Doesn't reducing lord range to one region do exactly what you said they shouldn't? Penalise lords rather than reward traders.
Yes, it does. But in order to add advantages for traders, we do have to restrict some options for lords. The alternative is to just keep dumping advantages on traders, and pretty soon they will be able to just see all trade offers on the whole island. There is only so much we can add to one side before we have to start taking away from the other side. I would be happy to advocate more bonuses for traders if we can think of some.
