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[darkrider2]

Gentlemen, I'm glad you could join me for this presentation. Today I will be showing you the future of trade depot negotiations on a local scale.

I present to you The Instant Transportation and Import Acquisition Device. The engineers at our site ThornCraze have successfully prototyped our first model.

The results speak for themselves.

Spoiler: Prototype Report (click to show/hide)

Gentlemen you must understand this is the prototype, luckily the lethality is modular and can (and will) be increased in the next model.

I'll show you how it works.

First, dig a 5x5 pit of any depth, this prototype was nine levels deep.

The top two levels are where the magic happens however.

Spoiler: Top Level (click to show/hide)

Place flooring where the zone marker is (build the support first on the second level, see below). The depot goes in the center 5x5.

The bridge is very important, as it does not hinder the devices functionality.

Spoiler: 2nd level (click to show/hide)

Place a support linked to a lever where the yellow marker is.

When merchants pack all their goods into the depot, pull the lever for RESULTS.

Fakeedit: My engineers have just informed me that this device can double as a method of administrative execution with proper placement of the lever.

[billybobfred]

Fakeedit: My engineers have just informed me that this device can double as a method of administrative execution with proper placement of the lever.

Yeah, I probably won't be using this for its intended purpose.

[ThatAussieGuy]

That's pretty good, but there's a relatively easier method (for recovery of goods).  Dig out an underground chamber and stick the trade depot in it.  Channel down one square in the corner and put a grate over it, with a floodgate just off that square on the z-level below.  Flood it when the depot's occupied.  Wait till everything is drowned, then open the floodgate below to drain the room while the grate keeps anything from floating away in the current.  Loot at your pleasure.


Btw, can you explain what it actually does in a little more detail?  All I can guess from the pictures is that the perimeter opens up and drops anyone not standing on the actual depot to their deaths.

[darkflagrance]

Actually, it's much simpler than that.

The depot is on a floating 5x5 constructed floor surrounded by empty space. It is reached by a bridge, which does not support the floor. The floor is only supported by a single Support linked to a lever. When the lever is pulled, the entire floor + depot + merchants + goods falls to the bottom floor, which deconstructs the depot and throws out all the goods, allowing your dwarves to claim them.

[ThatAussieGuy]

Aaaahhh, I see.  That IS clever.

[Loud Whispers]

Not to mention it also acquires whatever weapons guards bring with them

Though 9 lvls is too much, there won't be any survivors to go insane

[Quietust]

It may be clever, but you're certainly not the first one to think of it - there's a movie on DFMA which demonstrates exactly what you're describing, and it was posted over 4 years ago.

[Garath]

meh, easier ways to do all of this. deconstruct depot as traders are there, order broker in a burrow under a bridge.... lot's of work, no extra profit

[darkrider2]

Not to mention it also acquires whatever weapons guards bring with them

Though 9 lvls is too much, there won't be any survivors to go insane

Actually only one merchant died instantly, one crawled for a bit and bled to death, and about three or four escaped the map. I also strangely didn't get any "liason has left unhappy" events.

It may be clever, but you're certainly not the first one to think of it - there's a movie on DFMA which demonstrates exactly what you're describing, and it was posted over 4 years ago.

I didn't think I was the first, thanks for that.

[terkiey]

meh, easier ways to do all of this. deconstruct depot as traders are there, order broker in a burrow under a bridge.... lot's of work, no extra profit

Easier is for pansy elves.

Dwarves do it the confusing way.