Board Thread:General Mod Discussion/@comment-34435400-20180311183400/@comment-34435400-20180311190828

You make my point exactly, these resources are far too easy to get when they should be very valuable. Today we don't realize how hard it would've been for a man to get a bit of sugar in the Middle-ages.

The steps to get sugar I very hard in the middle ages

1. A local goods trader has to request sugar from the merchant.

2. This merchant has to spend 2 weeks (Not to mention bandits) to get to Italy he requests sugar from the Italian merchants

3. the Italian merchant has to travel by boat evading lots of pirates for 2 weeks to get to the east.

4. He has to pay an insane amount of money for the sugar

5. he has to come back which would take 3 weeks because the pirates know he has loot and will attack him relentlessly

6. The in-land merchant has to travel back to his home town.

All in all it takes a rough total of 9 weeks to get a thing we consider so simple as sugar. Now look at what you have to do in the mod to get sugar.