Yes, humans are weird when it comes to diplomacy. They will eventually try to send you a diplomat, however this diplomat is always their law-givers (which in some cases can be demons). Law-givers are incredibly important to the humans so using them as diplomats with no protection is bizarre. They are actually a huge liability becuase of this. It is very easy for a human diplomat to be killed whilst trying to visit your fort and this will make the humans incredibly pissed. It could very easily push you into war with them.AlternatePFG said:Man, those goblins are tricky bastards.
That diplomat certainly was strange though. Do they usually do stuff like that?
So you want to try and get the diplomat inside safely. Once you do that, the diplomat meets with your leader and basically does nothing. They just compliment your fort and then walk away. It's very weird. Presumably Toady intends to let you form trade agreements with them like you can with dwarves, but who knows when that will come into play.