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tryrar

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slight problem
« on: May 10, 2011, 06:13:51 am »
I have a slight problem here in that the game seems to not be respecting the population cap I set. Any ideas?
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Re: slight problem
« Reply #1 on: May 10, 2011, 06:16:15 am »
Once you reach the cap, there's 2 migrant waves that will still come. The Mountainhomes have yet to recieve news of your current population, probably expecting the last wave to have entirely died.
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Re: slight problem
« Reply #2 on: May 10, 2011, 11:49:22 am »
1) The first two migrant waves after you embark are hard coded.

2) The population cap only takes effect after a game restart.

3) Once you reach the pop cap, the mountainhomes will stop sending migrants.  But migrants take time to be dispatched and arrive, and this time can be measured in seasons.  So depending on how far away you are from the mountainhomes, it's possible to keep getting migration waves, even though you're past the cap.

(The dispatching is a bit abstract at the moment, because migrants get created out of thin air instead of from the existing dwarven population.  But is is definitely possible to get 1 or 2 more migration waves after hitting the population cap.)
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