My lovely fortress is in 1056, and things are quite dandy. Or were. The demon I mentioned, well, he was the ambassador for the humans. As mentioned, we made fun of him, ignored him, he kicked butt when beasts arrived--a good time had by all until he was a corpse after a goblin siege. A flashing purple corpse that no one collected or paid any attention to.
The sieges are ridiculous now. They come from all sides and the framerate drops (combat still goes so fast when they do fight, though, I have to pause it).
So, the last siege had the elven war leader from the north, leading in a bunch of pikegoblins. Spear goblins from the east, crossbow goblins from the west. All approaching my fort entrance at the south.
They came, they saw, they got killed--My top squad meeting the goblins with the leader half way through the map, towards the north. My mediocre squads ended up wandering east to clean up, with crossbow goblins scattering everywhere near the entrance of my base, killing maybe five civilians before being taken down. The goblin leaders always seem to escape in the scuffles..
Then the humans immediately sieged after the goblins. I had just canceled the station orders and the dwarves went back inside when the humans came.
All bronze armored with bronze pikes. My dwarfs with bronze weapons had a hard time, some of my legendary fighters are laid to rest.
That's fine. I defended successfully with minimal losses, compared to the... 44 corpses around the entrance to my fortress. The screen is filled with goblin blood, human blood, dwarf blood, troll blood (which is not red), dragon blood, titan blood, giant eagle blood, war dog blood... you get the picture. Parts of enemies are everywhere. There is so much battle loot I can't even find it all unless I go to the stocks menu.
So now I realize that my hospital is way too far away from a water source; dwarfs have to go a great distance to get water...
With all the corpses, blood, items, hauling tasks, hospital tasks, little bits of ear and eye teeth all over... it seems that the cpu can't keep up!
In the past I've had a fortress last 15-20 years before it was so big and I'd mined so much that the cpu rate slowed down significantly, but this version... seems to bottleneck very early on.
I disabled temperature and have left most of the crap forbidden, except for the fancy outfits and various non-iron armors to melt down... and yet only one goblin out of the hundreds on the map has been hauled to my refuse pile. Bodies are everywhere. Parts are everywhere. I cannot build enough craftdwarf shops to deal with bones and smelters and whatnot because dwarfs are too busy doing other things to bother with architecture anymore. I am thinking of trying to make an atom smasher again, but at 30fps, it will be a long wait! I send the caravans away because the dwarfs dont even have time to get stuff out of the depot before the next siege.