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Need_More_War!

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« on: October 16, 2009, 08:16:24 pm »
What determines when and how many will you get?
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They Got Leader

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Re: Migrants
« Reply #1 on: October 16, 2009, 08:22:34 pm »
I read somewhere that its all about how much you produce in the last season. Its also about how much you trade (import/export).
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Re: Migrants
« Reply #2 on: October 16, 2009, 08:23:26 pm »
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Re: Migrants
« Reply #3 on: October 16, 2009, 10:22:21 pm »
Quote from: They Got Leader on October 16, 2009, 08:22:34 pm
I read somewhere that its all about how much you produce in the last season. Its also about how much you trade (import/export).

Not sure what you've been reading, I've never heard either of these.

From what is commonly understood to be true, it's "Created Wealth", and the increase in CW between last year and this.  It's measured when the Caravan/Liaison show up - I think it's actually the L. who matters, but it's not clear when, exactly, the amount is determined - a LOT of variables and randomness in there as well.

The amount of profit a Caravan gets determines how much crap they bring next year.

This is all in the wiki - "Migrant" or "migration" (either)
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Magua

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Re: Migrants
« Reply #4 on: October 16, 2009, 11:00:29 pm »
It's caravan, not liaison (as you can still gain migrants even if your liaisons all die).

The caravan must survive and leave the map to count -- if this doesn't happen, the reported created wealth doesn't change.

Deaths -- particularly noble deaths -- reduce the number of migrants.  This seems to happen regardless of the caravan successfully leaving or not.
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Re: Migrants
« Reply #5 on: October 17, 2009, 02:41:01 am »
Also, in some cases, the dwarven mountainhome civilization fared so badly during worldgen, that you will not recieve immigrants. Or ony 1 wave.
My current fortress got 5 migrants in it's 3d year. Now in year 15. No more migrants. Abandoning and looking in Legends revealed that the mountainhome civ only has 1 city.
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Re: Migrants
« Reply #6 on: October 17, 2009, 12:18:02 pm »
The caravans aren't the sole factor; I've had forts where I've gotten migrants before the first caravan shows up. Not many migrants, but some. However, it's far more common for you to get your first migrant wave in spring of the second year than in summer of the first.
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