Trade carts jamming up trading post

[Virtualalex67]

Nobody was picking stuff up from the trading post, so I demolished it and there were loads of traders and their carts inside, stuck. How do I stop this happening? It is ruining trade.

[Kisshu the Stein]

You could try to place is more far away from the outer map border so the merchants have to travel some time.

[Varau]

Build more trading posts and have them far from each other away from the borders this should keep them from bunching up and eventually they’ll keep up so you can delete them
I find if you activate a bunch of trade routes at once they’ll get bogged down like that

[KrayZee]

If I understood your post correctly, you have a bunch of traders somewhere doing nothing now?

try moving a militia / retinue through them.
Seriously, they'll push them around and most of the time they will "unstuck" and start moving again.
Sometimes a cart will not have collision though and your troops will just "ghost" through it.

[9erRed]

Greetings,

The trading post families assign one member to travel and fetch required items. If there is a cart jam at the post.
- Remove all the workers and see if that disperses the jam.
- If yes, the slowly build back the work force.

- Reduce the amount of trading materials, even if there's a trade route set, you can stop that items trade to allow for stock to be used. And traders to leave.

Just some idea's,
9eRed

[[BLK] Telu]

To unstuck it, sometimes you have to restart the game. Destroying the trade post is sometimes not enough.

[Virtualalex67]

Originally posted by Varau:

Build more trading posts and have them far from each other away from the borders this should keep them from bunching up and eventually they’ll keep up so you can delete them
I find if you activate a bunch of trade routes at once they’ll get bogged down like that

Traders only visit 1 trading post, no matter how many you have.

Originally posted by KrayZee:

If I understood your post correctly, you have a bunch of traders somewhere doing nothing now?

try moving a militia / retinue through them.
Seriously, they'll push them around and most of the time they will "unstuck" and start moving again.
Sometimes a cart will not have collision though and your troops will just "ghost" through it.

There are a bunch of trading carts stuck inside and around the trading post. Even when no trade routes are running, they still gather there. I found that putting it on the 4x speed clears them, but why are they even there if no routes are running?

Originally posted by 9erRed:

Greetings,

The trading post families assign one member to travel and fetch required items. If there is a cart jam at the post.
- Remove all the workers and see if that disperses the jam.
- If yes, the slowly build back the work force.

- Reduce the amount of trading materials, even if there's a trade route set, you can stop that items trade to allow for stock to be used. And traders to leave.

Just some idea's,
9eRed

Removing workers does nothing. The carts just sit there.

Also, even when no routes are operational, there are certain imported items that just stay in the trading post (grain, ore etc) that nobody ever collects, even when a warehouse is dedicated to just one item. Trading posts are broken.