I'll Bake them desaturated and darker versions soon, i was taking My monitor to warranty, gladly i had two.

Yeah, then I understood, just that you proposed something that happens in basically no RTS (if any?) so casually that I was confused. I'm always happy to propose and discuss changes to the base game, but this, honestly, is not going to make it. It's just too radical. You'll have to try it in some mod.

I like that... in some ways that is what "loot" is, but its standard. We have also changed the amount of loot a little.  Farmsteads were I think 20 wood, same as storehouse.  It was 20% of cost, or maybe 10%... anyway we for now are 75 food for farmstead, and 25metal, 25wood, 25stone for storehouse.

So what do you think about the idea that trader and trading ships would actually carry resources and could also be robbed?

I like this, its something we briefly discussed with Classical Warfare AEA, just not really sure how to implement something like that. You would hold it at your storehouse until its transferred somewhere else ie cc, forge.