Trade Reports - Low Hanging Fruit

[edwardseamans]

I am not sure if this has been brought up before, but here goes:

 

If each ship had a record (invisible, under the hood) of the prices of all available items at the last several ports, "dated" by age in days. Then, each time they come into port, the port would have a "trade report" interface, and the latest buy/sell prices of all items would be available to docked captains. For example, Redwood Logs at Port Morant, buying for 67 and selling for 40 three days ago.

 

I think it would really help with trading and would simulate making reports when in port. The reporting could be automatic but each captain could "opt out" of submitting trading reports when docked (to protect "secret" trading routes) via a one time "Do you wish to submit trading reports?" at each docking. You could get a small amount of XPs (like 2 or 5 per town for submitting the reports. It would encourage trading and exploration, you could visit ten ports and come back and get 20-50 xps which seems fair.

 

Just my two cents