Trader frequency

[Ogedei]

Are there any particular factors that influence trader visitations? If so, how would one get them to come more frequently?

[A Nonny Moose]

Multiple TPs get you multiple traders, but I think the cycle is annual.

[irrelevant]

It starts out more or less annually as @A Nonny Moose has said, but as your population increases, the merchant boats will come more often. I think this maxxes out around pop 500(?), and the boats will come every 5-7 months or so.

[Ogedei]

Does the number of people working at the trade post also factor into it?

[RedKetchup]

no, the number of poeple working at the trading post doesnt influence the merchant frequency.

[rkelly17]

It starts out more or less annually as @A Nonny Moose has said, but as your population increases, the merchant boats will come more often. I think this maxxes out around pop 500(?), and the boats will come every 5-7 months or so.

And, as the population increases they bring more stuff and larger amounts of each item.

[RedKetchup]

And, as the population increases they bring more stuff and larger amounts of each item.

that yes. bigger total population = more frequenly. (thats  in the code)

[tomnobles]

Being in favor with the Random Gods helps also. 

[A Nonny Moose]

Speaking of random gods, this is an empirical observation but I've been trying some map keys that were of the style "power of 2 + 1" and in some cases have had crashes to the desktop.

[tomnobles]

Hope this isn't off topic but, I seem to recall a mod that had traders carrying all goods. Can anyone point me to it?

[paralias]

@tomnobles  http://colonialcharter.com/index.php/forum/kralyergs-kave-of-krazy-kontraptions/1338-easy-trading

[tomnobles]

Thanks, got it, I'll try it later. Playing with a vanilla game right now. Six trading posts plus orchards and I can't keep fruit for taverns. First few times they came, I was thinking of reducing the purchase amount and next I know taverns started popping stop icons. Watched the trading posts for a while and a lot were coming with fruit, almost all of them, but each one now has only one fruit instead of a variety. Everyone I saw for two years was that way.

I don't really want to go through that again, so again, thanks for the link.

[irrelevant]

The key to ale production is to standardize on a single fruit type, and to place orders with food and general goods merchants for that type of fruit (in addition to anything else you want).

[tomnobles]

Don't see the fruit type. All it shows is "Fruit". I did think of wiping out all orchards and changing them to one, btu that's too much trouble (39 orchards) .

[Nilla]

Don't see the fruit type. All it shows is "Fruit". I did think of wiping out all orchards and changing them to one, btu that's too much trouble (39 orchards) .

Can't understand that. You say you play vanilla? It seems more like some mod to me. In the vanilla brewery, there's a menu where you chose the fruit to use. As @irrelevant says; the key to a high ale production is to use only one fruit.

You could easily change the kind of fruit in your orchards with a small trick: Change the fruit to the one you want to use (say apples) at all orchards. The old fruit will be harvested as usual, but as soon as a tree dies, it is replaced with apples. It will take some time, but is easy. (unless you use a mod for immortal trees, than it doesn't work that way)