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* A 3x3 house with the trader on the centre tile is required to protect a trader from being used.
 
* 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.
 
* 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.
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** 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 - 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 contract when a trader leaves. Non-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)
 
* <Enki> Public Service Announcement - 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 contract when a trader leaves. Non-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)

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Description

A trader is a NPC who buys and sells items. You can also trade items for items with it.

Placement

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 building (not a market stall like Personal Merchants can), but stays functional even if the building disappears. Trader cannot be moved after it has been placed. If you own the writ to the building the trader is in and bring that building on-deed (for example by resizing the deed), the trader will automatically become a citizen of your settlement. If you disband your deed for any reason the trader will vanish unless you first manage citizens and remove the trader as a citizen. Non-citizen traders to not benefit your deed upkeep. You can not place a new trader on your deed with an old trader nearby. Resizing a deed does not remove a trader from a deed.

Item stocks

A trader will always start with the following items in stock:

Once all of the items in any of these categories is bought, 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 trade, you will see the trader has none left. On re-trading with the same trader it will always somehow have 1 more in stock.

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.

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 Price, 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.

Exception: Money from deed and contract purchases go straight to the king.

A new trader starts out with 1 silver coin in funds. Periodically, 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 Get Info ability.

The main source of the kings funds is settlement upkeep. The king will not grant funds to traders holding 50 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 of Knowledge that its ratio is 0.0. 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 .50 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 .10 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

  • 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 - Citizen traders DO leave when you disband your deed. To keep the trader, remove it from your citizen list before deed disbandment.
    <Enki> You do not get a new contract when a trader leaves. Non-citizen traders do not benefit your deed upkeep. You cannot place a new trader on your deed with an old trader nearby.
    <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.
    <Enki> Keep this in mind before you decide to remove a trader from your deed's citizen list.
    (29 May 2012)

See also