pm »
i dont really "abandon" my fort per-say.......if i get too bored i just cause a catastrophic event to obliterate the entire map. (unless i plan on reclaiming)
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