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SkyShadowing

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"Friendly" Migrants?
« on: May 28, 2012, 01:42:49 pm »
I just got a family of migrants who appeared with the @ symbol. They're listed as 'Friendly' in the Units screen, and they appear to be more useless than the average migrant.

Any reason why this could be? Is it a bug? Is it game-breaking? Should I amputate?
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caddybear

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Re: "Friendly" Migrants?
« Reply #1 on: May 28, 2012, 01:44:42 pm »
DFhack tweak fixmigrant should take care of that.
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Quote from: Aviator CJ on May 27, 2012, 08:50:55 am
And then did ARMOK say, the east is the holiest of directions, and thou shouldst not stand there lest thou be strucketh down by my holiest of beards. And then did the dorfs did say, we shall build from the west, for more do we fear the beard of ARMOK than the strike of the elephant.

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Re: "Friendly" Migrants?
« Reply #2 on: May 28, 2012, 04:20:45 pm »
They used to be caravan merchants. When they decided to join your fortress, they forgot to stop being merchants.
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Re: "Friendly" Migrants?
« Reply #3 on: May 28, 2012, 11:34:38 pm »
I got this once or twice, but only in worlds that I'd played adventurer mode in, first. My theory is that anyone I spoke to in adventurer mode got stuck as a 'friendly.'

They're really useful, though. They trigger ambushers, they all carry knives and things, and they don't eat drink or sleep. They just sort of... loiter.
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Morpha

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Re: "Friendly" Migrants?
« Reply #4 on: May 29, 2012, 02:31:41 am »
Never played Adventure mode and I've gotten it before so I don't think it's related unless it's a newer version of the bug.
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Re: "Friendly" Migrants?
« Reply #5 on: May 29, 2012, 05:42:53 am »
Quote from: Quietust on May 28, 2012, 04:20:45 pm
They used to be caravan merchants. When they decided to join your fortress, they forgot to stop being merchants.

Listen to Quietust.
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Re: "Friendly" Migrants?
« Reply #6 on: May 29, 2012, 05:46:56 am »
Quote from: Niyazov on May 29, 2012, 05:42:53 am
Listen to Quietust.

Quietust is the closest thing we have to a prophet of Armok, surely.
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Quote from: Aviator CJ on May 27, 2012, 08:50:55 am
And then did ARMOK say, the east is the holiest of directions, and thou shouldst not stand there lest thou be strucketh down by my holiest of beards. And then did the dorfs did say, we shall build from the west, for more do we fear the beard of ARMOK than the strike of the elephant.

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Re: "Friendly" Migrants?
« Reply #7 on: June 10, 2012, 07:37:03 am »
I have this with my FIRST ever migrant wave.

I need dfhack updated to even start playing this world properly.
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Re: "Friendly" Migrants?
« Reply #8 on: June 10, 2012, 08:30:19 am »
Yup, I also didn't upgrade.
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Quote from: Aviator CJ on May 27, 2012, 08:50:55 am
And then did ARMOK say, the east is the holiest of directions, and thou shouldst not stand there lest thou be strucketh down by my holiest of beards. And then did the dorfs did say, we shall build from the west, for more do we fear the beard of ARMOK than the strike of the elephant.