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Author Topic: Kobold Thief Scared my traders away :-\  (Read 456 times)

The-Moon

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Kobold Thief Scared my traders away :-\
« on: February 27, 2008, 04:57:00 am »
i have 2 trade depots and i had the caravan for the first year unload and i was going to trade soon, when a kobold thief appeared, the traders then packed up and left.

There was no message either saying they were leaving.


Doesn't Look like there coming back either     :(

Also this game, i got some migrants in early summer, now i'm getting more and its mid autumn.

Should i be getting 2 waves of migrants in my first year?

[ February 27, 2008: Message edited by: The-Moon ]

Now that i check they managed to leave behind some bars, blocks, cages, steel armor...

[ February 27, 2008: Message edited by: The-Moon ]

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Karlito

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Re: Kobold Thief Scared my traders away :-\
« Reply #1 on: February 27, 2008, 09:28:00 am »
They will run away usually if a hostile approaches.  Maybe during that time that they were away they decided to leave normally.  Are you sure there was no message?  Check the game log.
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Crafty Barnardo

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Re: Kobold Thief Scared my traders away :-\
« Reply #2 on: February 27, 2008, 10:05:00 am »
I had a dwarven caravan attacked by goblin raiders.  They killed a few of the merchants before the caravan guards took them out.  The wagons had not yet reached my depot, but they immediately turned tail and left.  I also didn't get a message saying that they were leaving.  However, the liaison did make it to my fortress and proceeded to meet with my leader just like normal.  Later, I got a message saying the traders were about to leave even though they had left a long time ago.  It might have been referring to the liaison who was leaving at around the same time, but usually the caravan and the liaison leave at different times.
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The-Moon

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Re: Kobold Thief Scared my traders away :-\
« Reply #3 on: February 27, 2008, 11:15:00 am »
Ok now i just had the same problem.

I think having more then 1 trade depot could be bugged.

The traders left again this next year and no kobold spawned this time....

Also this time they didn't leave anything :-\

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Re: Kobold Thief Scared my traders away :-\
« Reply #4 on: February 27, 2008, 11:54:00 am »
Having two depots causes confusion for traders. This is well-known.
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Lacota

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Re: Kobold Thief Scared my traders away :-\
« Reply #5 on: February 27, 2008, 11:55:00 am »
I've had as similar problem.

I had two depots (about 10 squares apart, one inside, and one outside).

So the humans came along. and started occupying both of the depots. (one of which was inaccessable)

I tabbed out to chat in #bay12games

about a minute later, all of the merchents, guards, and liason were gone.

but all their items were there, fresh for the picking. took me nearly a season to haul it all in. (I only had 10 dwarves at the time).

The came and went regularly next season. they didn't seem to mind buying back all that large armor and weapons.

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