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Arkham

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Gaaah! Too many migrants!
« on: October 19, 2010, 12:21:48 pm »
Each season it seems that i get anywhere between 20-30 migrants. My fortress is crawling with them now, and I don't have enough jobs to put them in yet! Sheesh.
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Jordrake

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Re: Gaaah! Too many migrants!
« Reply #1 on: October 19, 2010, 12:23:18 pm »
This is what pointy things are for.
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Arkham

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Re: Gaaah! Too many migrants!
« Reply #2 on: October 19, 2010, 12:24:50 pm »
I tried shutting my gates and pulling up the drawbridge, but no go, they got in already. Doh!
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eggrock

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Re: Gaaah! Too many migrants!
« Reply #3 on: October 19, 2010, 12:52:43 pm »
Set them to working on their own quarters, which consist of this:

- Self contained food/booze production (or just food; let 'em drink water)
- A very small rec room (edit: meeting hall)
- Nothing else to do except bond

Keep them unhappy but not tantruming, and when the time comes place nine of them in a noble's room via burrow, lock them in with the noble and murder the tenth. Record the results and allow your hammerdwarf access to the survivors.

[second edit] Dunno if dorfs can see through floodgates but incremental happiness might be achieved by hiding nice statues etc. behind floodgates and opening them to permit a few more rays of sunshing in their otherwise miserable existence.

[edit 3] Come to think of it, airlock cats and let them bond. That way you can move one person at a time and let the cat explore the caverns (can you butcher pets?). Maybe a noble will win a one on one.

I think I'm thinking about this too much.
« Last Edit: October 19, 2010, 01:00:57 pm by eggrock »
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Chocolatemilkgod

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Re: Gaaah! Too many migrants!
« Reply #4 on: October 19, 2010, 01:05:23 pm »
Well I just discovered the magma sea, so...

Heh...I think i have an idea.
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Arkham

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Re: Gaaah! Too many migrants!
« Reply #5 on: October 19, 2010, 01:18:24 pm »
Quote from: Chocolatemilkgod on October 19, 2010, 01:05:23 pm
Well I just discovered the magma sea, so...

Heh...I think i have an idea.

Assign them to a burrow that just happens to be on top of a bridge that coincidentally will fling them into a wall right over the opening of the sea?

WEEEEEEEE*SPLAT*SLIIIIDE*FIZZ*
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Vehudur

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Re: Gaaah! Too many migrants!
« Reply #6 on: October 19, 2010, 01:29:32 pm »
Haulers are always nice.

Also, off topic:
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Low_King

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Re: Gaaah! Too many migrants!
« Reply #7 on: October 19, 2010, 01:50:32 pm »
Use them to smooth everything. Once everything is smoothed have them begin engraving.

By everything I mean the boulders outside your fortress too.

Once everything is engraved they'll be strong, fast and will be able to haul rocks quicker. Make them haul all the spare rock outside the fort; this'll speed up every dwarves movements within the fortress.
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