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Broker is at depot, all items already moved -- still can't trade
« on: August 02, 2012, 10:43:21 pm »
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Re: Broker is at depot, all items already moved -- still can't trade
« Reply #1 on: August 02, 2012, 10:45:25 pm »
Upload a save to dffd, maybe we'll get it sorted out for you?
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Re: Broker is at depot, all items already moved -- still can't trade
« Reply #2 on: August 03, 2012, 01:41:39 am »
Are they still unloading?
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Re: Broker is at depot, all items already moved -- still can't trade
« Reply #3 on: August 03, 2012, 01:46:34 am »
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Re: Broker is at depot, all items already moved -- still can't trade
« Reply #4 on: August 03, 2012, 05:05:51 am »
Check your announcements to make sure they havent started packing to go.

Unpack and pack takes quite some time.  After you get the announcement 'Merchants have arrived and begun to unpack their goods' its often a week or two game-time before they will trade.
Likewise if they are packing up they wont trade but appear to still be at the depot.  In this second case hitting 'q' and hovering over the depot will show a line at the very top saying 'There are no merchants to trade with right now' (or something to that effect).

Additionally, if you hover over the depot with 'q' and it shows your broker's job as 'Trade at Depot', that only means he has taken this job assignment, he may still be onroute from the dining room or whatever.  Double check he has arrived, he needs to be on the depot to trade.
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Re: Broker is at depot, all items already moved -- still can't trade
« Reply #5 on: August 03, 2012, 06:16:24 am »
If one of the merchants was killed on its way to the depot, the rest of the merchants may continue in that direction but they will not trade with you.
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Re: Broker is at depot, all items already moved -- still can't trade
« Reply #6 on: August 03, 2012, 07:15:18 am »
Check if the broker is Conducting a meeting, meaning he might be busy with the Liaison instead of doing his broker thing.
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Re: Broker is at depot, all items already moved -- still can't trade
« Reply #7 on: August 03, 2012, 08:41:31 am »
The broken only conducts the meeting if he is also the expedition leader/mayor/etc.  I've stopped making my expedition leader the broker lately just to get the meeting done sooner.
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Re: Broker is at depot, all items already moved -- still can't trade
« Reply #8 on: August 03, 2012, 12:07:44 pm »
Is the broker burrowed to the depot? If so, s/he many be on break, on the depot. Trust me, this happens a lot.
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Re: Broker is at depot, all items already moved -- still can't trade
« Reply #9 on: August 03, 2012, 12:13:03 pm »
If you don't really need to export wealth (to get a Baron you need to export at least 10,000 dorfbux among other things) or boost your broker's Appraiser/other trade skills (to see how much wealth you have), deconstruct the depot once they're done unloading. You get everything in it for free and the traders don't complain. (For elves I like to seal them in the depot but that's a different story :P )
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Re: Broker is at depot, all items already moved -- still can't trade
« Reply #10 on: August 03, 2012, 01:01:57 pm »
Another weird thing: there appears to be a wagon at the depot.  It shouldn't be there, since the only entrance to my fort is a 3 tile wide corridor filled with traps.

Maybe one of the traders did get killed on the way in; I'm not sure.
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