arvidnelson: There is so much to be admired about this game, but having suffered my way up the learning curve, I can't help feeling it's fundamentally broken.

1. The user interface, IMO, is pretty bad. Precise quantities in one's inventory aren't displayed unless one clicks on an item's icon. Just one example of many irritations.

2. By far and away, the biggest problem has to be setting automatic routes for carts. I cannot, for the life of me, get this to work properly. Having to manually click-to-unload every single market delivery is very tedious and, IMO, makes what could otherwise have been a great game virtually unplayable.

I mean, am I missing something about automating routes for carts? Am I not doing it properly? I've done the tutorial twice, I've carefully read the relevant sections of the manual, and I've double checked all my in-game settings. Nothing seems to work!

Desperately trying to like this game... I'd be very apprecative to anyone who can help me!

JMich: 1) For most ingame items/icons, holding the right mouse button will give you a detailed information about the item/icon. Not sure if quantity is also said there, but at least for the stores you should be able to just hover the mouse over the item, and it will tell you how many there are.
2) Choose a cart, then choose trade route. Click on your business, then edit waypoint. Click load, choose the item, then click and hold on the item until a slider appears. The slider is the maximum number of items the cart will load. Then, click on the marketplace and click Add Waypoint, followed by Edit Waypoint. Click unload, select the goods you've selected in Waypoint 1, and then click and hold to select how many to unload. If you also want to set a buying route for the return trip, click load, select what to buy, click and hold to set how many, and then click on your business again to set the unload item/quantity/

Hope this helps