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Kestrel

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Longest you've gone without an ambush?
« on: April 20, 2011, 10:58:32 am »
Frosthalls is now well within its fourth year, built underneath a glacier.  Plenty of migrants, no shortage of traders, and a plethora of forgotten beasts battling ant men in its caverns.  But since I started the embark I've yet to strike a vein of goblinite.  I suppose that's fine, since I've no intention of using the surface for anything but trading.

What's the longest you've gone?
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Re: Longest you've gone without an ambush?
« Reply #1 on: April 20, 2011, 11:16:10 am »
Island.

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synkell

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Re: Longest you've gone without an ambush?
« Reply #2 on: April 20, 2011, 11:25:40 am »
1 long year.... Elven ambush that is...
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NecroRebel

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Re: Longest you've gone without an ambush?
« Reply #3 on: April 20, 2011, 12:12:10 pm »
Fifteen years or so. I think ambushes are the stupidest, most annoying thing ever, so I habitually mod them out.
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Re: Longest you've gone without an ambush?
« Reply #4 on: April 20, 2011, 12:12:50 pm »
In my current personal edition of Fortress Defense, I only get sieges.  ;D
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Re: Longest you've gone without an ambush?
« Reply #5 on: April 20, 2011, 12:18:04 pm »
Quote from: darkflagrance on April 20, 2011, 12:12:50 pm
In my current personal edition of Fortress Defense, I only get sieges.  ;D
I've been playing modified forms of FDII since... I dunno, .16 I think, so I'm the same. Doesn't change the fact that I usually mod out goblins, or at least remove their BABYSNATCHER tag.
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Re: Longest you've gone without an ambush?
« Reply #6 on: April 20, 2011, 12:31:36 pm »
On an unrelated note, how do you get rid of the assorted corpses outside your fort? They are eating up fps like the cookie monster does on cookies...
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Kestrel

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Re: Longest you've gone without an ambush?
« Reply #7 on: April 20, 2011, 12:41:17 pm »
Probably by changing the Order for collecting refuse outside.
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Re: Longest you've gone without an ambush?
« Reply #8 on: April 20, 2011, 01:24:19 pm »
Quote from: synkell on April 20, 2011, 12:31:36 pm
On an unrelated note, how do you get rid of the assorted corpses outside your fort? They are eating up fps like the cookie monster does on cookies...

Mass dump them into magma.
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Re: Longest you've gone without an ambush?
« Reply #9 on: April 20, 2011, 01:28:06 pm »
I went 4 years without ambush.  Year 3 did have a goblin siege. 
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Re: Longest you've gone without an ambush?
« Reply #10 on: April 20, 2011, 03:34:24 pm »
4 years without any goblins, before a combined ambush and siege killed everything.
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