ChrisOelmueller/uh-issues — Issue #44: Improve Free Trader on larger maps
Author: ChrisOelmueller
Created: 2012-02-27 00:49:50+00:00
State: open

* Give the trader a certain trade threshold (measured in res value) up to which we buy and sell
* Increase that threshold with map size and played time
* This concept means that if you sell a lot of boards, you can also buy more tools than if you'd not sold anything.
* A feasible threshold at game start could, for now, be `50` which equals 40 boards and 2.7 tools per deal.

* We also need a way to increase the amount of trader ships with map size (especially if there's a lot of water)

* Do we want to keep the current behavior of random movement?
* A better approach could include saving all settlements seen with a signal fire somewhere in trader logics and regularly cycling through them