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Triaxx2

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Ambushes and Peace
« on: June 26, 2011, 12:55:46 pm »
I've been getting ambushes from local goblins, though I'm at peace with them. Will wiping these out, and frankly, I've been doing a pretty good job with everything except the bloody bowmen, whom I'm soon to start drowning with an overhead 'sprinkler' system.

Anyway, will wiping them out, by whatever means are available, eventually cause a loss of peace with the Goblins?
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Re: Ambushes and Peace
« Reply #1 on: June 26, 2011, 01:28:07 pm »
'Peace' status with the goblins doesn't tell you anything useful.  Goblins are coded to always be hostile, regardless of whether the civilization screen thinks you're at war with them or not.
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Re: Ambushes and Peace
« Reply #2 on: June 26, 2011, 02:51:35 pm »
Quote from: Sphalerite on June 26, 2011, 01:28:07 pm
'Peace' status with the goblins doesn't tell you anything useful.  Goblins are coded to always be hostile, regardless of whether the civilization screen thinks you're at war with them or not.
It isn't hardcoded. Vanilla goblins are always hostile because of the babysnatcher and item thief tags, if you remove those you can be at peace with them normally (though it requires further modding to make them trade with you)
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Re: Ambushes and Peace
« Reply #3 on: June 26, 2011, 05:14:12 pm »
The little P-sign in the civ screen doesn't show the entity's relation to you but to the nation you are highlighting at this moment.
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Re: Ambushes and Peace
« Reply #4 on: June 26, 2011, 07:05:56 pm »
Goblins are a nation of sociopaths; they find it unthinkable not to torture for fun, for instance.  Peace with them basically means they are not, at the present, at the walls with an army led by whatever gibbering horror leads them. In the olden days (before my time), they brought caravans in the winter, implying that each of the great races rules a season, and that dwarves own autumn; the time of melancholy and drunkenness.
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Triaxx2

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Re: Ambushes and Peace
« Reply #5 on: June 27, 2011, 11:35:38 am »
Ah, well, I figure I'm at peace since I got a Gobbo caravan the second year. Now I'm getting Ambushed. I'm totally okay with peace going away, and sieges coming, but I just want to know if killing the Ambushes will change the status.

I don't really mind the Ambushes, at least, not the melee ones. The Bowmen seem to have a knack for killing my soldiers though.
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Re: Ambushes and Peace
« Reply #6 on: June 27, 2011, 12:12:48 pm »
get a moat, build a drawbridge, problem solved
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