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[tychoruniko]

At first I had no idea you could savescum. And then when I got good (lucky?) enough at the game to not fail every five minutes (now it takes at least a whole day for a fortress to spiral into madness and death) I felt like I didn't need it anymore. Like I had already met the challenge, if you know what I mean.

[John Johnston]

I never savescum in DF, not for fortresses or adventurers.  I'm a complete convert to the DF "Losing is Fun" mantra; I used to savescum the hell out of Angband ("It breathes fire!  You die.") but being taken apart by a GCS just holds a sort of horrid fascination, and a fortress full of insane dwarfs is its own reward.  

[herrbdog]

quote:Originally posted by John Johnston:
<STRONG>...but being taken apart by a GCS just holds a sort of horrid fascination, and a fortress full of insane dwarfs is its own reward.    </STRONG>

That about sums it up. Plus, personally, I am lazy.

[Toaster]

I think between acceptance of "Losing is Fun!" and laziness, I haven't done it.  If I screw something up in a fort, I'm more likely to intentionally destroy it and start another then want to back up for a do-over.  I have seasonal autosave on, but mostly due to DF being an alpha.  I've only had a couple crashes, but I *really* hate losing a lot of work.

[grelphy]

I leave autobakup on, but have never used it. I tend to go for invincible defences, though, so the only time anything serious happened was when a dragon climbed in through the back staircase I'd forgotten about. I lost two dwarves to it (legendary miners FTW!) and then lost about fifty more (from a peak of more than eighty) to the ensuing conflagration.

And then lost the save and all the backups to a system error. That's the only fort I might have considered savescumming, but I think things had more or less stabilized and I might have been able to recover.