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[Clownie]

What purpose does this serve? I tried waiting for something to happen, but I'm stuck staring at the human law-giver telling me what a pleasant place I've carved out for myself.

[i2amroy]

It's part of the trading agreement screens. Simply hit a button and then wait a while and it will advance to the next conversation screen (most of which provide data/options for trade instead of just being pleasantries. Also if you aren't averted to a tiny bit of cheating you can pause the game and then repeatedly designate/undesignate anything with the mouse and it will advance through the screens even though the game is paused. This works great for a time when you need to get this trade agreement done and then quickly go have your leader do something. (Though be careful since cats can adopt dwarves during this "super time" as well as trade agreement conversations advancing, so it is possible to end up with a bunch of adoptions right after you do this as well.

[Clownie]

But there is no such thing as a trade agreement with humans. Only dwarves. This law-giver tells me my cave is very pleasant, then a while later he tells me it was a nice conversation and leaves.

[RenoFox]

I'm fairly sure that is just a placeholder at the moment. That is where liasons discuss the next caravan and elves the treecutting limits, but at the moment humans really don't have anything beside smalltalk to do with their diplomats.

[Fusty]

Also if you aren't averted to a tiny bit of cheating you can pause the game and then repeatedly designate/undesignate anything with the mouse and it will advance through the screens even though the game is paused.

Wow, thanks for that tip!

[NecroRebel]

Note that it is possible, and actually fairly simple, to mod in the treecutting-limiter elf diplomats and the trade-agreement-forming human guild representatives. If you use these mods, those things will come as they did in 40d and before.

The mods in question involve adding the following to entity_default at the end of the forest and plains entries, respectively:

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   [POSITION:DIPLOMAT]
      [NAME:Diplomat:Diplomats]
      [NUMBER:1]
      [RESPONSIBILITY:MAKE_INTRODUCTIONS]
      [RESPONSIBILITY:MAKE_PEACE_AGREEMENTS]
      [RESPONSIBILITY:MAKE_TOPIC_AGREEMENTS]
      [APPOINTED_BY:DRUID]
      [PRECEDENCE:70]
      [DO_NOT_CULL]
      [COLOR:7:0:1]
      [MENIAL_WORK_EXEMPTION]
      [SLEEP_PRETENSION]
      [PUNISHMENT_EXEMPTION]
      [ACCOUNT_EXEMPT]
      [DUTY_BOUND]

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   [POSITION:GUILD_REPRESENTATIVE]
      [NAME:Guild Representative:Guild Representatives]
      [NUMBER:1]
      [RESPONSIBILITY:TRADE]
      [PRECEDENCE:40]
      [MENIAL_WORK_EXEMPTION]
      [SLEEP_PRETENSION]
      [PUNISHMENT_EXEMPTION]
      [ACCOUNT_EXEMPT]
      [DO_NOT_CULL]
      [COLOR:7:0:1]
      [DUTY_BOUND]

[Tirion]

Aye, like the previous poster said. Also, entity modifications like this unfortunately require the creation of a new world to become valid, so in your present fortress these diplomats will only serve to annoy you with pointless gameplay interruptions.