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Author Topic: Are vampires a gaurentee for each fort now?  (Read 4272 times)

cludgo

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Are vampires a gaurentee for each fort now?
« on: February 19, 2012, 08:35:21 am »

Will you always have a vampire come and infiltrate your ranks? Are they that common?
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Re: Are vampires a gaurentee for each fort now?
« Reply #1 on: February 19, 2012, 08:40:25 am »

Yes....?  And the solution to them is not all ways obvious. Hammerer does not even work for me.
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Re: Are vampires a gaurentee for each fort now?
« Reply #2 on: February 19, 2012, 08:49:47 am »

Its not guaranteed, but its highly likely you'll eventually get at least one vampire, provided there are any dwarf vampires (usually are).
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Re: Are vampires a gaurentee for each fort now?
« Reply #3 on: February 19, 2012, 08:57:01 am »

I haven't gotten any so far in my test fort
Got 83 dorfs, not a one of the a bloodsucker.

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Re: Are vampires a gaurentee for each fort now?
« Reply #4 on: February 19, 2012, 09:05:15 am »

I haven't gotten any so far in my test fort
Got 83 dorfs, not a one of the a bloodsucker.

You can't be sure that you don't have one.
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Re: Are vampires a gaurentee for each fort now?
« Reply #5 on: February 19, 2012, 09:09:03 am »



You can't be sure that you don't have one.
You actually can. I'm trying to make an all vampire fortress, I'm at pop 90 and not one vampire.

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Re: Are vampires a gaurentee for each fort now?
« Reply #6 on: February 19, 2012, 09:25:08 am »

I haven't gotten any so far in my test fort
Got 83 dorfs, not a one of the a bloodsucker.

You can't be sure that you don't have one.

Did screening and kept my eye on the communal areas and bedrooms. No blod suckers. Thought I had one, but it turns out he was a war veteran with 6 random elves and thier squad leader under his belt.

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Re: Are vampires a gaurentee for each fort now?
« Reply #7 on: February 19, 2012, 10:21:53 am »

I haven't gotten any so far in my test fort
Got 83 dorfs, not a one of the a bloodsucker.

You can't be sure that you don't have one.

Did screening and kept my eye on the communal areas and bedrooms. No blod suckers. Thought I had one, but it turns out he was a war veteran with 6 random elves and thier squad leader under his belt.
I hope you made that dwarf a captain
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Re: Are vampires a gaurentee for each fort now?
« Reply #8 on: February 19, 2012, 10:49:31 am »

I think my world is completely devoid of Vampires, Necromancers and Were-beasts. Namely because I was an idiot and didn't want to wait for world gen and stopped it at 5 before getting an elegant fortress design. started.
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Re: Are vampires a gaurentee for each fort now?
« Reply #9 on: February 19, 2012, 11:06:34 am »

Yes....?  And the solution to them is not all ways obvious. Hammerer does not even work for me.

Remember that you need a sheriff (and a jail) to hand out a sentence - and I've seen sheriffs that do not order a hammering for vampires, but instead gave them extraordinarily long prison time. My method of dealing with vampires is usually to draft them into my military and have them stationed out in a burrow far from the fortress. That way there's no blood for them to drink except that of invaders - and most vampires are really good at fighting.
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Re: Are vampires a gaurentee for each fort now?
« Reply #10 on: February 19, 2012, 11:09:10 am »

I've no idea whether I have a vampire. Nor do I have a sheriff nor a hammerer. How does a hammerer actually work, even?
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Re: Are vampires a gaurentee for each fort now?
« Reply #11 on: February 19, 2012, 11:09:25 am »

Yes....?  And the solution to them is not all ways obvious. Hammerer does not even work for me.

Remember that you need a sheriff (and a jail) to hand out a sentence - and I've seen sheriffs that do not order a hammering for vampires, but instead gave them extraordinarily long prison time. My method of dealing with vampires is usually to draft them into my military and have them stationed out in a burrow far from the fortress. That way there's no blood for them to drink except that of invaders - and most vampires are really good at fighting.

My vampire corps tired out goblins, and beat them senseless after they passed out from exhaustion.

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Re: Are vampires a gaurentee for each fort now?
« Reply #12 on: February 19, 2012, 03:14:10 pm »

If a world is around 130 years old is that enough to have enough vampires?
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Re: Are vampires a gaurentee for each fort now?
« Reply #13 on: February 19, 2012, 03:24:53 pm »



You can't be sure that you don't have one.
You actually can. I'm trying to make an all vampire fortress, I'm at pop 90 and not one vampire.
It's depressing. I've had SO many potential vampires, they've got all the effects; ridiculously good reflexes, fast healing, few wounds at any point, yet when I do my research, they're ALWAYS vanilla dwarves.
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Re: Are vampires a gaurentee for each fort now?
« Reply #14 on: February 19, 2012, 04:02:54 pm »

Vampires are sneaksy, trickesy, not so foul creaturez!

Seriously though, I got one, and I was paying pretty close attention to the details on my migrants.
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