Wandering Traders and your Shop Counters

[Grimscar]

How do you attract the traders to buy from you? I have my outpost set to public and I have trade good type material in my large shop counter but no one buys from me.

[Nick462]

I am having the same problem like the people will walk 10 yards into my base and then leave they never buy anything.

[Windows 98]

The building that you have the shop counter in needs to be set to public. and if they are getting stuck out side your establishemnt press Ctrl+ shift + f11 itll reset the pathing for the AI. also good if your character gets stuck inside of a building.

[Grimscar]

ctrl-shift f11 just killed my game and made me lose alot of progress :(

[Windows 98]

itll come back if it stops responding in my experince, should have f5'd before you hit CTRL shift f11 sorry about that. key to this game is to save regulary =-/

[Grimscar]

Gotcha, and I just tried it and i waited a while and yeah it did its thing but doesn't seem to fix it I did have the place set to private but now its set to public but still no go on people entering.

[Windows 98]

Probly experincing the same thing i had one time. it seems like when you set an outpost the first building you put down is like a marker, and if you dont ahve building close to where the first one you set dow was the traders dont know how to get to the shop.

[Sohei]

I am having the same problem. My first building was a mine that is now near the edge of my outpost. I noticed that this caused a problem with my squad not behaving properly to stop working and defend if the attacking enemy is at the opposite edge of my outpost from that mine. The marker on the map for my outpost also is cenetered on that first building. If I start over next time I will build a well first even if I am short on building materials because I like to have those in the middle so it is the natural center of my outpost.

I moved the shop to a new building near the first mine but still don't get any customers. So, might be a pathing bug. I also recently got an invisible wall in my outpost blocking access to one corner of the outpost. I will see if reloading fixes this.

[Grimscar]

MY building is working fine now, I've gained about 50,000 catan from my various goods :D so excited... Selling Hemp and Fabrics, Straw and Flour and Rum bread metal bars !

[Sohei]

I keep building bigger warehouses. :/

[Tendeep]

I have setup a cantina with counters, but merchants show up in my town and go into the houses with no counters...

How did you all get them to actually visit the counters? lol

[Tendeep]

Saved the game, reloaded, and this reset the AI, they visited my shop and bought me out in two waves.

Thanks.

[Thanos232]

I have set up shop in multiple locations now and have never had a trader visit me, everything is set to public, doors, area, stocked 5 buildings each with one counter. No gates but some walls. Near the far west town, traders where walking through the area but in the most recent spot i set up. It has been about 2 weeks game time and not a single trader. Have done multiple imports and rebuilds, either i have no idea where the trade routes are and have not found a map showing them online, only other thing is i am paying off dust bandits, have no seen them in a long time since i said i would pay them so i have not had to pay them yet.

[Hatsune Neko Gaming]

trade is bugged at the moment.

[Grimscar]

Back when i fist made this post the things they told me to do worked i haven't played in a while however though.

[Grimm Spector]

The building needs to be set public, but the public button on all of my buildings does nothing, it's blank and empty, unlike the one in towns, which says either Private or Public. My outpost however has the public checkbox set (now that it seemed to matter to the AI constantly walking through it of any faction).

Also those are the only commodities we can sell? That's a shame.