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[Smackinjuice]

At 1000 years they can grow to adult size; i hear of people killing them, sometimes not having a tough time.  But how many years was your game going?  And how old was the dragon?

http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/DF2010:Dragon

[freeformschooler]

Hmm.

My worldgen rarely makes it past 300-700 years just because I stop it there. For some reason after about 700-800 years I usually notice all the cool megebeasts have been slain by some lame elf peasant or something. I remember Toady talking about that before.

[Owlbread]

I always stop my world generation at the earliest I can to ensure that these megabeasts are still roaming, usually at year 3 or something. Does that mean that if I encountered a dragon at that time, they would not be fully grown?

[FaultyLogic]

I always stop my world generation at the earliest I can to ensure that these megabeasts are still roaming, usually at year 3 or something. Does that mean that if I encountered a dragon at that time, they would not be fully grown?

Yes. At that time they are about the size of a dwarf.

EDIT: Though on second thought, I'm not certain they have to be born in year 1. It's not the case with dwarves at least.

[Owlbread]

I always stop my world generation at the earliest I can to ensure that these megabeasts are still roaming, usually at year 3 or something. Does that mean that if I encountered a dragon at that time, they would not be fully grown?

Yes. At that time they are about the size of a dwarf.

EDIT: Though on second thought, I'm not certain they have to be born in year 1. It's not the case with dwarves at least.

That explains why my dwarf adventurers were so successful then. Silly me.

[Urist Imiknorris]

Megabeasts start worldgen with a ≈250 year head start.

[Satarus]

I suppose a memory mapper would be useful.  Figure out what is stored in teh size variable and then compare it to what it's size should be at a given age.

[Smackinjuice]

So you would have to embark at 750? well do an advance world gen and have like 120 mega beast to start at; should be some dragons left

well, i'm off to s!cience!

[Rex_Nex]

Yeah, dragons (usually, unless you get unlucky with the breath attacks) usually seem like pushovers because you are beating the shit out of adolescent dragons. You bastards.

[Cespinarve]

At 1000 years they can grow to adult size; i hear of people killing them, sometimes not having a tough time.  But how many years was your game going?  And how old was the dragon?

http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/DF2010:Dragon

Um, yes? It isn't very hard. Simply gen a world to 1051 and go get some "Kill dragon quests" in adventure mode. Check in legends afterwards, I've killed a thousand year old dragon and her children, who were, oh 930 or so.

[Draco18s]

At 1000 years they can grow to adult size; i hear of people killing them, sometimes not having a tough time.  But how many years was your game going?  And how old was the dragon?

http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/DF2010:Dragon

Um, yes? It isn't very hard. Simply gen a world to 1051 and go get some "Kill dragon quests" in adventure mode. Check in legends afterwards, I've killed a thousand year old dragon and her children, who were, oh 930 or so.

They hadn't left the nest yet?

[GreatWyrmGold]

At 1000 years they can grow to adult size; i hear of people killing them, sometimes not having a tough time.  But how many years was your game going?  And how old was the dragon?

http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/DF2010:Dragon

Um, yes? It isn't very hard. Simply gen a world to 1051 and go get some "Kill dragon quests" in adventure mode. Check in legends afterwards, I've killed a thousand year old dragon and her children, who were, oh 930 or so.

Megabeasts reproduce?
Awesome!
Now to gen a world with only dragons as megabeasts...Y'know, this forum needs an "evil grin" smiley.

[piecewise]

Wait, children? Dragons don't breed, they can't, they don't have the [CHILD] tag. They can hypothetically lay eggs, but I've never seen or heard anything either in the forum or the raws that says they do.

[Starver]

I've killed a thousand year old dragon and her children, who were, oh 930 or so.

They hadn't left the nest yet?

Well, they went to a local dragon college, and it was easier to stay in the home lair with mum[1] than board out, while supporting themselves (and giving some to the upkeep of the family home) with part time jobs such as fire-lighters, and then when they finally got full-time work they were lucky enough that there were quite a few maidens in the local area, and it didn't seem worth the trouble to move into a cave of their own and have to fully furnish it with treasures, when they were quite comfy in their own alcoves of the family cave.  And, besides, mother's home-roasted knight was to die for.  Not least for the knight.




[1] Mum was fairly happy about that.  But not quite so happy about how they were decorating their sleeping area almost exclusively in jet items, deliberately drooping their wings and just grunting when asked to do any chores.  But given the little girl dragons had previously gone through a big phase of Rose Quartz, Tourmaline and Morganite, surrounding loads of mirrors with all the pink jewellery they could find, and the little boy dragons hanging (mostly unoccupied) suits of armour from the ceiling and leaving their toy wagons all over the place, by now she'd gotten used to such fads.  And at least they weren't freebasing shale-oil like some of the other tearaway adolescent dragons she'd heard about.

[Chromasphere]

lol