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[PhantomZero]

the options for Trade and Offer marked to: are greyed out I can only seize things from the merchant! What do I do?

[Mzbundifund]

I'll wager these are the elven merchants, and you tried to offer something they hate, like leather items or bone crafts.

The merchants are in the process of stomping off in a huff.  They won't trade with you any more until next year.

They hate most things that require you to kill a living creature to get it.  No bones, skulls, leather, or wood.  Pig tail and rope reed cloth is fine, and so is cave spider silk.

[PhantomZero]

No they are human merchants with mules. I hadn't completed my road when they arrived, it is mid-summer year 2. When they unloaded the goods at the trading center I went to the trading screen and I could only seize stuff, I didn't notice that I couldn't trade until i had selected stuff to trade and went to hit t and nothing was happening and I noticed it was greyed out.

I saved the game and reloaded it and this time i took a screen shot.  http://img237.imageshack.us/my.php?image=errortl3.png
 
I just seized everything from them anyways when I couldn't trade, figuring I could offer stuff back to them somehow so they don't get angry.

Sorry I wasn't very clear in my first post.

[ July 10, 2007: Message edited by: PhantomZero ]

[Mephisto]

Might these goods be goods that you didn't make at the fort? I seem to remember being unable to trade stuff that I bought at the prepare screen.

Now that I look at your shot, I have another question: Did you press Enter to mark the goods?

[ July 10, 2007: Message edited by: Mephisto ]

[PhantomZero]

Yeah I marked them but I couldn't offer nor trade.

[Mzbundifund]

quote:Originally posted by PhantomZero:
<STRONG>When they unloaded the goods at the trading center I went to the trading screen and I could only seize stuff, I didn't notice that I couldn't trade until i had selected stuff to trade and went to hit t and nothing was happening and I noticed it was greyed out.</STRONG>

I take it this means you seized things before you tried to trade?  That's your problem, the shopkeep's not going to sell you a coke after you break open his ATM.

[PhantomZero]

Well I continued playing anyways and they just left with nothing and a while later the Dwarves showed up and I have the opposite problem, Trade and Offer are lit but not seize. Are there certain conditions that I am unaware of that governs whether or not I can choose seize/offer/trade? http://img267.imageshack.us/my.php?image=error2uh9.png

And Mzbundifund I only seized it after I couldn't press the trade button.

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[utunnels]

Well, the best way is, mark their goods that you want to trade, and then mark yours until the trade option (t) is available.

[gimlisonofgloin]

You cannot sieze from the dwarf traders, only humans and elves.

You cannot offer items that are not made in your fortress as a tribute.