Max trades reducing below number of offered trades

[inanimatej]

Not sure if bug or feature:

I'm a monarch, and had outposts on all my neighbours. This allowed me to have 5 trades max with a customs house, which I happily posted.

Xade attacked me, removing our outposts, reducing my max trades to 3.

Should my last two trades still be valid? Or should these be removed with the reduction in cap on trades?

[xade]

I'd like to report a bug-

I didn't attack anyone!

[Rasteroid]

No that's ok. That's actually part of the coolness..

The only thing that cancels your trades entirely is when your border closes. Other than that, they stay the way you leave them. When you try to change something, your max trades will be enforced, but until then, they are static.

This means a tactic like switching to Bureaucracy, setting your trades for a few days, then going back to Anarchy whatever is totally valid.