So, after playing the beta for a bit: it’s a good game already, and I hope it’s going to be great.
My two biggest wishes in short form:
a) I would like to have the option to request items at storage buildings (‘keep in stock’ for each stockyard and storehouse). Maybe add dedicated workers just for logistics, and let them carry requested items between storage buildings.
b) Ironically, the ‘keep in stock’-option in the trading post is IMO not really useable, when it steals the goods away from my population. So for the trading post I want an option that makes sure, that it only stocks up on excess production. Let me set a limit I want to keep for my people, and everything above that can go to the trading post. (That’s essentially what I have to do now manually all the time, and it’s not really engaging gameplay.)
You have a button, a check, right next to transfer items where if you click a green check appears and they will always take the amount that you have indicated to the trading post. If you put them to carry 100 units of cheese, and you check the green check, there will always be 100 cheese in the trading post, as long as there are 100 available. It’s not exactly what you’re asking for, but I don’t know if you’ve seen it.
But as far as I know when we use this, then the workers will move goods into the trading post, and not care about the needs of the population. E.g., when I set this to keep 100 shoes in stock, then the town folk won’t get shoes anymore, because they all will be moved to the trading post.
I would like the opposite: they should only move items into the trading post when I have more than X shoes available, and I’d like to be able to set X myself. That way goods would always be available for the population first, and only excess production would be sold.