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[deoxy]

I've got a 40d fort going, and I removed the active tag on my civilization so they don't ever send immigrants, nobles, or caravans... I only had 2 females, so it took a while to get up to 20 dwarves, and I just got my first mood a few months ago.

Here's the problem: it took me nearly 10 years to get around to putting up real defenses (that is, an automated death machine - no sand, so I had to have enough metal for all the upright spikes...), so I just walled up and didn't open up for several years.

I added several different hostile civs: 2 or 3 orc civs, 2 goblins civs, ogres, giants, etc.  I've had contact with several of them near the beginning (ambushes), but I didn't really notice after I walled up (I had a very special entrance for caravans, so they could get through without opening up to the world) whether I had any more ambushes, and now that I have my Nasty Slaughter Pit of Doom^TM ready and I've got an entryway into my fortress open to the world (which goes through said NSPoD^TM, or course)...

Well, it's been at least 4 years, and I've got NOTHING coming.  Zilch.

I didn't really kill very many in the early years, and orcs don't bloody care about that anyway, of course... Have they just given up?  I've never run a fortress quite this long before (I'm in year 16 now), and I certainly haven't ever gone this long without being big enough for actual sieges, so perhaps this is just normal...

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[rodya_mirov]

I think it's based more on wealth and population than time.  When you finally get some dwarfs you should have more Fun

[Aravin]

I've got a 40d fort going, and I removed the active tag on my civilization so they don't ever send immigrants, nobles, or caravans... I only had 2 females, so it took a while to get up to 20 dwarves, and I just got my first mood a few months ago.

Here's the problem: it took me nearly 10 years to get around to putting up real defenses (that is, an automated death machine - no sand, so I had to have enough metal for all the upright spikes...), so I just walled up and didn't open up for several years.

I added several different hostile civs: 2 or 3 orc civs, 2 goblins civs, ogres, giants, etc.  I've had contact with several of them near the beginning (ambushes), but I didn't really notice after I walled up (I had a very special entrance for caravans, so they could get through without opening up to the world) whether I had any more ambushes, and now that I have my Nasty Slaughter Pit of Doom^TM ready and I've got an entryway into my fortress open to the world (which goes through said NSPoD^TM, or course)...

Well, it's been at least 4 years, and I've got NOTHING coming.  Zilch.

I didn't really kill very many in the early years, and orcs don't bloody care about that anyway, of course... Have they just given up?  I've never run a fortress quite this long before (I'm in year 16 now), and I certainly haven't ever gone this long without being big enough for actual sieges, so perhaps this is just normal...

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If you never come out from your fortress for that time, well, then try to open the door and let your dwarves out. You will get 4-5 ambushes. It was same for me.
And if you did.... well, then goblins and orcs just ambush and laying siege other dwarven cities insted of yours)

[darkflagrance]

I've played 50 years of a fort with 13 enemy civs in 40d. I noticed that some enemies ceased coming completely after a few years, while others came constantly every other season in the fort's later years. When I didn't defeat the sieges of a certain civ, they tended to send sieges more constantly. Another civ I decimated in the fort's early years has only recently begun sending sieges again.

So, based on this information, I'd say that by destroying the last few waves of sieges, you've won yourself a long lull in sieges for a while. Eventually, sieges should start happening again, but it could be a while.

[Jim Groovester]

They should never stop coming.

I've had a theory for a while that sieges are linked to the amount of wealth you create. If you want more sieges, make more junk and see if that does the trick.

[CognitiveDissonance]

They should never stop coming.

I've had a theory for a while that sieges are linked to the amount of wealth you create. If you want more sieges, make more junk and see if that does the trick.

If you have obsidian, make obsidian crafts, then encrust them with jewels. Then, make steel weapons and stud them with platinum.

That should solve it.

[TomiTapio]

Maybe the "removed the active tag on my civilization" changes how the hostile civs treat you. Dangerous terrain.

Or DF keeps track of the "able citizens" of each civ and they've run out of adults and non-crippples.