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Author Topic: Ultra cheap rent! [33g]  (Read 453 times)

Shzar

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Ultra cheap rent! [33g]
« on: February 01, 2008, 08:13:00 pm »
So I discovered a way to take a fancy bedroom and make it cost very little while still being 'modest,' 'decent,' whatever.

Here's what I did:

I built a new bedroom. 3x3, nice bed, coffer, and a cabinet. I hit [q] to set the room, but accidentally shrank the room size to cover only the bed and hit enter. Price: 11*. I instantly saw my mistake and resized the room to cover the whole space and the furniture. But the price stayed at 11*! Thinking I was on to something, I waited around until somebody rented it and I could look at the dwarf's owned items. Soon enough, a child rented the bedroom, and he has a modest bedroom, with chest and cabinet ... for 11*.

Since I'm tired of my hard-working dwarves from being evicted, I searched out all the unrented bedrooms of my fortress and reproduced this little trick, but it still seems like a bug.

[ February 01, 2008: Message edited by: Shzar ]

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Puzzlemaker

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Re: Ultra cheap rent! [33g]
« Reply #1 on: February 01, 2008, 08:31:00 pm »
...Awesome?
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Re: Ultra cheap rent! [33g]
« Reply #2 on: February 01, 2008, 09:49:00 pm »
Ha ha, yeah, that's a bug.  I'll note it down.  Until then, enjoy!
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Draco18s

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Re: Ultra cheap rent! [33g]
« Reply #3 on: February 02, 2008, 12:04:00 am »
They'd still think it was a modest room though.
Good job on that though!
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Tahin

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Re: Ultra cheap rent! [33g]
« Reply #4 on: February 02, 2008, 01:52:00 pm »
Can we keep her? Please, Toady, please?

In related news: Tahin vows to try this when next he has a chance to play.

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numerobis

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Re: Ultra cheap rent! [33g]
« Reply #5 on: February 02, 2008, 05:21:00 pm »
quote:
Originally posted by Draco18s:
<STRONG>They'd still think it was a modest room though.</STRONG>

That's not my experience: their estimation of the room changes, it's just rent that doesn't.  The flip side also "works" if you're trying to simulate life in Manhattan: you can designate a huge bedroom, and it gets huge rent.  Then, you shrink the room, and it becomes a meager closet with legendary rent.

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