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Is there any chance someone can create a torrent version of this? For some reason my computer is having some serious problems downloading from the DFFD. I'd love to use it, but for reasons I can't fathom, I can't download it right now.

I've recently made a forum dedicated to hosting forum games such as Roll To Dodge, or Choose Your Own Adventure.. However, I'm having some trouble getting the word out, and I thought maybe the fine people of Bay12 might be interested. Having a slightly more organized method of having RtDs, instead of just one sub-forum with every sort of RtD thrown into it, seems fairly appealing to me. Right now the community is rather small, but it's growing by word of mouth. So, without further ado, have a link to the forum. Please feel free to suggest anything and leave constructive criticism.

Your standing as a settlement is determined by how the merchants feel about you, particularly the dwarven ones that come in the fall.  The more you trade with them, the more people that will come to stay.

In short, you need stuff to trade with the merchants.


Simple way to start is stonecrafting.  Just have someone dedicated towards that task, then put 'make stone crafts' on repeat.  Best if you place the workshop, a small stockpile of nonmetal, noneconomic stone, the trade depot, and a finished goods stockpile next to each other.  Extra bonus if you have a jeweler nearby as well to apply found gems to the crafts, and a bonecrafter for the same reasons.

Another option is selling off food if you have a lot of it (roasts made by a good cook sell extremely well!).

Simply buy all you can from the merchants.  If you have more to trade than items you actually want, then just let the trader end up with a bigger profit. 

Other matters, like engraving and statues to increase the overall value of your place, I believe, help as well.  Personally, though, I stick to having a dedicated cook and stonecrafter (with a jeweler/bonecrafter) when I only have 13 dwarves to work with.

Do that for a while, and you'll get people interested in you.

I've got stone crafts leaking out my ass. I've only had one trading caravan come from the Elves. And it's been like 6 seasons.

Depot accessibility doesn't really matter in 0.31, since caravans never seem to bring wagons.

However, the reason your depot is "inaccessible" is because down-stairs block wagon access unless you put hatch covers over them.

Ok, I put down the hatches. I still haven't gotten any traders though...

Therapist works.

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=59026.0

Thanks a lot!