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Author Topic: King's entourage does observe population cap. Since when?  (Read 1040 times)

Saiko Kila

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King's entourage does observe population cap. Since when?
« on: March 27, 2015, 05:32:16 am »
Some 10 days after elven caravan and diplomat, my king decided to show up. He brought the liaison with him, but no one else. I was expecting legendary soldiers, to kick start my melee military, so was disappointed. Since I had a save from elf trading, I decided to experiment with population cap. My original population cap was 140/150 (140 pop cap, 150 strict pop cap), and I had 146 dwarves before king come, so thought the lack of entourage was connected to the strict pop cap. So I made changes and waited:
140/160 - as previously, king and liaison only, 148 dwarves total
140/170 - as previously, king and liaison only, 148 dwarves total
150/170 - as previously, king and liaison only, 148 dwarves total
160/170 - 11 dwarves came, including the "noble two", there were 4 legendary soldiers (as a bonus I got an armourer mood the same day), so now I had 157 total
170/180 - 20 dwarves came, including the "noble two", there were 4 legendary soldiers, so now I had 166 total

It is now clear to me the normal population cap rules for migrant waves are observed.  But I remember that king's band was immune to population cap once. When did it change? Was it with strict population cap addition?
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TheFlame52

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Re: King's entourage does observe population cap. Since when?
« Reply #1 on: March 27, 2015, 02:04:30 pm »
Hm. This may explain why I didn't get a king, only an outpost liaison.
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utunnels

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Re: King's entourage does observe population cap. Since when?
« Reply #2 on: March 27, 2015, 07:03:27 pm »
Yeah, I asked the same question months ago, but it seemed no one noticed the oddity so I thought it was normal.
I usually got only the king and the liaison when the fort became the mountainhome.

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Saiko Kila

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Re: King's entourage does observe population cap. Since when?
« Reply #3 on: March 28, 2015, 04:10:36 pm »
Quote from: utunnels on March 27, 2015, 07:03:27 pm
Yeah, I asked the same question months ago, but it seemed no one noticed the oddity so I thought it was normal.
I usually got only the king and the liaison when the fort became the mountainhome.

I wasn't around here then because I was adventuring, but I'm almost sure than in early v0.40.x I got king with his bodyguards despite hitting pop cap. So I think this change is relatively fresh, though not very fresh. I wonder whether this is a bug or not, i.e. an intentional change.
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