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[MaximumZero]

I never name dwarves after me. Bad karma, given the usual fate of most of my dwarves.

I like to think of the me-Dorf as my avatar (he mostly fights, drinks and sleeps,) and that the rest of the dorfs that come into my fort are servants or criminals or something sent to him from the mountainhome.

[malimbar04]

Boredom or frustration every time. Could be FPS death, ghost annoyance, the related coffin annoyance, frustration at my military, boredom with the fortress design, or whatever other excuse I want.

[darkflagrance]

Usually I only play forts with my personal mods in them. I abandon forts when I decide that the tweaks I've been making to the experimental version would be more fun in a fort that the stuff in my current active fort.

[Stil]

I only start a new fortress when I get bored want to try something new - I'll play with different embarks and try different things (very early metal, mass sheep embark etc etc) for shits and giggles - and then reload a new fortress.

[Korva]

FPS death or boredom are the prime causes for me, though I too never abandon, just shelve 'em and move on to a new world. I started deciding on a little project that I want to try, and that helps but my oldest and "best" fort is still only 12 years old. Should probably try a proper megaproject next.

I'm terrible about trying new designs, though, and tend to re-use a lot of ideas. WTB more creativity.

[gtmattz]

d become the Hulk Hogan of dwarves, snapping the necks of goblins and trolls like a boss while sporting an awesome goatee while shouting "Ooooooh yeeeeeah!"

Hulk Hogan is not the guy who shouts
Ooooooh yeeeeeah!, that was Macho Man Randy Savage, sheesh get ur wrasslers straight 

[zephyr_hound]

I tend to just delete the whole world and regen rather than abandoning because OH NOES WORLD IS NO LONGER FLAWLESS AND UNTOUCHED

that said boredom or a desire to change my modded stuff is my fort killer. I get a great idea for a megaproject or a theme fort or a new creature and I just have to try it.

[ferok]

d become the Hulk Hogan of dwarves, snapping the necks of goblins and trolls like a boss while sporting an awesome goatee while shouting "Ooooooh yeeeeeah!"

Hulk Hogan is not the guy who shouts
Ooooooh yeeeeeah!, that was Macho Man Randy Savage, sheesh get ur wrasslers straight 

Alternatively, the Kool Aid guy.

[hitto]

"Crap, I wish I hadn't mined that level for so I coulda made a fountain and sewage and water megaproject under the dining room but also not too close to the sleeping quarters, oh noooooo RESTART!"

and
*Urist has died* x20
"Oh, it seems I forgot to forbid the fucking socks"

Best for last :
My current fort is getting close to every bedroom being a 7x7 dream suite with ☼'s everywhere.
I press C.
No goblins.

[ChairmanPoo]

and yeah, after abandoning I often (not always) just regen the world, because I favor creating small worlds anyway.

[tolkafox]

FPS death after creating too complex water-magma works for my poor laptop.

When I get bored it's time to dig out all of the green stuff. "The zergs are coming, the zergs are coming!" This way, I at least have an interesting story of how my expedition leader managed to close the hatchcovers and lock the evil ones in the fortress while he began to collect and brew plants for himself. Then the lions ate him.

[DFPongo]

3 months after embark when I get frustrated trying to set up something and abandon the game again.

[gtmattz]

d become the Hulk Hogan of dwarves, snapping the necks of goblins and trolls like a boss while sporting an awesome goatee while shouting "Ooooooh yeeeeeah!"

Hulk Hogan is not the guy who shouts
Ooooooh yeeeeeah!, that was Macho Man Randy Savage, sheesh get ur wrasslers straight 

Holy shit, Randy Savage died today, he had a heart attack while driving and hit a tree and died in the hosiptal

* gtmattz snaps into a slimjim

[Lytha]

I never really abandon mine. I roll a new world, and after a while of not returning to the old fortress, I get rid of its saves.

Genning a new world happens whenever I feel that I'd rather be in a totally different biome.

[Vercingetorix]

I almost never abandon them; they either collapse on their own or more likely a new version comes out and it's simply deleted.  Right now my current fort is 31 years old and FPS is holding steady at around 20-40 (sometimes higher)...aggressive item management has undoubtedly helped.