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[Altruist]

If I want my fortress to be packed with families who raise children, but not have enormous waves of migrants (what is it, twice a year?) is my only option killing off the most useless of the migrants or building walls?

[Fredd]

Lowering the Population cap in the dinit folder helps loads

[vjek]

If I want my fortress to be packed with families who raise children, but not have enormous waves of migrants (what is it, twice a year?) is my only option killing off the most useless of the migrants or building walls?

If you turn off the annual visits from the dwarven liaison and merchants/caravans, you'll get no migrants other than two hardcoded waves during Summer and Autumn during the first year.

Provided you get a total of 20+ dwarves as a result of adding those two migrations to your starting 7, your fortress will work as expected.

You turn off those visits by removing the ACTIVE_SEASON entry/line for dwarves in entity_default.txt in your saved game raws.  This can be done immediately after you save the fortress for the first time. (typically right at embark time)  It's as easy as deleting one line of text. 

[Garath]

or set your pop_cap at 10 or so? it still gets you a caravan, but no migrants past the first few, unless something went wrong and you only got a few left

thats a bit of an extreme measure, vjek, getting rid of all dwarven visitors