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When a significant portion of the population is killed

When every dwarf is dead

If you screw up your layout

Low FPS

Diplomacy (pissing off humans or elves without meaning to)

Boredom

Other (please specify)

[Aachen]

Probably related to the FPS death, but mine's more laptop heat-death frustration. Spend a season busy work work working .... forget SESO .... sudden shutdown. After the fifth or sixth time it sets me back a few months, I've typically just started from scratch.

Happily, d19/2 has vastly better performance on this front. Current fort is in yr 13. Nothing indicates I'll have the same issues as earlier builds thus far (perhaps in the far future of the fort). I'm hoping to keep Rockmachine active till I've got the new version to toy with.

[smjjames]

Playing in a desert biome really helps my FPS. Although sometimes the FPS drain comes from poor traffic flow and I always try to make it so that the pathing causes as little lag as possible.

Peformance should definetly be better in the next release.

[ungulateman]

Ugh. I can barely ever get past the first year, as I can't keep up with immigrants and micro-ing 25-40 dwarves is painful.

[smjjames]

Maybe you're producing too much stuff/gaining wealth too quickly? I don't generally get migrants until the following spring of embark (sometimes I get migrants the first winter) and have no trouble with the influx.

Maybe its just our different playstyles.

[Lmaoboat]

I prefer playing with small populations, so sometimes I quit if I get a huge migration wave that I don't want to deal with.

[SkyRender]

It's not boredom, but rather his close cousin, which causes me to quit most of my forts: irritation.  Sooner or later, some Dorf does something astronomically stupid (yeah, par for course, I know), and it ends up being the annoyance that breaks my patience.  Whether it's the idiot who immures himself repeatedly (that problem stopped coming up after I learned about how to exploit LIFO), the dumb berk who won't stop trailing my mayor every season because he spent all of last season trailing the mayor bitching about not having work (you don't have work because you won't DO work, you tard-monkey!), the brave champion who figures that the best way to dodge an attacking enemy is to leap into the magma pipe (which is why I never let anyone near the magma pipe proper now), or just some random fool going for an impromptu swim when he doesn't know how to swim, the ultimate killer of my forts is always irritation with the Dwarves having anti-survival instincts.

[denito]

I prefer playing with small populations, so sometimes I quit if I get a huge migration wave that I don't want to deal with.

This.

[Argonnek]

Other:
When I mod in throwing towels.

[NW_Kohaku]

I put in "boredom", but really, the main reason I would quit is I thought of something new to mod in.  It's sort of related to boredom, but it's more productive.

DARN THE NEED TO REGEN WORLDS WHEN ADDING NEW THINGS!

[dragon0421]

I prefer playing with small populations, so sometimes I quit if I get a huge migration wave that I don't want to deal with.

This.

+2

It can be tough finding a job for everyone to do sometimes. Because of this, the forts I play for long tend to have large militaries. I also loath seeing a large number of idlers for some reason.

[The Dog Delusion]

Since I just play non-modded DF, and have so far only embarked in areas of moderate or less difficulty, I usually get bored, or get an idea for another fortress that I want to play. I'm sure that if I started embarking in more terrifying areas, I'd experience more "fun," but in all honesty, I usually just get to the population cap/mountainhome/stable fortress level and then move on.

I really should mod in Orcs, but I'm not confident in my ability to mod in graphics for them 

[darkflagrance]

I get sieged by one of my ten modded civs every season, and as a result I don't get bored. Maybe it'll be the fire imps or great demon spiders next season...

Rather, my dwarves inevitably struggle against the eternal enemy of low FPS.

[BigD145]

I prefer playing with small populations, so sometimes I quit if I get a huge migration wave that I don't want to deal with.

This.

+2

It can be tough finding a job for everyone to do sometimes. Because of this, the forts I play for long tend to have large militaries. I also loath seeing a large number of idlers for some reason.

Why not just alter the pop cap?

[yuriatayde]

Dwarf Death by ANY reason is fun for me, so I like to try and make unsafe conditions. Typically, I'll eventually get bored in the way that'll make me stop producing, I'll lose track of my long list of "to do" and get content with my fort, and that's when I'll come up with other fort ideas, and the inevitable abandoning so I can try it.

I wish I could cause more war... I'll have to look into modding more civs into the game like darkflagrance mentioned, more war is more fun, and I've ALWAYS got too many dwarves laying around with not enough work so recruiting everybody who isn't working to defend against constant war sounds like all of my problems are suddenly and instantly solved!

[DFPongo]

I prefer playing with small populations, so sometimes I quit if I get a huge migration wave that I don't want to deal with.

This.

+2

It can be tough finding a job for everyone to do sometimes. Because of this, the forts I play for long tend to have large militaries. I also loath seeing a large number of idlers for some reason.

I havent been playing long, but I restarted the most because of emigrant waves and their effect on my play.
I put the cap down to 20 and that really helped.
The only other reasons I have restarted was because I learned something that made me smack my head and rethink my layout, so I started again.Deepest I have made it is 4 years though.