Trade
Trade give you the chance to exchange resources with other players. The following section explains how this works. @Todo: link to market :)
Free trade
Free trading is used whenever you are sending resources to a friend or your own villages. The time at which this becomes possible is entirely based on the time the moment you joined this world.
One merchant can transport a max of 1000 Resources. This can be 1000 of one resource, or split up between resources in any way. (Like 100 Wood, 350 clay and 550 iron.)
Every time you increase the size of your market, you receive more merchants, which means that there will be an increase in the amount of resources that your merchants can carry.
When you want to trade resources with someone you don't know, it is recommended to create an offer on the market that the other person accepts. That makes sure that both sides get exactly what they had asked for.
Trading using offers
In Tribal Wars you have free trade and the trade using offers. You can create your own offers or accept offers of other players. When you accept an offer, or someone else accepts your own offer, the resources are send automatically. To create your own offers go to the market and select "own offers". There you can create one or more offers. It is useful to split a very large offer in a lot of smaller ones as then smaller players can accept as well.
To accept the offer of another player click on "other offers". There it is relatively easy to search for specific offers and directly accept them.
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