For the sake of balancing and statistics, I can testify that indeed Morek has a LOT of food stored and could potentially sell most of it to somehow cancel starvation in the rest of dwilight.
The main problem I can think of, besides Morek's well known far from generous attitude, is that it's quite a slow procedure to shuffle food around systematically: too many people need to do actions in particular regions, and for each transition prices raise since everyone wants his share. I guess trade flow would get larger if Lords simply started to sell wildly without waiting for contracts or bankers or agreements, but still many do not seem interested in doing it or simply put some hundred bushels for sale every now and then, resulting in a huge stockpile.
In the end I believe the new trade system implies a much decentralised mindset which is yet to come, since people were more or less used to sell large quantities of food to single traders coming from realm x with which the trader made a certain deal beforehand.
Peri this is indeed why I wish the gold cap on trade to be brought up quite a bit if we are allowed to charge more for food then it would motivate nobles to actually wish to go through the trouble of selling their food . Right now we have a market that under values food, many here thinks food is a means to a end but I see food as a tool of war. Realms have to have to have food or they will have to starve their regions until they can feed them which will result in internal trouble within the realm as well as a decrease in recruits, gold etc. If you cant beat a stronger realm starve them until they are to week to fight. I mean lets says I was a Lord and I had 2000 units of food I can only make 1000 gold from it. This is not a whole heck of a lot for the work I would have to do to sell it.
Food takes time to build up and the prices we are caped at don't reflect the work required to sell the product. If I wanted to now I could sell all my food at max price and have it sold by the end of the day. This goes to show that people are willing to pay more then what our cap is now.
