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[Sphalerite]

POPULATION_CAP only controls immigration.

BABY_CHILD_CAP controls births, but only in the sense that it limits how many babies and children there can be at any one time.

[PTTG??]

Besides simply running for a thousand years, are there any other things I might as well check out? I'm going to try to get as many generations in there as possible- I might even tweak dwarves to have shorter generations- but what else? Maybe trap an immortal elf and lock him away somewhere with food supplies?

One thing I want to see is the effect of long time periods on forested areas- will they grow over into solid tree?

Any other tests I could do with that much time? I wouldn't mind seeing if ghosts actually do die of old age, if that didn't mean that I'd need to have a ghost scaring people to death for 160 years or whatever.

[Girlinhat]

Observe dwarven genetics.  Try and pair up particular hair or eye colors for marriage, and see if their offsprings keep it up, or see if they maintain "He is very large" and other traits.

[Oliolli]

NECRO'D

Dwarfy, have to admit. Also nice that someone is actually willing to try out the dragon-breeding trick I plotted a long time ago 

So, how about those screenshots?

[PTTG??]

It's been four days. It's not even sick yet...

Anyway, finishing finals. No updates until later this week.

[dwarfhoplite]

your actual citizens who die of old age won't need coffins or slabs.

how likely is it to have a dwarf die of old age? :PP

In a fortress designed to run for a thousand years, quite likely.

depends on if you isolate the place or start killing gobbos like ants

[Naryar]

your actual citizens who die of old age won't need coffins or slabs.

how likely is it to have a dwarf die of old age? :PP

In a fortress designed to run for a thousand years, quite likely.

depends on if you isolate the place or start killing gobbos like ants

He OBVIOUSLY isolated the place. It's supposed to be self-sustaining for a thousand years, and even more.

[PTTG??]

That said, 1000 years of goblinite might be fun...

[Naryar]

That said, 1000 years of goblinite might be fun...

You'll have to make an automatic goblin killer then.

And for it to work flawlessly for 1000 years, without need for maintenance and without endangering your dwarves... maybe a repeating pit trap.

[Karnewarrior]

20-30 build orders of 20-30 coffins each should produce enough coffins that a fort (not killing off migrants) would be able to bury all their dead for a thousand years.

If you're killing off migrants that number could be higher. Also you're going to need one hell of a catacomb complex.

Also remove [MULTIPLE_LITTER_RARE]

[PTTG??]

Full automation will be unnecessary- I'll need to be watching to unpause, after all.

We will need some crazy catacombs, though. Luckily, migrants stop showing up after a couple decades of deaths.

[Scaraban]

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Watching...

[darkflagrance]

Full automation will be unnecessary- I'll need to be watching to unpause, after all.

We will need some crazy catacombs, though. Luckily, migrants stop showing up after a couple decades of deaths.

You can disable most of the pausing stuff in the announcements file, so I'm not sure what kind of rare, catastrophic events would be left that inspire a pause from the game.

And yeah, on my short-generation forts, fifty years of deaths and births led to such convoluted catacombs that I had given up designating coffins and was letting corpses rot on the roof into nothingness to save space. But that only worked in 40d.

[malimbar04]

If dwarves only die of old age, there isn't a need for catacombs anymore (at least with enough masterfully-engraved things to keep them happy). I suggest having a huge area for corpses to rot, and then occasionally dumping them every few years - if you're stable enough not to have accidental deaths or sieges.

As for long-term experiments to try... you got the basic ones covered. Are elves REALLY immortal? how about goblins? Do dwarves have genetics? How awesome are 1000-year old dragons? How stable are various types of traps? 

You could also build better super-soldiers, when coupled with the breeding program. You could test various designs of your fort for frame rates, including pathing options and total stone-quantities and food quantities effects. What can you do if you dig out basically every tile on the map beside your personal fort? Does that increase FPS, or decrease? How long does it take to train a new born dwarf into a legendary fighter, using nothing but standard training?

[Tetragenic]

If I may point out something.

Get a stable, secure fort... then use Sheat Engine to alter the speed. 10x faster maybe? 3 hours to 1000 years?