Re: Topic: Trading Hints

[Tom]

You can use enemy marketplaces. You can not trade with regions you are at war with, so those enemy marketplaces are likely to be of limited use, though.

[Indirik]

2) No, why would I?

Umm... to handle food for your city? Srsly... There's plenty of ways to handle it. If all the ways suggested are things you don't want to do, then that's really just too bad for you. Sorry for being so harsh, but really, that's what it comes down to.

[Indirik]

You can use enemy marketplaces.

Are you sure? I thought that while testing we determined that War status means you can't sue the marketplace at all.

[Tom]

Are you sure? I thought that while testing we determined that War status means you can't sue the marketplace at all.

I just looked into the code and don't see a test for it. Unless there's a big "if at war" catch-all that I missed?

[fodder]

ah.. the point of using enemy marketplace is mostly for you to stick up new offers for others to fulfil.

[D`Este]

Indirik,

There are open buy orders for thousands of bushels, the trick is though that lords sell to the city and if they are with the army, what can I do about it? Force them to stay home so that when harvest comes in they sell to the city?

[Indirik]

Ask some, or one of their stewards to do it. Or make sure you have enough stockpiles. Or don't march with the army. Or don't leave anyone home to mind the store, and suffer. You have multiple options. Pick one and use it.

[Eithad]

Ask some, or one of their stewards to do it. Or make sure you have enough stockpiles. Or don't march with the army. Or don't leave anyone home to mind the store, and suffer. You have multiple options. Pick one and use it.

You forgot buy from other realms who don't have all their lords millions of miles away at war.

[D`Este]

Or just add an auto sell feature that will allow traders to do business in the realm eventhough the rural lord is gone? Yea sure, i can stay back, if there is no food to be sold i's pointless though.

[Indirik]

Convince someone else to stay back, by offering higher prices.

Or just stock up before you go.

[D`Este]

I think I will just let it go as clearly continuing this discussion is pointless and only wasting people's time. I will say one, you will say other and we will both keep repeating our points over and over again to nobody's pleasure.

[Indirik]

Did you miss this part?

Maybe we can actually do both buy and sell offers automatically. But in order to make this also push trading, I would limit it to exactly one per region, so it can't be split up. If you want to do micro-management, you have to do it manually. Buy orders could be done automatically using tax gold.

[D`Este]

yes

[egamma]

Double granaries and auto-offers would both be very useful.