Trading Options

Mod, 1.4


Customize your trading experience!

With this mod you can easily change:

• How frequently caravans, orbital traders or visitors will arrive at the colony.

• Change restock frequency of settlements.

• Change the departure time of caravans, visitors and orbital traders.

• Adjust the amount of silver in stock for any trader category.

• Modify the amount of oth...

Author: joseasoler

Created: 17 Oct, 2022 @ 11:51am

Updated: 7 Jan @ 5:53am

Subscribers: 80608


Size (unpacked) : 0.336 MB

Customize your trading experience!

With this mod you can easily change:

• How frequently caravans, orbital traders or visitors will arrive at the colony.

• Change restock frequency of settlements.

• Change the departure time of caravans, visitors and orbital traders.

• Adjust the amount of silver in stock for any trader category.

• Modify the amount of other items in stock for any trader category.

• Make the amount of items and silver that traders have in stock scale with the wealth of your colony.

• Allow slaver traders to appear regardless of your colony population.

You can safely add Trading Options to an existing save-game. You can modify any of the settings at any point during the game. The changes will apply immediately, but only new traders will be affected.

Mod compatibility

Trading Options is compatible with storytellers from all mods. Trading Options is compatible with all mods that change the stock of a trader; the changes stack. Trading Options may be incompatible with any mod that changes trader frequency.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Can I add this mod to an existing game?

A: Yes.

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Q: Can I modify any of the settings at any point during the game?

A: Yes. The changes will apply immediately, but only new traders will be affected.

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Q: How can I get the same amount of orbital traders as by More Trade Ships?

A: Set the "Orbital traders per period" slider to 1, and the "Period between orbital traders" slider to 4.

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Q: How can I get the wealth same scaling as Supply and Demand?

A: Set the "Wealth scaling" slider to "Loaded" for all trader categories.

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Q: Is this mod compatible with Vanilla Trading Expanded?

A: Yes, both mods are fully compatible. Vanilla Trading Expanded can make stock prizes fluctuate, while Trading Options can change the amount of available stock. Both features can be together without any issues.

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Q: Is this mod compatible with Combat Extended?

A: Combat Extended has the following documentation:
Does (Mod) work with Combat Extended? Does it need a patch?[github.com].
Supported Third-Party Mods[github.com].

I do not know enough about Combat Extended changes to guarantee if the mods are compatible or not.

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Q: Is this mod compatible with RimWorld 1.3?

A: Trading Options is only compatible with 1.4. In 1.3 you can use Customizable Silver Stock, Supply and Demand and Adjustable Trade Ships to get almost the same feature set.

Credits

Project website: https://github.com/joseasoler/trading-options

joseasoler: Programming

Sir Van: Art

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Acknowledgements

Kiame Vivacity and Cookie Wookie: Original idea for scaling stock according to wealth following a logarithmic function. See [KV] Supply and Demand.

How do I download and install mods?

Simply click the blue button above. It will open the file hosting page with the mod repacked by us from the official source.

How do I install this mod?

See the 'How to install' tab.

Is this mod safe to use?

The mods are repacked as is, without any additional software, malware, or bloatware added. To check for viruses, use a reliable antivirus or upload the archive to a website like virustotal.com. Anyway, It's always a good practice to keep backups of your saves in case of mod incompatibility .

There is a folder in the .zip archive. To install the mod, move the entire folder (not just its contents) into 'Mods' folder located under your RimWorld root isntallation folder.
So, for steam version of the game, the path would look like this: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\RimWorld\Mods
For any other distribution, firstly locate your rimworld installation path and then unpack the archive into the 'Mods' folder.
Then enable the mod in the game mods menu by double clicking on its name and restart the game