Your information was helpful, but your attitude was not.
Directing people to the wiki is hardly indicative of an attitude problem.
The issue is not the "what", but the "how". A
link directs people to the wiki and enlightenment. Chiding them for incompetence does not.
This is useful information, even if it didn't hold a link. This is the part I appreciated.
DF Wiki definition of "golden age"
"Civilizations are expanding, and there are no wars and other things for them to worry about."
This is the part I took issue with.
The wiki is your friend, you can use it.
I took this to mean that he is implying that I am willfully ignorant of easily available information and that my inquiry serves only to waste the time of others. That attitude is sometimes justified, but only rarely, and almost never in a game as complicated as this. The fact that I HAD just read the wiki article and not found what I was looking for only further compounds my ire. However, given that he had no way of knowing whether I had read it or not, I do not hold that specificly against him. What I do hold against him is the fact that he ASSUMED I WAS A MORON. Actually no, that's fine. I assume people are morons all the time, but I generally try to keep my tone civil and give curious inquirers the benefit of the doubt and keep in mind just how opaque the game really is.
But finally, I suppose that there is some amount of my own fault since I read what he wrote with an eye willing to be insulted. I could have decided that what he said was not intended as an insult, but based on the wording and my knowledge of sarcasm, I determined that the most likely explanation was that he was in fact insulting my intelligence. But even then, I could have just said nothing and let it be, but I chose to make an issue out of it, and here we are.
Getting back on topic...I am glad that despite the apparent state of world peace, the goblins are continuing their futile attacks. Though all Civs in the civ-screen have a "P" next to them (for all civs), my trade relations with the goblins are still listed as "Terror" and "Vengeance". No goblin caravans have arrived, and all of my goblin prisoners are still treated as hostiles. Oh, and they also sent a siege.
This lead me to wonder a few things:
-If I started a war with the Elves, would this bring "The Golden Age" to an end?
-If I captured some Elves prisoner during this war, but then later was able to make peace with them (can you?), would the captured elves still be treated as hostiles when I released them?
On an interesting but probably unrelated note, on the last siege before the Golden Age was declared, one squad of goblin spearmen sat at the edge and did nothing. Well, they DID kill one of their own members, but after that didn't do much until I marched my Swordsdwarves out to dispatch them. I watched them for a while to see if a loyalty cascade erupted among them, but they stopped after killing "Ngoso vonScapegoat". Also, even though I saw the combat logs that he was getting the crap beaten out of him and saw his right hand and shield lying on the ground, (v)iewing his (w)ounds showed me nothing. Strange.
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