Beginner's Guide for Merchants

The Purpose of This Guide
Grinding skill skill is an exhausting process. Your will spend hundred hours to grinding your skills. Just to reach ranking 3 (r3) of certain trading skill you will spend 3 - 4 hour., and to get r4 you need additional 4-5 hour. More higher the ranking, more difficult to obtain and you will spend more alot of time.
 * 1) Giving direction to the beginner.
 * 2) Boost status in efficient way.

Game Overview
On this game, you will doing various activities. You are doing trading, fishing, producing goods, pirating, bounty hunting, treasure hunting, and many more activities. To support your activity, you need a set of apropriate skill. Each skill is rank up. More high your skill rank more benefit you get.

You are starting the game by following the school course to get basic knowledge about this game. There are 3 category course you can follow: merchant course, adventurer course and maritime course. Each category have 3 level course; beginners, intermediate and advanced. Each level course is conducted at school in the different city. After school graduate you can starting your journey and be a captain of your own ship, although you can start your journey any time without finishing your school, but it is recomended to finish your school to obtained maximum benefit - you 'll need them.

This game is not about making money. This games is about to create a character with a special unique skills set and become an expert on those skill set.

Trader Overview
The activity of the trader can be category into two activity: trading and production. You are buying goods from one city and sell them to another city around the world. You are also producing goods.

There ?? skills specific for trader activity and ?? specific for another activity (maritime and advanture).

As a trader, your goal is to become an expert one or more trading skill. Expertizing of the skill can be obtain by aquire Intermediate Trading Job or Master Trading Job. This artikel will guide you how to obtain that job fast.

Character Improvement
There are 3 main area related to your character improvement: Although you may need to improve some useful battle skill and Adventure skill as complement like Lookout, Fishing and Procurement, but usually they don't need special attention to improve.
 * 1) Trading Skills
 * 2) Trading Fame
 * 3) Merchant Level

Buying. Buying goods will level up your Trading Skills, like when you are buying Beer, your Alcohol Trading skill will be improved.

Selling Goods. Selling ordinary Goods will level up only your Merchant Level.

Selling Local Goods. Selling Local Goods will boost both your Trading Fame and Merchant Level. The way you sell Local Good will boost either Trading Fame or Merchant Level. If you are selling multiple type Local Goods each @50 (minimum) at once, then you will get a lot of Trading Experience and boost your Merchant Level. If you are selling Local Goods and keep the Fame below 300 each time, you will obtain maximum Fame. By this way you can control which one you want to improve: Trading Fame or Trading Level. See Merchant Fame Grinding and Merchant Level Grinding for more information.

Profit. Profit impact to Trading Fame and Merchant Level. More high your profit more fast your level up.

Distance. Distance has impact to Profit. You will get a lot of more profit by selling India's goods in London rather then Amsterdam's goods.

Trading Skill Grinding
Before you start your journey, you need to know how to grind your trading skills efficiently:
 * 1) First, you need to apply a trading job to get benefit of Favored Skill and Expert Skill. When you grind Favored Skill, the proficiency necessary to rank up, is half of normal. For example, normal Proficiency ro Rank up from R1 to R2 is 200, but you only need 100 if the skill is a Favored Skill. It is even better if the skill is an Expert Skill.
 * 2) Second, get maximum Skill Proficiency when you are selling goods by splitting the transaction and sell no more than 60 goods every time.

Merchant Fame Grinding

 * You need Trade Fame to unlock Regions. For example to be able to trade in India you need at least 16000 fame.
 * You are getting Trade Fame when you are selling Local Products.
 * Trade fame if function of profit. This is means more high your profit, more high you will get Trade Fame.


 * The maximum Trading Fame you can earn per transaction is 300. If you are selling 35* Nutmeg at Amsterdam at once when pricing is high (more then 120%) you will earn 300* fame. If you are selling 100 Nutmeg at the same condition, you are also earn 300 fame. To get maximum fame, you need to split the transaction. So rather you are selling 100 Nutmeg at once, you are selling 35, 35, 30, and you earn 300 + 300 + 270*(~) fame. (* this is aproximate, actuall qty is function of distance and Trade Level and difficult to calculate, the best method is try and error and keep the fame you earn slighly below 300).

Merchant Level Grinding

 * You need Merchant level to be able to use better Ship or better Equipment.
 * Merchant level will be increase when you earn certain amount of experiences.
 * You get experience when selling goods.
 * If you selling ordinary goods: EXP = func(PROFIT)
 * If you selling Local Product: EXP = func(PROFIT) + localProductBonus(QTY, DISTANCE)
 * If you selling 2 or more type of Local Product and each type minimum 50: EXP = func(PROFIT) + localProductBonus(QTY, DISTANCE) + comboBonusLocalProduct1(PROFIT, QTY, DISTANCE) +...+ comboBonusLocalProductN(PROFIT, QTY, DISTANCE)