the biggest issue with shops(not counting 1.1.0 issue) is buying price. If they cost 14k and you make 250, then it only takes about 50-60 days are your in the green and I am fine with that. Caravans are super simple, trade skill needs to impact the caravan leaders profits a lot more so investing valuable points into trade makes it with it as I showed in 1.0.3 caravan video going from 1 to 200 trade added 12% profit, that is nothing for investing 4 or 5 focus points. Alleys, they need to give a bit more or at least give a multiplier of the leaders roguery skill to make them worth doing.(other ideas but keeping it simple) All of these changes are super simple to do as I am NOT a coder but know someone and these are easy changes to simple ad a multiplier to the final values or lower the price of shops by 50% at end of the value. Like I said these are all super simple changes that could make a huge difference, IF, anyone at TW would care as I have made a couple of these suggestions for months and nothing is done.
There are about 4 or 5 adjustments that are "needed" to economy items to make the game glow better and I just wish someone at TW cared enough to ask me someone with over 7,000 hours into the game, who has the knowledge to make things better. I care, I just wonder, does anyone care, if so they would seem more interested in changes to make the game better overall. Just look at the steam numbers, they are falling each week. It's sad such an amazing game is being dragged down. If things were handled different as far back as 1.7, I know the numbers could be nearly 50% higher than they are now, I could explain my reasoning but won't. After all this rambling, all I'll say is I streamed 7 days to die tonight for over 9 hours and had so much fun. For someone that's poured 2 1/2 years and 7,000 hours into this, my life. It's sad to come to this. I have lives Warband/Bannerlord for over 8 years but things are getting so bad, think you need to look other places, and I am NOT the only YouTuber who is on this track. I can name 4 who have almost completely moved on, what does that tell you TW?