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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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hjd_uk

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Re: Wonder how most forts fall?
« Reply #135 on: March 02, 2012, 08:07:45 am »
What about forts being lost to new versions coming out? Last for I lost was to Undead Siege.
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Re: Wonder how most forts fall?
« Reply #136 on: March 02, 2012, 08:12:24 am »
My fort in 34.01 was lost to a FB who jammed his leech genitalia into my fort. He killed my military of 2. Right as I was producing more metal armor and weapons.
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Re: Wonder how most forts fall?
« Reply #137 on: March 02, 2012, 08:13:42 am »
FPS usually. The new undead surprised me and I've lost my first fort to hostile action since before caverns were added. Something, I'm presuming zombambo kobolds, unlocked 2 doors simultaneously, one "top" entrance to my fort and a side entrance used for caravans (not that any have managed to make it through the undead horde). I ended up with 170ish zombies marching through both of my entrances, didn't notice it until they were past the point where I could do anything about it.

Savescummed, I've just channeled a bear skeleton into my tunnels from the surface for a fey mood, only to find it was covered in "haunting smoke" that the goblin blood rain seems to attach to things. A hauler has now touched it and had all of his skin, muscle, bone and fat start rotting off. Syndromes like this have ruined a few forts, thankfully dwarves seem to be wearing socks this release.

I'm curious as to how effective my doctor is going to be when it comes to removing rotten tissue from a dwarfs eye.
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Re: Wonder how most forts fall?
« Reply #138 on: March 02, 2012, 08:45:23 am »
I have never gotten a forgotten beast that has been a threat. And I do nothing exploity or overly specialized in my forts. They are just too well run. This also causes me to not lose a lot of fps either. My dwarves are all happy and I'm brimming with food and crafts.

The only thing that brings me down is boredom and crashes.

Though I will admit I lost a few early forts to bowgoblins/whips or trying to meet a too big siege in the open like a man.


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Re: Wonder how most forts fall?
« Reply #139 on: March 02, 2012, 09:40:47 am »
FPS death.
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Re: Wonder how most forts fall?
« Reply #140 on: March 02, 2012, 09:45:58 am »
Most of my recent fortress deaths have been due to forgotten beasts. More specifically ones that breathe poisonous, paralyzing or otherwise deadly things.
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Re: Wonder how most forts fall?
« Reply #141 on: March 02, 2012, 09:50:06 am »
FPS/boredom. Though recently a few to zombie apocalypse  8).
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Re: Wonder how most forts fall?
« Reply #142 on: March 02, 2012, 09:51:59 am »
Boredom
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Re: Wonder how most forts fall?
« Reply #143 on: March 02, 2012, 10:06:10 am »
Most of mine are FPS or boredom.
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Lemunde

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Re: Wonder how most forts fall?
« Reply #144 on: March 02, 2012, 10:46:09 am »
46 percent voted other. Damn I love Dwarf Fortress.

I only lost a fortress to flooding a couple of times. That's kind of a newbie problem. Once you know the risks of working with water you can easily find ways of avoiding this.

Most often I'll lose a fortress to an FB, usually by botching a trap or overestimating my military. I usually just seal caverns off and let the FBs run amok down there but sometimes there gets to be so many that I feel compelled to do something about it.
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Re: Wonder how most forts fall?
« Reply #145 on: March 02, 2012, 10:55:28 am »
I lost my last one to flooding, but i dont think i'll do that EVER again.
(unless i get bored, it was pretty awesome to see all dwarves crawl away everywhere, some fled into the farm that was a bit higher then the rest of the fort but lower then the river, there was no way out since i walled it away. (used to be next to enterance, walled it up for obvious reasons) It amused me imagining how the dwarves would be hidden away in a corner, all togheter, the water flowing in, no way out... (actually... have you seen the movie 2012? it must be a bit like that moment when they try to get into the ark but break the doors, only, there is no heroic escape here.)
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Re: Wonder how most forts fall?
« Reply #146 on: March 02, 2012, 11:03:09 am »
Mostly, because I get bored and break into Hell.
Second would be Goblin Siege.

But, in between those two would be Early Dehydration.
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Re: Wonder how most forts fall?
« Reply #147 on: March 02, 2012, 11:03:29 am »
Ridiculous plots to massacre all my people. Usually involving zombies, dragons, magma and escaped prisoners.
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Re: Wonder how most forts fall?
« Reply #148 on: March 02, 2012, 03:56:13 pm »
Other, got sieged by Dwarfs
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Re: Wonder how most forts fall?
« Reply #149 on: March 02, 2012, 03:58:22 pm »
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I tend to get bored or irritated by my fortresses and abandon.... then delete the world. Not sure why... I've been playing since June but still haven' had any of my forts reach max pop.... lately i've just been playing with mods and wathing the game crash.
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