Why can't we share resources freely between towns?

[cledus166]

If all our regions are under one lord why would they not share resources between them. I find the barter system with the pack stations to be a pain in the ass. I want my home region to finish the products and sell them but its a pain trying to trade for bread and iron from my other regions. I end up bartering finished products for their raw materials and then my 2nd and third villages end up richer than my home region. Really kills the idea of specialization like in anno for example, because wealth is also not shared and other than mercenaries have a large treasury doesn't matter much. I'm enjoying the game greatly and feel like it has very good base to stand on but the interaction between different systems needs tweaking badly in my opinion.

[RumDumpster]

No different from federal/state/municipal laws dude. I do wish trading between regions was easier/ more effective.

[Ruin]

Yeah... I understand where they're coming from with the current system, but it seems almost silly to do it the way it is presently..

Something I noticed... If you're selling a resource in one town, it seems that buying it in the other is the same flat rate as what you're selling it for, meaning that it would be easier to just treat it like a normal trade and be done with it -- in other words, sell that resource in town 1, buy it at the same sale price in town 2, and just make sure town 2 is selling something else to keep up regional wealth...