Hellohello,
Wanted to say I recently found this game and have been enjoying it quite a bit. However I have not been able to progress anymore because trading is not working for me. The trade carts seem to completely refuse to trade half of the time. I have tried to figure out why this is happening for multiple hours on end but I just can't get it to work.
First issue I ran into was my trade carts refusing to import more than once from my allied AI's settlement. I tried increasing the trade limit trough diplomatics, rebuilding the tradedepot, using waypoints, deleting and reissueing the trade route and clearing the road, but nothing seems to work.
After that I just tried to make due with what I had and finding the resources myself, but then I ran into another, even more confusing problem. My trade carts had been exchanging recources between my own settlements for a long time, but all of a sudden all of the trade carts from ALL of my settlements suddenly all stopped what they were doing and started just going west on the map. They were still 'trading for x settlement' and whenever I called them back and reissued the trading again, they just went west again. Again I tried everything from rebuilding the tradedepots + carts and reissueing the routes but nothing worked.
As a result of this my settlements all started to starve and rebel because they were lacking recources(I had seperate settlements for seperate things).
I hope this is information is of any use, I love the concept of the game and I'd like to see it keep progressing.