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ScriptWolf

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Most dwarfs you have had ?
« on: November 03, 2010, 10:58:58 am »
what is the biggest amount of dwarfs you have ever had in a fortress?, and does anyone know if there is a pop cap for how many dwarfs you can have?
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He must be running 3.5 abacuses of RAM

moki

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Re: Most dwarfs you have had ?
« Reply #1 on: November 03, 2010, 11:04:46 am »
There is a pop cap in the init.txt (or maybe d_init) in /data/init that can be changed to your liking. By default it's 200, but most people set it lower because many dwarves tend to make the game too slow. If you had some kind of supercomputer, you could set it to 10000+, but for most current computers, playing with more than 150 ist just no fun. No FUN either...
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Re: Most dwarfs you have had ?
« Reply #2 on: November 03, 2010, 01:13:34 pm »
I'm up to 243. It doesn't take a supercomputer, just optimize your OS for performance, instead of letting all the resource hogging 'features' run TSR riot. Also, keep wandering pet populations to a minimum. I do take a huge FPS hit every time I flood the magma sluices, but that settles with the fluid levels.
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