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Virtz

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Improper counter-offers?
« on: November 01, 2007, 09:11:00 am »

I've recently experienced another problem with elven traders. Namely, when offering them some goods and failing to find an agreement after a few offers, they gave me a counter-offer. Issue is that the counter-offer included cave spider silk clothing.

I tried to offer them a few mugs instead of it a few times, but they kept giving the same counter-offer. Eventually they just up and left due to me not accepting that offer. Considering offering them the cave spider silk clothing would result in them getting offended and leaving, I was pretty much at a lose/lose situation. :\

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Wiles

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Re: Improper counter-offers?
« Reply #1 on: November 01, 2007, 09:36:00 am »

One thing you can do next time is to make it not tradeable.
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Jonathan S. Fox

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Re: Improper counter-offers?
« Reply #2 on: November 01, 2007, 09:49:00 am »

Are elves really offended by cave spider silk? That doesn't make sense to me. It's an animal product, but it's like cheese and milk; the no animals were injured in the process.
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Virtz

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Re: Improper counter-offers?
« Reply #3 on: November 01, 2007, 09:58:00 am »

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Originally posted by Jonathan S. Fox:
<STRONG>Are elves really offended by cave spider silk? That doesn't make sense to me. It's an animal product, but it's like cheese and milk; the no animals were injured in the process.</STRONG>

Oh damn. Now that I thought about it, they probably wouldn't have been. :S

I just saw some animal name in front of it and kind of mechanically thought they'd be irked. Nevermind, then. :P

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Turgid Bolk

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Re: Improper counter-offers?
« Reply #4 on: November 01, 2007, 10:44:00 am »

They did indeed get offended by it in the old version. Maybe Toady changed that; it was a little ridiculous.
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