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NPCs using the "Wandering trader" AI goal seem to never trade with players anymore (maybe not at all). You can sit in an area with a large number of trading squads (like caravans and drifters) for weeks without even getting a visit, let alone a sale.

I've tested this numerous times, in a near vanilla save (only a cheated game start to let me build the town and shop counter faster, with goods to fill it), and on multiple town levels. Not one visit I saw, and my money stays static (so I know no sales happened while I wasn't paying attention.)

I'm not sure exactly why they are ignoring player towns, but it has been this way ever since the whole "hang out in town" bit was added to their AI. So it could be related.

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I know some wandering traders won't trade in towns, but will be available for trade if you follow them around for a while as they leave town. Wandering shinobi assassins also have the Wandering Trader goal, but it seems like a work around to make them wander around the world just like Caravans would.

In this case I'm referring to the shopping at counters, where you load it up with stuff and the NPCs come by and buy stuff at the counter automatically. In the old days caravans used to do so, as well as a few other squads out there like the drifters I mentioned. But now any wandering squad set up that way does not, despite still being set up to have a shopping list and money, they never purchase anything.