[2023] A suggestion about merchants and cities

This has been discussed as an option. The problem will arrive when you are unable to continue the story because you have no traders though.

Originally posted by Timedye:

Originally posted by SylenThunder: This has been discussed as an option. The problem will arrive when you are unable to continue the story because you have no traders though.

Surely you need a story before story progression can be broken?

Yep, and a story has been planned/known since the very beginning. In fact, in a20 and a21 a lot of work towards RWG and POI's was done to support said story when it arrives in the near future. As were some of the changes to currently available trader quests.