How to upgrade trade routes

[Athlavard]

Supposedly there is a quest you can trigger to upgrade a trade route so that you can sell more items at a time. However for the life of me I've never been able to figure out how to do this. I've only been able to find a single post where the devs "answered" this question but they were super vague on what conditions need to be met to trigger the upgrade quest.

Does anybody know how to level up a trade route capacity and what conditions you need to meet to trigger the quest for it?

[DevilPanda]

May not be the answer you're looking for, but after trading with them for an envoy/merchant will seek an audience that will allow you to upgrade the route.

[Wuik]

Hello,
You can see the level of trading in the windows...
Level 1 =10..level 2 =40..after, i don't know..
If you put your mouse on it ... you will see an advice..

[Bruce Wayne]

still havent figured this out

[Brohuld]

not sure how this works. I have been trading for quite some time and never saw an option to upgrade the trade route?

[Minotorious]

You will get a quest about it eventually, it takes quite a long time to happen :)

[momo]

Anybody know when the quest pops up? Over 80 months in and the only quests I get are hosting and trading quests.

[Minotorious]

You have to trade (buy and sell) a quite high volume of goods for the quest to trigger so keep trading and it will happen :)

[wcbarney]

Originally posted by Minotorious:

You have to trade (buy and sell) a quite high volume of goods for the quest to trigger so keep trading and it will happen :)

I'm way into my current play-through, to the point that I'm about to earn all achievable achievements, and am about to quit and start a new game. I think one of my trade routes has been updated to Level 2, but not the others, and I have been trading fairly heavily with all three villages for practically the entire game.

[Minotorious]

You need to trade really heavily like everything in full quantities every time they visit.

For me it is the same I only have lvl 2 and close to being done with this village and what I wanted to accomplish in it but others who have played up to 1000+ villagers have got trade routes to lvl 7+

[momo]

Originally posted by wcbarney:

Originally posted by Minotorious:

You have to trade (buy and sell) a quite high volume of goods for the quest to trigger so keep trading and it will happen :)

I'm way into my current play-through, to the point that I'm about to earn all achievable achievements, and am about to quit and start a new game. I think one of my trade routes has been updated to Level 2, but not the others, and I have been trading fairly heavily with all three villages for practically the entire game.

Were you able to obtain "How do we arm the others" with level 1 trading? That achievement is why I wanted to upgrade my routes, but if it's possible without it I will just start trying for it.

[wcbarney]

Originally posted by momo:

Originally posted by wcbarney:

I'm way into my current play-through, to the point that I'm about to earn all achievable achievements, and am about to quit and start a new game. I think one of my trade routes has been updated to Level 2, but not the others, and I have been trading fairly heavily with all three villages for practically the entire game.

Were you able to obtain "How do we arm the others" with level 1 trading? That achievement is why I wanted to upgrade my routes, but if it's possible without it I will just start trying for it.

Yes, that and "On His Liege's Service" were the first two of the new achievements that I earned. Once I completed the "King's Quest," I had over 100 swords. I made a couple of dozen more, and then opened up the trade-route to sell all swords. They sold like hot cakes, and were all gone well before the 30 days you were allowed.

[momo]

Thanks for letting me know! I got it pretty much right after I enabled the trade.

[Di57urb3d]

Originally posted by Athlavard:

Does anybody know how to level up a trade route capacity and what conditions you need to meet to trigger the quest for it?

The answer is annoningly easy once you realize it (it took me a while too). Under each trade faction theres a "Buy 0/30" (green) and "Sell 0/30" (red). You need to buy 30 items AND sell 30 items within a month or something, then the counter resets.

Once you have bought 30 items and sold 30 items a curior will appear and give you a choice to upgrade the trade route. The price is 500 g OR 10 factioncoins at level 1. (In order to get it in time i suggest buy atleast 2 items and sell 2 items, to reach the mark before reset).

Lvl 1 -> 2: 30 bought and 30 sold, 500 g or 10 coins
Lvl 2 -> 3: 120 bought and 120 sold, 2000 g or 40 coins
Lvl 3 -> 4: 270 bought and 270 sold, 5000 g or 100 coins

[nDoroBei]

Same here. I am pretty sure that the trade quota are met to upgrade the route. Yet the courier did not show up.