Enevhar Aldarion
Oh Wise One
In that stage of the game you should only post trades and never even look at the market.
All you neighbours can pick up your trades without trader fees, while you pay that annoying tax that I still do not get why it was not abolished a long time ago.
I do not see the point in giving new players this penalty, not when I started 6 years ago, and even less today.
The neighbors should, but a lot of players either do not have the time to look at the trader, or are too lazy to. In my chapter 19 city, I try to sweep the trader once or twice a day. The sad thing is when I have to miss a day looking at the trader, I will go in the next day and there are all these small trades that have been up for over 24-48 hours, and no one else has touched them. Some people can be so selfish and unhelpful in this game.
As for the trader fee, my chapter 16 city on Beta still has undiscovered map people show up in the trader with a fee, so it is not just small cities that see them.