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Author Topic: I love the elves for their animal trades  (Read 4104 times)

Kromgar

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I love the elves for their animal trades
« on: October 28, 2011, 06:27:30 pm »

In Genesis i have the Sylvan Elves keep bringing me bears and cougars. The bears are also genetically enormous and fat... yes... perfect

Ezrakim are the ones who bring the blood spiders i have two males but no females. The Ezrakim also brought me 2 desert scorpions.

The Sylvan live for now once they are no use of me and bring me no more cougars and bears they shall be extinguished. I trade them enormous amoutns of platinum goblets to get on their good side of trading.

So does anyone have great elf trading encounters? (Modded or not)
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Re: I love the elves for their animal trades
« Reply #1 on: October 28, 2011, 06:55:12 pm »

Giant badger sales have skyrocketed.

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Re: I love the elves for their animal trades
« Reply #2 on: October 28, 2011, 07:16:55 pm »

From what I've read, giving lots of extra profit to the elves will actually make them bring more bins of cloth and fewer animals. The cloth is more value/weight, and since you're so profitable, they want to bring more value to trade with you. So you should seize goods from them to make them get less profit, so they'll want to bring less value, which means more animals.

At least that's what I've read. I've never really tested it out, so take it with a grain of salt.
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Re: I love the elves for their animal trades
« Reply #3 on: October 28, 2011, 07:22:05 pm »

I stockpile cloth.  Elves bring cloth and wood if you have none.  If you have cloth (their cloth) then they don't bring any.  Lock the bins underground in a walled-off area, they're still on the map and count for trade.

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Re: I love the elves for their animal trades
« Reply #4 on: October 28, 2011, 07:32:46 pm »

I actually had to buy cloth from the elves i had no pig tails except for a few and i needed thread for a suture for my Steel Dwarf. The guy has killed sieges with only one arm and being crippled in his leg. I had to evaporate two dwarves due to thread needed for suture spam with lava. It got unbearable
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Re: I love the elves for their animal trades
« Reply #5 on: October 28, 2011, 07:45:24 pm »

...turn of job cancel announcements.

Kromgar

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Re: I love the elves for their animal trades
« Reply #6 on: October 28, 2011, 07:52:51 pm »

...turn of job cancel announcements.
I don't like too. Much easier to evaporate a dwarf.

Also Elves came with 2 blood spiders a Giant Ant, black bear, scorpion, and a badger.

Breeding program begins the blood spiders shall inherit the earth.
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Re: I love the elves for their animal trades
« Reply #7 on: October 28, 2011, 07:58:41 pm »

Giant badger sales have skyrocketed.

Same here, savage elves bringing loads of giant badgers

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Re: I love the elves for their animal trades
« Reply #8 on: October 28, 2011, 08:17:37 pm »

Giant badger sales have skyrocketed.

Same here, savage elves bringing loads of giant badgers
I've never had GIANT creatures D:

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Re: I love the elves for their animal trades
« Reply #9 on: October 28, 2011, 08:22:48 pm »

Giant badger sales have skyrocketed.

Same here, savage elves bringing loads of giant badgers
I've never had GIANT creatures D:

Start 'livin in savage biomes then :3

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Re: I love the elves for their animal trades
« Reply #10 on: October 28, 2011, 08:43:03 pm »

Giant badger sales have skyrocketed.

Same here, savage elves bringing loads of giant badgers
I've never had GIANT creatures D:

Start 'livin in savage biomes then :3
I lived in a savage biome where i was attacked by Giant Badgers but i never tamed because i had a goal to defeat a 4,000 kill demon with only my trained Militia. 1 Dwarf stood against the demon... it fell and all rejoiced. But then they dug too deep
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Re: I love the elves for their animal trades
« Reply #11 on: October 28, 2011, 08:49:16 pm »

NEVER TOO DEEP.

OBSIDIANISE AND DIG AGAIN.

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Re: I love the elves for their animal trades
« Reply #12 on: October 28, 2011, 09:42:50 pm »

They brought me a giant scorpion yesterday. 

That will do.
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Re: I love the elves for their animal trades
« Reply #13 on: October 28, 2011, 09:44:21 pm »

They brought me a giant scorpion yesterday. 

That will do.

oOoO Lucky. Best overhaul I've gotten from elves was 3 Giant Leopards.

And I had already caught 1 (and... Maybe gotten one sliced on some weapon traps. Oops).

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« Reply #14 on: October 28, 2011, 09:45:56 pm »

My one fort got a breeding pair of giant scorpions from the elves.  8)

My current fort is collecting cats (jaguar, leopard, lion, tiger, cheetah) in both normal and giant forms.  Only breeding pair is giant cheetah and we currently have five adults and five cubs about the fort.
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