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A '''trader''' is a [[NPC]] who buys and sells premium items. You can also [[trade]] items for items with itand gives a discount to deed upkeep.

== Placement Notes ==[[Image:Trader.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Trader Dialog]]* Trader is placed by using a [[trader contract]], which can be purchased from other traders at a cost of 50s. A new trader must be placed at a minimum distance of 63 tiles away from other traders. Trader must be placed inside a [[House (general)|building]] (not a [[market stall]] like [[Personal Merchant]]s can), but stays functional even if the building disappears. Traders may not be placed on Xanadu35s. * Trader cannot be moved after it has been placed. Dismissing a trader will not return the contract to be placed again and the trader will be gone forever. If you own the writ to the building the trader is in * Traders can only be placed on deeds and bring that building on-[[deed]] (for example by resizing will disappear without refund if the deed), disbands or is resized so the trader will automatically become a citizen of your settlement. If you disband your deed for any reason is outside the trader will vanish without replacement unless you first manage citizens and remove the trader as a citizen. Then the trader remains in place. Non-citizen traders do not benefit your deed upkeep. You can not place * Traders give a new trader 20% discount on your monthly deed with an old trader nearby. Resizing a deed does not remove upkeep and also sell a trader from a deed. The three windows you will need to go through in order to place your Trader are on the left-hand side. They explain a bit about the Trader, allow you to name him or her, and what you want to set the tax rate variety of the Trader togoods. The tax rate is the percentage of all sales that you want * You can sell low quality items when standing next to go towards the upkeep of the deed he/she is apart of. The cap of this rate is 40%, meaning that at the very most, only 40% of the Trader's profit will go towards the upkeep of the deed he is a part of. If set to 0%, the Trader will not fund the upkeep of a deed, but rather only keep the money in his pockets to be given to those who sell merchandise to him. == Item stocks ==A trader will always start with the following items in stock:* 3 See [[farwalker stoneSell]]sfor more information.* 3 [[farwalker twig]]s* 3 [[large magical chest]]s* 1 [[personal merchant contract]]* 3 [[resurrection stone]]s* 3 [[Rod of transmutation|Rods of Transmutation]]* 3 [[shaker orb]]s* 3 [[sleep powder]]s* 3 [[small magical chest]]s* 3 [[steel and flint]]s* 1 [[trader contract]]* 3 [[tuning fork of metal detection|tuning forks of metal detection]] Once all of the Traders will have different items in any of these categories is bought, depending the trader will always have at least 1 in stock on the next trade. For example if you buy 3 large magical chests in one tradeserver type-PVP, PVE, you will see the trader has none leftor Epic. On re-trading with the same trader it will always somehow have 1 more in stock* Traders cannot be placed underground.

Beyond this, traders only have the items they have bought from players. When the King distributes new funds to traders (see below), he may claim some items from the stock== Item Stocked on PVE servers ==[[File:Traderpve.png]]{| class="wikitable sortable"! width="150" | Item ! width="50" | Cost|-| [[Farwalker stone]]| 4 silver|-| [[Farwalker twig]]| 4 silver|-| [[Golden mirror]]| 15 silver|-| [[Large magical chest]]| 40 silver|-| [[Personal merchant contract | Merchant contract]]| 8 silver|-| [[Resurrection stone]]| 4 silver|-| [[Rod of transmutation | Transmutation Rod]]| 40 silver|-| [[Shaker orb]]| 4 silver|-| [[Sleep powder]]| 3 silver|-| [[Small magical chest]]| 20 silver|-| [[Trader contract]]| 35 silver|-| [[Tuning fork of metal detection]]| 1 silver|-| [[Wagoner | Wagoner contract]] | 10 silver|-|}

When purchasing an item from * Note that the trader, the majority Declaration of the purchase price goes directly to the King. For at least some of the above itemsIndependence is also sold on Chaos, a proportion of the sale price remains despite not being shown in the inventory of the trader above imagery. It will cost 100 silver (1 gold) and they can use this to purchase items from is displayed in the playerimage for Epic's Trader loot-table. This is confirmed for:

* [[settlement formFile:defiancetrader.png]]s will not leave any money on the trader, 100% of the purchase price goes directly to the King.

