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[Scotty]

i relaimed an old fort that i abandoned when i made the mistake of not keeping up with booze production and dwarves started dieing and going berserk. the dwarves that stayed when i abandoned continued to go about their business though which wasn't much except for the hunter i had before abandoning.
he continued to hunt and for some reason every time he attacked an animal i would get an "An ambush! Drive them out!" message, this happens pretty often too, the hunter is considered friendly and he's the one doing the ambushing against camels and hoary marmots so why am i getting the message like it's a bad thing?

[Toady One]

Were the animals invisible before the hunter attacked?

[Vugor]

the same thing happened to me in my first fort after i reclaimed it, had plenty of deer 'ambushes' from them almost as soon as they came on the map cause there were plenty of the old people standing outside that killed them.....wierd but kinda useful......

[Scotty]

i can't really tell cus i never actually watched for it, but i know that there were always some animal roaming around, from what i know of hunters though, they use ambushing to be able to sneak up on their prey, is it possible that the hunter could have been invisible instead and the message was generated when he went in for the kill?

oh yeah also, having to do with the same fort, as i stated before, the dwarves that stuck around when i abandoned it were labeled as Friendly when i reclaimed the fort, but when the dwarf caravan arrived, they got re-labeled as Merchant, at first i thought ok these dwarves are going to be going back to the mountainhomes with the caravan, but now the caravan is gone and the dwarves are still in the fort labeled as merchants

[ February 13, 2008: Message edited by: Scotty ]

[Toady One]

Yeah, the residual dwarves are...  residual dwarves.  They don't know what to do yet, because there isn't much migrant group AI, and what little there is locally is only on for adventure mode right now.