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[Brotato]

What was your longest lasting fortress? How long did it last, how did it die, why did you kill it, and what was so cool about it?
Also, what would you say is the average life of your fortresses?

[raptorfangamer]

sir.

what?

sir, we found the remains of a dwarven settlement.

what? how?

we sent one of our various demigods into the wilds and they found a fortress.

name?

we dont know, those records are lost.

fort name?

those are lost, sir, all of the engravings are written on ancient dwarfish, as if they were still drunk!

cause of death?

minotaur and siege combined.

age?

judging from the various trails and rotting bodies, around 5-8 years.

[DS]

Currently on year 94 and still going.

On average (excluding Weatherwires, of course, which would skew the data considerably), I'd say most of my forts don't last past the 5 year mark or so.

[Telgin]

I've only run two forts to "completion", and that was just me abandoning them out of boredom.  First lasted 6, second one 11.  Even a forgotten beast with deadly dust removing 2/5 of the population in the second one couldn't bring it down.  Only a single tantruming citizen after the carnage.

Working on my third and it's currently in year two, so we'll see how it goes.

[peskyninja]

I don't remember the name but it lasted 12~15 years, it had 16000 candy units (a it had candy on the first cavern level!) the population was arround 200 (temperature off). The fort became soooooooooooooo boring with all those masterpiece crundle tallow roasts and opulent rooms, and I even had a duchess! (she had 6 kids!)
Then the fort froze in time the huge ammount of clothes, rotten bodies from fallen enemies and military equipement that it created a singularity, it wraped time and space fabric arround the fort making time there incredible slow, then I went to the circus.
My huge-mega-gigantic-big-blast-with lasers-cave in trap caused the game to crash, so I savescummed and tried to beat the clowns with my own fists.
My candy dandy army was crushed and the clowns proceeded to rape the rest of the fort...

[proxn_punkd]

Probably my present fort at Bootrazors, actually. Like DS, my forts usually don't exceed 5 years. This one's been at least nine, and is presently a duchy, with a population hovering around 100 thanks to init editing safety and immigration regulations. Not sure if I want to shoot for Mountainhome, but I am trying to get Duchess Nomal married. Also contemplating fiddling with temperatures and/or the on-site river; FPS is generally hovering around 40 with regular livestock culls and restraints.

[jellsprout]

I always have two goals for my fortresses. Get the monarch and conquer the basement. So my forts rarely get past the 15th year, by which I have either successfully colonized the basement and abandoned the fortress or have died trying.

[Tastysaurus Rex]

My shit tends to taper off at about 7-8 years on average. Which is just fine since by then I'm usually bored and seeking a new gimmick anyway.

EDIT: Whoops posted too soon.

Continuing, my best and most favorite was basically this volcanoside city. Rather than a bunch of halls I hollowed out the area (that took a while) and left a bunch of paths, then filled the gaps with magma like it was Dorf!Venice. It also marked the most I've used mechanisms in a given fort, since I had to not only get the magma in but set up failsafes in case I needed to drain/manage it for whatever reason. There was also a last-ditch doomsday lever that would flood the entire thing, but I never got to use it. In retrospect it wasn't very gremlin-safe anyway.

The whole thing fell apart when gobbos showed up after a very nasty tantrum spiral. Highly inglorious way to go down, with the exception of my mayor who did fought a troll bare-handed over a narrow bridge and won. Granted the troll dodged over the side but it was still very Hollywood.

[Nyxalinth]

My oldest fort, Largebusts, lasted 12 years.  It died to a mix of fps doom and player boredom.

[Brotato]

Currently on year 94 and still going.

On average (excluding Weatherwires, of course, which would skew the data considerably), I'd say most of my forts don't last past the 5 year mark or so.

Geez! What are doing in that fort that you're keeping it around that long?

[darkflagrance]

The famous fortress of Flarechanneled lasted over 200 years, if I recall correctly. It should be linked in the Hall of Legends thread in Stores.

Personally, my longest lasting fort lasted 55 years, before it began to stutter due to FPS and I let great demon spiders eat everyone inside.

[DS]

Currently on year 94 and still going.

On average (excluding Weatherwires, of course, which would skew the data considerably), I'd say most of my forts don't last past the 5 year mark or so.

Geez! What are doing in that fort that you're keeping it around that long?

Well, at first it was a kind of intricate megaproject that involved using the natural cavern system to dictate the layout of structures within the fortress. Then a bunch of bugs turned it into a literary opportunity. It'll be ending soon (within a week or two), but I've been updating it in it's own thread. The link is in my sig.

And yeah, Flarechannels holds the record for longest-lasting fortress, unless I've missed something. It's not really that surprising, though, when you take a look at how absurdly big it is.

[King DZA]

My current fort, Gorerape, is my longest lasting fortress at six years. Just over my average fortress lifespan.

[Mapleguy555]

My oldest is around 20 years.
It died because I couldnt abandon.

( Goes to show why 7 dwarves with speed 1 cant abandon ._. )

[SixOfSpades]

On a related note, can dwarves die of old age?