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Gorjo MacGrymm

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Problem with Pop Cap
« on: July 27, 2014, 01:12:59 pm »
I am playing the previous version (non 2014).  I just started again after a few years of absence.  I have set my pop cal to 10 (for varying reasons), yet i keep ending up with 20-30 dwarves and migrants.  Is there a floor level for pop cap that you cant go below?  maybe 30 or so?

Also, I am using the most recent lazy newb program with dfhack built in.  Is that maybe the problem?

Thanks ahead of time.
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Re: Problem with Pop Cap
« Reply #1 on: July 27, 2014, 01:15:12 pm »
The pop cap is fairly erratic and only comes in effect, when the dwarven caravan arrives.  This should be fixed for .40.05.
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Re: Problem with Pop Cap
« Reply #2 on: July 27, 2014, 01:15:50 pm »
I think you will always get the two first immigration waves, no matter what you do with the cap.
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Gorjo MacGrymm

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Re: Problem with Pop Cap
« Reply #3 on: July 27, 2014, 01:56:35 pm »
Harrumph.  OK.

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Re: Problem with Pop Cap
« Reply #4 on: July 27, 2014, 02:56:04 pm »
Peggle pisses me off too.
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Re: Problem with Pop Cap
« Reply #5 on: July 27, 2014, 04:35:02 pm »
Quote from: Gorjo MacGrymm on July 27, 2014, 01:12:59 pm
I am playing the previous version (non 2014).  I just started again after a few years of absence.  I have set my pop cal to 10 (for varying reasons), yet i keep ending up with 20-30 dwarves and migrants.  Is there a floor level for pop cap that you cant go below?  maybe 30 or so?

Also, I am using the most recent lazy newb program with dfhack built in.  Is that maybe the problem?

Thanks ahead of time.

The first two migrant waves are hard coded, and even when I'm past my cap, I usually get a third. My guess is that it doesn't start checking that till after the dwarven caravan has left, and when it leaves it also looks at how much wealth you exported, which supposedly affects the size of the next wave (Though its semi random). Your best bet is to either set the cap to 30 or so, or kill all new migrants after you hit ten so that you don't grow.
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