Hey,
I noticed that I am able to flip things between traders easily and make a lot of money essentially breaking the economy.
I had about 90 gold bars to start with and by flipping leather and wood from one trader to another with just one gold bar diffrence I was able to make about 1k.
Repro steps:
1.Build trading post.
2.Wait for two trades to arrive.
3.Seek any commodity that one trader sells low and the other one buys higher.
4.Buy low from one, sell high to the other.
5.Notice how much money you made.
This is the result of random pricing of buy/sell resources. I expect it is happening as programmed and not a bug.
I’m fairly sure you have found an intended solution to the game’s design. 2 and 3 are infrequent occurrences, and 5 is limited by either the trader’s stock or gold. It basically acts as a little minigame that rewards attention with a moderate gold bonus.
You can actually get around 2 and 3 if you have a bit of capital and know which items can be sold back again at some point. Just buy every sellable good when the price is double red arrows and then sell it back again when the price is double green arrows.
If you could do this to earn unlimited gold then it would be problematic.
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Buy low sell high!
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Rampant Capitalism is Not A Bug!
It’s called arbitrage… you provide the market for a commission. I always pause the game when a second trader arrives, just so that I don’t miss any opportunity, unless it’s a late game and I’m awash with gold already.
Yep, never do trading stuff while the clock’s running so to speak. Always pause the game which gives me plenty of time to see what’s on offer, what they may want from me and if I haven’t moved it to the trading post yet whether I have time for the staff to do so before they leave. Once I know then I set the game running again and watch the trader with the least remaining days to make sure I can sell to them before they leave if I need to move stuff to the trading post for them. Then pause to do the trades themselves.
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