Food and Supply Merchant

[Logun]

Hello,

This is the very first time I've ever used this mod. It took me a while to get into, because I don't think I really understood what I was getting into. What are Food Merchants/Supply Merchants and how do I use them?

Or could you point me to documentation that I should be reading to give me an idea as to what I'm doing and what's going on.

Thank you!

 

[Non-E]

Supply Merchants are used for hurrying production in whatever city you use them on and Food Merchants add extra food to the city it is used on to speed up population growth.

 

[Somebody613]

Both are basically caravans(duh) of production/food, that cost production/food to create.
So, supplies help you relocate some production from one city to another (at a diminished rate, at least depending on the Difficulty you play at).
And food means the same thing, but for food (still built with both food and production).
Basically, if you have a Size 10 city and a nearby Size 1 city, this makes it relatively easy to help the Size 1 city grow much faster by "feeding it" from the Size 10 city via "caravans".
Depending on your Game Difficulty, this may be "so-so", but also may be quite surprisingly helpful.
You'd need to experiment with specifics in order to decide whether you like it or not.
Note that this was heavily NERFED a while ago, because it USED to be extremely cheaty on Settler Difficulty, loool.