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[trib]

Would work like any other production demand, but with a longer time limit perhaps? Also probably best to restrict the ability to demand them to kings & queens only so as not to become too obnoxious. Probably need some restrictions on what civilizations can hold the artifact so as to not cause wars or at least not steal from inside the player civilization, but it would give an added function to artifacts and add depth to monarchs. Nothing like sending your army to scour the world in search of a mythical gold throne to satisfy the demands of monarchs.

Though this might lead to an increase in the "accidents" monarchs have and problems will probably arise with unknown location artifacts that end up being in player civ etc.

[Leonidas]

I like this one. It's like the Quest for the Holy Grail. But these would need to be infrequent.

[Shonai_Dweller]

I like this one. It's like the Quest for the Holy Grail. But these would need to be infrequent.

Remember they already form claims for artifacts they like (either because they have a legitimate claim, or because they heard about an artifact and thought it might be nice to own). Demands for artifact recovery should be based on the artifacts they actually want. Preferably they'd actually make these demands more often than the 'make 6 axes' type.

But would be good to also have the choice to hire merc adventurers to do the job like other sites get to do, rather than risk your own dorfs.

[voliol]

Judging by the devlogs I thought the merc/visiting adventurer quest thing was going to be in the game by the first 0.44 version, but apparently it's not, is it? Maybe it's bugged?

[Shonai_Dweller]

Judging by the devlogs I thought the merc/visiting adventurer quest thing was going to be in the game by the first 0.44 version, but apparently it's not, is it? Maybe it's bugged?

Player fortresses get to choose specifically who goes on artifact hunting missions (including mercs) limited to those who actually live at the fortress.

It's mostly exactly the same as the way adventurers are picked up by npc fortresses for missions since they automatically start 'living' at sites when they move there right now anyhow (mechanically, a site offers an artifact mission and whoever's available picks it up).

Without an economy, there's not much point in adding a mechanic of offering rewards to temp mercs and adventures to visit specifically for your quests right now. And having player fortress dorfs be able to pick up missions and leave of their own free will needs to be part of a much bigger update to dwarves having reasons to leave you (and the player being able to prevent them from doing so somehow).