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[geail]

Before genning this world, I edited the d_init to have a population cap of 100 to make my new fortress run more smoothly.  However, I have had 2 immigration waves that have forced me to exceed my 100 dwarves; the first took me from 98 to 109 and this most recent brought me up to 120.  Is there anything I can do or is it just a bug?

[Girlinhat]

1: This happens.  But it shouldn't go as high as like 150 or anything.  These seem to be quirks concerning certain caps.  50 works, 35 acts like 50.  0 allows 2 waves and no more.  It's not a hard cap, it's more of a suggestion, really.
2: Children have a slightly unrelated cap.  With a cap of 50 and child cap of 10, your fort should reach 60 pop total.  If you have 20 children, this would be it.

[geail]

I have my child cap set to 5 and just got a 3rd child in this migration wave

[acetech09]

My pop limit is at 350, I'm at 367 now. Soft limit. Set it down 20 or 30 if you want your max pop to be at your number limit.

But if your fortress starts to lag, get some fortress !!HARDWARE!! or computer ☼Hardware☼ to fix it.

[krisslanza]

Yeah I noticed I had a population cap of only 30, but the population got up to 50 anyway through migrants.
I guess it at least fixes the huge waves of 20+ migrants...

[krenshala]

With a pop cap of 20 (and a child cap of 1000:1000%) I typically have between 25 and 30 fortress residents after 3 years.  The automagic/forced migration waves tend to be 5 to 8 dwarves, and then between zero and four, depending how high above 20 my population currently is at.