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[hiroshi42]

I think the largest wave I had was ~ 60.  Most if not all were married and the fort ended up with a baby boom the next year.   Mmmm, 2:1 child:adult ratios are fun.

[Telgin]

I feel somewhat left out in that I've never seen more than about 25 in a migrant wave.  I know there's some randomness to the madness, but are you all doing something special to get close to 100 dwarves?  Digging up a million urists worth of platinum or adamantine in the first year?

For that matter, most of my migrant waves have only 1-2 children at most.  I wonder why that is?  Seems that's rare in .34.11.

[Nyan Thousand]

I feel somewhat left out in that I've never seen more than about 25 in a migrant wave.  I know there's some randomness to the madness, but are you all doing something special to get close to 100 dwarves?  Digging up a million urists worth of platinum or adamantine in the first year?

For that matter, most of my migrant waves have only 1-2 children at most.  I wonder why that is?  Seems that's rare in .34.11.

Try making lots of crafts and statues and so on. I had a buttload of migrants once because I was making an aboveground fortress (so lots of blocks and constructions, hence, bloated wealth). Try that.

As for childrens, I once had a migrant wave with a lot of them. I don't know what's up with yours. I'm guessing the world is too young so there's not a lot of children.

[Telgin]

Current world genned until year 270 or so, so I don't think that's it.  It's also an above ground fort. 

Maybe it's just luck I didn't get inundated with free loaders.  Then again, 4 years into the game and my fort's wealth is only about 400,000 dwarf bucks.  My other forts in .34.11 had much higher wealth early on (steel armor for everyone) and they didn't get many children either, though.

[laularukyrumo]

I've gotten lucky with my latest embark. Course, that might have something to do with setting the popcap to -1 after the 3rd wave... and being on a terrifying swamp with three towers. And a bigass aquifer. I'm only now starting to clear the surface, like 10 years in. And I'm paranoid as shit about the FBs breaking into the forges--I set them to show up at 30 guys, and I hit the flag with childbirths. Already got three chilling out down there.

[pisskop]

Largest yet was 38.

Put half into the military/pump/catapult squads.  A few more went to mine some risky caverns.  A few more went to my Seabee force, and the final ones to my farmer/lumberdwarf/herb gatherers.  A few haulers.  The great part is the miners died, and because I tend to use less mechanisms/traps than others most of the militia died rather quick.

EDIT:

As for babies, try changing the d_init options.  The baby percentage is incredibly low, it seems.

[fractalman]

It may have been the gold I dug up and used for cages. Lots of gold cages because I'd run out of wood, but had bituminous coal on hand. 

And maybe a crashed caravan, which shouldn't have affected wealth,  but...*shrugs*

Oh.  And I'd previously abandoned a fort with about 30 dwarves. that may have pushed the wave size up a bit. 

[zacen299]

My worst had to have been when I accidentally deconstructed a trade depot when there was a massive caravan on it woops the wave was I think just over 100 dwarves next time I checked the value of what they had first in case I stupidly did that again.

[Matoro]

I've never had problems with migrants (my biggest was like 48 as a third wave), since I always produce large surplus of food and don't care about living conditions of random cheesemakers. I pick useful dwarves from the waves and make them real Citizens - those include mainly carpenters, masons, smiths, good craftsdwarves, cooks and brewers - and put all others to militia where they will have a change to rise in the society.

[Sutremaine]

Remember, dwarves produce resources.

Children don't so much, although if you've set everybody to farm just to get some brewables in the ground they're pretty good at getting the harvest in while everyone else is running around producing other stuff.

[shadenight123]

One hundred and eight.

Fortress went bonkers for a while as I nearly emptied a mountain to make a giant room with Hospital Zone beds.

Built three kitchens and three farmer shops, expanded farm plots and the likes...

and then, of course, the diseases attacked and everyone nearly died because no, the wards refused to be built.

...

Fun.
Uhuh.

[Urist Mc Dwarf]

89 dwarves. Half were lye makers. i now have 6 surviving millitary squads made entirely of lye maker soldiers. Most are dying.

[WaffleEggnog]

89 dwarves. Half were lye makers. i now have 6 surviving millitary squads made entirely of lye maker soldiers. Most are dying.

Good. No one likes those lye-making jerks. Always prancing around like "Hey, I make lye? What did you do with your lives?".

[Nyan Thousand]

89 dwarves. Half were lye makers. i now have 6 surviving millitary squads made entirely of lye maker soldiers. Most are dying.

Good. No one likes those lye-making jerks. Always prancing around like "Hey, I make lye? What did you do with your lives?".

Ever since Fight Club came out those lye making fucking shits think they're so hot because Brad Pitt used some lye.

Nobody cares.

[Scootagoose]

I once had a migrant wave of 60 or so. They were a godsend as we were in a terrifying environment.