Question about bumping

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I was wondering what would happen if I sent, say, a caravan to bump a skinner or an herbalist (I mean on a square with no other resources than the rare herbs or animal parts, of course).
Would my caravan come back without bumping the other player's harvester or will they both bounce back?

I remember trying that trick on my early days of playing Illy and, as I remember it, my caravan did not interfere with the other unit and just moved back home.

But today I noticed that one of my herbalists was bumped and yet, when I checked the harvesting spot (only a few minutes after), there was no unit there, so I guess it was not an herbalist who bumped me.

PS: I know bumping is not a nice thing to do. To my defence, I only did it (intentionally) that once and only in the interest of science ;-)
I actually posted this to avoid more "experimental" bumping.

Edited by Dwrwd - 11 Feb 2014 at 21:46

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Dwrwd Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Greenhorn Joined: 17 Jan 2014 Status: Offline Points: 69	Post Options Post Reply Quote Dwrwd Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Question about bumping Posted: 11 Feb 2014 at 21:31
	I was wondering what would happen if I sent, say, a caravan to bump a skinner or an herbalist (I mean on a square with no other resources than the rare herbs or animal parts, of course). Would my caravan come back without bumping the other player's harvester or will they both bounce back? I remember trying that trick on my early days of playing Illy and, as I remember it, my caravan did not interfere with the other unit and just moved back home. But today I noticed that one of my herbalists was bumped and yet, when I checked the harvesting spot (only a few minutes after), there was no unit there, so I guess it was not an herbalist who bumped me. PS: I know bumping is not a nice thing to do. To my defence, I only did it (intentionally) that once and only in the interest of science ;-) I actually posted this to avoid more "experimental" bumping. Edited by Dwrwd - 11 Feb 2014 at 21:46

Rill Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Postmaster General Player Council - Geographer Joined: 17 Jun 2011 Location: California Status: Offline Points: 6903	Post Options Post Reply Quote Rill Report Post Thanks(1) Quote Reply Posted: 11 Feb 2014 at 21:48
	Caravans do not bump advanced harvesters. A caravan can harvest on the same square as a cotter, herbalist, skinner or miner. However, any advanced harvester (cotter/herbalist/skinner/miner) will bounce another advanced harvester. Your notifications should have a record that they were interrupted. So if a skinner were sent to a square where an herbalist is working, the skinner would bounce the herbalist and then go home (if there were no animal parts on the square to harvest) or stay an pick up any animal parts that were there. Edited by Rill - 11 Feb 2014 at 21:48

Dwrwd Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Greenhorn Joined: 17 Jan 2014 Status: Offline Points: 69	Post Options Post Reply Quote Dwrwd Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 11 Feb 2014 at 22:01
	Thanks Rill, you are helpful as usual. That cleared all my doubts and saved some unnecessary bumping to my neighbours :-)