Would be nice if we could specialised the town in a specific craft. For instance like Murano for glass making, Limoges for porcelain, Toledo for sword making, Jaipur for jewels, Basingstoke for bricks (hum…), …
That could give new buildings and enable specific trade options like for instance all merchants would like to buy those specialities and we would be fixing the price, not the other way round (with a way to negotiate if the merchant refuses), or specific trade deals…
I often have a map with a lot of something, currently I have a lot willows, so I can make tons of baskets, or previously I had tons of clay mine, so I could have started a bricks company to sell to the world.
Yeah, that would be cool and I thought about trying to do something like that early on… actually just visited Murano last Oct and got to see one of the glass blowing workshops.
Will have to think on this, although we already are getting a lot of gripes from people saying the game is overly complex as is and we’re about to introduce a tech tree so, I don’t know, may be too much. I do like the thought of it though.
You can already approach this in the current edition of the game. I managed to build a little town of 400 or so citizens that used a bunch of fields dedicated to Flax to become a Cloth Town - exported Clothing almost exclusively to pay for everything else for about 20 years of game play: Food, Weapons, Pottery, Leather Goods - all Imported: I think in the end my workforce was almost all Cloth Workers, Field Hands, a few firewood choppers and one Work Camp.
If I had known it would work so well, I would have named the town Manchester or Naro-Fominsk from the start, but I wasn’t sure such ‘specialization’ would work as well as it did!
I got the idea to try it as an experiment with Clothing to see just how far I could take Trading because in the past I’d done it on a smaller scale trading Pottery or Beer.
Trading and maximizing Trading can become an entire Mini-Game all by itself . . .
