Trade - How does it work?

[Loki]

Hi all,

how does trade exactly work?
Somehow i am not able to import goods. Ore and metal.

Export seems to work, but its not clear to me how.
I have 6.6k Gold now by exporing furtinure.

How can i start caravans?
How do i buy goods?

Or do i not have any influence on it?

How must i assign the import slider for goods i have no stock?
0% or 100% ?

Thanks for any help.

[2`wqewdsfvdvsdasasasd]

i got the same questions.
the ingame wiki doesnt do any shiets....

[GB]

To Export Goods you need to build an Export Depot and set in this depot the % of goods that will be stored there for export. The quota of goods to export is set from the Resource Tab. To Import Goods you need to build an Import Hub, select the desired resource to be received, and activate it. The quota of goods to import is set from the Resource Tab. Note. To import goods you need to have gold to purchase the goods.

[Guurt]

I spent some time playing around with trade.

A few things to know.

You need to have 1 receiving building for each trade good you want to import.

You need to make sure someone actually has the resource for sale, or it might take forever to ever get that resource. I tried buying meat, for instance, but in my world very few regions sell meat and I never received any meat. I switched to fish and then I managed to get something.

As mentioned above by Gianicua you have to have money first. In my game it says I had 1000 gold, but I think that is a bug... I think you start with zero money. So you need to sell something before you can buy something.

It takes a long time for purchases to arrive, longer than it does to sell stuff. Once a purchase is secured it will show as incoming.

It takes like 3 or 4 days to finally start getting trade to do anything. It doesn't go quickly.

[Gamatron]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCnB_yB9e_w

You can start watching at 6:30

I'm working on making this a bit clearer in game. I've also noticed that other factions doesn't produce that many goods, especially if they are poor. You can see how many goods they have in the resource screen.

[whitewolf]

well i try to sell iron for yrs not but still nothing happening dont think this trading stuff is working k verry well want to get some eggs all i got is 1 egg and cant build a meat farm with 1 egg lol

[Loki]

Thank you Gamatron!
Thats clears things up.

[Harmonica]

It might be good to control imports and exports and the buildings from a single screen, and to get more feedback about what we can and cannot trade, how long it might take to receive them etc.

Also it would be nice to be able to receive any goods we want in a single building, so long as we have the room to choose them, much like warehouse and storage works. The sliders on the export building is good - why not just have the same (in reverse function) on the import building (or combine them into one building, and let us drag sliders in both directions for each good).

It doesn't make sense that we start with no gold, otherwise nobody would be able to trade with anyone - someone must be starting with gold/credit score! That's not fair on us. The AI already seems to build out their kingdoms like monsters anyway.

edit: in my current game there's a huge blob faction that I'm exporting to which only hurts me and everyone else - is there a way to restrict trading with them?

[bulbatrs]

is it even possible to buy anything? i tried to buy eggs, coal, vegetable but nobody ever came to sell in many years. what's the gold good for if I can't spend it? is selling things is just a noob trap?

[GB]

Selling things is important to gain money in order to be able to import things that your late game city will need like ore, food and so on.

[GB]

To Export Goods you need to build an Export Depot and set in this depot the % of goods that will be stored there for export. The quota of goods to export is set from the Resource Tab. To Import Goods you need to build an Import Hub, select the desired resource to be received, and activate it. The quota of goods to import is set from the Resource Tab. Note. To import goods you need to have gold to purchase the goods.

[bulbatrs]

Originally posted by Gianluca:

To Export Goods you need to build an Export Depot and set in this depot the % of goods that will be stored there for export. The quota of goods to export is set from the Resource Tab. To Import Goods you need to build an Import Hub, select the desired resource to be received, and activate it. The quota of goods to import is set from the Resource Tab. Note. To import goods you need to have gold to purchase the goods.

the problem is that nothing gets imported ever. that makes gold useless. the entire trade system is either bugged or badly designed. not entirely sure how to play the game once ore runs out.

[GB]

Did you set the quota on the economy tab?
Did you create an import hub and activate it?
Do you have money to import?

[bulbatrs]

didn't know the economy tab even existed. I finally bought 57 eggs, didn't even notice when exactly. thank you for your help

[GB]

You are most welcome

[2`wqewdsfvdvsdasasasd]

well this weird, the import or export will start once you visited the goods tab. with the depots filled ofc. looks like the game wants you to visit the goods tab even tho you changes nothing except the import which require any number above 0%.

if you dont visit the goods tab nothin will happen to your depot.

at the current state, if i deactivated the import depot when there is goods stored at depot, why the worker wont haul the goods?
is it because the import depot doesnt has any worker?
is it supposed to be working this way?