Trade Mechanics. Question about depots

[Catsander]

So after 200 hours and two achievements I learned that I could do manual trade, lol. Before that I thought there was only the automatic trade using imprt/export depots.

If I understood the mechanics right: So the downside with trade depots is that you don't get the exact amount you currently want. It trades in 32 units increments. Trade depots are only useful if you don't want to micromanage trade. Is that about right? Are there any other uses for trade depots?

[Friends with Benedicts]

You can always build larger trade depots.

Other benefit for them is that you can set caps to try and mitigate market crash, although I've never tried that myself.

But basically yeah, they're there to trade with your trade partners and to avoid micro management

[robtock216]

I generally have a small export post for pretty much every resource by mid game and set it to export anything above 75% of the resource so stuff doesn't backup

i only really build bigger posts for things like grain, fruit etc as the amount your shifting is huge one way or another