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Bullion

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[40d] floating merchants
« on: October 03, 2008, 09:48:06 am »

So, i built an elevated trade platform for kicks, and decided to collapse it while i had trapped merchants on there, so i removed all the surrounding floors and voila, the guards go into a chasm-y doom, but the wagons still stay elevated, taunting me with their hovercarts.
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Tayrin

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Re: [40d] floating merchants
« Reply #1 on: October 03, 2008, 10:01:58 am »

That sounds like bug 961, reported here.
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Yanlin

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Re: [40d] floating merchants
« Reply #2 on: October 04, 2008, 04:34:32 am »

Hmm. Can't you shoot the wagon with a balista?
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Chthon

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Re: [40d] floating merchants
« Reply #3 on: October 30, 2008, 12:40:12 pm »

No, you can only shoot ballista bolts from ballistas.  They will not shoot wagons unless you mod the game.
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Re: [40d] floating merchants
« Reply #4 on: October 31, 2008, 12:13:11 am »

I would have expected that response from Yanlin, not to him.
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Re: [40d] floating merchants
« Reply #5 on: November 01, 2008, 02:00:53 pm »

I would have expected that response from Yanlin, not to him.

Allowing them to shot across Zlevels and diagonally just gives them more directions to miss in!
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Re: [40d] floating merchants
« Reply #6 on: November 01, 2008, 07:54:05 pm »

No, you can only shoot ballista bolts from ballistas.  They will not shoot wagons unless you mod the game.
Hmm. Can't you shoot the wagon with a balista?
Not FROM.
Yes, if you build an elevated ballista platform, you can shoot the wagon with it.
Don't know if it'll have an EFFECT, but...
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Re: [40d] floating merchants
« Reply #7 on: November 01, 2008, 11:16:20 pm »

No, you can only shoot ballista bolts from ballistas.  They will not shoot wagons unless you mod the game.
Hmm. Can't you shoot the wagon with a balista?
Not FROM.
Yes, if you build an elevated ballista platform, you can shoot the wagon with it.
Don't know if it'll have an EFFECT, but...
Oh, it should, first and foremost getting rid of the merchants.  Then there's the other, better side effect of making the merchant's home civ really angry >:D
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