

But I'd advise spending almost every penny of that starting cash to get your guys geared up. I'd say to always buy trade goods that are selling for near their base value, you rarely have to travel more than 1 or 2 towns away to turn a decent profit. Originally posted by Prester:thanks, is trading a good way to make money at the beginning? im playing on easy until i get a hang of the game so i start with nearly 3k gold. Oh, and make sure you don't spend all your money when you're buying at the towns cause you still need enough money to pay daily wages for the trip back to the selling destination. Then return to the bigger castles/cities (shown towards the top of the wiki page) to sell at higher amounts.

Not only will prices be slightly better as you gain relation status with that town but certain contracts (return relics) will make the town so happy they'll usually sell their trade goods BELOW the actual value. Make sure you do your buying AFTER doing any contracts. Hunt down what is terrorizing the villagers). If there is a debuff then see if that town has a contract that will clear the debuff (ex. Just make sure when you get there that there is no Town debuff (scared villagers, ambushed trade routes, etc.) as that will make buying the stuff far more expensive. The ones that produce food/drink are not so useful for trade but if you can locate the towns that produce the other trade goods then that's where you want to go to buy stuff cheap for trading. Look for the buildings shown toward the bottom of this wiki page ("Economic Attached Locations"). Focus on the little buildings that are near each town, not the town itself. Originally posted by wpmaura:How do you find the producing cities? With the map paused just look around the map at the different towns and cities.
