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[amade]

Well, I ain't sure if this has been suggested before though I did search a bit before the results overwhelmed me.

The suggestion is this: It'd be neat to be able to mark your goods for trade the same way you mark them for dumping/forbid/reclaim. Obviously, this option should only be available when the caravan arrives. Despite trying to make stockpiling as efficient as possible sometimes you want items from a certain stockpile to be moved and it's a pain to have to go in and out of the move goods screen to check that you're taking stuff from the right stockpiles. [v]iewing each bin in the move goods screen to check that you have the right bin with the right goods from the right stockpile when you already know where they are visually is very time consuming when you should be able to just go to the stockpile in question and mark them all for trading.

Good idea? Bad idea?

[Silverionmox]

On the suggestions list under "Persistent trade good tags", with thread.

[amade]

Ah, I see it now. Cheers!

[Footkerchief]

Could pose problems when you have more than one trade depot -- how does the game figure out which depot the items should be moved to?  Perhaps you could have a special key in the trade depot interface that would select all tagged items to be moved to that depot.

[Warlord255]

I've never had multiple depots... Why would you want to?

The only reason I'd be able to see would be having one facing each corner of the map, to get your traders inside faster and lock them in against sieges.

[Footkerchief]

I've never had multiple depots... Why would you want to?

The only reason I'd be able to see would be having one facing each corner of the map, to get your traders inside faster and lock them in against sieges.

That, or fortress symmetry or something.  Anyway, there are lots of entries in the bug list concerning multiple depots, so it's clearly a situation that comes up sometimes and needs to be considered.

[Duke 2.0]

 I suppose the closest Depot would get it. To be fair, Depots are rather... odd.

[Silverionmox]

I would prefer the trade depot to be replaced with the merchants meeting in the relevant office or a meeting hall/marketplace, and making a tour along all stockpiles with items marked for trade. Makes more sense.

The same marketplace could accomodate a stream of individual traders who arrive on the map, roll out their mats there, trade with individual dwarves and leave for the next settlement.

[Royal Surveyor]

I've tried the multiple depot thing before.  It really doesn't work.  The traders kind of pick one and go that way, but this was a while back, 38c I think.