Hey Haplo. I was thinking about few things related with your Miscellaneous mod and just got an idea for traders. It shouldn't be to hard to do because everything is actually provided in your mod. I was thinking about creating opportunity to call for traders. Here how it could be done:
1. Creating "Diplomat Pack" It's an item created maybe in sculpture, or other kind of workshop, with food (something that will give you Nutrition for 4 days), wood (for campfire), cotton or any textile (for sleeping bag) and/or silver (for paying for the visit).
2. After creating you can build it like an statue or other movable building.
3. Activating it (like in your Artifact) will pop up Rumor window to select pawn for expedition. Pawn will leave map for 4 days and after he returns he will bring a trader caravan.
The same thing could be used in communications console but there is no need to send pawn, and of course trader would come after few days.
What do you think? Is it worth to implement? Could you or anyone else do it?
I'm playing on ModVarietyPack and here like in other modpacks researching communication console have lower priority that's why i thought about "Diplomat Pack". I was thinking that this could be a good addition for land traders. This could also give opportunity to send Pawns as an actually diplomat to raise relations but one after another