Caravans Help.

[FlyingDwarfzz]

I need some help with carvavans! I read the sticky about Gameplay Tips, and it told me to send Caravans from Warsaw to.. Soemplace (Starting with a 'K').

So, after making some 6000 Bucks, i sent a dried meat caravan from The "K" town to Warsaw. When we arrived there, it said i made a profit of 560 dollars...

I look at my actiual cash and i have about 500 dollars left.

WAT.

So, im obviously doing something wrong here, can someone give me a hand?

 

[saigang]

Yeah, I'm having the same issues as well.

Anyone can help or is it a bug? Having the Steam English version

 

[saigang]

So I'll be honest, in MnB and Warband I would usually fund my army by tweaking the amount I could bet at the arena and just run the tournaments for a bit. This isn't an option in Fire and Sword so I'm trying to trade but have a couple questions.

1. I don't really get how the caravan is supposed to work. I've tried it a few times and not had much luck. For example, I'll save up around 3k and pick the small caravan option to some other city. I'll spend my 3k on the goods and take the caravan there. I get in the city and it says something like, "You made 350 profit". I look at my inventory and I see I only have the 350, not the original 3k that was invested. So does that mean I actually lost like 2700?

2. Is the "Access the Local Prices" option supposed to be useless? It will tell me a few items that I can sell to a few different cities which I suspect it is supposed to. For example, it might tell me I can buy fur here and sell it at a profit three different places. But I go to the good merchant and see that there is no fur in the city. In the maybe 10 times I've used it, I think only once have I been able to buy a good that it mentions, and it was like 1 wool.

Re: Couple trade questions
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1. Yes, you lost that money, the word profit is misused here. The amount is really just how much you sold your goods for so you made that much less what you spent on the caravan.

2. Its not entirely useless, the best good to trade is velvet. A thing you can do is pick up one piece of velvet and keep it in your inventory. Go from town to town and assess prices until you find one that gives you a high profit trade route for velvet. Even if that town doesn't have any velvet in stock, sell them the one you had in your inventory, then go to the mayor and set up the caravan, buy back your one velvet and head out with the caravan to the city you got from assess location. In a way this is an exploit, because you're not supposed to be able to caravan items the city doesn't have....but it works.

Got this from another post. Guess this answers our question. Will give it a shot and update on this post

 

[PhilRuZ]

what i do is go around to different towns accessing the local prices and seeing if the mayor at that town has the goods which will get me the most profit in other towns. things like velvet and oil tend to get a lot of profit. when you can also get a trading patent this will help you make more money with caravans

 

[Musthavename]

First, it says profit, but it means revenue. Caravans can make huge losses. Essentially what you're doing is buying 20/30/40 of a good from one town, and selling it all in another for a set price.

Here's what you really want to do with the few thousand you have. First, go to Cossack/Crimean towns and look for cheap Spices/Velvet (i.e. <200). Buy them. Now go to places up north, namely Novgorod / Narva. Sell them for 800+. Once you've got all that, go back down south and again find a place with cheap Velvet (approx 100 ideally). If there's an absence of Velvet you may also be able to sell them Velvet cheap, order the caravan, then buy the Velvet back. Buy a caravan of it and ship it to Novgorod. You'll make huge profits and be told about a trade permit. Buy the permit with the profits. Rinse and repeat for nigh on unlimited money.