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meowmix

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merchants going melancholy?
« on: April 03, 2011, 09:24:20 pm »

i dont have a trade depot right now, and the merchants that come seem to just sit at the edge of the map until they go insane. is this supposed to happen?
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Re: merchants going melancholy?
« Reply #1 on: April 04, 2011, 12:35:06 am »

That's... odd. If the merchants can't leave the map for a long time, they either go berserk or insane. Usually this happens when you trap them inside your trade depot, but I've never heard of it happening like this. It's probably a problem with the map that prevents them from leaving.
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Re: merchants going melancholy?
« Reply #2 on: April 04, 2011, 01:50:05 am »

I have had this happen too. I was doing some reorganizing and didn't feel like rebuilding my depot for stupid elves. Nothing was wrong with the map, they had a clear path to exit hehe. They went nuts, atacked one of their own Yak's(which enraged) and somewhere in the fallout I lost my favorite dwarf. 

I save scummed, built a depot, and shot ballista arrows at them instead.
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