Cappy this is easy to explain bro. As you know, when a trade route runs
out you get to buy a final load, once this reaches the destination the
market is 'closed' for this good. What happens though is that other
people buy the good while it is on the market and sometimes they don't
sell it or carry it around for ages. As far as I can figure the system
keeps track of how much trade goods is sold and how much is bought. The
goods from the closed market remain in the buying city till these
figures gell, or until the goods are dropped and therefore wiped out the
game (same as gold,etc dropped in provinces).
Sorry I said this was easy to explain but reading back it seems pretty
confusing, I'll write stuff when I'm sobre in future :-)
Lee
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