Trading post
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Inn |
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Market |
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Palace |
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Black market |
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Explorers' hall |
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Trading post |
A trading post is an island attraction building placed on a medium or large island. Players can come here to trade trinkets and pieces of eight for special items.
Attraction buildings are nearly identical to regular infrastructure buildings: they change ownership along with an island's governance and they do not count against an island's building limit on medium islands. There are however a few differences:
- Attraction buildings typically have a higher tax rate than standard buildings, and decay a week after failing to have their taxes paid. A trading post has a base tax of 20,000 PoE.
- A limited number of attractions can be built on a given island: 1 on medium islands and 2 on large islands. Outpost islands cannot build attractions.
- Only one of any type of attraction can be built on an island at a time.
- Each attraction building has a different effect when it is built. A trading post will make the island more attractive to merchant brigands.
Contents
Construction
| Construction Costs | |||
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| Doubloons: 0 | |||
| Basic | Upgrade | Downgrade | |
| Basic labor | 300 | N/A | N/A |
| Skilled labor | 200 | N/A | N/A |
| Expert labor | 100 | N/A | N/A |
| Iron | 80 | N/A | N/A |
| Stone | 2,000 | N/A | N/A |
| Tan cloth | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Wood | 500 | N/A | N/A |
An island needs only a completed fort to begin construction of a trading post.
Use
The trading post allows pirates to trade trinkets they've earned for fun prizes.
Trinkets traded in reduce the initial PoE cost of an item. Each item has a certain minimum requirement on number and type of trinkets traded in, additional trinkets of appropriate type can be offered to further lower the PoE price. The value of a trinket in this context changes dynamically, based on recent trades.
Currently the following items can be obtained:
| Category | Item | PoE cost | Required Trinkets |
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| Chromas | Atlantean chroma | 50,000 | 10 Atlantean trinkets |
| Indigo chroma | 50,000 | 10 Cursed Isles trinkets | |
| Night blue chroma | 50,000 | 10 Haunted Seas trinkets | |
| Sea green chroma | 75,000 | 10 Beachcomber trinkets | |
| Brigand King eggs | Admiral Finius egg | 50,000 | One of each trinket that can be obtained from the respective Brigand King. (The color of the trinket and the inscribed player name do not matter.) |
| Azarbad the Great egg | 100,000 | ||
| Barnabas the Pale egg | 150,000 | ||
| Brynhild Skullsplitter egg | 125,000 | ||
| Gretchen Goldfang egg | 75,000 | ||
| Vargas the Mad egg | 100,000 | ||
| The Widow Queen egg | 125,000 | ||
| Attire | Design: Berserker pelt (male or female) | 50,000 | 10 Viking trinkets |
| Design: Cockade hat (male or female) | 50,000 | 10 Imperial trinkets | |
| Design: Shako (male or female) | |||
| Vessels | Design: Frost class longship | 100,000 | 20 Viking trinkets |
| Design: Rogue class sloop | 50,000 | 10 Black market trinkets | |
| Design: Rogue class war brig | 150,000 | 20 Black market trinkets | |
| Design: Rogue class war frigate | 250,000 | 30 Black market trinkets | |
| Design: Rogue class grand frigate | 350,000 | 40 Black market trinkets | |
| Furniture | Explorers' banner | 50,000 | 5 each of Atlantean trinkets, Imperial trinkets, Cursed Isles trinkets, Haunted Seas trinkets, Beachcomber trinkets and Viking trinkets |
| Brass telescope | 100,000 | 10 each of Atlantean trinkets, Imperial trinkets, Cursed Isles trinkets, Haunted Seas trinkets, Beachcomber trinkets and Viking trinkets | |
| Design: Crossed axes | 20,000 | 5 Viking trinkets | |
| Design: Imperial banner | 20,000 | 5 Imperial trinkets | |
| Mead vat | 15,000 | 5 Viking trinkets | |
| Desktop Viking carving | 25,000 | 10 Viking trinkets | |
| Runestone monument | 50,000 | 20 Viking trinkets | |
| Urnes wall carving | 50,000 | 20 Viking trinkets | |
| Tall Viking carving | 100,000 | 30 Viking trinkets |
Storage
A trading post has no hold.
Rooms and Furnishing
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Historical Notes
- Trading posts were first released on the Ice Ocean on 2010-01-14.
- Trading posts were released to production oceans on 2010-01-20.
External/Other Links
- Trading posts on: Cobalt, Hunter, Malachite, Midnight, Sage, Viridian
- Official announcement
- Game Design discussion thread
- Spanish article: Puesto de mercaderes
