Trading post traffic jam - no longer trading

[bennydigitall]

As the title says, I have 4 horses, donkeys, and a dozen or so people stuck inside the trading post, and no one moves. Just glitching out with animation to load cart.

Is this just me?

[madpraxis]

No, sometimes things get hung up.

Easiest, best, TOTALLY AWESOME SOLUTION to a few of the bugs and glitches...
Save and reload.
That will 'restart' their activity, so they will look around, see trader right in front of them, and bam, traffic jam will start to clear out.
They seem to get stuck trying to help someone NOT in front, which, obviously, they can't do since there is someone else in front.

[moe_pse]

sry to disagree but save & reload doesn't fix anything with this issue.
it will only clear up for a few minutes until all those traders went back to where they came from. as soon as they are back at our trading post, a new traffic jam will form instantly.

the left door of the trading post seems to be reserved for outside trades. the right door looks like local trades' traffic. right door is always free, left door is always clogged. even if we only sell 2 or 3 goods, the trading post is just too slow to handle all the traffic through one door.

next patch might fix this though. at least it's mentioned as one of the top prios.

[madpraxis]

It...does though. Those patch notes do mention this problem. It's the traders trying to trade with someone not in front of the traffic jam. Which, with the patch, they don't need to, so it should solve the problem.

Like, literally saving and reloading fixes it for every single person that has had this problem, as far as I'm aware, since it seems to 'reset' things, like the trade post workers looking for trades. And production workers trying to find goods. And...and...
Like, literally a good chunk of the bugs can be fixed by a save and reload...

[arvine17]

Try building a 2nd or 3rd trading post that might solve the bottleneck?

[moe_pse]

even with 5 or 6 trading posts, the traffic jam then moves to the one that was built the last.
all other trading posts will be neglected by the outside traders for whatever reason.

reloading "fixes" the issue temporarily. but it's just visually because all traders wander away for a while (reset) until they come back for the same old trades as before and clog it again. so it's not a fix but rather a delay until the new traffic jam will form again. and again and again.

edith says: i generally agree on the save & reload trick in early access titles though. first thing to try in every early access game, no doubt :)

[bennydigitall]

I reloaded and built another trading post and it seems to have fixed it. It took about a month for them to disperse.

[CasterHACK]

I also find trading at the center region (Warbrand?) is problematic because the trader has to go across another region. When I conquered that very region and build a trading post, the carts only stops at that edge region and won't go to the center region anymore.

[Serpent]

dev try solving this issue in pretest server but didn't try trading yet because he nerf it by a lot. i don't think you will ever have trade problem again because you will trade in low volume now.