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[ioi101]

I've had two games in a row now when migrants only arrive in the spring (other then the first two small hardcoded waves). I get a nice batch - 20-25 or so, but after that nothing the rest of the year. I have plenty of wealth (8 million, 3rd year), and while I'm now playing the fortress defense mod (hence why I need more dwarves) this also happened when I played without mods.

The only thing I can think of is that maybe my zone is too savage - previously I played in calm surroundings and I got immigrants all year round but both of these games were in untamed wilds.

If savagery really does have this effect... does evil biome also have it?

[Psieye]

No, this is normal behaviour. It's the exception that (other than the first year), you get migrants in summer and autumn.

[thijser]

I had one of my games with only migrants in winter. This was however on an isle. So they would not have been able to spawn anywhere on the map if they would have arrived on a diffrend part of the year.

[jei]

I've had two games in a row now when migrants only arrive in the spring (other then the first two small hardcoded waves). I get a nice batch - 20-25 or so, but after that nothing the rest of the year. I have plenty of wealth (8 million, 3rd year), and while I'm now playing the fortress defense mod (hence why I need more dwarves) this also happened when I played without mods.

The only thing I can think of is that maybe my zone is too savage - previously I played in calm surroundings and I got immigrants all year round but both of these games were in untamed wilds.

If savagery really does have this effect... does evil biome also have it?

Might this be influenced by donations to other civs through merchants?
Try donating lots of useless stuff to the humans and see how it goes?

[ioi101]

I don't think so.. I do usually donate a fair bit.

[celem]

I wonder if its perhaps a function of distance to your parent civ.

It could be that the migrants all depart at the usual times, and then that distance to your fort impacts when they actually arrive.

Just thinking this as I believe that there is a 'travel time' coded into the game somewhere.  I discovered this in the FortDefense mod actually when playing about with giving CAN_SPEAK to various races (causing them to arrive as merchants).  When I removed the speak tag again i still often got 1 more caravan from that race before they started showing up as seiges (Hence theorized 'travel time' as SPEAK enabled merchants were perhaps already en-route when the tag was reset)

[JarinArenos]

Is terrain taken into account? Like maybe there's a river (or other blocking body of water) between you and your mountainhome, which is only passable in the winter when it freezes, thus migrants stack up on the other side throughout the year, cross in the winter, and arrive in the spring?

[ioi101]

That would be pretty interesting Jarin, but there's only a brook near my location, and it's a hot climate so no freezing at all. I still think that it has something to do with savagery, my previous game in a calm location had immigrants all year round.

And celem, I'm sure that's some sort of factor, but it would only delay when your migrants arrive, if they are dispatched more then once a year you should get migrants more then once a year, even if each is delayed a month or two.

[SpawnoChaos]

I actually have the reverse problem; I have too many dwarves!

Right now I'm close to 300 of them... and more still arrive every year. I'm self-sustaining, and have been since my forts creation 13 in-game years ago.