Are there any particular factors that influence trader visitations? If so, how would one get them to come more frequently?
Multiple TPs get you multiple traders, but I think the cycle is annual.
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.
Does the number of people working at the trade post also factor into it?
no, the number of poeple working at the trading post doesnt influence the merchant frequency.
Quote from: irrelevant on October 14, 2015, 05:36:00 AM
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.
Quote from: rkelly17 on October 24, 2015, 11:26:11 AM
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)
Being in favor with the Random Gods helps also. :)
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.
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?
@tomnobles http://colonialcharter.com/index.php/forum/kralyergs-kave-of-krazy-kontraptions/1338-easy-trading
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.
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).
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) .
Quote from: tomnobles on October 26, 2015, 08:29:38 PM
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)
Quote from: Nilla on October 27, 2015, 06:31:14 AM
Quote from: tomnobles on October 26, 2015, 08:29:38 PM
Don't see the fruit type. All it shows is "Fruit".
Can't understand that.
I guess he means the trader's Auto-Purchase menu - if I remember correctly that indeed shows only the generic "Fruit"...
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It's been a while since I did that Fruit/Ale Empire thing... :)
Yes, that must be the auto-purchase tab.
@tomnobles The orders are placed with the individual merchants when they are at your trading post. Look at the "orders" tab, it will list every item that merchant deals in, you select what you want by clicking each item. Don't forget to change the "frequency" in the drop down to "every visit," the default is "never," which to me means, "I never want to select this frequency." ;)
Just be aware that once you start placing orders, that merchant will bring
only what you order, so you need to order
everything you might wish that merchant to bring you. He won't bring every item on your list every time he comes, but he
never will bring anything that you have not ordered.
Oh, I knew that! I must have been tired, I was looking at the trading post ::). Can't use mods to get an achievement. I'll just leave it like it is. I don't think they (taverns) have to work all the time, just be there.
QuoteJust be aware that once you start placing orders, that merchant will bring only what you order, so you need to order everything you might wish that merchant to bring you. He won't bring every item on your list every time he comes, but he never will bring anything that you have not ordered.
Thanks, I knew that too, just never realized it. I'll do that.
Posted by: Paeng « Today at 06:52:48 AM »
QuoteI guess he means the trader's Auto-Purchase menu - if I remember correctly that indeed shows only the generic "Fruit"...
Yeah, that's exactly what he meant. Was hung up on traders and went into brain lock mode. Sorry... I'll blame it on my age. ::)