Optional Trading Restrictions

[vapid cove]

Title: Optional Trading Restriction Mode (No Buying Common Items)
Message:

This would be an optional gameplay modifier, not a replacement for the current trading system.

🟢 Current:
Players can buy and sell anything with merchants.

🔵 Suggested:
Add an option that blocks buying common items, allowing purchases only of:
• animals
• technologies

🎯 Purpose:
• Encourage exploration of the whole map for resources
• Slow down progression for players seeking survival-focused gameplay
• Prevent fast advancement through mass item sales
• Keep the current system unchanged — this is only an alternative mode

Just to clarify: these suggestions don’t change the current game.
They are optional additions to offer more gameplay styles and keep veteran players engaged.

[stray scaffold]

As another of your suggestion, I can limit myself without a setting, but it would be great indeed to be able to select categories of items that I simply can't buy (and therefor it would remove those items from the vendors' inventory....

I would really prefer to be able to toggle on/off every categories of items though