Merchants availability is much smaller, there's much smaller total limit of merchants units.
With this tweak you get additional merchants only on some 'elite' trade buildings like Merchant Guild etc.
Tweak is highly configurable.
Why ?
In vanilla SSHIP / SS / vanilla game it's easy to get new merchants - a lot of them, they're important source of income, but their management is real pain, also their in-game representation is not super historically accurate.
For more explenations see similar Merchants Removed tweak and below forum thread & pool:
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?758074-Merchants
But - Merchants are nice addition to gameplay, so removing them completely (Merchants Removed) is too harsh.
Details
See below JoC posts:
- http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?758074-Merchants&p=15407964&viewfull=1#post15407964
- http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?758074-Merchants&p=15424515&viewfull=1#post15424515
- and in general whole thread.
- Merchants on 'capital' settlements are produced by 'Walls' building (always present in every settlement) - to achieve that every faction could produce one (or more if configured) merchant regardless of buildings. You can switch this off in options. So now for example, Serbia (in vanilla SSHIP no starting merchants and can't produce in one starting castle) can produce one merchant.
- Merchant on all settlements are produced by market buildings, but markets don't increase merchants limit, this is done by other 'special' buildings as configured (see below).
- source code : https://github.com/tmodelsk/SSHIP-Tweaks/blob/master/modules/mtwModPatcher.sship/src/tm/mtwModPatcher/sship/features/agentsCharacters/merchantsNerfed/MerchantsNerfed.java
- save game compatible (except removing starting merchants of course, it will requires new game)
!! IMPORTANT !!
Within one particular settlement merchants limits from various settlements buildings do not stack, do not sum.
From one particular settlement you have merchant limit of one maximum value from all its buildings.
Configuration
You can configure this tweak as you like, click this tweak 'Options' See below screenshot.
You can change the configuration but please remember to confirm new parameter value with 'Enter' key and then 'Ok'.
Below is my actual configuration, you can set it as you like.
Explanations:
- Trade Multiplier, Mining Multiplier, merchants guild levels - explainet in Merchants Removed, also in forum posts.
- Remove starting merchants - "true" will remove all already present merchants on campaign map on campaign start (requires new campaign of course) .
- Capital - merchants limit for 'capital' settlements. Default 1. We want to achieve objective that each faction could have always minimum ONE merchant regardless any buildings
- Capital & Trade Republics. Trade republics are Pisa, Venice & Novogrod. So they can have two (defaullt) merchants in 'capital'. Or set it to one to reset bonus for trade republics.
- Next there's a list of trade buildings and their merchants limit.
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