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Thief^

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Less specific requests from liason
« on: January 26, 2016, 06:23:16 am »

I would love to just be able to request "meat" from the dwarven liason rather than having to select a lot of specific animal meats...
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Niddhoger

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Re: Less specific requests from liason
« Reply #1 on: January 26, 2016, 11:26:26 pm »

DFHack lets you batch select these categories during trade negotiations.  I believe its shift+arrow keys over the category.  I mostly do it for leather, since leather is so hard to mass produce without abusing turkeys or other prolific breeders. 
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Arlax

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Re: Less specific requests from liason
« Reply #2 on: January 27, 2016, 02:25:27 pm »

I agree. I've found myself in the exact same situation where I've had to navigate the whole Meat menu, even when I only wanted the "Meat" and not the prepared food.
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Edward_Tohr

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Re: Less specific requests from liason
« Reply #3 on: January 27, 2016, 06:34:10 pm »

Might be cool if the specificity of trade agreements was tied to your current "leader" noble.

i.e. if you only have an expedition leader, you can choose from "food", "booze", "leather", "stone", etc. As you get a mayor and baron and so on, you'd be able to refine your trade agreements and ask for more and more specific things.

It would help make nobles less useless (you want cat leather waterskins? Better get your Count that bedroom he wants), and help make the early game less overwhelming.

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