Would it be able to deposit food on the market at a set price and allow sales to be in amounts specified by the buyer, and the other way around? Like a text field such as the guilds use for treasuries.
Steward of Place has a sale offer of 300 bushels at 30/100 for a value of 90.
(Instead of just a little box to click to trade) How many bushels would you like to purchase? ____ *trade button*
Of course, since we have rot, a lord/steward would never be able to add to this sell offer. Instead they should start a new one with the rot factor still unique to the offer.
While I think part of this system was to get purchasers to spend some gold around to poorer income rurals with all or nothing offers, it does seem to make some less interested in having to front these big offers of which some will rot. The proposed way would still allow starving lords to purchase big amounts, but would still let selling lords have a steady income as others wither away at their sell offers. Buyers will still buy, at optimal levels to them, and sellers will still be selling.
This would also allow some to become rather wealthy trade moguls; buy up any offers you can cheap enough, and put them back on the market for more until the offer has sold down. Would actually encourage players to consider their local economies a little more.
