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Squeegy

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Dealing with overly high populations
« on: January 25, 2008, 11:49:00 pm »

Not enough food to go around? Just draft all the useless people into a squad and have them spar by a chasm, pit or magma chamber.
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Re: Dealing with overly high populations
« Reply #1 on: January 26, 2008, 01:00:00 am »

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Originally posted by Squeegy:
<STRONG>Not enough food to go around? Just draft all the useless people into a squad and have them spar by a chasm, pit or magma chamber.</STRONG>

Or draft them and send them after magma/pit/chasm monsters.

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Re: Dealing with overly high populations
« Reply #2 on: January 26, 2008, 01:18:00 am »

Additionally, build a floor that sticks out over a chasm, station the useless on it, and destroy the ties to land. I lost 27 people, but all my recruits moved off to drink/eat. =( I put a meeting place there.
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Re: Dealing with overly high populations
« Reply #3 on: January 26, 2008, 01:25:00 am »

Or use the excess people to make more food?
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Re: Dealing with overly high populations
« Reply #4 on: January 26, 2008, 01:27:00 am »

Or lock all the dwarves you want to keep away in a sealed off part of the fortress with all the food and work the others to build the very device that will kill them.
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Re: Dealing with overly high populations
« Reply #5 on: January 26, 2008, 01:58:00 am »

lava death chamber! flood chamber! carve the celing out and collapse it on them! or do like I do.. :P cut them off from the rest of the group.. and have them build their own little fortress in a seperate part of the map and make it self sufficient.. then join them again when those noobs have become strong hard working dwarves!
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Re: Dealing with overly high populations
« Reply #6 on: January 26, 2008, 03:59:00 am »

Don't neglect the comedy Dwarf Companion solution:  "Soylent Green is dwarves!"
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Re: Dealing with overly high populations
« Reply #7 on: January 26, 2008, 07:19:00 am »

I like to lock them in a large room with a leather workshop, craftshop and butchery.


Then I get a few nice artifacts along with less dwarves.

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