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Leinad

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Diplomacy Stymied
« on: January 14, 2009, 08:09:36 pm »
Well, this just happened.


Anyone else seen this before?
Im not certain why it happened, but my mayor had his hand broken during a meeting with the diplomat, then another dwarf with the meeting task active (One of my starting 7 :'(, curse the goblins!) was ambushed and killed, this is a possible cause. Will this have any impact on my fortress?
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Re: Diplomacy Stymied
« Reply #1 on: January 14, 2009, 08:25:08 pm »
The only time I have have this happen is when my mayor has been killed, and another one hasn't been appointed. All that happens when the diplomat leaves is that you don't get to order what you want for that year.
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Re: Diplomacy Stymied
« Reply #2 on: January 14, 2009, 08:27:22 pm »
I had it happen once when I forgot to unlock my front door. Goblins ambushed, so I locked the gate and let my military handle them, along with the merchants (my broker counts as military, as does my manager). The liason wandered around inside for a while, then went insane and vanished. I only unlocked the door after I saw he went insane.
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Leinad

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Re: Diplomacy Stymied
« Reply #3 on: January 14, 2009, 08:35:35 pm »
My Liason was unharmed and my mayor wasnt killed(though he was incapacitated), it might just be the liason having to wait around for a long time?
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Re: Diplomacy Stymied
« Reply #4 on: January 14, 2009, 08:57:57 pm »
I've seen that happen a couple times too. I read somewhere it will happen if they can't have the whole meeting, or if the liason gets stuck somewhere for a very long time (long after the caravan leaves) and goes crazy
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ArkDelgato

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Re: Diplomacy Stymied
« Reply #5 on: January 14, 2009, 10:21:53 pm »
Or if the liaison gets stabbed to near death.
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Re: Diplomacy Stymied
« Reply #6 on: January 14, 2009, 10:55:39 pm »
the only time this happened to me was when the liaison hanged around my fort following my mayor until for about a year, exactly when the traders returned again.
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Re: Diplomacy Stymied
« Reply #7 on: January 14, 2009, 11:33:28 pm »
The only times it happened to me is when my liaisons get stabbed to death by not running.
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Re: Diplomacy Stymied
« Reply #8 on: January 15, 2009, 10:02:48 am »
This happens if you don't have a mayor, or if the mayor is unreachable.
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