Sigh. I want to tear it up in these new versions of DF. I really do. But I just can't get into it. I'm one who used to run a single fort for a good generation or two before finally giving it up to FPS death. Longer if I was careful about how I did things.
These versions...I just can't get anything made that lasts even up 'till ten years. Maybe I don't have the most elite PC in the world, but it's decent. And it IS this version (as in 40.xx, active world stuff); whatever the actual culprit may be.
I've tried a medium or small world with like, 10 years of history and standard 3x3 embarks...I'm not really into doing smaller embark areas, though maybe, at this point, that's going to be one of my only real choices. But, come 4 years-ish, there's just that huge FPS fall. Population is capped at 100 right now. Sigh. Makes me sad.
Am I the only one having issues getting further along with this one, when it comes to that? Mostly this is just a place to commiserate I suppose, should we want to. I know the FPS situation has been discussed to DEATH, and I don't think it likely any new insights will arise from this thread, but you never know. It's always good to discuss the issues I'd say, and this to me is one of the biggest barring further interaction with the game, in my little corner of the universe.