Trading etiquette for warring parties...

Idk taxes go toward allowing vans out that fullfill orders, lets just leave it at that.

Deranzin wrote: Loud Whispers wrote: It would be entertaining if warring buyers sent an additional caravan of gold; twice the pay if they succeed against the risk or else as compensation. Considering the current prices on many items, one could say that they are doing that already

trading is a very important tool in a economy, very important in maintaining a war time economy, in fact it can be used as a deciding factor in the outcome in a war...it is just a matter of time before someone blockades a trading hub and manipulates trades to intercept vans to gain a huge advantage, i think people are already experimenting using this method on individual siege castles...hint hint...be careful of buying and posting trades...hubs are still safe and the other system not

Lets face it, if you have something posted in the trade section and someone somewhere wants it, they will buy it. If your vans are tied up then it is your responsibility to make a plan to get them back. As a player not focusing on the trade aspect I fit into the group of players who do not really know much about the mechanics of trading, thus I have the attitude that the customer is always right and the supplier is providing a service I am paying for. The ideal situation would be everyone takes everyone else into consideration, but that is not going to happen. Perhaps there will be mechanisms in place to limit the distances your trades can happen at (apart from the hubs) and ways to select your clients, but at present those options do not exist.

Bottom line is if I need something and it is on sale in the market I will buy it, irrespective of the distance. Of course I will look for items closest to me but in the event they are not available then I will take whatever is available. THE CUSTOMER IS ALWAYS RIGHT.

Outgoing gold carrying trade caravans can not be captured by blockade…

A few months ago I wanted to destroy global market. The devious plan was:
My alliance friend made an alt and didn’t research any anti-blockade technology…
I blockaded that town with 8 armies.
That small town was given 1 billion gold and started purchasing various advanced resources on global markets. In theory my 8 blockading armies should be able to capture practically all outgoing gold caravans and majority of incoming resource carrying caravans. This way I would end up with gold and resources… Buying all the global market resources for free would certainly crash the markets…
Well none outgoing gold carrying caravan was captured. After around 50 million gold was spent the operation was aborted. My blockades captured all incoming caravans carrying resources…
When we tried the other way around – creating buy orders, it didn’t work too… None of the outgoing resource carrying caravans were captured…

Conclusion: There is no risk for the seller as seller will always get the gold. If buyer is stupid enough to buy from blockaded towns, he risks that resources he paid for will be redirected to player blockading his town... Of course smart players might use this little information to transport out the goods from blockaded towns, but no incoming trades are safe...

Edited by Bonaparta - 26 Nov 2012 at 18:46