Trading

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Trading may be done in one of two ways:

• (1) In the world map screen, with one of your villages selected, choose the village with which you wish to trade, and click send resources. This will take you into the trading screen, where you can select the good(s) you wish to send, and the amount. Once this is done, click send.

• (2) The second way is to enter the trading screen within a village tab, and without selecting a trading partner, then click on the central drop-down list of parish capital market (below where it says stock exchange), select a market, and click find on map. The advantages of this method is that it allows you to find the best deals currently available.

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All stock exchanges are found in capitals. Initially, you may only use the stock exchange in your own parish capital; however, by researching Commerce, this can be expanded to include all exchanges across the world map.

To trade at the stock exchange: Select the village from which you wish to trade, then click on the parish capital you wish to trade with, then select market. This will take you into the stock exchange screen. From here you have the option of buying or selling goods.

Both buying and selling may only be done in set packets. Different goods have different packet sizes (e.g. wood is traded in packets of 1000, while pitch is traded in packets of 200). The amount of gold made from a sale is calculated by the number of goods which are currently at the exchange; the more goods at the exchange, the lower the selling and buying prices are. The fewer goods, the higher the price. Therefore, trading at different stock exchanges might allow for a greater profit.