AI Merchants

[RuleBritannia]

Hey, I'm really loving SS 6.4, got a great Venice campaign going. I only have one complaint about the mod though; the AI is always in a merchant frenzy or something. Not sure if it's SS's doing or not, but the AI is flooding merchants over every trade resource. I can't get any of them out of business with my own merchants, no matter how high of levels they are; it always ends up "backfiring". But the second I send one of my own merchants to a resource, an AI merchant pops up out of nowhere and seizes my merchant's assets regardless of their level, even level 1 AI merchants can boot out my level 5+ merchants! I can't build any kind of merchant income because the AI seems to have legions of unstoppable merchants at its disposal; considering the AI merchants are given bonuses to earn the AI hundreds of florins, this is seriously putting me behind financially. I have no other mods installed other than SS 6.4 and ReallyBadAI, and I'm playing on Hard campaign, Normal battle difficulty. If SS is buffing AI merchants, can you please tone them down next version? And if this isn't SS's fault, maybe add in an optional feature for the next version to nerf AI merchant abilities a little? Being able to use military force to kick hostile merchants out of my lands, or even capture them, would also be great.

[Vissewalde rex de Gerzika]

SS has a script that spawns more merchants for AI because it is often too dum to make some itself, SS also buffs the stats of AI merchants. What I would recommend if you are not RP'ing is not to bother with merchants, because the income they bring is minimal unless you control far flung territories. If you dont mind cheating the game a bit you can make a fort on a resource and sit 1 crappy unit in it and just stack mechants in it, they will then bring in a LOT more cash.