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Author Topic: If I sell steel weapons/armor to the elves or humans, will they end up using it?  (Read 569 times)

smjjames

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If I sell steel weapons/armor to the elves or humans, will they end up using it?
« on: September 14, 2009, 05:25:14 pm »
I wouldn't normally sell weapons/armor to the elves (steel toys are fine though, apparently, even though charcoal (WOOD) can get involved in the metal making proccess) and I'm in no way desparate or anything. I've decided to ditch the steel stuff that I have, but it has too much trade potential to just be melted down (I have alot of high quality stuff that I bought or from depot deconstruction). You may be asking how come I bought it in the first place, well, I bought it early on before I developed my pratically unconquerable entrance defense. Now though, I don't see a need for the steel stuff right now.

Basically, I'm checking whether traded stuff might get used against me or if the traded items blink from existence when the caravan leaves the map. Or is there any evidence that they go through some background trade stuff?
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Albedo

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Re: If I sell steel weapons/armor to the elves or humans, will they end up using it?
« Reply #1 on: September 14, 2009, 05:44:04 pm »
No. Disappears.
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smjjames

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Re: If I sell steel weapons/armor to the elves or humans, will they end up using it?
« Reply #2 on: September 14, 2009, 05:58:30 pm »
Quote from: Albedo on September 14, 2009, 05:44:04 pm
No. Disappears.

Okay, cool. :)

Just wanted to make sure that I wouldn't get 'stabbed by my own sword' so to speak.
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Re: If I sell steel weapons/armor to the elves or humans, will they end up using it?
« Reply #3 on: September 14, 2009, 07:04:53 pm »
For now, it's gone, but always be careful when there's a new version out, one of the things listed as a goal is that items taken off the map by caravans/thieves gets tracked properly in the world. And I think stolen things also appear in kobold caves when you go to their cave as adventurer.
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Quote from: decius on September 04, 2009, 03:11:20 pm
What kind of statues are your masons making, that you think they have "maximum exposure"?
Quote from: Albedo on September 04, 2009, 03:20:55 pm
(Full frontal ones, apparently.  With very short beards.) 

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Re: If I sell steel weapons/armor to the elves or humans, will they end up using it?
« Reply #4 on: September 14, 2009, 07:06:30 pm »
Yet another reason to load up caravans with skull totems and obsidian trinkets.
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The *large serrated steel disk* strikes the Raven in the head, tearing apart the muscle, shattering the skull, and tearing apart the brain!
A tendon in the skull has been torn!
The Raven has been knocked unconcious!

Elves do it in trees. Humans do it in wooden structures. Dwarves? Dwarves do it underground. With magma.

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Re: If I sell steel weapons/armor to the elves or humans, will they end up using it?
« Reply #5 on: September 14, 2009, 07:22:56 pm »
Why in the world are you selling steel battle-gear to caravans when the DF world is chock full of ridiculously overpriced alcohol biscuits and silk stockings?
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smjjames

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Re: If I sell steel weapons/armor to the elves or humans, will they end up using it?
« Reply #6 on: September 14, 2009, 07:49:51 pm »
I'm getting rid of some of my imported wealth. Yea some is inevitable, with wood, bins, barrels, and stuff the gobbos drop. I'm also staving off the baron (I have economy off anyhow).

I am selling the overpriced silk stuff that gobbos drop, as well as any good quality stuff they may drop.
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