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kaijyuu

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Caravan gift box
« on: February 09, 2012, 01:15:37 pm »
The idea:

A building where you can put all your excess junk in for caravans to pick whatever they want out of on their way out of the map. No bartering necessary; when they get ready to leave, they stop by the gift box and fill up as much as they can carry with free crap you don't want.

Why:

Replacement for atom smashing/tossing things in the magma sea. Easy way to get rid of unwanted items, only this way, you get exported wealth too.



Ideally the gift box would do the following too:

1) Items within would not calculate temperature or any of the other things that cause FPS lag with large amounts of items. This is, after all, the main point: to replace atom smashing.
2) Not allow you to take items out of it after being placed in. For all intents other than this, the item(s) were atom smashed. Presumably the items are completely gone if the building is destroyed.
3) Give you exported wealth instead of nothing.
4) Make it so you don't have to bother with bartering if you want to just give merchants stuff.
5) It should have an easy way to designate things to be tossed into it (rather than the current dump command).
6) Merchants would take things they otherwise wouldn't (elves would take wood to give it a proper burial or something, others would take stolen goods to return them, etc) but you wouldn't get any exported wealth for it.
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Re: Caravan gift box
« Reply #1 on: February 09, 2012, 01:54:37 pm »
-1 caravans can only carry a certain limit of items/weight, maybe when we have non-merchant caravans.
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Re: Caravan gift box
« Reply #2 on: February 09, 2012, 01:57:23 pm »
This seems more like a temporary patch and less like an actually useful feature.  As soon as(Like in 20 years) Toady finishes Hauling, dwarfs wearing stuff and other things this would be useless.

So Yeah, +1 . But it seems more like a mod idea and should not contribute to weight. I'd like to see poor visitors( further in the arc when we have inns) search and use stuff from refuse zones though.
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Re: Caravan gift box
« Reply #3 on: February 09, 2012, 02:16:57 pm »
I'd just settle for a convenient way to destroy stuff.  An incinerator maybe.  I'm sure that's been suggested a thousand times already though.

The benefit of getting exported wealth helps I suppose, and the idea of elves taking wood home for burial is amusing.  Although I can't imagine wanting to get rid of much that's made of wood...
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