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[Jimmy]

Guess that most people aren't as generous with their merchants as me then. I have 95,000 imported, 236,000 exported with a pop of 50.

[Proteus]

Guess that most people aren't as generous with their merchants as me then. I have 95,000 imported, 236,000 exported with a pop of 50.

I usually also have a surplus in exports.
At the time my trader is  experienced enough to really get good prices for the things the fortress sells I have enough dwarves producing high quality stonecrafts, so that I´m glad to give the traders much more than the minimum they would demand.
(and traders who leave happy will come back  with more stuff next year ... at least if this  rule has remained unchanged from  40d)

[The Architect]

Guess that most people aren't as generous with their merchants as meI (or "I am") then. I have 95,000 imported, 236,000 exported with a pop of 50.

The skill involved in trading is providing what the trader really wants, and getting more than you give. A really skilled player with a skilled broker will take everything they want or need from the merchant while giving them a pittance, and still leave the merchant ecstatic.

Thus the mark of skill is how much higher your imported wealth is than your exported. The problems with that measurement are that any imported items are removed from imported wealth once they're naturalized or consumed, and anything left behind by invaders counts as imported wealth.

[The butcher]

Where do i place wells? because it dosen't seem to want to be placed. [yes i have the right amount of things to make a well]

[Jimmy]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

For me I see trade as a way to permanently dispose of unwanted junk and improve my FPS, meanwhile gaining goods I can use for supplying my fort. Thanks to three caravans a year I've never had to plant a single seed. All my food is imported, and I've gained a large surplus.

[The Architect]

That's an awesome comic. It's still funny even after you implied a connection between myself and the NAZI party.

[Chrissi]

Guess that most people aren't as generous with their merchants as meI (or "I am") then. I have 95,000 imported, 236,000 exported with a pop of 50.

The skill involved in trading is providing what the trader really wants, and getting more than you give. A really skilled player with a skilled broker will take everything they want or need from the merchant while giving them a pittance, and still leave the merchant ecstatic.

Thus the mark of skill is how much higher your imported wealth is than your exported. The problems with that measurement are that any imported items are removed from imported wealth once they're naturalized or consumed, and anything left behind by invaders counts as imported wealth.

Personally I try to offload as much junk as I can onto the traders to try to increase my framerate and declutter a bit.  It's nothing to do with strategy, just trying to get from 20 fps to 30 fps

[Jimmy]

That's an awesome comic. It's still funny even after you implied a connection between myself and the NAZI party.

No harm intended. Also, here's one for your side.

Spoiler: NSFW (click to show/hide)

[The Architect]

First, I need a disclaimer: That cartoon is not actually a representation of my opinion, or "side."
To review: I am not associated with the NAZI party, grammar Nazis, nor any permutation thereof, and I am not represented by the spiteful, filthy-worded yet enormously entertaining ***hole who decided to describe everything any educated person feels at some point when reading online forum posts, blogs, and comments.

So, Jimmy, where whence can I call upon these amazing little snippets of internet wit when I need them?
And, again, kudos.

Spoiler: Staying out of trouble (click to show/hide)

Slapping a NFSW on that spoiler would be appropriate and would excuse you should anyone from report you, since this isn't the lower half of the forum and unlabeled NSFW is not appropriate.

[Jimmy]

I have a big collection of image links. Mostly I just remember stuff I've seen and use it when I spot an opportunity. I'm not a 4chan /b/tard or anything.

As for FPS streamlining, I still have full 100 FPS on a fort that's over 6 years old. Downside is that I've not breached the underground, so I expect that'll hit it soon.

[Talmanaze]

Hey-o,

my Hunter is acting like he can't hunt, even though he's got all his skills, his ammo, and his weapon. but he sits around my great hall all day, unless I tell him do to anything else.

Help please?

[Jimmy]

Yup, hunting's broken. Similar issue to the military bugs with ranged combat, you'll need to wait for Toady to update the game to have hunting work reliably. Workaround is to give your military kill orders on the creature you want dead, then haul it over to your butcher's manually.

[nekoexmachina]

If i put an order 'forbid your death items', will it put the dorfs both with their items in the tombs, or my burial team will first take off all of their staff?

[Sphalerite]

Where do i place wells? because it dosen't seem to want to be placed. [yes i have the right amount of things to make a well]

Wells must be placed on open space, not on a floor or ground, but over channeled or midair adjacent to floor.  They must have open space containing water beneath them, possibly with multiple Z-levels of open space between the well and the water.  If you have a river, you can simply build the well over a river space at the edge of the river.  Same with a pond.  If you have a brook, you must channel out a tile of the brook before you can build the well there.  Otherwise you have to dig out an area, arrange for it to be filled with water, then build the well over it.

[riznar]

Does anyone know a good way to increase attributes in DF2010? Specifically agility?