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[towersquid]

Hey guys, I was wondering if anyone else has this ordeal.

       I consistently will start a new fortress, get about a couple months to a year in, decide I've messed up in some way, then abandon and re-embark. I have really no idea what triggers this, I guess it's some slight organization issues that constantly bother me till I get fed up and leave. As of right now, I'm guessing that I just get bored, so my solution to that is to embark in a difficult biome hoping for some fun. If anyone has anything that might have helped them with this, feel free to post.

[utunnels]

Too peaceful -- bored -- abandone
Overrun by undead -- abandone
Played for too long -- fps death -- abandone


I don't play without cheating, so when I mess up for some obviously stupid reason, I usually reload the save...

[Aslandus]

Too peaceful -- bored -- abandone
Overrun by undead -- abandone
Played for too long -- fps death -- abandone


I don't play without cheating, so when I mess up for some obviously stupid reason, I usually reload the save...

Don't forget "Almost overrun by undead -- retire -- get super stressed dwarves immigrating to next fortress"

As for actually quitting after short term problems, I usually don't unless I think the embark is terrible, and I usually play until I think the fortress is doomed or bores me (which takes several years, I'm not too impatient)... also I might reclaim one of my previous fortresses at some point, so I guess I'm not a very good example for this...

[Loyal]

For me it's usually "No wait I want a volcano. No wait I want sedimentary flux layers. No wait, I want more trees. No wait, I want to be on the shore of a lake. No wait, I want a bigger river." And so on.

[towersquid]

That's exactly what happens to me. I'm always searching for a perfect embark.

[Bigheaded]

I just get bored of my fort's.

Not found one in which i thought "Yes, this is the fort for me!"
I might make myself a rule that if i get bored i must attack the HFS, for at least then i shall have !!FUN!! before finishing.

[Loud Whispers]

I just make sure to get what I roughly want to expect before I've embarked and from then on desperately try to cling onto all life.

[Cyroth]

I usually abandon and restart 4 or 5 years into the fort. Usually because I have a new idea to try and it keeps distracting me from my current fort, which in turn was an idea that distracted me from my previous fort itself.

Goes something like that:
"Hey, lets try to literally channel out an aboveground fort out of a mountain."
few years in
"Now that I think about it, I didn't have a evil glacier embark in quite a while..."
re-genning worlds to get one with an evil polar area.
"Now that this seems to be somewhat running... haven't built a constructed aboveground tower fort in quite a while."
yet a few years into the fort
"Reverse towers would be awesome too, same design as this tower but digging it into the ground instead of skywards..."
some time later
"Hmmm. I could gen a world with huge caverns and build a cavern city."
And so on, and so on.

[Dwarf4Explosives]

I usually abandon and restart 4 or 5 years into the fort. Usually because I have a new idea to try and it keeps distracting me from my current fort, which in turn was an idea that distracted me from my previous fort itself.

Goes something like that:
"Hey, lets try to literally channel out an aboveground fort out of a mountain."
few years in
"Now that I think about it, I didn't have a evil glacier embark in quite a while..."
re-genning worlds to get one with an evil polar area.
"Now that this seems to be somewhat running... haven't built a constructed aboveground tower fort in quite a while."
yet a few years into the fort
"Reverse towers would be awesome too, same design as this tower but digging it into the ground instead of skywards..."
some time later
"Hmmm. I could gen a world with huge caverns and build a cavern city."
And so on, and so on.

You could have avoided the last regen by simply deciding to expand the caverns manually and make it a megaproject.

[Niddhoger]

Part of your problem might be feeling overwhelmed by the free-form nature of setting up your fortress.  There is no one "right" way to do things- especially considering every embark site is different.  Instead of searching for the "perfect embark site," try setting a single clear goal ahead of time.  What industry should I work on? What defenses do I get up and when? What projects will I be doing? Is this a surface fort or a cavern fort? Etc.

[utunnels]

Recently I kept trying to find a fun evil map.
But unfortunately, I always ended up turtled safely underground forever(boring) or died right away after poking the undead. 

[milo christiansen]

Generate world -> Start fort -> Find bug in my mod -> Fix bug -> Goto start

It gets really old in a hurry, but there is no help for it.

[towersquid]

Part of your problem might be feeling overwhelmed by the free-form nature of setting up your fortress.  There is no one "right" way to do things- especially considering every embark site is different.  Instead of searching for the "perfect embark site," try setting a single clear goal ahead of time.  What industry should I work on? What defenses do I get up and when? What projects will I be doing? Is this a surface fort or a cavern fort? Etc.

My main problem is that I get excited when air find something interesting and don't plan ahead. So you are right, a little forward thinking would help. Thanks for the help.

Recently I kept trying to find a fun evil map.
But unfortunately, I always ended up turtled safely underground forever(boring) or died right away after poking the undead. 

That's exactly what happened to me. I got bored and even when I let my doors open, the undead outside barely did anything.

[Loud Whispers]

I wonder if my habit of never abandoning until all Dwarves are dead is the opposite of this problem, or not a problem at all...

[Bigheaded]

I wonder if my habit of never abandoning until all Dwarves are dead is the opposite of this problem, or not a problem at all...

To me it sounds like you're playing it as it should be played. Unless you're not having fun whilst doing so
Shouldn't really give up for any other reason.