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DirtPoacher

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How Long do you stand?
« on: February 10, 2012, 12:47:20 am »
So I have been playing for about a week now and was wondering how long your games usually last? An hour? a couple? days, weeks? How long do you last before your inevitable departure from the earth?
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Re: How Long do you stand?
« Reply #1 on: February 10, 2012, 01:06:25 am »
Second fort. Year five. Playing off and on since October or thereabouts.
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Re: How Long do you stand?
« Reply #2 on: February 10, 2012, 01:09:09 am »
Wow, That is quite a while for a single fort. Must be quite large too!
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Re: How Long do you stand?
« Reply #3 on: February 10, 2012, 01:14:26 am »
My fortresses tend to be about ten years old until I start another one.
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Re: How Long do you stand?
« Reply #4 on: February 10, 2012, 01:57:55 am »
If it's a fortress I'm serious about(A.K.A. not a test/screwing around fort), I'm stubborn enough not to let it go until the cruel forces of the game mercilessly uproot my deep, metaphorical tendrils of control, and it crumbles to its tragic end.
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« Reply #5 on: February 10, 2012, 02:02:29 am »
I feel as though if you have a fortress for a long time when it starts to fall and you see all of that hard work and time just become a snack for a Forgotten Beast is quite chilling XD
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Re: How Long do you stand?
« Reply #6 on: February 10, 2012, 02:14:31 am »
I think about 7-10 years. I've never had a fort actually crumble to it's end after about 3 years in game. What kills it is the FPS slowdown or lack of materials and things to accomplish makes it not fun anymore.

I like to end them by putting every last dorf in the military, equipping and training them a bit, clean up the fortess by tossing unimportant stuff into the magma sea and then abandoning. Your dorfs and equipment survive abandoning and you can try to fight them in advent mode and whatnot.
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Re: How Long do you stand?
« Reply #7 on: February 10, 2012, 02:46:20 am »
My forts now manage to survive an average of seven years, as far as I can tell. My longest-lasting fort died at the end of its 16th year due to intentional exposure to the most extreme Fun available.

The amazing thing is that even with all the Fun generators running around in the fortress it still landed a solid 40FPS right until the end. It was running at 80+ with 372 dwarves before I screwed it.
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Re: How Long do you stand?
« Reply #8 on: February 10, 2012, 03:17:46 am »
Quote from: Zaerosz on February 10, 2012, 02:46:20 am
The amazing thing is that even with all the Fun generators running around in the fortress it still landed a solid 40FPS right until the end. It was running at 80+ with 372 dwarves before I screwed it.

Lucky bastard.
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« Reply #9 on: February 10, 2012, 03:41:05 am »
Well, if we're talking serious forts here, then usually around 7 years. 

I did once manage a game that got up to 35 years though, with immigration turned off.  I was just starting to get grandchildren old enough to start working when an unfortunate sequence of events involving a lever, a wild turkey, a skittish dwarf, and a goblin ambush resulted in unavoidable catastrophe, concluding in the deaths (by attackers and later madness) of all but my baroness and my militia captain. 

It was a sad abandon of that fort. 

I did however come back with an adventurer (actually, one who I had played on before founding the fort) and recruited some antwomen I found living in the caverns below the fortress.   

My memory of that place is still... emotional.  I had even thought of writing a story of events in my fortress, and had carefully catologued births and deaths and the names of nobles over the years.  Took lots of screenshots too.  It's strange to get attached to a group of pixels, but really this is the only game I know of where, if you look close enough, you really can get attached that way.   

Anyway, that was slightly off-topic, but I am hoping to get something that sustainable running again once the next release gets stable.  I'll probably pepper the dwarven "sites" with adventurers as well, and hope for an epic tale.  The best forts are the long forts. 
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Re: How Long do you stand?
« Reply #10 on: February 10, 2012, 04:47:27 am »
Typically around 10 game years, I've finished enough experiments and accumulated enough pending gen-a-new-world mods to bother genning a new world and starting a new fort.

I've started keeping track of what raws were associated with each save… but I haven't gone back to one yet :'(
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Re: How Long do you stand?
« Reply #11 on: February 10, 2012, 04:54:50 am »
Wait, was the question about game time, real time, or both?
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« Reply #12 on: February 10, 2012, 04:59:06 am »
Mine tend to last from a couple days to a couple weeks, real time. No idea about game time. I don't pay much attention to that.
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Re: How Long do you stand?
« Reply #13 on: February 10, 2012, 07:50:37 am »
My best was over 30 years, never died, I just left it alone before it did.
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« Reply #14 on: February 10, 2012, 07:56:14 am »
Quote from: Loud Whispers on February 10, 2012, 07:50:37 am
My best was over 30 years, never died, I just left it alone before it did.
Some fortresses can be made entirely automatic, besides military and such

Mind you, those kind of fortresses are boring as all hell.

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