Trade rebalance - suggestions

[Monolito]

I would like everybody to suggest the prices of good in Brytenwalda. As we all know, few items are worth trading (iron,salt and spices) which becomes boring after a while.

When  you add your opinion please state how much you think goods should be bought for and how high should the sell price be

 

[Monolito]

Salt,iron and spices are good the way they are.

Other goods: (buying price =BP, selling price= SP).

Bread: BP=15-20s, SP=30-40s (I think there could be a shortage of food in those times so yeah, trading food could be profitable)
Ale: BP= 75-100s, SP=150-180s
Hides: BP= 50-70s,  SP= 100-110s
Sausages: BP=50-60s, SP= 120-140s
Dried meat: BP = 100-120s, SP=150-180s
Pottery: BP= 200-250s, SP= 350-400s (only few units of pottery can be bought at a time)
wine: BP= 200-250s, SP= 400-500s (luxury goods are worth more,right?)
Oil: BP= 200-300s, SP= 400-600s (luxury good, hard to  get)
Leather works: BP= 150-250s, SP= 350-450s,
Chicken, pork, beef: BP= 100-200s, SP = 300-400s (you can't get a lot of those and food is always pricy)
Furs: BP= 300-400s, SP= 700-900sp (hard to get)
Grapes and olives: BP= 50-100s, SP= 150-200sp
Wool: BP= 100-200s, SP= 250-400s (make it hard to get)
Wool cloth: BP= 400-500s, SP= 700-1000s (I think it you can obtain it from a  workshop)
Grain: BP= 30-70s, SP= 100-150s (shortage of food because of war)

These are my sugestion.  I think only certain towns should use the SP due to shortage of those goods. Don't set these prices for all towns selling a certin ware and towns looking to buy it. different regions need different goods, don't they? If a war lowers the amoun of food you can get higher prices for it in these regions.a

 

[Mugatu]

It's not so much the prices of goods, its boring to alt-space between every town to trade goods all the time - with the occasional "you are under attack by bandits" every 3rd night.

If you can set up trade caravans between cities (which can be attacked by pirates / enemy factions) would make trading a more viable gameplay mechanic.

Other then that I don't think everyone wants to spend their time trading - they only do it to fatten their pocketbooks - and eventually set up enterprises so they can fund their wars.

But its a good idea nethertheless - and there are alot of big trading games out there like Patrician and Port Royal that revolve entirely around going from city to city - it can be fun to trade different types of goods rather then iron salt and spice

 

[Monolito]

I like to trade I ditched Blood and Steel because it had no trade

 

[Wolfspyder]

If you can set up trade caravans between cities (which can be attacked by pirates / enemy factions) would make trading a more viable gameplay mechanic.

I think you can, I just started playing the Mod, but you can build a supply wagon.  You can assign a hero to lead it if you want, or add troops to it and tell it where to go. I haven't done that yet, but I am using it to lug around more goods at a time(96 capacity I think it is).  It does slow you down, but worth it in my opinion.  Especially if you run into a few bandit gangs one after another, it puts the excess armor/weapons in the wagon if you have room and you can sell it later.

You need tools in your inventory and 2 ponies to make it in the camp menu.