40d:Social skill

Social skills are used mainly by the Expedition Leader, Manager and Outpost Broker. They are used in interactions between the dwarves in your fortress as well as when talking with liaisons and merchants. Social skills are acquired at embarking, while performing the above administrative tasks or while attending parties.

The following list is based on the skills listed in the nobles screen when replacing a noble.

List of Social Skills

Miscellaneous conversational skills

It is unknown what specific circumstances make one or another of these useful; most of them are trained by parties, conversation between two or more idle dwarves, and trading. The latter fact implies that they are useful in trading, perhaps to get a better deal. They are also listed as mayor skills.

• Conversationalist
• Comedian
• Flatterer
• Judge of intent
• Liar
• Intimidator
• Persuader
• Negotiator

Broker skills

See Broker skills

All of the conversational skills listed above are trained by (and thus, presumably, used in) trading, possibly to get a better deal. It is believed that which skills are used may depend on the dwarf's personality. Note that the Appraiser skill, which is not a social skill, is also used in trading.

Mayor Skills

• All of the above conversational skills
• Consoler
• Pacifier

Dwarves with these two skills can reduce the likelihood of tantrums by being complained at or cried on (which creates a happy thought for the other dwarf). These skills are also all listed as relevant for the manager.

Gaining Social Skills

Aside from the simple gaining of social skills when idly talking with other dwarves, some dwarves do not use certain social skills because they have certain traits that may activate or deactivate the skill for that dwarf.
:Some preliminary findings:
*Low friendliness prevents the use of Conversation.
*Low friendliness prevents the use of Persuader.
*High cooperativeness prevents the use of Intimidation.
*Low cooperativeness prevents the use of Pacifier.
*Low cooperativeness prevents the use of Pacifier.
*Very high self-consciousness prevents the use of Comedian.
* High straightforwardness prevents the use of Flatterer and Liar.
*Low straightforwardness prevents the use of Consoler.