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[sdp0et]

I conducted an expirement in a recent fortress (in 40d): I renamed each dwarf as they immigrated placing a number in their name corresponding to which immigration wave they were a part of.  I tracked as late as the 10th wave and found that ALL dwarves in romantic relationships (lovers or married) were with someone from their wave.  Nobody was in a relationship with someone from a different immigration wave.  This goes also for those who arrived single and fell in love while slaving working away.  I haven't repeated this, and I supposed it could be coincidence, but it seemed odd. Is this a known behaviour?  Is it deliberate that dwarves would only become involved with someone from their own immigration wave?

Male Seeking Female:  Must have arrived in fortress between Sandstone and Timber, 368.  Must like waterfalls, granite blocks and leather left socks.

[Smew]

I believe it relates to how immigrants are naturally friends with eachother(Or at least, I think they are?)

[Albedo]

That is odd tho at 100% - even as "friends", you'd think that other friends would have a chance.

I'm just starting a game, I'll do the same (tho' whether I make it to wave 10 or not is another matter.)

[Vampire Penguin]

They don't even know each other as acquaintances when they move in, nor have they ever spoken (to anyone) before in their lives. I guess they fall in love on the way to the gate.

[Shoku]

You could mess with init so you got immigration waves of just 1 slave/worker each time and then see if you could get any of those immigrants to fall for anyone else-

[Hectonkhyres]

Male Seeking Female:  Must have arrived in fortress between Sandstone and Timber, 368.  Must like waterfalls, granite blocks and leather left socks.

Man, with fetishes like that I would pay good money to have a full video of that couple's honeymoon night.

[sdp0et]

Man, with fetishes like that I would pay good money to have a full video of that couple's honeymoon night.

I am stifling all manner of inappropriate and deranged "Urist cancels X; performing Y" comments right now.


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[Demetrious]

Male Seeking Female:  Must have arrived in fortress between Sandstone and Timber, 368.  Must like waterfalls, granite blocks and leather left socks.

Man, with fetishes like that I would pay good money to have a full video of that couple's honeymoon night.

This forum is such a goldmine of sig quotes, it's insane.

[Time Kitten]

Simple enough.  Each waves starts in "Morning Mode" Meaning they've just got up, eated, and drinked.  For the first couple years, they will be on similar eat/sleep/drink scheduals that are only broken up over time, or by eing posted somewhere that it takes a while to reach booze/food/sleeping areas.

pTry posting half of them at a glassworks halfway across the map, They'll never talk again in a few days time.

[Dwarfu]

I think you're all trying too hard.

I'm inclined to think its simple world-gen code for who gets with who.  In world gen, they all marry in their own generation (I know, I've traced entire trees back to the original dwarves).

I would therefore assume that it treats the immigrant spawn as a 'generation'.  And thus they only marry and become lovers of those in their wave/generation.  I have not paid attention to if they marry someone near their age, but in a different wave - I think I remember from world gen trees that age didn't matter, it had to be the same generation.

Testing...testing...I'm sure this will all change when we get to the life-cycle arcs.

[Creamcorn]

Relationships are strange is Dwarf Fortress.

I once downloaded the last dwarfs in the world file, created a group of startings dwarfs and settled down on an island. Before embarking I looked through the files for two dwarfs that seemed compatible with each other and gave them milatary skills to keep them away from the rest of the population, I than drowned the bloody lot and set out to make a life for the would be lovers.

To keep the dwarfs alive I modded their typical starting age to be like seven or something, both were peasents. I just found it cute to be thinking of young dwarven lovers! :3











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Kogan: Hey Momez remember how much fun we had building this giant CLEAR GLASS APARTMENT COMPLEX?

Momez: Sure do, just wish we had other people to share it with!

Kogan: Well I'm going to go on ahead and, whoops! Looks like my trousers finnaly rotted off, all that's left now is my tattered loincloth, tehe don't look!

Momez: Why bother with clothing? There's nothing left here anymore! Not even cats or vermin! No one is watching!

Kogan: MOMEZ! Are you finally thinking about what I'm finally tinking about?

Momez: Yeah, I'm thirsty.

Kogan: ;_;

God dammit dwarfs.

[Aspgren]

No they can find love across immigration waves.. I tend to believe every wave spends time amongst "themselves" before the player finds a proper place for them in the fortress.

Think about it. You keep those who are useful and the damned soap makers are drafted. They always keep together ... well just recently an immigrant who hadn't fallen for anyone in 3 years was drafted due to casualties in the army - pretty soon she's spending time with a dashing dwarven champion and falls for him. They're now lovers.

The bad news about this is my NO MOTHERS IN THE ARMY policy and she was turning out pretty good. If she gets pregnant I'm going to throw a tantrum.