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Mego

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Re: Longest lasting fortress?
« Reply #15 on: November 21, 2011, 01:16:35 am »
Quote from: SixOfSpades on November 20, 2011, 11:30:13 pm
On a related note, can dwarves die of old age?

If I remember correctly from the time when I was looking in the raws, dwarves have very long lifespans, so they typically die out from !!FUN!! before age eats them. Elves last even longer.

My personal longest was 5 years. I had 150-ish dwarves, and way too many cats, so my FPS was horrid. I pulled the cotton candy stick out and had some !!FUN!! with the clowns.
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Re: Longest lasting fortress?
« Reply #16 on: November 21, 2011, 01:24:00 am »
Quote from: SixOfSpades on November 20, 2011, 11:30:13 pm
On a related note, can dwarves die of old age?

Yes.

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Mego

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Re: Longest lasting fortress?
« Reply #17 on: November 21, 2011, 01:56:41 am »
How old were those dwarves?
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Re: Longest lasting fortress?
« Reply #18 on: November 21, 2011, 06:41:01 am »
i just read the histories of boatmurdered. it still lasted many years
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Re: Longest lasting fortress?
« Reply #19 on: November 21, 2011, 07:16:26 am »
15-16 Years to kill a Demonic Lord who had 4,000 kills. It only died from one wound a head gash.
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Re: Longest lasting fortress?
« Reply #20 on: November 21, 2011, 12:11:12 pm »
Quote from: Mego on November 21, 2011, 01:56:41 am
How old were those dwarves?

Dwarves die of old age somewhere between the age of 150 and 170 years old. You can see this in the raws as the [MAXAGE:150:170] token, which states that the dwarf will die sometime after they turn 150, and is guaranteed to die by/on their 170th birthday.
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Re: Longest lasting fortress?
« Reply #21 on: November 21, 2011, 12:58:36 pm »
Quote from: i2amroy on November 21, 2011, 12:11:12 pm
Quote from: Mego on November 21, 2011, 01:56:41 am
How old were those dwarves?

Dwarves die of old age somewhere between the age of 150 and 170 years old. You can see this in the raws as the [MAXAGE:150:170] token, which states that the dwarf will die sometime after they turn 150, and is guaranteed to die by/on their 170th birthday.

Yeah, that was the token I remembered when I was fiddling with stuff. But, my question was, how old were the dwarves in that screenshot?
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Re: Longest lasting fortress?
« Reply #22 on: November 21, 2011, 01:39:06 pm »
Quote from: Mego on November 21, 2011, 12:58:36 pm
Yeah, that was the token I remembered when I was fiddling with stuff. But, my question was, how old were the dwarves in that screenshot?

Id was 161, Imush was 151, and Mosus was 166. So, those ranges check out quite nicely.
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Re: Longest lasting fortress?
« Reply #23 on: November 21, 2011, 04:05:31 pm »
Rootmanors lasted 10 years, even became mountainhome, but I got bored and unleashed the clowns.
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Re: Longest lasting fortress?
« Reply #24 on: November 21, 2011, 04:13:34 pm »
Daggerdepths went 30 years before boredom crept in. FPS was still good thanks to maintaining a low population but I was just running out of things to do...
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Re: Longest lasting fortress?
« Reply #25 on: November 22, 2011, 12:02:18 pm »
Quote from: BloodBeard on November 21, 2011, 04:13:34 pm
Daggerdepths went 30 years before boredom crept in. FPS was still good thanks to maintaining a low population but I was just running out of things to do...
How did you maintain it?  through the RAWs or through more dorfy means? ;)
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Re: Longest lasting fortress?
« Reply #26 on: November 22, 2011, 01:30:22 pm »
Quote from: darkninja1213 on November 22, 2011, 12:02:18 pm
Quote from: BloodBeard on November 21, 2011, 04:13:34 pm
Daggerdepths went 30 years before boredom crept in. FPS was still good thanks to maintaining a low population but I was just running out of things to do...
How did you maintain it?  through the RAWs or through more dorfy means? ;)

No dwarfy methods, just population caps...

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« Reply #27 on: November 22, 2011, 01:35:22 pm »
About 30 years. Killed all forgotten beasts that showed up (about 30). Released the hoards of hell and killed them all. Then abandoned fort. Was Civ Forge mod. Liked the huge supply of very deadly crossbow bolts I made from incendium, tempestium, glacium, void crystal, blood crystal, etc.
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