If the devs want that the players are using the ah ...

[Richard Blake]

they have to make it impossible to trade produced materials.

Currently most of the societies are building up/using a mostly closed economy.
If it was intended that all players have to use the ah to contribute to a nationwide HEALTHY economy than it is unavoidable to deactivate the tradeoption for everything that is produceable.

After that you have to make only one national ah to avoid that some societies are trading secretly in some remote ah's.
This sound maybe a littlebit radical but by looking at the economy at the moment with only a few players using the ah properly i will say that t least on Bonnet it doesnt work as a nationwide well working system.

It's the choice between a healthy captialistic system (by not allowing to trade directly) or a somewhat healthy planed economy......i can't figure out how a communistic economy will fit in in the 1720's caribiean setting.