[Discuss] Trade Caravans to replace traders?

[AJ]

On 8/20/07, Tom Vogt <tom at lemuria.org> wrote:
> Here's a basic idea how we can accomplish two things:
>
> a) remove the trader class
> b) allow rural regions to actually profit from their food production
> c) thus making rural regions more important and interesting,
> especially regarding knight recruitment
>
>
> Change the current trading system. Instead of prices, reserve, etc.
> we allow region lords to set two values:
>
> * How much food to buy or sell
> * At what price
>
> For buy offers, the region lord has to actually put that gold into
> the warehouses (but he can cancel the offer and regain the gold at
> any time).
>

People might use it as a bank to store gold for retrieval when needed
(or just before taxes to avoid getting it taxed.

AJ
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