Converted Castle To Recruit Merchant

[gameplayer]

Hello,

I've converted some castles to towns in order to create merchants. Built the basic town buildings and walls. However, I can't recruit merchants. The game has been developing these towns now for 18 turns.

[Bill Overbeck]

Do you have markets in any of them? I think you have to have a market to recruit them. It starts as a grain exchange first.

[Ishan]

You need to build markets in town, lowest level is Grain exchange. From there you can recruit a merchant.
Also merchants are settlement dependent and have a limit so if you can't train more than it means you have to gain one more settlement and expand in order to recruit another merchant.
Levels are:-

• Grain exchange
• Market
• Fairground
• Great market
• Merchants quarter

[Silverheart]

You must build a market to recruit merchants, that kind of says itself... Where else would you get them from?

[gameplayer]

merchants are settlement dependent and have a limit so if you can't train more than it means you have to gain one more settlement

hmmmm......interesting.

The first building added after castle conversion was a market.

There is a limit of merchants?

1 market = 1 merchant?

I am wondering then if it doesn't matter where one recruits merchants? For example, can I recruit all my merchants from my capital city? Merchants from the most advanced city with a guild would produce the strongest characters.

This makes sense. I counted my towns and merchants and they were equal. However, in my converted castle city of "Nicosia" I never recruited a merchant. I guess that market's merchant was recruited in another city?

Is this how it works then?

[Double A]

hmmmm......interesting.

The first building added after castle conversion was a market.

There is a limit of merchants?

1 market = 1 merchant?

I am wondering then if it doesn't matter where one recruits merchants? For example, can I recruit all my merchants from my capital city? Merchants from the most advanced city with a guild would produce the strongest characters.

This makes sense. I counted my towns and merchants and they were equal. However, in my converted castle city of "Nicosia" I never recruited a merchant. I guess that market's merchant was recruited in another city?

Is this how it works then?

Yeah, you pretty much got it.

[Ishan]

@gameplayer
Yes this is how it works same goes for priests.
Exceptions are for hre, milan & venice they can train one extra merchant if they have a merchant vault in one settlement.

For priests the limit exceeds from 1 to 2 if they have an abbey or greater level in that settlement.

[Double A]

I have never been in a situation where I have met the priest cap after the first 5 turns.