The trading post has a "Dismiss" button that allows you to dismiss the trader after you're finished with the trade. Is it a good idea to always finish the trade as quickly as possible after the arrival of the trader and dismiss him, presumably so that he can come back to trade again more quickly?
Is it a good idea to dismiss traders as quickly as possible after trade
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The reason you can't trade your items with the merchant is because they have a trade value of 0. Certain merchants won't accept certain kinds of good for trade, and so the value of those goods will be set to 0 when trading with them. An example of this is herbs, which a lot of merchants won't accept for trade, but food merchants will.
I believe it's better to have many small stockpiles. But you shouldn't put it near labourers. It should be placed near where the recurring production is- trading posts, quarries, foresters/woodcutters. You want these people to store their resource output as quickly as possible so they will go back to working and producing. Some stuff like firewood, you do not want your villagers walking out into a blizzard because they're freezing and need firewood but the stockpile is far away. I apply the same principle to storage barns.
The real problem is for resources that you can't reliably produce locally like iron or stone. For these resources they will have to walk a long way to get it from whatever your current source is, and there's no stock pile placement to alleviate this. But you can place your stockpiles to increase production. It's a lot easier to build more blacksmiths than to summon more merchants to get more iron.
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Short answer: Yes, if you dismiss a trader, the next one will show up more quickly.
I tested this hypothesis in an old save with two trading posts.
Data:
Columns:
Dismissed - Whether I immediately dismissed the trader or not.
Trading Post # - I had two trading posts already established in the town. Note: trading post 2 was slightly further away from the river the traders arrived on, it took about 3 extra seconds on 10x speed to arrive.
Arrival - Season and year the trader docked with the trading post.
Departure - Season and year the trader un-docked with the trading post.
Duration of Stay - Number of seasons between Arrival and Departure for that trader.
Duration of Wait - Number of seasons between Departure for a trader and the Arrival of the next trader.
For those unfamiliar with Banished, "Early Spring" to "Spring" is 1 season. "Spring" to "Summer" is 3 seasons.
The first four traders (two at each trading post) I allowed to stay as long as possible. (Unrelated note: I discovered also, that when you select the trading post with a trader, they don't leave (or at least stay longer) until you de-select the trading post.)
Measuring the Departure month of the first trader at trading post 1, with the Arrival month of the second trader at trading post 2 (compare data rows 1 and 3), I came up with Duration of Wait. This shows how long you have to wait from the Departure of the last trader to the arrival of the next.
If dismissing had no effect, I would expect to see Duration of Wait have larger differences of time. The small differences in Duration of Wait can be attributed to distance needed to travel, and the fact that partial seasons are not measurable.