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Author Topic: Reclaim gives random # of settlers?  (Read 970 times)

WomanTheatre

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Reclaim gives random # of settlers?
« on: March 23, 2008, 01:16:00 pm »
My first reclamation had 14 in the party, my next one had 7...what influences the number of settlers on a reclamation?
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Chrispy

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Re: Reclaim gives random # of settlers?
« Reply #1 on: March 23, 2008, 05:41:00 pm »
I think it's influenced by the size of the map you are reclaiming.  I occasionally increase the size of the map, and when I reclaim that map, even off of a false start where I did nothing except die, I've gotten nearly 80 dwarves.  This means I usually run out of food very, very fast.
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Re: Reclaim gives random # of settlers?
« Reply #2 on: March 23, 2008, 05:57:00 pm »
It's based on total value, where natural land counts toward architecture.
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ToxicFrog

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Re: Reclaim gives random # of settlers?
« Reply #3 on: March 23, 2008, 06:59:00 pm »
It doesn't seem to be consistent, though. I've had situations where I abandon a fortress, reclaim, and it hands me 50+ dwarves. Then I try again (either from the same save, or by reclaiming, abandoning again, and reclaiming again) and it gives me 7, or 14.
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Lyrax

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Re: Reclaim gives random # of settlers?
« Reply #4 on: March 24, 2008, 12:05:00 am »
Reclaiming auto-forbids everything... maybe that lowered the value from a 50-dwarf force to a 14-dwarf force.
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