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[Stik]

From 12 dwarfs to 37 dwarfs, just finished first winter, why did i get so many? the last few times i barley got any all!

[GaxkangtheUnbound]

From 12 dwarfs to 37 dwarfs, just finished first winter, why did i get so many? the last few times i barley got any all!

The following may be an explanation:
Extreme created wealth
Alot of caravan profit

[ReverseWill]

Something I learned early on-

Smoothing stone nets you some nice created wealth, which gives you a lot of migrants. I now avoid doing it til later.

[monk12]

I've had forts with ridiculous pop explosions. My reason? The underground inhabitants of various degrees of spoilage had loads of items. It makes a difference in the early game, and also means you likely won't get more migrants for a solid year after the initial rush.

[Stik]

God damnit, i smoothed less then 1/4 of my fort, thats the only explanation for it

[sneakey pete]

Didn't get my first immigration wave until summer year 2! on my most recent fort. went from 7 to 32 dwarves though i'm guessing 25 is the max immigration number.

[darkrider2]

This always happens to me, but the way I see it, the "explosion" is just the way we perceive it... stay with me here.

Most of the waves are pretty much the same size, except a few starting ones. when you have 15-20 dwarves and you get a 20 dwarf wave, it doubles your pop and we think "omg that's alot of dwarves".

The first 20 dwarf wave will boost your pop %100. The next one will send it up %50, and the next %33, %25, %20, %16.5, %14.2, %12.5, %11.1, %10... etc.

see what I mean?

[Dekon]

Set your population cap to something low.  20 or so.

Then just slowly increase it as you want more dwarves.  Solves the problem.

[Quatch]

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