Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[Pukako]

Well, I've had wave of peasants and legendary fisherdwarves, but my second migration has;

Two children, and a talented thresher.  No other skills. 

At least one can carry stuff, but the kids?

Any other migrant waves that rather than just disappointing, have actually made you stare at the screen and shocked you?

[Murphy]

I like threshers.
Have several legendary ones in almost every fort I build.
And as for fisherdwarves, there's always room for new recruits in the militia.

The worst migration wave is not profession specific. It is when you have your pop cap set to 20 and here they come, 25 buggers to skyrocket your population up to 45 total.

[Zidane]

23 migrants.


all of them children, woodcrafters, millers, weavers, fish dissectors, and threshers.


Y u no like me Dorffort?

[Loyal]

Anytime I get migrant dwarves with military skills, they are always female. So I have to either eat the happiness penalty now, drafting from the unskilled male population, or deal with the inevitable unhappiness that occurs when a soldier-mother loses her baby in battle.

[peregarrett]

Anytime I get migrant dwarves with military skills, they are always female. So I have to either eat the happiness penalty now, drafting from the unskilled male population, or deal with the inevitable unhappiness that occurs when a soldier-mother loses her baby in battle.

Hell, me too!!! Damn amazon dorfs..

[Urist McUristy]

I for one enjoy fisherdorfs, as my brook has billions of fishes in it. My fortress stays alive from fishin.

[Acperience]

Any migration that goes over my population limit, which seems to do nothing.
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=71752.0

[SixOfSpades]

I'm necroing this thread to show that I know how to use the search function. This was my new fort's very first migrant wave:

1) Adequate Wood Cutter, Novice Milker, High Master Presser, Competent Crutch-Walker
2) Novice Animal Caretaker, Talented Potash Maker, Skilled Wax Worker
3) Talented Glazer, Proficient Wax Worker
4) Novice Fish Dissector, High Master Grower, Novice Wax Worker
5) Novice Spinner, Novice Speardwarf (& Shield/Armor/Fighter/Dodger/Observer)
plus a cavy pup & a baby alpaca.

Yeah, the Grower is pretty nice. Everything else amounts to . . . a saving of 5 minutes in training a new woodcutter, and 1 set of military skills that will probably have rusted away to nothing before the goblins even find this place. And you can't even eat cavies! So much suck in such a small group. Thanks, RNG.

[Rutilant]

Any migration that goes over my population limit, which seems to do nothing.
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=71752.0

It's just more realistic than a gameplay abstraction should be treated;  Apparently your Liason has to come to your fort to read your INIT, and then report it back to the mountainhomes, before migrants 'know' you have enough dwarves.

[Necrisha]

2 military peasants and ten children.... nothing says obnoxious like having a pair like that, and then 2 fisherdorfs and six children.

[goblolo]

your fortress have attracted no migrants this season

[Tevish Szat]

Adults are always useful.  Even if their talents go to waste, my average fort can always use extra haulers or militia, and in some cases megaproject slaves (unskilled masons to build constructions)

Children, however, are another matter.  Late in a Fortress' life, they're basically a wash: they can't be assigned labors for now, but at the same time they'll grow up eventually, and in the meantime they can mood to start their adult lives with a legendary craft skill, will remove constructions, and a few dwarves one way or the other won't put terminal strain on an established fortress in any case.  Early on, though, a large migrant wave consisting mostly of children can devastate a fortress, especially if you get pushed over 80 and start attracting sieges and megabeasts with 50 or fewer useful, conscriptable dwarves.  It's one of the few situations that's actually worse than attracting no migrants, since it endangers you while generating no resources.

I don't remember any particularly bad waves recently, though glitched traders sitting on the map edges make my life just a little more difficult... oh, every other wave or so.  I think nothing but a glitch trader showing up has been my worst in recent memory: it's like attracting no migrants, but more personally insulting.

[☼!!Troll Fur Sock!!☼]

My 2 first waves were... A farmer, thresher, carpenter and hammerdorf, if I recall correctly. I'm totally okay with waves that smal...
Third wave: "OMA(mrok) HE HAS GOLDEN MUGS IN HIS FORT! ZERG RUSH EVERYDORF!!!" 43 migrants IN ONE WAVE... Dwarves surely love golden mugs.

[Astrid]

Remembers me on an relatively old fort of me.

1. wave. 2 Dorfs... 2. wafe... i think 7 or so. I start preparing for everything with my about 16 Dorfs...

3. wafe arrives. 70 Dorfs in one rush...

What the... O.o

A.

[Naryar]

I tend to find very large migration waves obnoxious as well.