Autumn 7 1084, 54 cows available in Seonon for 34 denars starting price, in Marunath 2 cows available for 174 denars. At the start of my game there were over 100 cows for sale in Seonon for an even lower price.
When you sell them what is the best price you could get? Average price of hog is 40, sheep is 80, cow is 160. You can buy cows from 35-40 maybe but you cannot find a town to sell them 20x like 700-800 maybe best you can find 250-300.
Their price was so high before because cow / sheep / hog production was so low and it was not enough for world demand. So in previous versions these animals were sold 2-3x of their original price, as example we enter value for sheep as 80 but in game average sheep price was 160-240. This was also one reason of not working tanneries, there was so less number of cow / sheep / hog in world so artisians cannot convert these animals to hides and meat. hides / meat were also very expensive. This was halting leather production, because tannery output (leather) price and tannery input (hides) price were so close because overprice of hides. When input item price is close to output item price workshop stops working. Because it is meaningless.
Now all is normal. Cow / sheep / hog production is added to grain and fish villages also, they produce less but this balanced things. Now average hides price is 60, average leather price is 200 average meat price is 25, average hog price is 40, sheep is 80 and cow is 160. It is not easy selling something 10-20x of buy price especially close towns.
Also default trade penalty is now 6%, it was 8% before. As example with 0 trade skill an item which has 100 default price buy sell price was 92-108 now it is 94-106. This is a new advantage for trading players. We added herd penalty increase (i did not increase that penalty but after trader players message me checked code and it seems it was a right addition. previously there was nearly no herd penalty, so 30 men party was able to control 100-200 mule and player can have very high carrying capacity without losing speed, it was not logical) this increase was bad news for them now we give a small advantage.
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@mexxico Crash after being captured and put in town prison isn't fixed? I guess i still have to save scum :/
I did not worked on that and do not know who fixed or did not fixed. You can open bug report or if it still exists you can post there still valid in 1.5.5
@mexxico
Siege Towers Are Still Bad
I do not work at mission / combat / weapons / siege equipments side.