Staffed Market Stalls should cause NPCs to travel past them to/from the closest town(s)

[upbeat radish]

Once you place a market stall, assign someone to work it, and configure it to sell goods, the game should respond by generating organic NPC foot traffic. Purely aesthetic. Feels very weird that the stalls generate income without any sort of visual change to the village.

[wraith pagoda]

No,
Because as a player you're just going to get confused by all the spare bodies wandering around and not working.
Plus your frame rate may take a hit by having to render unnecessary NPCs

[rain root]

Maybe just one or 2 per day, and wearing different clothes than the standard villager?

[wraith pagoda]

well, if they're wearing the latest fashions from Piastovia it's probably pointless to try selling rustic village wear to them 😛

[hybrid stream]

People sitting at the local fireplaces have a symbol above their heads. Probably it would be possible to create an equivalent for NPC-customers.

Perhaps it would also be possible for residents who are not currently working to take a look at what is on offer at the market stalls - just as they sit down in the tavern.
This means that a player, who wants to see customers at his market stalls, can generate them himself.

[marble steppe]

They would probably bargain with your merchants for the lowest price ever, then sell It at triple in piastovia 😛

[wraith pagoda]

Not sure I'm too happy with the concept of "residents who are not currently working"

[hybrid stream]

Is the expression wrong? Sorry, i'm German, my school-english is years... YEARS ago.

[upbeat radish]

LOL no, your english is good. They mean they are unhappy about the idea of their workers not working. 🤣

[hybrid stream]

Ah okay... so we can create the profession "Customer" 😄

[wraith pagoda]

I meant in the context of me putting the NPCs to work the season they turn 14, and making them grind away until they die 🙂
The only time I have anyone not working is when mothers come off materity leave and I forgot to send them back to their jobs

and your English is excellent 🙂

[hybrid stream]

But especially then it would be good for you if they go shopping, then you can see right away that they have nothing to do.

[wraith pagoda]

your logic is flawless also

[marble steppe]

I need some IRL, plz

[hybrid stream]

We will take care of your problem as soon as this suggestion has been implemented 🙂

[slender cradle]

That's all well and good, but not everyone plays the same way you do.

I completely agree! Especially with the market workers audibly "crying their wares". Like, who are you talking to, dude? . I so want to see at least my own non-working villagers milling around the marketplace!

As for some of the concerns expressed here, make it an option in the game settings menu so that it can be toggled on / off so those with less powerful PCs can turn it off if needed for performance.