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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 disappears35s. * Trader cannot be moved after it has been placed. If you own Dismissing a trader will not return the writ contract to the building the trader is in be placed again and bring that building on-[[deed]] (for example by resizing the deed), the trader will automatically become a citizen of your settlementbe gone forever. If you disband your * Traders can only be placed on deeds and will disappear without refund if the deed for any reason disbands or is resized so the trader will vanish unless you first manage citizens and remove is outside the trader as deed.* Traders give a citizen. Non-citizen traders do not benefit your 20% discount on monthly deed upkeepand also sell a variety of goods. * You can not place sell low quality items when standing next to a new trader on your deed with an old trader nearbyTrader. Resizing a deed does not remove a trader from a deedSee [[Sell]] for more information. The three windows you * Traders will need to go through in order to place your Trader are on have different items, depending the leftserver type-hand side. They explain a bit about the TraderPVP, PVE, allow you to name him or her, and what you want to set the tax rate of the Trader toEpic. The tax rate is the percentage of all sales that you want 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 apart 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 * Traders cannot be given to those who sell merchandise to himplaced underground.

== Item stocks Stocked on PVE servers ==A trader will always start with the following items in stock[[File:Traderpve.png]]{| class="wikitable sortable"! width="150" | Item ! width="50" | Cost|-* 3 | [[farwalker Farwalker stone]]s* 3 | 4 silver|-| [[farwalker Farwalker twig]]s* 3 | 4 silver|-| [[Golden mirror]]| 15 silver|-| [[large Large magical chest]]s* 1 | 40 silver|-| [[personal Personal merchant contract | Merchant contract]]* 3 | 8 silver|-| [[resurrection Resurrection stone]]s* 3 | 4 silver|-| [[Rod of transmutation|Rods of TransmutationRod]]* 1 [[settlement form]]| 40 silver|-* 3 | [[shaker Shaker orb]]s* 3 | 4 silver|-| [[sleep Sleep powder]]s* | 3 silver|-| [[small Small magical chest]]s* 3 [[steel and flint]]s| 20 silver|-* 1 | [[trader Trader contract]]* 3 | 35 silver|-| [[tuning Tuning fork of metal detection]]|tuning forks of metal detection1 silver|-| [[Wagoner | Wagoner contract]]| 10 silver|-|}

Once all of * Note that the items in any Declaration of these categories Independence is boughtalso sold on Chaos, despite not being shown in the trader above imagery. It will always have at least cost 100 silver (1 gold) and is displayed in stock on the next trade. For example if you buy 3 large magical chests in one trade, you will see the trader has none left. On reimage for Epic's Trader loot-trading with the same trader it will always somehow have 1 more in stocktable.

When purchasing an item from the trader, the majority of the purchase price goes directly to the King[[File:defiancetrader. For at least some of the above items, a proportion of the sale price remains in the inventory of the trader and they can use this to purchase items from the player. This is confirmed for:png]]

* {| class="wikitable sortable"! width="150" | Item! width="50" | Cost|-| [[trader contractGolden mirror]] - 25% (12.5 | 15 silver) remains with the trader.* [[personal merchant contract]] |- 25% (2.5 silver) remains with the trader.* | [[small Large magical chest]] - 20% (5 | 40 silver) remains with the trader.|-* | [[settlement formRod of transmutation | Transmutation Rod]]s will not leave any money on the trader, 100% of the purchase price goes directly to the King.| 40 silver== Cash flow ==|-Traders will buy almost any item, unless he considers it worthless, it cannot be traded, or he is broke. Every item has a | [[Base PriceShaker orb]], 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.| 4 silver'''''Exception:''' Money from deed and contract purchases go straight to the king.''|- A new trader starts out with 1 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 of Knowledge|Get InfoSleep powder]] 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).| 3 silverThe envoy of the king will sometimes redistribute items on the trader to other traders and players in local will see.|-''| [[11:50:48Small magical chest]] Trader_Megan sells some items to an envoy from the ruler.''| 20 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 | [[settlementTrader contract]] upkeep. The king will not grant funds to traders holding 50 | 35 silver or more.|-=== A Cash Flow Fix ===Try this fix if your trader has not been receiving funds from the kingdom pool, and you have confirmed via Path | [[Tuning fork of Knowledge that its ratio is 0.0. metal detection]]Buy | 1 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. 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.A 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 of them which replenishes some of the trader's coins from the kingdom pool.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 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.* Despite rumors, "abandoned" traders outside a deed, do not become a part of your own deed, even if you fund a village on top of him/her.** Not withstanding the above, a Re-deed (of the same name and in a short time frame) has had the trader rejoin as a citizen.

* <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)|}