Your Shops In Town

[CWO. RougeGunner00 [10th MD]]

So I've started putting items into my show counters and I've made sure that my outpost and my building I use for the shop is public but no one has shown up to trade. What's the deal?

[nex]

there are lots of threads about this.. the gist is that citizens who roam around the city have a very limited budget and only buy certain items from shops. i think the wiki has detailed lists of what exacty. also try to search shop counter threads here.

the short of it is if you are trying to make money just manually sell things as shop counters at best work slow and give little money and at worst nothing gets sold ever..

[Bored Peon]

You also need to do it in a city that has those roaming citizens. Some towns do not have them, so nobody will buy anyhting.

[oi__io]

Several questions: where did you open your shop? In your own town or in NPC town?

If you open in your own town, where is it on the map and have you ever seen any NPC travelling nearby? How's the traffic looks like? Is it one traveler every once in a while or is it a bunch of travelers all the time?

Like in real life, it's all about location, location, location. XD

[LazMon]

Trade goods are the items that npcs can buy, use this as refernece: http://kenshi.wikia.com/wiki/Trade_Goods

To be honest though, you are better off just selling stuff to the shops than making stuff to be sold since npcs have limited Catz(currency).

[Hatsune Neko Gaming]

Shop counters were never ment to be your primary source of income either.
Though work on them is needed to make it so it works more as intended.

[CWO. RougeGunner00 [10th MD]]

Thanks for the info. I opened the shop in my own town between two holy towns. Mostly troops roam the area. Guess that's part of the issue. Kinda sad to hear that they aren't a big thing in the game as of right now.

It would be nice if even random NPCs were spawned in to shop at your town. Like how the "Beast Trader" or "Bandit Demands" show up randomly.