Managing marketplace and storage

[xgary2001]

I feel like you should be able to control what you sell in marketplace. For example, if i want to keep yarn for making clothing, I should be able to limit/prevent yarn from being marketed. I am new to the game and not sure if there is actually a way to do just that, if anyone knows

[rosablanka]

In general the option "full trade" is supposed to do just that - you put the desired amount you want to keep (which is a different technique than most games where you put how much you wanna buy or sell) - here is how much you wanna keep.
But that option I find doesn't work as expected, as my trades are all over the place and when I visit my trade post (which btw is a very convenient for me to see what exactly I have all in one place - kinda using it as a report) - I re-adjust the numbers - again to the desired how much I want to keep of those items.
Export almost never locks in the desired amount I want to keep.

[LocDoc]

i think that you misunderstood.. the traders post option for trading limits just limits how much of a good are exported or imported, e.g. you have 200 Warbows (no one needs that much) so you limit it to 36 and your traders will export them untill you hit 36.

if you need to import Iron and you set the limit to 10, because between 2 trading events you use up 8 iron so at each trading event you get 8 iron to stock up 10.

what he mention was an option to limit how much of a good or even if a good is traded at the market. so that for example your storage workers dont carry all the linen (thats mostly my problem) to the market and there is barely any for gambesons left. as far as i can see the tailors wont get their supply from the market but from the warehouse itself. and if the storageworkers carried all your linen to the market there is non for your tailors...

so i +1 for this way or suggest that all workers can use goods off the market too which i would consider more reasonable..

[Arthemisia]

Yes, the problem of the quantity of goods distributed in the village marketplace is very limiting. We would need a market management system to establish which stalls should be there and what to distribute, so that we can create many small markets that distribute. Automatically filling the market space with random stalls makes it inefficient, I would like to be able to decide the quantity of each type of stall for each marketplace.

[rosablanka]

oh, I got "sell" at a marketplace and instantly thought of the "trade". Yeah, I don't mingle with those market stalls, just placing a market strategically (as much as I can) and let them do their thing. The most important is the storehouse and granary as many times (followed the fellas) they were restocking them, so I figured it was a logistic problem.
I have no idea that you can micromanage a market stall of whats selling and not. I hit TAB check whats going on and proceed with what needs to be done.

** on the trade topic, I do heavy trading - import/export and many times full trade option to always have something I want in stock. I don't check calculations - just an overall feel (more export - less import), not to overspend, to keep my money on the positive every month and it keeps growing.

[JaH Warrior]

I love the potential of this game, but i do hope they work on the marketplace alot.
I feel i have no control on WHO creates a stall and WHY/WHEN.
Why does one of my familys in a logging camp own a food stall? :O
I shouldnt have to try and micro manage that.

I also love the idee of families that work something instead of just individual workers, but it gets messy. I meen, what does it meen if a family works in woodcutters logde and also have a stall with firewood and also have carrots to attend to? Does that family actually get some work done? i feel like i have no control over who is actually doing what.

[Gorf2010]

No. The markets and indeed the houses that produce will continue to produce ad infinitum if there are supplies for them