Consequently, buying goods from NPCs should only be used when absolutely necessary. It is always more cost-effective to produce your own goods than to buy them from NPCs. Note: "Duty levied" is used for goods (Bread, Books, Carpets) and "Toll" is used for Military goods (Cannons, Weapons, War Machines). It's best put in a busy harbor with many ships coming and leaving to maximize its effect and if it's powerful enough, it can earn thousands of gold in rare goods in addition to normal trade. When such an item is in your Warehouse, it adds the stated tons of the specified goods once an NPC ship buys the specified "up to" tonnage of any combination of your goods from that Warehouse.įor example one item (pictured) adds 5t of Books to the warehouse each time an NPC ship trades 18t of goods with the warehouse, and the NPC ships trade very often. Put it in the Strong Room of the Warehouse to activate the item. It is received by completing a quest, purchasing it from the Lord or the Vizier, or from Ibn al Hakim's Academy of Wisdom. You will most probably be confused when you first see "duty levied" item. Note: The nice thing about active selling is all players wil buy every type of good from you, however, they will pay less for these goods compared to passive selling. Note that each trading partner only offers a limited set of goods to purchase.Īctive selling occurs when you load up one of your ships with goods, sail it to a trading partners warehouse, and directly sell those goods to the partner. Active trading Īctive trading has two aspects: active buying and active selling.Īctive buying is when you sail a ship to a trading partner’s port and buy some of the select goods they offer. The Oriental warehouse has only one level and starts with eight slots. A second level Occidental warehouse has six slots, and a third, fully upgraged, Occidental warehouse has eight slots. Note: An Occidental warehouse has four slots for buying and selling. Note that Northburgh will only sell you Occidental goods and Al Zahir will only sell you Oriental goods, but both can buy any sort of goods you have for sale. Lord Richard Northburgh, Grand Vizier Al Zahir and Giacomo Garibaldi will always trade with and will also visit any warehouse that hasn't any buy/sell request. Once buy/sell requests are set up, any NPC you have a trade agreement with - which needs to be agreed upon first - will occasionally sail a trading ship to your warehouse and buy or sell a small quantity of your goods, based on their preferences. Note: There is an achievement related to never placing a good for trade in your Warehouse. Then hit the + to buy goods and the - to sell goods. The icon for this tab is a crate with gold in it. To set up these requests, just left-click on your warehouse and go to the bottom tab called 'Trading place'. Passive trading Īnno 1404 adds the ability to set up buy or sell requests at each of your island's warehouses. For information on creating and maintaining trading routes, see the trading routes page. Although this is technically trading, this is referred to as transferring goods. Note: The "trade" discussed on this page does not cover your own personal trading routes you set up to move shipments of goods between your own islands. There are two trading methods: 1) passive trading, which allows you to choose what you'd like to buy or sell at your port and NPCs occasionally sail by and buy or sell based on what you set and their bias 2) active trading, which allows you to manually sail a ship to a trading partner's warehouse and directly buy or sell goods. Likewise, you can also buy a limited amount of goods from NPCs in order to more quickly expand your settlements. For instance, although you can finance your empire entirely from tax revenue, you can earn very large sums of gold from selling surplus goods to NPCs. While it is possible to play an entire game without engaging in any trading with other parties, trading allows you to grow your cities much more quickly. 10.1 Most profitable in order of game progression.