rooftile trade route issues?

[DrwHem]

has anyone else purchased the rooftile trade route? my only resource on my land is clay and i saved up to buy this 4 in game years ago and since then, not a single trader has purchased any roof tiles from me.
anyone else notice this? if i would have known it was broken i would have re-rolled my starting land.

[Didz]

Yes! I'm in the same position and and I'm exporting Rooftiles from a Rich Clay Deposit.

How do you know none of your Rooftiles have sold?
Have you kept a record of every delivery to the warehouse and accounted for every tile?
Or is it the only thing your Region Exports and you are without Regional Income?

Personally I find it hard to know what the merchants are buying from my Trading Depot, but I know they are buying something because my Regional Wealth goes up.

However, it would be nice to have a log of imports and Exports.

[pckirk]

had this problem also this mornings play

[DrwHem]

i know because i stopped producing tiles once i hit 250. and i still have 250.

[Clovis Sangrail]

Roof tile trade route works just fine, assuming you haven't crapped your game up with mods.

I set mine to Export and maintain a surplus of 40, and every month, it sells a heap of roof times.

Do you have a family assigned to the Trading Post?

Did you buy the Trade route?

Did you set it to Export?

What have you set as your desired surplus?

[DrwHem]

i bought the trade route. i have 3 families tied to the trading post. theres currently 50 tiles in the post. i set the surplus to 50...so that leaves 200 for export.

[Agony_Aunt]

Hmmm... i've just been exporting rooftiles just fine.

What happens if you try exporting something different?

Have you tried saving and reloading? It fixes the odd strange issue as well.

[Clovis Sangrail]

Originally posted by Agony_Aunt:

Have you tried saving and reloading? It fixes the odd strange issue as well.

This works more often than you would expect.

https://youtu.be/p85xwZ_OLX0

[DrwHem]

i export tons of other things with no problem and i have reloaded about 4 times now

[Anthracite]

Mine is working fine too, could you give a screenshot of your trade screen and anything related to it? You could also try horses to increase the rate but that won't do much if it's borked.

[Clovis Sangrail]

My Small Shields were having the same problem -- 114 of them just sitting there, I clicked the eyeball on the trade route, and I saw that the trader was about 2 buildings away from the Trading Post. I watched him pull up to the Trading Post, and he bought 50 smalls shields.

You might try that with the roof tiles trade route and find out just where in the hell that guy is and follow him back to your trading post. See if he pulls up and actually does anything.

Then, if he still doesn't buy anything, and If you haven't borked your game up with mods, you should probably toddle on over to the Bugs Reporting subforum and report this -- https://steamcommunity.com/app/1363080/discussions/2/

[Didz]

Originally posted by DrwHem:

i bought the trade route. i have 3 families tied to the trading post. theres currently 50 tiles in the post. i set the surplus to 50...so that leaves 200 for export.

Hang on!

I'm confused?

Why if you have 250 x Roof Tiles are only 50 of them stored on your Trading Depot ready for sale. Your surplus is 200 x Roof Tiles, so surely 200 should be in your Trade Depot awaiting sale.

Have you stuck them in a warehouse somewhere?

If so the Traders will give them a low priority because they are already stored.

Switch the Warehouse storage off so the traders collect them from the Clay Kiln directly and it will shorten the distribution route. The Traders will not Export what isn't in the Trade Depot.