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[cephalo]

The Depot access finder tells me that my depot is accessible, but I can see it's only to one edge of the map. Is that ok? If I miss my first caravan were all dead.

[ March 01, 2008: Message edited by: cephalo ]

[pushy]

It'll be fine.

[cephalo]

Ok, that brings up another question. Because my caravans can only come from one direction, they will be ten times easier to defend. On a normal map, with access to all sides, can I actually block access to all but a small corridor to the map edge of my choosing so that I can defend my caravans?

[Crafty Barnardo]

quote:Originally posted by cephalo:
<STRONG>Ok, that brings up another question. Because my caravans can only come from one direction, they will be ten times easier to defend. On a normal map, with access to all sides, can I actually block access to all but a small corridor to the map edge of my choosing so that I can defend my caravans?</STRONG>

It might be possible, but you don't really need to defend caravans.  They come with their own guards and can mostly take care of themselves.  And if they can't, you get to keep all of their stuff anyway!

[Kagus]

Sometimes you can keep their stuff anyways.  I had a little oddball occurance recently where I had two trade depots set up, on of which was designated for removal.

The eagons went to the first depot in line, the new and functional one, and the merchants went to the one designated for removal instead.  This prevented the wagons from offloading, thus depriving me of precious trade goods.

So, I forbid the trade depot that the merchants were at.  This was after they'd dropped all their goods, by the way.

Well, the trade goods got forbidden too.  The merchants, realizing they were at a forbidden trade depot, made their way to the other one, leaving the forbidden goods behind.  Strangely enough, they decided to crawl over to it instead of just walking.  I've seen them do it before.

And then they made it to the wagons, offloaded the wagon-carried goods and commenced trading.  Nobody was upset, nobody left in a huff, and the trading went along just fine.   When it was over, they left as usual, and never touched the forbidden goods.  

Once they were gone, I reclaimed the goods and had a bunch of free stuff.

[cephalo]

quote:Originally posted by Crafty Barnardo:
<STRONG>

It might be possible, but you don't really need to defend caravans.  They come with their own guards and can mostly take care of themselves.  And if they can't, you get to keep all of their stuff anyway!</STRONG>

Once things get cooking, the caravan's all get slaughtered. I heard that after a few times they stop coming, or even declare war on you. In my last fort it was getting rediculuous. I really wouldn't want to lose them for good.