Dear NA Factions

[Lt_Anders]

I own a castle, and I don't care about the S/D Anyone can buy/sell there. Free Traders Haven! All Free Traders welcome.

[Turboflex]

You make a lot of assumptions. One of them seems to be that no matter how many we crush, there will be an infinite supply of traders who keep coming our way.

I don't think that's the case. If it was me, I'd go somewhere easier. Sounds like Norse Horde lands would be a great place, nobody watching the S&D there.

If you are consistently leaving 300+ S&D on a 25 price fief, I do tend to assume people will be drawn to try and poach it. I would.

[Braeden]

300 S&D is only 100 S&D usable at ideal conditions.  Hardly worth poaching.

My advice to any trader worth their salt is to contact a faction you see in the area with a lot of S&D and request to use a small portion of it.  People are much more willing to part with 100 S&D in exchange for 10% tax than 1000.  You can carry multiple trade goods, so making a large circle of the map while trading in smaller portions can work just as well or even better than trying to buy and sell en masse.

Oh and if someone does want you there? Just move on.  There are a lot of fiefs in the sea.  Or fish on the land.  Something like that.

[Lordark]

strat has turned into a trading/diplo sim as well as war! Very nice!  Let the trade wars.. BEGIN! NO CARE BARE CLAN IS SAFE ! MWAHAHA

[Vibe]

Yeah, this isn't really something that fief owners can just choose to ignore, but rather something the devs need to fix.

This. Kind of hard for independet traders to go around and trade since most of the fiefs are locked due to factions saving S&D

[Lordark]

Only cure I can think of is to raise the distance penalty and add chance to recruit while upping good prices abit.

Distance penalty will enable neutral traders to travel farther with no worries of war bounderies (sept bandits or shit head clans)

Take away auto recruit so less huge big man size armies but same time raise price of equipment a little. Maybe Im wrong about the 2nd and 3rd parts but pretty sure about the 1st one.

[Lt_Anders]

GOing to bump this for 1 comment.

All you people whoring your S&D, how's it working for you? Just buff the taxes on the your fiefs and guess what you make money for doing NOTHING! Seems like no one wants to actually set up trade centers and instead just do what uneducated people do, don't let anyone take your stuff.

Stop following the idiocy, OPEN YOUR BORDERS TODAY! Join the Open Border Revolution and PROFIT!