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Couchmonster

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All my fortress are empty
« on: May 21, 2011, 07:02:40 pm »
Hej,

I tried hard to find some soldiers to join me, but all forts I visit are empty and full of badgers...
Help? :(
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metime00

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Re: All my fortress are empty
« Reply #1 on: May 21, 2011, 07:18:26 pm »
It seems that there were some world generation starvations. Or alot of them. Just keep searching and revel in the post-apocalypse.
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Quote from: Thadius on September 19, 2010, 02:00:07 am
Live long if you can, and prosper by any means necessary.  Any means, Urist.  So pull that lever, or by Armok, I'll lock you outside come next siege.
He who plays with dwarves must take care that he does not become a dwarf.  And when you stare into DwarfFort, Dwarffort stares back into you.

Couchmonster

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Re: All my fortress are empty
« Reply #2 on: May 21, 2011, 07:28:32 pm »
There is also no dwarfen population to chose :(
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metime00

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Re: All my fortress are empty
« Reply #3 on: May 21, 2011, 08:45:04 pm »
So it seems your entire world is post apocalyptic. If you really want stuff just generate a new world, they're a dime a dozen.
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Quote from: Thadius on September 19, 2010, 02:00:07 am
Live long if you can, and prosper by any means necessary.  Any means, Urist.  So pull that lever, or by Armok, I'll lock you outside come next siege.
He who plays with dwarves must take care that he does not become a dwarf.  And when you stare into DwarfFort, Dwarffort stares back into you.

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Re: All my fortress are empty
« Reply #4 on: May 21, 2011, 10:30:50 pm »
On the Wiki, there is a good quick start guide for adventure mode. One of the gems is how to generate a good world, for both modes. Basically its this;
 World size Medium
 History Short
Number of Civilizations High
Number of sites High
Beasts medium
Mineral occurance frequent
Your choice on savagery
Occasionally you might get a world with no dwarves, just create a new one. Also try out the utility DFusion. In it you can equip your companions. Also gives you an excuse to trade for human sized armor, and weapons, keeping your craftdwarves busy. If you like elf adventurers, please ignore the above, YOU HIPPY!
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Re: All my fortress are empty
« Reply #5 on: May 22, 2011, 03:44:32 pm »
all your fortress are belong to us
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Re: All my fortress are empty
« Reply #6 on: May 22, 2011, 03:50:08 pm »
Quote from: Couchmonster on May 21, 2011, 07:02:40 pm
[...]empty and full of badgers...
Schroedinger's Badgers, eh?


:)
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Couchmonster

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Re: All my fortress are empty
« Reply #7 on: May 22, 2011, 07:42:52 pm »
Empty of companions / soldiers ofc :)
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Couchmonster

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Re: All my fortress are empty
« Reply #8 on: May 22, 2011, 09:56:38 pm »
Ok... I created a new world and looked over the historical figures.... there are NO dwarfs at all... huh?
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Re: All my fortress are empty
« Reply #9 on: May 23, 2011, 12:08:09 am »
Does your world have no mountains for some reason? Dwarves need mountains, but you should have plenty of those if you used basic world gen (as opposed to advanced world gen with some wacky parameters).

Actually, high savagery can also retard civilization development because civs need medium or low savagery areas to develop. Even with high savagery you should have a good bit of at least medium or lower areas but still, high savagery can make things more difficult for civs.
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