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[FrisianDude]

In my last fortress, last two migrants waves had brought a water shortage and a tantrum escalation.

Did the migrants do that or did your lack of preparedness?

[JimDale]

After 25 dwarves, I want their animals more than the actual dwarves.

[tahujdt]

In masterwork mod,.you can sacrifice dwarves to Armok and he will bless you with awesome stuff.

[Garath]

downloading MW now!

[tahujdt]

You need to build the altar or temple of armok, I forget which. They both need a totem.

[Drawde]

From what I've seen, if you're close to the population cap you get small waves, as in less than ten away, you get three-dwarf waves (a family with a child).

So after your second wave, set your population cap to less than ten above what you currently have.  You'll get smaller waves.  Once you reach your goal, set the cap to what you really want.  You may end up with a few more than you wanted, but not many more.  Though if you want a high cap, you may want to wait until your second dwarven caravan arrives to set it.

[floundericiousWA]

I have 279 dwarves in my fort...every once in a while, I snag another child that's grown into a fully-unskilled peasant and assign them to masonry or woodcutting or mining to help get work done.  The real problem on my map is that I have no supply of metal... I know the site had "metals" on the embark but I've yet to find any iron or brass or nickel or copper (or any other, come to think of it) ores to smelt...and the goblins only send small ambushes, not sieges. 

So, I'm a big happy marshmallow fort with formidable walls/bridges/trap hallway defenses and a squad with some carefully traded for military arms/armor...but lots and lots of spare time.  Huge farm, multiple stills, full time kitchen, aboveground farm too.....and loads of exploratory tunnels through layer up on layer looking for SOME metal, for god's sake.

My immigrant waves have been huge a few times...I fixed this by just going gonzo with mining out a huge living area...even though I've now had to add multiple additional dorfitories and a huge dining hall to take up the slack, it was possible to keep up with it...I just had to dedicate the orders and time to making beds and tables and chairs for months.

[rtg593]

I have 279 dwarves in my fort...

Dear Armok, what is your fps like? I drop to 50ish with 50 dwarves... 200 if I keep it less.

[GetAssista]

God bless them migrants, the early warning system and source of new clothes!
I'm playing Fortress Defence mod, and them dont last long outside. It's even cooler when I assign them to a separate squad and equip with whatever weapons and armor previous waves of invaders left. I love bloody shows which I can observe from the safety of my main fortress

[Mitchewawa]

I have a good enough computer to run a 200 strong fortress without lag, so I love migrants. I love them and their willingness to die instead of my legendaries. I love them for their ability to train my medical team. I love how they're so efficient at running a clothing industry by keeping two 10x10 pig tail farm plots fully planted at all times. I love my army of 60.

<3 immigrants.

[Corai]

I Hate migrants when my numbers reach about 70~100. As by that point i have all jobs well filled and the start of a military. Once the Population cap tag starts working again it will all be fine.
I have children problems but not from migrants, my resident dwarves are popping them out at about 10 a year!
1: They force you to expand and this is annoying when you relay on wood for fuel as you can easily strip the map of wood.
2: they kill your FPS.
3: Most of them are useless, which while it speeds up hauling is otherwise useless.
4: they bring useless pets, which because they are pets, that you can't slaughter for their Delicious meat.

The main pro is that Arena fights are more entertaining. Military dwarves can kill animals very quickly, but a couple of untrained migrants is fun to watch get torn apart by a pack of maddened animals! Also good practice for the doctors.

What? I get strays, about 7 per wave with one cat.

[floundericiousWA]

I have 279 dwarves in my fort...

Dear Armok, what is your fps like? I drop to 50ish with 50 dwarves... 200 if I keep it less.

Just fine...I'm running on a core i5 w/ 1gb graphics and 6gb fast ram