someone explain pack stations to me please

[DrwHem]

I have a packstation is city 1 with 2 mules set to import swords in exchange for apples. that city has 100 apples and 0 swords. its trade partner has 80 surplus swords and 0 apples.
I have let this run for about 30 minutes now and i see no actual trading happening. WHY??
its driving me insane.

[Gorf2010]

Just to be sure, you have put families in the pack stations?

[restarter]

mine works like this:
I have an iron and weapons making town. I want to send helmets to my farming town as it has the bigger pop and bigger army. I figured, since my iron town needs some roofing tiles i would exchange those goods. So I set it up at an barter value of 1.7. I assumed it would be 1.7 tiles per 1 helmet. However I think its reversed but I wouldn't know because it doesn't say in the barter window.
ALL my helmets went to my farming town and my iron town has received a whopping 4 tiles in over an hour of gaming. I had 70 helmets.
The barting system is broken and indeed my farming town's regional wealth has been depleted from each delivery of helmets. I guess they bought them instead of trading for tiles.

Regional distribution is currently broken.

[Cassian]

its bugged, they get stuck getting mules or they get stuck getting the product for trade. Click on it and watch the families.

[madpraxis]

Originally posted by Cassian:

its bugged, they get stuck getting mules or they get stuck getting the product for trade. Click on it and watch the families.

I do. I watch them run over to the tanners, load up their mule, then watch them trot to their neighbor village, drop off the leather, then grab a load of firewood or whatever and bring it back.

It MAY be bugged for you. Depending on if you opted in to the beta TEST release or are on the actual release. A good way to fix things is just a save and reload. If that doesn't work, which it honestly usually does, then try turning things on and off again.

Note, if you don't have anything for them to actually barter with, they will just go try to pick stuff up and hang out for a bit...

[Baghdad_Bob]

The barter system sucks. Why do I have to barter between lands I own. I am the lord, I founded that region to send iron, now send me my iron. It should be more like anno's trade system.

[chopperaddict]

the help system tells me that items MUST ,match in value ?? That is not correct it seems from this thread ? Please correct me I am wrong in this, perhaps the cost difference is where the wealth values are obtained ?. i have still to see a transfer happen yet, but I live in hope it will happen !

[Didz]

Originally posted by chopperaddict:

the help system t34ells me that items MUSTY ,match in value ?? That is not correct it seems from this thread ? Pls correect me I am wrong in this, perhaps the cost difference is where the wealth values are obtained ?

It's badly worded.

The total value of the of the goods being exchanged has to be equal, but the individual items being bartered don't have to match in value. So, if you are sending a shipment of cheap items and seeking to exchange them for expensive items then you will need to send more of the cheap items than you receive in the return.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3305191130
But the maths is done automatically so you don't need worry much about it.

Contrary to Baghdad-Bob's assertion the barter system is the only part of this games Trade System that actually works and makes sense. The main Trade System was completed screwed by the last patch and has never worked reliably since.

[chopperaddict]

I am most grateful to you for that Didz. I now know what is going on ! have wondered about trading fir a little while now. It seemed to be working, but the results were certainly weird at times. I am sure I will have more questions as I dig my way into this wonderful world of Manor Lords...

Hopefully I MAY ALSO HAVE SOME ANSWERS FOR OTHERS . Time will tell eh.....

[Clement]

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.