Market Stall Question

[Tempet]

So i'm putting some finishing touches on my town. Question is about Market Stalls. Are we selling to our people? or to passers by? I ask only because of placement.
Obviously if they are selling to my people, I'll put the stalls in the central area where everyone convenes, however, if they are for passers by, I would put them closer to the village entrance/exits.
Anyone have thoughts on this?

[hubbemattsson]

Well. you just sell. To who is up for your fantasy.
But I would say to people that passing by, sinse your own villagers allready have everything "free".

[Philtre]

The market stall isn't visited by anyone other than the worker you assign to it. The stall just sells stuff at a constant rate (determined by the worker's diplomacy skill) every day. Presumably other people are buying your goods, but you never see them; maybe they can shop by telekinesis.

[Tempet]

lol, yeah, I was just thinking from an RPG point of view.

[Morri]

I always pictured it as selling to passers-by. Since you can have a market stall when you don't have a big village or many villagers yet; so it doesn't make sense that you would continuously sell that amount of stuff to the same 10 people every single day.

I always place mine on the road that I made as entrance road to my village. My wife's roasted meat is famous far and wide in the valley. People come all the way from Jezerica to sample it! (P.S. to the developers: it kinda would be cool if you actually saw random people showing up near your village to buy from the market stalls)

[rhwilson1953]

Shipping of sold goods is done by Amazon. Just yesterday I received a box of stone knives on my doorstep. Bet you thought it was the internet age which brought you Amazon.

[CMNJB14]

They should have random buyers walk through your village, stop at the market stalls to do business, etc. Could be single NPC's, or in groups (small caravan?). Perhaps even a trader with a donkey / horse pulling a cart or wagon, etc.

Just throwing out some ideas. That would be a nice immersion feature.

[issssk]

From a lore view, it must be visitors. Your own workers don't have any money, since you never pay them and they never do any additional work in their free time.

[hubbemattsson]

Well. Thats not true.
You clearly pay them. They both get living, and food. And pretty sure if the devs ad that you need to keep cloaths for your workers, they get them as well.

[invivo4u]

Market stalls provide a way to move excess product and build up coin so when the king wants a lot of food for a wedding or stuff for building, you can buy it rather than having to produce it.

[Philtre]

Originally posted by hubbemattsson:

Well. Thats not true.
You clearly pay them. They both get living, and food. And pretty sure if the devs ad that you need to keep cloaths for your workers, they get them as well.

The point being that you never pay them in money, and the market stalls don't accept barter, so your villagers can't be the ones generating that coin.

And in any case, making money by selling stuff to your own employees is slimy. Look up the history of the "company store" phenomenon from the 1800's/early 1900's.

[rhwilson1953]

Originally posted by Philtre:

Originally posted by hubbemattsson:

Well. Thats not true.
You clearly pay them. They both get living, and food. And pretty sure if the devs ad that you need to keep cloaths for your workers, they get them as well.

The point being that you never pay them in money, and the market stalls don't accept barter, so your villagers can't be the ones generating that coin.

And in any case, making money by selling stuff to your own employees is slimy. Look up the history of the "company store" phenomenon from the 1800's/early 1900's.

To this day employees still have to buy from their employers, though car companies give employee discounts when buying a new car they still pay more than what's really necessary.

[software.goddess]

I absolutely LOVE the idea of having wandering NPC's!!! It would be adorable if the rode around in horse drawn buggies.

[hubbemattsson]

Like those we allready have? Yes, to little maybe. But them are there.

[invivo4u]

I have NPC wandering all around...they live in one village and work in another...