Massive negative trade Balance

[egamma]

Yeah, what madness is this, having these luxury problems!

I could simply carry 1000 of those bushels in my caravans--the mice don't like climbing the wagons to eat, I guess. It'll probably be cheaper than building 2 warehouses, too.

[Indirik]

Remember that you can't sell food back to the region you bought it in.

[fodder]

i'm guessing food won't rot if you place them manually to as a sell offer. though it would be funny if it does.. XD

obviously completely and totally gaming the system.

[Indirik]

Placing a sell offer does not "reserve" food. i.e., it does not take it out of the warehouse and set it aside solely for trade purposes. The food can still be eaten, stolen, burned, and rot.

[fodder]

interesting... totally different from how it works for plonking gold down for buying food.

why?

[egamma]

interesting... totally different from how it works for plonking gold down for buying food.

why?

you are SENDING the gold. If you were to SEND the food, then it wouldn't rot. If you instead put the food up for sale, or place an open buy order, then the food just sits in your warehouse.

[fodder]

eh... you aren't sending the gold anywhere. you are placing the gold in your own region so someone pops around to sell food.

just like you are "placing" the food in your own region so someone pops around to buy them.

so why the difference? and i don't mean gaming the rotting business...

[Indirik]

Dunno. But it's a good question.

[egamma]

eh... you aren't sending the gold anywhere. you are placing the gold in your own region so someone pops around to sell food.

just like you are "placing" the food in your own region so someone pops around to buy them.

so why the difference? and i don't mean gaming the rotting business...

Ah, I thought you were talking about sending a caravan with gold to buy food.

Don't forget, there are manual and automatic buy offers. Manual takes gold from your pock. If you cancel (withdraw) the manual buy, you get 80% back (or some similar number). Automatic buy relies on your trade balance.

[Chenier]

Placing a sell offer does not "reserve" food. i.e., it does not take it out of the warehouse and set it aside solely for trade purposes. The food can still be eaten, stolen, burned, and rot.

Furthermore, someone else might just come and buy that food! 

[fodder]

obviously (if it worked the way i thought it worked) you'll be placing the food at stupid prices.

[Chenier]

obviously (if it worked the way i thought it worked) you'll be placing the food at stupid prices.

If you do that, 1) you'll be unable to buy back significant sums at any one time, and 2) a good portion of the gold you will use will be shared with your knights.

Less than ideal.

[Nosferatus]

Tim:

1200 gold has been returned in bonds via caravans.

You can do the math if we received double gold or not.

I will keep counting, i expect a few more caravans to arive, perhaps another 600 gold.

[fodder]

If you do that, 1) you'll be unable to buy back significant sums at any one time, and 2) a good portion of the gold you will use will be shared with your knights.

Less than ideal.

eh.. what on earth are you talking about.

silly prices, so no one will be buying it. ever. no gold involved at all.

the idea was that, just like manual offer to buy food, where you plonk down gold, you can plonk food down and then cancel it at a later date.

in any case it's all rather immaterial, because sticking food on sale doesn't work the same way as sticking gold down to buy food. presumably that's the reason why.

[Chenier]

eh.. what on earth are you talking about.

silly prices, so no one will be buying it. ever. no gold involved at all.

the idea was that, just like manual offer to buy food, where you plonk down gold, you can plonk food down and then cancel it at a later date.

in any case it's all rather immaterial, because sticking food on sale doesn't work the same way as sticking gold down to buy food. presumably that's the reason why.

You can cancel the deal? Hmmm... hadn't considered that.

Just goes to show that I *never* use that option. I know it steals a good sum of your gold if you cancel a buy offer though.