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Umi

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Starting fortresses are the new retirement homes?
« on: April 08, 2010, 09:25:50 pm »
I don't have a single one of my starting dwarfs below 60.  Is this normal?  Are they all going to be too old to operate properly?
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Ultimuh

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Re: Starting fortresses are the new retirement homes?
« Reply #1 on: April 08, 2010, 09:27:11 pm »
I think 60 is kinda young for a dwarf.
Maybe middle-aged compared to humans.
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Umi

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Re: Starting fortresses are the new retirement homes?
« Reply #2 on: April 08, 2010, 09:33:18 pm »
I don't know. I seem to remember world gen starting to cull them at around 80.  I may be wrong though.
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Re: Starting fortresses are the new retirement homes?
« Reply #3 on: April 08, 2010, 09:33:26 pm »
Dwarfs usey live up to about 150, so its a little over a third of there lives, young enough to be exploring, yet old enough to be skilled and disciplined.
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Re: Starting fortresses are the new retirement homes?
« Reply #4 on: April 08, 2010, 09:34:31 pm »
Quote from: Umi on April 08, 2010, 09:33:18 pm
I don't know. I seem to remember world gen starting to cull them at around 80.  I may be wrong though.

That's the percentage of megabeasts if I'm not mistaken.  ;)
The age limit is seen in the raws.
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Re: Starting fortresses are the new retirement homes?
« Reply #5 on: April 08, 2010, 09:37:19 pm »
The age limit is 150:170 if I'm not mistaken.
I believe Toady mentioned in one of the Talks that they're generated at about half their life expectancy.
So there you go.
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Re: Starting fortresses are the new retirement homes?
« Reply #6 on: April 08, 2010, 09:41:46 pm »
Ah, I suppose I was mistaken.  This will take some getting used to.

I just realized something a little strange.  Out of this entire game full of oddities, the hardest thing to wrap my mind around is the 80=middle age part...
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Re: Starting fortresses are the new retirement homes?
« Reply #7 on: April 08, 2010, 09:50:51 pm »
Huh, and here I am thinking that's awfully young for a dwarf. Tolkien has conditioned me to think of them having longer lifespans than that.
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Re: Starting fortresses are the new retirement homes?
« Reply #8 on: April 08, 2010, 10:39:23 pm »
I think the dwarves would be lucky to live even 4 years in my fortresses...
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Re: Starting fortresses are the new retirement homes?
« Reply #9 on: April 08, 2010, 11:34:14 pm »
Thanks to D&D, I'm used to dwarves living upwards of 300 years. Of course, by that time, they're too crotchety for the other races to deal with.
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Re: Starting fortresses are the new retirement homes?
« Reply #10 on: April 09, 2010, 12:44:10 am »
Quote from: Intelligent Shade of Blue on April 08, 2010, 11:34:14 pm
Thanks to D&D, I'm used to dwarves living upwards of 300 years. Of course, by that time, they're too crotchety for the other races to deal with.


Ummm....other races have trouble dealing with D&D dwarves...?

You have seen what ha[[ens to other races who deal with DF dwarves, haven't you?

They get used as bait to lure out the ambushes and then dropped down a huge shaft so that people can steal their socks.
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