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Renault

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Re: Are shops really this stupid?
« Reply #15 on: March 24, 2010, 12:15:23 am »

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Re: Are shops really this stupid?
« Reply #16 on: March 24, 2010, 12:30:54 am »

There are so dwarven women, they are the ones that bring a clutch of children and a fresh baby sheild into battle.
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Re: Are shops really this stupid?
« Reply #17 on: March 24, 2010, 01:15:52 am »

I'm surprised nobody's made an "It's the economy, stupid" joke yet.

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Re: Are shops really this stupid?
« Reply #18 on: March 24, 2010, 03:51:13 am »

I'm surprised nobody's made an "It's the economy, stupid" joke yet.

The Economy isn't like a big truck.  It's more like a series of rubes.
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Re: Are shops really this stupid?
« Reply #19 on: March 24, 2010, 04:07:08 am »

Why, as I see it, Dwarven Economy is an almost perfect simulation of free-market capitalism - it's just that no-one has invented wallets and 'SALE' stickers yet!
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Re: Are shops really this stupid?
« Reply #20 on: March 24, 2010, 05:46:44 am »

I'm surprised nobody's made an "It's the economy, stupid" joke yet.

The Economy isn't like a big truck.  It's more like a series of rubes.

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Re: Are shops really this stupid?
« Reply #21 on: March 24, 2010, 10:07:48 am »

I thought shops were initially owned by the Tax Collector. Who owns all the crap everyone puts in it?
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I'm surprised nobody's made an "It's the economy, stupid" joke yet.
It's Dwarf Fortress. Stupidity is implied.
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Re: Are shops really this stupid?
« Reply #22 on: March 24, 2010, 11:33:02 am »

I thought shops were initially owned by the Tax Collector. Who owns all the crap everyone puts in it?

For me, the Hoardemaster owned them all initially. 

She then started stocking them with all the things lying around in my stockpiles, which means they were unowned, but they became the property of the store's owner when they are picked up.

This may be thanks to my hoardemaster being a legendary Clerk, Cook, Appraiser, Judge of Intent, and some other social thingies, though, as she is exempt from the economy.

The people who see a used, too-small-for-dwarves giant cave spider silk loincloth shop and say "*I* want to be the only overpriced dirty, ill-fitting underwear shop in town!" are not necessarily all legendaries, but they're pretty much the only ones who can routinely afford that kind of stupidity.
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Re: Are shops really this stupid?
« Reply #23 on: March 28, 2010, 04:54:18 pm »

I feel as stupid as the economy now, I just realized that my Mayor/Hoardmaster didn't have an Account of 16 db, he had 16 Owned Objects.

So he's doing just fine :p.  Back up go the shops!
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