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Gunsaremagic Dec 9, 2022 @ 1:04pm
How do i get more migrants
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NettleSoup Dec 9, 2022 @ 1:06pm 
Give the dwarven trade caravan lots of profit and they'll send more migrants next year. Also stop letting everyone die, it's giving you a bad rep.
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Hmuda Dec 9, 2022 @ 1:07pm 
Have some wealth in the fortress when you speak to the caravan master. When they go back to the capitol, the news about the oppulance of your fort will spread and attract more people.
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McFuzz Dec 9, 2022 @ 1:08pm 
Donating excessive amounts to the caravan is also like saying haha look how fabulously wealthy we are~
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Thom293 Dec 9, 2022 @ 1:15pm 
There seems to be an issue with the Merchant never leaving the map after he trades. He sits there forever, and never takes news of your exploits back to the civ, and so you dont get any more migrants. This has happened my first two games. I had a huge amount of wealth last game but was stuck on 17 population...

Anyone have any ideas?
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Gunsaremagic Dec 9, 2022 @ 1:27pm 
Originally posted by Thom293:
There seems to be an issue with the Merchant never leaving the map after he trades. He sits there forever, and never takes news of your exploits back to the civ, and so you dont get any more migrants. This has happened my first two games. I had a huge amount of wealth last game but was stuck on 17 population...

Anyone have any ideas?
Well i do have a merchant in here sitting the same room with his camel not moving hours i played for hours and didn't get another merchant for quite some time now i cant kick him out
Last edited by Gunsaremagic; Dec 9, 2022 @ 1:29pm
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DragDenDFO Dec 9, 2022 @ 1:29pm 
Originally posted by Thom293:
There seems to be an issue with the Merchant never leaving the map after he trades. He sits there forever, and never takes news of your exploits back to the civ, and so you dont get any more migrants. This has happened my first two games. I had a huge amount of wealth last game but was stuck on 17 population...

Anyone have any ideas?

Maybe he can't speak with your leader and is waiting for them?
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Gunsaremagic Dec 9, 2022 @ 1:34pm 
Originally posted by DragDenDFO:
Originally posted by Thom293:
There seems to be an issue with the Merchant never leaving the map after he trades. He sits there forever, and never takes news of your exploits back to the civ, and so you dont get any more migrants. This has happened my first two games. I had a huge amount of wealth last game but was stuck on 17 population...

Anyone have any ideas?

Maybe he can't speak with your leader and is waiting for them?
my expedition leader ? i removed all jobs and he is just wandering around doing random thing like brewing more drinks
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DragDenDFO Dec 9, 2022 @ 1:35pm 
Originally posted by Gunsaremagic:
Originally posted by DragDenDFO:

Maybe he can't speak with your leader and is waiting for them?
my expedition leader ? i removed all jobs and he is just wandering around doing random thing like brewing more drinks

Hmm... The only other thing I can think of - does he have an office with a table and chair?
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Gunsaremagic Dec 9, 2022 @ 1:58pm 
Originally posted by DragDenDFO:
Originally posted by Gunsaremagic:
my expedition leader ? i removed all jobs and he is just wandering around doing random thing like brewing more drinks

Hmm... The only other thing I can think of - does he have an office with a table and chair?
yep he is satisfied with his office it has everything needed
Last edited by Gunsaremagic; Dec 9, 2022 @ 1:58pm
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vonsch Dec 9, 2022 @ 2:47pm 
Are you keeping an open path to the map edge for the merchants? If they are blocked in when they try to leave they go insane.
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proctorsilex Dec 9, 2022 @ 3:02pm 
Originally posted by Gunsaremagic:
Originally posted by Thom293:
There seems to be an issue with the Merchant never leaving the map after he trades. He sits there forever, and never takes news of your exploits back to the civ, and so you dont get any more migrants. This has happened my first two games. I had a huge amount of wealth last game but was stuck on 17 population...

Anyone have any ideas?
Well i do have a merchant in here sitting the same room with his camel not moving hours i played for hours and didn't get another merchant for quite some time now i cant kick him out

This sounds like a bug I ran into twice so far, two fortresses & first trader - the trader will leave.. but then gets stuck on the map. Workaround for me was to deconstruct the trade depot. As soon as that was gone, the merchants actually left. First fortress I didn't do that and had no more traders for years until I abandoned. Second fortress, I deconstructed within a season or so so the first trader left, then I had another trader the next year work properly.

This ALSO seems to affect migrant waves. The first two waves will always come, but future waves maybe are dependent upon the initial trader's report.. so you get no more migrants if the merchants are stuck on your map.
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Thom293 Dec 9, 2022 @ 5:16pm 
Originally posted by proctorsilex:
Originally posted by Gunsaremagic:
Well i do have a merchant in here sitting the same room with his camel not moving hours i played for hours and didn't get another merchant for quite some time now i cant kick him out

This sounds like a bug I ran into twice so far, two fortresses & first trader - the trader will leave.. but then gets stuck on the map. Workaround for me was to deconstruct the trade depot. As soon as that was gone, the merchants actually left. First fortress I didn't do that and had no more traders for years until I abandoned. Second fortress, I deconstructed within a season or so so the first trader left, then I had another trader the next year work properly.

This ALSO seems to affect migrant waves. The first two waves will always come, but future waves maybe are dependent upon the initial trader's report.. so you get no more migrants if the merchants are stuck on your map.
You are a freeking dwarfen super hero. Deconstructing the trade depo made him leave. Thanks. Hopefully I will get migrants now. Thank you.
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vakapad777 Dec 9, 2022 @ 5:22pm 
Chose a civ with a lot of citizens, and settle near one of its sites. Generate a lot of wealth.
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Tanaka Khan Dec 9, 2022 @ 5:35pm 
I'm having the opposite problem and can't stop the buggers from arriving. So if I stop trade the migration should stop?
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vakapad777 Dec 9, 2022 @ 5:37pm 
you can set your population soft cap in the game settings. You will stop getting migrants above that. Coincidentally this lets you play with a single dorf if you set it to 1 and exile 6 of your starting party.
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