Swapping goods between merchants for large profits, feels cheaty?

When two merchants are in at the same time, and there are certain items one is buying and the other is selling with a large price difference, it feels a bit like an exploit to just move their inventories back and forth until they run out of goods or gold available.

Is this working as intended? Should merchants buy/sell from each other when a 2nd merchant arrives at the same time? Or do some sort of price fixing between the two of them perhaps?

Arbitrage :grin:

I’ve never researched the value of trade and how much of the GDP it made up it back then compared to modern times. In terms of game mechanics I do feel internal wealth generation looks to be lacking but I have also not played the game yet. So too early to really say.