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tvremote

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How I learned to Never Ignore Merchants
« on: November 28, 2010, 05:02:46 pm »
So lately I've been building above ground "town" type fortresses, because I think they are cool.  But this takes a lot of mason work/architecture to get going, so I neglected to build a trade depot.  When the merchant arrived, he sat at the end of the map for a while and I was thinking, whatever I have enough food I can wait till next merchant. Little did I know, he REALLLY wanted to trade.   

After a rampaging dwarf merchant and his horse decimated my entire town, I will never neglect to build a depot again.

But seriously, is this a bug?  I mean, I think its kinda weird that merchants will start attacking you if you don't trade with them. And the horse?  WTF?
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Urist McUristy

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Re: How I learned to Never Ignore Merchants
« Reply #1 on: November 28, 2010, 05:06:22 pm »
They should only go berserk if you trap them for a long period of time...
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Re: How I learned to Never Ignore Merchants
« Reply #2 on: November 28, 2010, 05:11:58 pm »
Quote from: tvremote on November 28, 2010, 05:02:46 pm
But seriously, is this a bug?

We call that a feature.
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Re: How I learned to Never Ignore Merchants
« Reply #3 on: November 28, 2010, 05:15:27 pm »
I lost one of my forts to a named horse that way.
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Re: How I learned to Never Ignore Merchants
« Reply #4 on: November 28, 2010, 05:15:39 pm »
Quote from: CapnUrist on November 28, 2010, 05:11:58 pm
Quote from: tvremote on November 28, 2010, 05:02:46 pm
But seriously, is this a bug?

We call that a feature.

Yep this is DF, learn to Embrace bugs as Features, and just add some weird story-ised reason & all is good.
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Re: How I learned to Never Ignore Merchants
« Reply #5 on: November 28, 2010, 05:20:23 pm »
Well the exact message I got was something like "Urist McTrader has gone stark raving mad" which I thought was weird cause that's usually an artifact thing, like he failed to make an artifact.   

Maybe he just really hated being a trader.


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Re: How I learned to Never Ignore Merchants
« Reply #6 on: November 28, 2010, 05:22:56 pm »
This means he was trapped on the map and went insane.

How precisely he was trapped, *shrug*. Could be the bug is he thinks he is trapped if there is no depot?
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tvremote

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Re: How I learned to Never Ignore Merchants
« Reply #7 on: November 28, 2010, 05:25:33 pm »
He was trapped by societal constraints man.  I think I like Herbiies advice.
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Re: How I learned to Never Ignore Merchants
« Reply #8 on: November 28, 2010, 05:26:12 pm »
Actually had this happen once, though I had 5 marksdorfs at the time, so it was a boatload of "free" stuff.
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