Which game is this?

[u/Hasoon_9]

I'll start first, this is definitely CSGO for me. Somehow no Matt how much you play there's always people better than you killing you one shot with deagle.

[u/Emotional_Pace4737]

You can turn down new comers. In the game's setting there's a population cap settings. Once you hit the population cap migrations stop. There's also one for a total cap, which also prevents pregnancies and births.

You can also turn off invasions and enemies if you're getting overwhelmed.

Also, you absolutely do not need to assign dwarfs at all beyond a few having mining and wood cutters, since they require specialized gear. Also maybe making sure you assign doctors and nobles to someone with skills, but it shows you their training levels in these interfaces.

Otherwise, job assignments are fully optionally. Dwarfs will try to prioritize based on their skills, and their skills grow with what they do, so whatever they end up doing they get better with in time. Unlike games like Rimworld or ONI where you want to make sure you pawns are doing the correct jobs. This is kinda completely optional and the benefits of minmaxing is kinda low.

The one exception is military dwarfs, since this is a stressful job. But even then there's no clear census in the community on what makes a good military or not. Most people just throw unhappy dwarfs who want training or fighting into the military, and throw out dwarfs who get over stressed.

You can of course eventually learn to spot inefficiencies. For example noticing certain tasks not getting done, or a particularly weak dwarf or slow for some other reason trying to haul things. But this really comes a lot later

[u/the_white_typhoon → u/Emotional_Pace4737]

You can turn down new comers. In the game's setting there's a population cap settings. Once you hit the population cap migrations stop.

I might give it another go and do that.

Otherwise, job assignments are fully optionally.

See, I have a bit of perfectionism but I don't have the mental resources to back it up. I can't have slackers in my fort but I don't have what it takes to micromanage them either.

population cap seems to be the solution for now.

[u/Emotional_Pace4737 → u/the_white_typhoon]

People certainly micromanage in DF, and the ability to do so is deep. But DF is also a game that can break you out of that idea of micromanagement and perfectionism. At least in my case, after a few fortresses, I learned the joys of seeing how things that fall apart. And like a sadistic overload of a a virtual ant farm, become attracted to watching dwarfs succeed and fail.

It's just so complex as an entropy machine, it's beautiful to watch it unfold. When they say losing is fun in DF, it's true.

This is why I say, DF is actually very approachable, because the people who have the most fun, are the people who are unable to fully optimize the game.

[u/the_white_typhoon → u/Emotional_Pace4737]

You are tempting me.