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[Corai]

Honestly, I go "MORE SLAVES. YES!" when I see them, I finished my wall that took 600 diorte to build in 30 seconds with my migrants.



God I love my slaves....

[Girlinhat]

Slaves yes.  Work labor.

Migrants no.  Tantrum spiraling, booze-guzzling, FPS-dragging sons'a'bitches making EVERYTHING awkward, although it's also awkwardly quick.

[Loud Whispers]

We don't hate them, we just don't need them. And they refuse to leave, so the logical solution is death. They also come with [ALCOHOL_DEPENDANT] tags attached.

[KodKod]

They’re so whiney. So entitled. It's almost as if they exist only to dash any hopes of productivity against the rocks of overwhelming idiocy.

Is it any wonder I possess a great loathing for the whole misbegotten race?

[Absentia]

I only hate them when they show up before I can set up my incinerator.

[MetalHead]

Massive inbound migration can cause major problems including (but not limited to) food/booze/clothing (long-term) shortages, mass-unhappiness due to a lack of beds (unless you're ready for the bearded Zerg rush), FPS slaughter on par with a major Catsplosion, and the fact that ~90% of these guys are useless for anything but haulers and raw recruits/fodder for the meat grinder that is your military.  My experience has mainly been in par with yours though, I keep my cap around 40-50 until my initial curtain wall is up, carve rooms and make beds for the new people, sort them into military/production/peasantry roles, raise cap and repeat.

Large migrant waves are especially useful for large construction projects, particularly when worker safety is neglected.  In my brother's case, he used only obsidian casting to create a guard-'Dragon' above the entrance to his fort that could shoot pump-pressurized lava onto invaders.  Final casualty list included well over 150 migrants (either from construction derp or magma-based accidents) and a few hundred useless pets.  Thanks to the massive flow of masterwork metal goods going straight from his forges to the depot and beyond he kept getting massive 30+ waves of migrants every season despite the bloodshed.

[Splint]

They only become hated during times of crises. otherwise they are welcome additons to megaproject work crews, smelting, mining, or army expansion. Mine have a nasty habit of arriving during a crisis of supply early on. Afterwards I might need them to shore up my army's numbers.

[tommy521]

They’re so whiney. So entitled. It's almost as if they exist only to dash any hopes of productivity against the rocks of overwhelming idiocy.

Is it any wonder I possess a great loathing for the whole misbegotten race?

Because I don't get to say this often enough: true dat.

[Old Greg]

I carefully fiddle with the population limit in the init file. It's the only way I can avoid my population tripling in the third migrant wave. Which I would complain less about if they weren't all shearers and disgusting children.

[Vanaheimer]

I hate migrants because past maybe 50 dwarves, my FPS makes me want to throw things in the river behind my house.

[Tharwen]

I like them, because they're the only reason my forts don't crumble from underpopulation.

[Dish It Out!]

I hate migrants because past maybe 50 dwarves, my FPS makes me want to throw things in the river behind my house.

Vanaheimer cancels Throw Computer: interrupted by Giant Sponge.

[Splint]

The main complaint is the number of children from what i see. people are fine with useless meatbags that can put up walls or hold a pike. Useless resource leeches though....

[Vanaheimer]

I hate migrants because past maybe 50 dwarves, my FPS makes me want to throw things in the river behind my house.

Vanaheimer cancels Throw Computer: interrupted by Giant Sponge.

Thankfully, my river freezes every winter. I am safe from the porous menace.

[Fireborn]

Two reasons:

The inevitable population tripling third wave. (which I now avoid with a pop-cap of 7.)

And the sometimes huge number of children in waves.  A number of my forts have had 5 children in a wave of 7.

Although, amusingly my last fort has several 30~ year old children who grew up once the next year rolled around.