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DisgruntledPeasant

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Citizens attacking me for no reason.
« on: July 26, 2012, 10:44:05 am »

I've lost a couple of adventurers to this strange behavior, i'll go to a freindly town to rest for the night, open the door on a house and suddenly everyone wants to kill me -_-   sometimes they will send me on a quest to kill someone or something, and upon my return they kick my head in.

Why does everyone hate me in this game?
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Re: Citizens attacking me for no reason.
« Reply #1 on: July 26, 2012, 10:47:31 am »

Probably need some more info- have you attacked any domestic animals recently?
Caused any trouble in a different town that could be part of the same civilization?
Otherwise, the town might just be an enemy of your character's civ.
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Re: Citizens attacking me for no reason.
« Reply #2 on: July 26, 2012, 11:04:54 am »

Nah, I dont attack domestic animals and avoid any trouble with civs.

Its happened once as I entered the house I started outside of -_-
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Re: Citizens attacking me for no reason.
« Reply #3 on: July 26, 2012, 11:53:04 am »

I assume you are using the vanilla, unmodded version of dwarf fortress?  Also, the citizens of the town are humans?

I have had this sort of thing happen a lot when modding to let me play as an evil creature (such as a goblin), especially if I enter an evil town.  I've noticed that sometimes in these cases the game causes me to autoattack other evil creatures when I move onto them even though they are actually friendly to me.

However, this is probably not your problem.  I suspect that something wierd may have happened during worldgen to screw up loyalty within the civilizations in your world.  I suggest generating a new world, and seeing if weird stuff still happens.  If that doesn't work, you might try downloading and reinstalling Dwarf Fortress (maybe your raws got corrupted or something?).

Bottom line - this shouldn't be happening unless something is broken, but loyalty is a tricky thing that seems to get broken pretty easily in DF.

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Re: Citizens attacking me for no reason.
« Reply #4 on: July 26, 2012, 12:30:06 pm »

sometimes they will send me on a quest to kill someone or something, and upon my return they kick my head in.

This might be the problem if the bug where they send you to go kill someone part of their own civ happens. Then they get angry and attack you.
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Re: Citizens attacking me for no reason.
« Reply #5 on: July 26, 2012, 02:52:42 pm »

yeah something realy must be up with the loyalty amongs civs in my save,  it happened once again to me, only this time the townsfolk erupted into a chaotic brawl the second I entered a house like a spontanious civil war (loyalty cascade?)

I'll reluctantly re-gen my world and see if this persists.
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Re: Citizens attacking me for no reason.
« Reply #6 on: July 26, 2012, 03:08:07 pm »

Save, now!
Loyalty cascades are awesome, imho.

But yeah, re-gen is the only option.
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Re: Citizens attacking me for no reason.
« Reply #7 on: July 29, 2012, 02:08:37 pm »

This happened to me when I used 10 adventurers to blind another retired adventurer, I think I started a war between a few human civs.
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Re: Citizens attacking me for no reason.
« Reply #8 on: July 29, 2012, 06:03:38 pm »

kill all who attack you , take their socks and bring them to the nearest goblin fortress as a sign of loyalty.
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