I wanted to try out a new type of palace block, so went back to one of my older Valentia saves where I knew I already had the food, goods and workers and where the villa/palace block I had tried out then wasn't too stable.
I put down granaries and warehouses together with some slum houses (which I normally don't allow on my cities, but o well) and waited. After they had filled up a bit, I gave the tents-to-be-palaces a couple of markets.
Here, I observed a curious problem: the markets produced market traders, but not buyers. No matter how long I waited, no buyers spawned. I checked road connections etc., and all was well. I deleted the markets and then placed them again - no effect. Then I removed the gatehouse, which of course had no effect other than the traders wandering up to the granary, obviously without ever buying something. I added a market closer by on the 'wrong' side of the gatehouse, and they too only produced traders.
I thought maybe it was the walker sprite - even though I was only at 12000 peeps - that somehow only affected buyers and not traders, and demolished a couple of my industries. Again, no effect.
Then, just to check if I wasn't going crazy, I added another market to an already existing block, only to see the same thing happen there.
Then I decided to be done with it and reloaded a different Valentia save (not of the same playthrough) and was finally able to build me some palaces. Pfew. Spoiler alert: my new block works quite well.
Does anyone know what can cause this problem? I can upload a saved file if anyone is interested.
I put down granaries and warehouses together with some slum houses (which I normally don't allow on my cities, but o well) and waited. After they had filled up a bit, I gave the tents-to-be-palaces a couple of markets.
Here, I observed a curious problem: the markets produced market traders, but not buyers. No matter how long I waited, no buyers spawned. I checked road connections etc., and all was well. I deleted the markets and then placed them again - no effect. Then I removed the gatehouse, which of course had no effect other than the traders wandering up to the granary, obviously without ever buying something. I added a market closer by on the 'wrong' side of the gatehouse, and they too only produced traders.
I thought maybe it was the walker sprite - even though I was only at 12000 peeps - that somehow only affected buyers and not traders, and demolished a couple of my industries. Again, no effect.
Then, just to check if I wasn't going crazy, I added another market to an already existing block, only to see the same thing happen there.
Then I decided to be done with it and reloaded a different Valentia save (not of the same playthrough) and was finally able to build me some palaces. Pfew. Spoiler alert: my new block works quite well.
Does anyone know what can cause this problem? I can upload a saved file if anyone is interested.