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Amber Wolf

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How do you stop Migrants?
« on: March 01, 2009, 03:00:24 pm »
Like how do you turn off more dwarves comming to your fortress? All i really want is just my starting dwarves having children and not always having to set a popcap because i get too many migrants. IS there any way at all to stop them comming?  Or a way to mod them from comming?
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Skorpion

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Re: How do you stop Migrants?
« Reply #1 on: March 01, 2009, 03:29:11 pm »
Stop creating wealth. I've pretty much stopped currently, and haven't had any in a coupla years.
Or kill a LOT of dwarves.
Or trap a dwarven caravan, so you won't get wealth assessments.

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If you trap a caravan, don't let it go. I finally found how to release one, and I got about 15 migrants at once.
« Last Edit: March 01, 2009, 06:15:49 pm by Skorpion »
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Re: How do you stop Migrants?
« Reply #2 on: March 01, 2009, 04:10:33 pm »
essentially, no. popcap is pretty much the only option. unless you can run your fortress without generating signifigant wealth (which is hard considering anything you mine out or build is more wealth), immigrants will continue to arrive with the cats and legendary fish dissections skills.
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Re: How do you stop Migrants?
« Reply #3 on: March 01, 2009, 04:32:58 pm »
Build a completely enclosed fortress and leave the migrants outside to play with the local wildlife.
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Shadowex3

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Re: How do you stop Migrants?
« Reply #4 on: March 01, 2009, 05:01:31 pm »
With many diverse and Fun applications of the game's hazards. Or you could do what I do and get them before they make friends with anyone and turn them into a slave-class of hauler/recruit hybrids whose only purpose in life is to carry things around and then serve as a living punching back in the barracks.
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Re: How do you stop Migrants?
« Reply #5 on: March 01, 2009, 08:12:08 pm »
i find that killing nobles helps to keep the migrants away. With a retractable bridge over a bottomless pit. With a floor on the bottom. Did you know that falling 20+ levels made dwarves explode on impact, and then their chunks often fly around 6 levels vertically? Its very funny.
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Re: How do you stop Migrants?
« Reply #6 on: March 01, 2009, 08:34:09 pm »
Recruit all migrants, assign them into a single room, lock doors/wall in, fill room with water or magma. Water if you want their stuff. Or, just let them all starve. As an added bonus, pets should follow them inside the room of death as well.
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