It's not even just the long sea routes to foreign realms: D'Hara is 1000 miles across. Many others are also of similar dimensions, I believe, even if less linear.
Traders work differently now. They MATCH buy and sell orders within their range. Like was said earlier this means their effective range is twice their "max" trading range. So say there is a 300 bushel buy order in Pasily, and there is a trader up in Golden Farrow. He can potentially match that buy order to sell orders. The trader can match multiple orders, so he can for instance match 2 buy orders with 3 sell orders, so long as the total food bought and sold in the transaction is the same, and he doesn't lose money on the deal. The sell orders could be from far up north, and he can sell south of his location, so long as the destination is within his trading range, and the source is within his trading range, the distance between destination and source can be greater then the traders range.
I believe it is possible, as a Lord, to sell your regions food within the range of your current location.
So one always need to be in range of D'Hara in order to sell to D'Hara? Our traders couldn't go trade with Springdale, for example, with this new system? Unless a million lords are willing to resell the food at the same price for you?
