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[Teferi]

elvish caravan is not heading to my second trade depot (part of Elf Slayer 2.0 machine). They could reach it (have ramps leading to it) but when they arrived they stood there. help me send them to their doom!

[Michaelsoftman]

Is the Depot forbidden?

[Smew]

do you have more than one depot?

[crimsonbinome22]

I had something similar. I had two trade depots, one outside for the human and dwarf caravans, and another inside, through a thinner corridor for the elves so they can die trade with me.

One time a human caravan came and got stuck sitting outside my fortress, they didn't move until i desconstructed the inside trade depot, which they had apparently locked on and couldn't path to. As for the elves, one year they came to the inside trade depot and I drowned the bastards. Then the next year (after I reconstructed inside trade depot) they went straight to the outside depot so I couldn't drown them. I simply concluded that they are elves and I must be more wiley.

[Teferi]

do you have more than one depot?

yes one in my main entrance and one in my Elf Slayer 2.0

Is the Depot forbidden?

odd it was set to dump for some reason I just removed those tags

[Smew]

There's your problem, more than one depot confuses traders, deconstruct one of them and the problem will be solved.

[Teferi]

There's your problem, more than one depot confuses traders, deconstruct one of them and the problem will be solved.

well I need the one in my main entrance so that the human and dwarven caravans can trade with me. but I have ways of controlling which Depot they go to (i.e.: retract my bridge or close my floodgates to close off my main entrance, or close the bars blocking the depot to Elf Slayer 2.0)

[Lord Dullard]

There's your problem, more than one depot confuses traders, deconstruct one of them and the problem will be solved.

well I need the one in my main entrance so that the human and dwarven caravans can trade with me. but I have ways of controlling which Depot they go to (i.e.: retract my bridge or close my floodgates to close off my main entrance, or close the bars blocking the depot to Elf Slayer 2.0)

No, you have a way of controlling which depot they have ACCESS to. But that doesn't mean the AI will 'choose' the depot you want it to - so your two depot setup isn't going to work.

[Katsuun]

Just deconstruct the outside one and not activate your drowner/boiler/whatever on the Dwarven and Human caravans. Unless its activated by pressure plates. In which case, you'll have to renovate it.

[Luraien]

If this hasn't already been suggested, just build lever-operated bars to the entrance of each Depot. Maybe you could 'steer' certain traders if you're quick enough with the levers.

[Untelligent]

If this hasn't already been suggested, just build lever-operated bars to the entrance of each Depot. Maybe you could 'steer' certain traders if you're quick enough with the levers.

I'm fairly sure this won't work. Building more than one depot is rarely, if ever, favorable for the player.

[Teferi]

If this hasn't already been suggested, just build lever-operated bars to the entrance of each Depot. Maybe you could 'steer' certain traders if you're quick enough with the levers.

already done. have bars to my Elf Slayer 2.0 (which exposes elves to 'solution to everything') and my bridge/floodgates for my main one

I'm thinking that the dump tag for the second one had something to do with it will experiment with it (will try forbidding one depot when the season changes and watch what happens)

[Teferi]

the dwarven civ has just discovered the secret of:

managing multiple trade depots!

uses: luring elves to their doom, preventing the human and dwarfish caravans from going to their doom.