{| class="wikitable sortable"! width= Cash flow ="150" | Item! width="50" | Cost|-Traders will buy almost any item, unless he considers it worthless, it cannot be traded, or he is broke. Every item has a | [[Base priceGolden mirror]], which is modified by the trader according to local supply and demand. For each transaction performed by the trader, a small portion is added to the village upkeep fund as a tax. The tax is settable on trader creation, 40% maximum. The remaining money goes to the seller.| 15 silver'''''Exception:''' Money from deed and contract purchases go straight to the king.''|-| [[Large magical chest]]A new trader starts out with 1 | 40 silver coin in funds. Periodically throughout the month, the king will distribute new funds to traders, provided the trader has sold at least 10% of what it purchased. You can see what amounts a trader has bought and sold with the |-| [[Path Rod of Knowledgetransmutation |Get InfoTransmutation Rod]] ability. The ratio of items they have sold to items they have bought needs to be at least 1:10 (0.1 or higher on Get Info).| 40 silverThe envoy of the king will sometimes redistribute items on the trader to other traders and players in local will see.|-''| [[11:50:48Shaker orb]] Trader_Megan sells some items to an envoy from the ruler.''| 4 silverTraders ratio's also reset every 28 days. The period can extend by a couple hours probably due to server downtimes.|- The main source of the kings funds is | [[settlementSleep powder]] upkeep. The king will not grant funds to traders holding 50 | 3 silver or more.|-=== A Cash Flow Fix ===| [[Small magical chest]]Try this fix if your trader has not been receiving funds from the kingdom pool, and you have confirmed via Path of Knowledge that its ratio is 0.0. Buy 1 | 20 silver worth of player made items off the trader.Sell back the player made items as as you bought.|-If you are able to sell back all the player made items you bought, then the trader should have a ratio of around 0.5. | [[Trader contract]]Of course if the trader is a citizen of a deed, then a portion of the coin you put on the trader will go into deed upkeep so you won't be able to get the full 1s back.| 35 silverA ratio of at least 0.1 is needed to get funds off the kingdom pool.|-Once a Trader's ratio has been corrected, it may take a few days or a server restart before the trader start acquiring coin off the kingdom pool. I'm not quite sure how often the mysterious figure visits the traders, buying random stuff off | [[Tuning fork of them which replenishes some of the trader's coins from the kingdom pool.metal detection]]This is speculative, however It seems I have been able to get 1 trader that was suffering from its 28 day ratio reset back in working condition. I won't make any guarantees this will work but if your trader hasn't been collecting any coin, a | 1 silver investment could pay off. Detailed Knowledge of Traders is limited so this fix might have errors, but good luck. ~AAetius|-|}== Notes Items Stocked on Epic Servers==* Traders may not be placed on Xanadu.* Traders will not disappear for not having any activity for a while.* A 3x3 house with the trader on the centre tile is required to protect a trader from being used.* "Abandoned" traders without active citizenship standing outside existing deed, will instantly become citizens of a newly-formed deed that covers the area where they stay.

* <Enki> Public Service Announcement [[File:epictrader.png]]{| class="wikitable sortable"! width="150" | Item ! width="50" | Cost|-| [[Farwalker stone]]| 4 silver|-| [[Farwalker twig]]| 4 silver|- Citizen traders DO leave when you disband your deed. To keep the trader, remove it from your citizen list before deed disbandment.<br /><Enki> You do not get a new | [[Golden mirror]]| 15 silver|-| [[Large magical chest]]| 40 silver|-| [[Personal merchant contract | Merchant contract]]| 8 silver|-| [[Resurrection stone]]| 4 silver|-| [[Rod of transmutation | Transmutation Rod]]| 40 silver|-| [[Shaker orb]]| 4 silver|-| [[Sleep powder]]| 3 silver|-| [[Small magical chest]]| 20 silver|-| [[Trader contract]]| 35 silver|-| [[Tuning fork of metal detection]]| 1 silver|-| [[Wagoner | Wagoner contract when a trader leaves. Non]] | 10 silver|-| [[Declaration of Independence]]| 100 silver|-citizen traders do not benefit your deed upkeep. You cannot place a new trader on your deed with an old trader nearby.<br /><Enki> Traders planted by a deed citizen automatically makes the trader a default citizen. Resizing a deed does not remove a trader from a deed.<br /><Enki> Keep this in mind before you decide to remove a trader from your deed's citizen list.<br />(29 May 2012)|}