Do it even if you maxed out, she will curse you if you do not pay.
Tools - Unlocked with rank 4 - Registered Trader.Clothes - Unlocked with rank 2 - Hawker.Hides - Unlocked with rank 1 - Beggar.Bring monks and more men and watch your quarterly income increase (see Investments section). Well after you first 100K, try to get a Sergeant and 30+ mercenaries and clear out ruins.Do the important quests: rank up to get access to more goods, get medallions from dark council for more discounts, get letters to avoid customs/inspections.Jump directly to 1 Large-size once you can spare 10,000 and sell the small ones (around 15k each). Invest in a second and third while increasing your social rank. Jump to deal in Spice, Jewerly and Porcelain as the best deals are there. Start with simple food/hides villages => cities.Quests yield money even if you don't trade along the way (as long as it covers the cost) so focus on that in the beginning. Don't be afraid to not buy and carry on travelling instead of taking bad deals.Avoid oil, arms, hill herb unless you know what you're doing.Read them in the Book, prepare for them and execute the plan (Price:high means you can sell there for a good price.
If you help merchants during random encounters (keep a few free mercs at hand) you may get special deals.You may find yourself lucky to get a high profit trade along the way to where something happened. Always read the random events (celebrations, flood, etc).Try to set a margin (use below figures or your own) and don't (ever) buy over that price.Most of the stuff only sells good in cities. Try to recount the prices in the last cities visited (use the tabs to see last 9 places). He always expands his fleet of carts, he balances risks, calculates profitability.
A good merchant surrounds himself with specialists smarter than him, people who help him maximize profits and minimize losses. A good merchant listens to rumours and gossips spread by travelers at inns and taverns hoping for a clue, a hint where to go, where a good deal awaits. He knows what forces influence the prices, what events affect them.
And yet the job is harder than it seems.Ī good merchant needs to know everything about the market, he is always on the lookout for a deal, always listening, always engaging and deepening his knowledge. Buy low, sell high – a merchant’s motto is easy to grasp. Your task is to roam the world and search of opportunities to score some profit. You start very humble, one cart, a purse of gold and silver coins is all that you have. Merchants of Kaidan is a challenging trading game fused with lots of RPG elements. Regain your riches, restore your honor and punish those who have wronged you.