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[BoogieMan]

I'm on my 6th fortress or so. I usually ended up quitting after 4-8 years, wanting to put the things I learned to better use in a fresh start. My current Fortress of 6 years is probably my most successful, although not my largest. My military just took out my first flying titan and there have been two sieges and maybe 3 ambushes. I have a nice room with 4 magma forges and other magma facilities which are churning away producing steel for my military and gold crafts. There are 3 forgotten beasts lurking in the first cavern layer I discovered, but it's walled off for now. One of them slaughtered a large group of Olm men but they crippled it pretty good.

I am beginning to wonder how likely succumbing to a siege is, if you're fairly well prepared before the first one happens. I've only gotten sieges with Trolls and Goblins so far, and the second larger attack was easier because they just stood around the edge of the map for a season, not attacking. They wouldn't come close unless I unlocked my outermost door and took my soldiers outside. I'd lose caravans, but I believe I could simply just stay inside and let them be if I wanted to. Is this normal if your fortress isn't easily accessible?

[Kilroy the Grand]

The longest was about 14 years, and it was killed by a combination of bordem and fps

[Corneria]

Sieges tend to be tendly by coming at inoppurtune times, or unlucky circumstances causing cascading failures on your side. i.e., you're trying something risky in the caverns and your main military is occupied with a Fun FB when the goblins show up en masse with mostly very skilled rangers and lashers.

[Kyronea]

Maybe five years or so, though I last played in 40D.  Frankly this game is a lot more fun to read about than to play, which is why I lurk on these forums but do little actual playing of the game.

[Joshua IX]

25 years and still going. At 50+ FPS too which is bearable

I'm currently lining the inside with gold to attract many a beast to test my warriors!

[Tibbz2]

25 years and still going. At 50+ FPS too which is bearable

I'm currently lining the inside with gold to attract many a beast to test my warriors!

I get like dips to 20fps after a few seasons :L

Ive never had a fort over a year, due to learning new things and wanting to restart, and the unbearable slowdown when i get 30 dwarves -.-

I CANT WAIT TO GET MY NEW PC

[LordSlowpoke]

51 years. I ran out of stuff to mine, that was 40d tho. Longest on .31 was 22 years and it died of the magic syndrome of everybody instantly dies of necrosis.

[lanceleoghauni]

20 sometihng years, Time Capsule Generation fort that I dug beneath the waves to safeguard the generations to follow. Letting them forget the surface world, and all lore from the past not carved into the walls of the fortress. The Rangers were the guardians of prosperity, safeguarding the people against an enemy they didn't even know existed. deep beneath the earth the warriors, clad in blue cloaks and leather armor stalked those who would harm the remaining dwarves, and built the conduits to allow them to expand without knowing of what laid beyond.

To the young, there was only the fortress. Nothing went in, nothing went out. There was no OUT to go to. The Fortress Endured, despite the loss of sweet pods, and the ability to work metal.

I eventually tired of it, but it was quite fascinating to deal with. No migrants, as the civ was dead, no traders, no neighbors. we were the last of our kind, and I had to safeguard the future of the entire dwarven race.

[Mitchewawa]

I can't remember the years exactly of Towerdomains, but it was about 20-30 years. It was quite boring because, it being one of my first embarks, I accidentally embarked on the most boring spot in existence; all sides were mountain except one, meaning goblins only came once every 5 years or so.

IT WAS A GRAND FORTRESS THOUGH.

[elf-fondling human]

I tend to never have FPS problems, I just get uber bored once my farming industry is done. As soon as my dwarves can competently avoid starvation, I tend to lose interest and start over. I usually start a mega project of some sort while I'm getting them fed, but those fall by the wayside. I'm currently making a massive, 100-tile diameter sphere for my dwarves to live in, with the throne room/monarch(s)' chambers in the dead center.

In fact, the only living thing to die of old age in any of my forts was a cavy.

[Stuebi]

11 Years, even if this sounds stupid, i was (struggling to find the english word for it here)  deeply moved when it ended. I had build a giant arena, with a Captured Dragon and Monthly Battles (The Fort was build with Deons Genesis, and i had tons of Sieges every Year). It was also the first Fort that had a fully trained military that was actually capable of Fending off Sieges (In all of my previous Forts, my military sucked). It also had a very beautiful Design (Well i liked it atleast) which i was very proud off.

Then a Forgotten Beast came, some kind of Eagle that spread a Disease that killed almost all of my Dwarves except the ones living in the Surface Castle. I was then finished off by alot of Demon and Werewolve Sieges.

I had some backup saves, but after thinking about it the Story of the Fort was Epic, and just redoing it again felt kinda wrong. Am i stupid for thinking that way?

[Pharaun]

11 years. FPS was starting to drag, so I drowned as many dwarves as I could and enjoyed the rampage that followed.

[Coolnesstod]

11 Years, even if this sounds stupid, i was (struggling to find the english word for it here)  deeply moved when it ended. I had build a giant arena, with a Captured Dragon and Monthly Battles (The Fort was build with Deons Genesis, and i had tons of Sieges every Year). It was also the first Fort that had a fully trained military that was actually capable of Fending off Sieges (In all of my previous Forts, my military sucked). It also had a very beautiful Design (Well i liked it atleast) which i was very proud off.

Then a Forgotten Beast came, some kind of Eagle that spread a Disease that killed almost all of my Dwarves except the ones living in the Surface Castle. I was then finished off by alot of Demon and Werewolve Sieges.

I had some backup saves, but after thinking about it the Story of the Fort was Epic, and just redoing it again felt kinda wrong. Am i stupid for thinking that way?

You had fun with your fort and thats what this game is about. If you went back to your fort, you would just have more fun.
Also: MAGMA, AND LOTS OF IT!

[Megaman3321]

My longest fortress is definitely Floortauts, having lived for almost 10 dwarfyears now.

On sieges, I've had a fisherdwarf who was caught outside during almost every ambush in my fort's history. It was actually pretty funny 

[thegoatgod_pan]

Oldest is Wrungknives currently around 50 (version 31.25), I come back to it every now and then, but Forgotten beasts are all extinct, as are titans (thought there were 12 at world gen), and goblins hardly pose a problem, due to a super militia, some of whom were born and raised in the fort and started training for war as soon as they turned 12.  It is a fire clay surface town with a large complex in the caverns.  I never sprung hell so f.p.s. is around 30-50 with temp and weather off. 

It grew up organically rather than according to any particular plan and features three pyramids over the holes where I tried and failed to pierce the aquifer, a large (f.p.s. prohibitive) bathhouse, numerous execution devices and a clan of tame blind cave ogres which makes for really fun dfhack shifts between fort and adventurere mode (the ogres instantly rebel and duke it out with their dwarven captors)

It is a good fort to return to, and I am very partial to the Baron--Aban Whippedknives the Calm Enchantment-- who is a legendary marksdwarf with two dozen kills to his name, personally responsible for eliminating 4 F.B's and surviving the terrible consequences of attempting to pit a bronze colossus right before a goblin siege (he lead the survivors--6 adults and 9 children into the caverns, nursed the only other surviving soldier back to health and killed a f.b. that showed up to finish what the collosus and goblins started) but a bit boring since all I ever do is clean up the crap left by sieges.