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[Seshat]

I just had unicorns wipe out a trade caravan (yay, lots of goods!).

Unfortunately, I still have a screenful of 'Bring Item to Depot' jobs. Which will then become a screenful of 'Store Item in Stockpile' jobs. Waste of Dwarf-hours.

Any chance of developing a way to cancel 'Bring Item to Depot' when the Trade Depot is reporting 'There are no merchants trading right now.'?

Thanks again.

[Maximus]

Destroying & rebuilding the trade depot would probably work.

[slMagnvox]

The jobs that cannot be cancelled inevitably get someone into trouble.  Store Item in Bin/Barrel/Bag, Give Water/Food, Bring Item, Clean Blood, Etc..  Someone important always grabs a noncancel-able job when you need him working on something else.  The reason they cannot be cancelled is they are not linked to a building/stockpile?  Bring Item to Depot doesn't seem to fit that generalization but we still cannot cancel it.  Heh, my Trade Minister hauled two of the 1200lbs armor bins from the magma to the depot, took him the better part of the month, with the Human Trade Rep following him around the whole time, shaking his head about crazy dwarves.

[Toady One]

I think we discussed the issue arising from the depot somewhere else -- the problem with allowing a depot to be used year-round is that it functions as a stockpile cheat since it has unlimited capacity.

[Seshat]

Would it be possible to have an 'empty depot' function that remains year-round? Essentially, a player-trigger for the 'the merchants have left' depot-clearing system?

Would that block the stockpile cheat, yet solve the problem?

It'd solve MY problem, at least.  

[Toady One]

Come to think of it, having the merchant event fail should just cancel those jobs anyway...  it might even be failing to do that despite some code I wrote...  I'll mark it down.

[Seshat]

Yaaaaay!

Thank you, Toady One!