Azura

I've been playing for about a week now and I am still learning the ropes. While my tiny toddler town of Appleville is slowly becoming a man. I just created my first Marble colony but my people seem to be very upset at me. I decided I need to get them drunk... Well, it is going to take some time for me to open a wine colony so I decided to use the trader.

There is nothing listed ever! "I am Looking For" and "I Offer" always come up with no bargains. It seems like no one really uses the trader, because I've been selling Sulfer for 5 coins and nobody bought any. It's a level two trader, does that have something to do with it, because my Search Limit is one island. Is there any way that can change, I mean I am surrounded by like 50 islands!

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Scattershot

Every other level of your market place extends the search radius by 1 island. So depending on how populated your area is and how much trading they do will determine what's available at any given time.

Also depending on what server your on you may have some good luck trading directly with other TG members.

TG probably has the largest population on the Alpha.com server. So if your on Alpha then post a trade request in the Alpha Classifieds or general Alpha board.

PS Welcome to the addiction!

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geologist

FYI, if you are selling sulfur at 5 each, that is below what it takes to produce it, unless you are stealing it.

Other than that, best bet is to bump your trading post up, I find lvl 5 is about right for me. Gives you a decent radius (3 islands) and 5k capacity. Doesn't cost you an arm and a leg to set up either.

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Mike Striker

I wouldn't try to buy your sulfur at that price because I figure it'd be sold by the time I got there anyways. I would be tempted to attack you though because if you sell so cheap you're probably quitting or don't know how to defend.
I'm not saying I'd be right, but that's what I'd be thinking. I'd atleast send a few spies to see if it's worth my time.

Tarenth

I'd also attack you on the grounds of stupidity.

Since it takes 2 workers to extract 1 sulfur and each worker could be a citizen providing 4 gold each in the same amount of time, the minimum anyone would really sell a luxury good would be at around 10-15g depending on the type. Of course marble sells the best and sulfur the worse (the only time you need sulfur is to train troops and if you're smart you're not losing enough to make sulfur a necessity). Wine and Crystal hover around the mid point with wine slightly lower due to excessive supply (1 colony supplies more wine than is needed by 4 others cities with level 10 taverns).

For every 2 levels (1, 3, 5, 7, 9, etc) you extend your viewing range by 1 island. That means at level 1-2 you have a 3x3 box around you, 3-4 you have a 5x5, 5-6 you have a 7x7, 7-8 you have a 9x9, and 9-10 you have a 11x11 box around you. I actually have all level 9 trading posts because thats just enough to reach out and touch some of the TGA hub peeps from my frontier position.

Hell, I just sold Nero a crap load of wine at 30g a pop.

Your ability to use the trading post, however, is limited by the upgrade level of your trading partners. If they don't have a large enough trading post to see your goods on sell or for sale then they won't be able to make deals with you.


BTW, the trading post is the trading post. Officially the "Trader" is the premium ability to trade resources for others at a 1:1 rate and wood to luxury goods at 2:1 at the cost of 3 ambrosia.

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Azura

Hm, good info thanks! Well I have been selling Sulfer at 15, all my neighbors sell it at 20. But I am no longer selling because I've made a 1:1 trade with Arithea. So the trader is just as active the game, I am already SOL! Found some Wine for 25, by the time my boatpeople got there, it was gone, three times now!!

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Mike Striker

I'll send you some wine

got 300 wine on it's way but it's gonna take like 26 hours just to get there. lol