One new thing that came from the 3D client is that I will introduce "shop layouts".
In the 3D client, these are actual different shop layouts and sizes. I have 4 or 5 so far, in different stages of being finished.
But layout will also determine which shop sections you can buy. The idea is that most shops can't offer everything, I will force specialisation. In the first shop that is ready, that means you can buy any or all of these 4 sections and that's it. For other shops I'm working on an idea of having options, i.e. in that corner you can put either this or that, but not both.
In the final game, you can invest your profit into a bigger shop, or a shop in a better town. That at least is the idea of gameplay beyond the simple buy/sell.
I would be interesting if you have multiple towns. Everyone starting in a small town at first but maybe with enough gold, you can either relocate to a city or create another shop there. Maybe there should be a limit to how many parties being available for different settlement sizes. Maybe a small town can have 10 at most while cities can maybe have up to 30~50.
