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How did your fortress die off?

Goblin Siege
- 123 (14.9%)
Tantrum Spiral from guy wanting shells
- 107 (13%)
stupid elves attacking my fort
- 2 (0.2%)
Magma and Elephants!!!
- 13 (1.6%)
Stupid elves and lava
- 2 (0.2%)
Starvation
- 51 (6.2%)
Dragons and Titans and Forgotten beasts. Oh my!
- 69 (8.4%)
Fortress Flooding!!!
- 32 (3.9%)
Demons!!!!
- 42 (5.1%)
Human Siege?
- 1 (0.1%)
Kobolds?
- 14 (1.7%)
Other
- 367 (44.6%)

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Sarganto

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Re: Wonder how most forts fall?
« Reply #120 on: August 13, 2010, 09:10:11 am »
Just lost a fort to Harpies...NOT HERPES
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TomiTapio

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Re: Wonder how most forts fall?
« Reply #121 on: August 17, 2010, 07:10:44 am »
I wish I had more forts fail due to combat and tantrums...
When the FPS hits the 30-50 range, it's boring, need to read the web while wait. 90-250 ticks per second is a proper game.

I have collected some FPS data at
http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/DF2010:System_requirements/Archived_reports
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Re: Wonder how most forts fall?
« Reply #122 on: August 17, 2010, 07:16:21 am »
FPS isn't a huge problem, as you can see...   8)

/showing off

Mostly boredom, though, that's one of the main reasons. Or a new version comes out and I'm too lazy to transfer my save, so I just delete it all.
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vrga

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Re: Wonder how most forts fall?
« Reply #123 on: August 17, 2010, 07:57:08 am »
boredom boredom boredom.



got a first recently, a mountainhome :D



and i'm thinking of abandonig it very soon.
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Lurking Grue

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Re: Wonder how most forts fall?
« Reply #124 on: August 17, 2010, 08:32:17 am »
Most of my forts "fall" when I go from merely disliking its stupid stupid inhabitants to actively hating them.
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Re: Wonder how most forts fall?
« Reply #125 on: August 17, 2010, 02:30:06 pm »
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« Last Edit: June 07, 2018, 04:21:22 pm by Bronimin »
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Vastin

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Re: Wonder how most forts fall?
« Reply #126 on: August 17, 2010, 04:58:14 pm »
Most of my recent forts have had insufficient threats to keep me interested once I get to ~100 dwarves, which is where I set my pop cap to keep the FPS manageable.

Honestly, a lot of my forts just kind of grind to a close going into year 4 when I start running out of storage room for the vast amounts of food and goods I tend to accumulate. I end up idling 2/3's of my industry to stop them from making more stuff I don't need and then I get annoyed with how inefficiently idle my layabout dwarves are.  ;D

I've started shifting towards only building in haunted zones near goblin keeps and the like to ensure that things stay interesting.

Economically speaking, I rely on the nobles to keep things interesting, as long as I don't get one with a fetish for petrified wood or some other completely impossible to find resource in my embark area.

I find that my FPS starts to suffer seriously shortly after I start large scale mining operations. Those long arrays of tunnels just seem to massacre the path-finding system. Maybe if I seal them off as I go, or mine in some kind of more open layout...?
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Vastin

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Re: Wonder how most forts fall?
« Reply #127 on: August 17, 2010, 06:02:37 pm »
Ugh. Figures. I open my mouth and an hour later I lose a rather promising fort to a corrupted save-file.  :'(
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Re: Wonder how most forts fall?
« Reply #128 on: August 17, 2010, 06:04:59 pm »
Do you use the seasonal autosave backups?
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Re: Wonder how most forts fall?
« Reply #129 on: August 17, 2010, 06:19:37 pm »
Boredom.

AKA "screw this i'm gonna go play team fortress 2 for a while, oh whoops i forgot to save oh well!~" syndrome.
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Re: Wonder how most forts fall?
« Reply #130 on: March 02, 2012, 06:35:12 am »
Aboveground fortress, main castle, several huts, all walled with fortifications.
The refuse pile outside (of course, why should we store refuse in castle), next to a dump pit.
Friendly surroundings, a raven and kea - a good fun and training for archers.

A year or two passes and necromancer comes. The first thing he does is that he revives the bones stored outside of the castle.
I thought I was ok - sealed in. yet the zombie-birds fly in and start attacking my dwarfs and pets. They kill a pet and some children, the tantrum starts, a crazy dwarf runs out of the castle and leaves the doors smashed open. Zombies get in - long story short - the fortress falls.

I wish you saw my wife when I retold her the story :-)
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Re: Wonder how most forts fall?
« Reply #131 on: March 02, 2012, 06:54:30 am »
All my fortresses that go down to demons generally do so on account of boredom.

But the unintentional fun: tantrum spirals. Oh god oh god oh god.
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Re: Wonder how most forts fall?
« Reply #132 on: March 02, 2012, 07:02:02 am »
Mystery Crash (FPS related?) seems to be the leading cause.
After that, lack of water, giant flyers or an early ambush.
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Re: Wonder how most forts fall?
« Reply #133 on: March 02, 2012, 07:10:06 am »
Other : FPS deaths (with a pretty high-end computer, but often due to too big embarks)

With the new version I did lose 2 forts to Zombies en 1 fort to a tantrum spiral (which I wasnt used to yet)
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Re: Wonder how most forts fall?
« Reply #134 on: March 02, 2012, 07:10:43 am »
FPS. Your Fort can have unbeatable army, it can have every single room solid gold and every single dwarf in candy and ecstasic. But no matter what you do, FPS will kill you. It will lower and lower... and then, BOOM. All you can is try destroy all unwanted things.
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