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[KenboCalrissian]

I've been confusing the hell out of the elves lately.  I traded pretty favorably with them for about 7 years, then started seizing all their stuff any time they brought nothing but rope reed cloth.  I'd still buy from them when they brought crafts, animals, berries, and stuff I actually wanted.  After three straight years of seizing cloth, the following spring I had an elf ambush.

I expected elf sieges to follow... but instead, they sent more traders with animals and berries and weapons and the good stuff!

From this, I have two questions:

1) What did I do to change their minds about war?

2) Is this possible after you've been sieged by the civ, or is there just sort of a grey line with ambushes where it could go either way?

[Overspeculated]

I can't help you with the siege/ambush, but I do know that elves will bring cloth when they are making lots of profit. This is because cloth has the greatest value-weight ratio for them. Seizing should make them bring good stuff. Just something I learned recently.

[Magua]

What crafts of the elves do you actually want?

[Skorpion]

They're wusses, generally. Defeat them once, and they come back trading.

Humans are much the same, but they bring shite for the first few, and you've probably killed the liason getting them to siege.

[KenboCalrissian]

Eh, that was bad sentence structure there... I didn't want any, though I did use the ones I picked up off the caravan I flung off a bridge.  Stick it inna bin and sell it!