Because of other recent changes to the game, imo this is sorely needed. The problem is:

1 Auto-swap is enabled by default
2 swapping with dwarves in DT will pretty soon make one of them angry
3 angering a random dwarf in DT makes the shopkeeper angry, too
4 Selling a couple of SI's to Waldenbrook will nowadays turn him into an invincible deity of destruction.

Result of all of this: if you just play with default behavior and sell a few si's to Waldenbrook, you're likely to get destroyed by a coin in the head for hundreds of damage. Because you tried to walk through Dwarftown.

This is really off-putting and player-unfriendly. Something must be changed. The feature that random NPC's can become angry because of swapping places is maybe funny, but it makes auto-swap too dangerous to use.

Note that there IS a workaround: if you turn off auto-swap and equip two shields, you can still walk through Dwarftown quickly and without being constantly interrupted by "really attack the dwarf child? Y/N". And without any danger of angering anyone and getting insta-gibbed by an OP shopkeeper.

But it is a little silly that you have to equip the shields every time when all you want to do is walk through a friendly town, especially when there is a default game feature that is supposed to have the same effect.

I think this has been raised in another issue, but I'll reiterate that I think the chance of turning hostile should be zero if the creature is initially friendly. Or at the very least, the chance should be zero for friendly creatures in town levels.

I think these could be solutions:
http://www.adom.de/forums/project.php?issueid=3777
http://www.adom.de/forums/project.php?issueid=4344 (second comment)

Anyway this is duplicate of http://www.adom.de/forums/project.php?issueid=4344 if I'm no mistaken.