Trade exemple 600 woods --> 620 horses

There a exemple completed may 30th 2012 of what trade can do :

600 wood became 330 coal (at 100 for 55)
330 coal became 370 wheat (at 33 for 37)
370 wheat became 190 hard planks (at 74 for 38)
190 hard planks became 400 beer (at 95 for 200)
400 beer became 110 longbow (at 200 for 55)
110 longbow became 260 horse (at 55 for 130)
260 horse became 400 tools (at 130 for 200)
400 tools became 200 sausage (at 100 for 50)
200 sausage became 100 gold ore (at 100 for 50)
100 gold ore became 100 steel (at 100 for 100)
100 steel became 100 iron sword (at 50 for 50)
100 iron sword became 800 tools (at 50 for 400)
800 tools became 620 horses (at 100 for 75 and 80)

600 wood approximately worth between 3 to 6 gold piece
620 horse approximately worth between 31 to 37 gold piece

neat.

LMAO! If you really accomplished that, that is Incredible! I just love it when combining trades, I never got it to combine that far, my best was 6. I tip my hat and applaud you.

Sorry I meant march 30th... Yes I made this, it was just a exemple to demonstrate how the trade can work.

How much time did this take? You were the beneficiary of a couple favorable trades there as well; not something I'd bank on long term, myself. Assuming you're starting with fir wood logs in the "600 wood" line, I'm trying to figure out why someone would give you more coal than they'll be able to make from your fwl.

The beer for longbows looks sketchy to me as well, though longbows are probably among the widest-ranging resources in terms of buy/sell pricing.

It's an interesting achievement - nice work converting such low-value items into something of much greater value. Is it okay if I friend you & start sending you stacks of fwl for 17g ea? You'll be able to improve on their value, so it's a good deal for both of us! :)

Yes it was fir wood logs. It took me about 4 hours but I was doing something else, the game was just running in the background. I'm relatively new to this game, and the first time I saw the trading system it took me couple hours of observation to determine the worth of each ressource.

The highest variance trade in there is actually the LB trade... for some reason longbows have an incredibly wide price range. You can literally buy a stack of LBs for 30g and then trade it out for 100g worth of stuff.

Very true. You can easily sell a stack of hwl for 9g. At that price, and a 16:1 conversion rate, longbows "should" cost around 144g, plus whatever you'd add for the very slow build time. Even if you bought the logs at 5g, you're looking at 80g/stack of longbows. On the other hand, the hwc/hwf process is self-sustaining, which drives the price downward. But nothing else in the game seems to vary so widely in pricing on a regular basis.

i think the tools for sausage is the biggest rip off on there, sausage routinely goes for over 30 coins a stack whereas you can buy stacks of tools for between 10-12 easy if not less

You can also buy sausage pretty easily between 20 ~ 25, I do it regularly. I wouldn't have made the Tools/Sausage trade myself, but I don't know that it's any worse than the fwl/coal trade in step 1 where the coal supplier totally hosed himself.

ya, i totally just posted tools for sausage at 200->100 and got three people to do the trade, and the coal supplier is probably someone who only runs their coker buffed, in which case the 600 logs is the same as 600 coal, more if it's upgraded to 3 or 4

This thread just goes to show somethings only worth what someones willing to give. I specialize in sausage production myself and I make 9k sausage a day. Its nothing for me to trade a bit more sausage for something I don't produce enough or need a bit extra of. That's generally why I only try to trade goods vs other goods instead of goods to coins. If it didn't take coins to upgrade buildings I'd never have a single coin for anything.

Ahey I give +100 awesome points to Dreamsfear. I completely agree, if you're trying to convert anything you trade with into coins and then convert that to whatever you're trying to get, I personally have to say you won't get very far in trading. If your mentality towards trade is "Ugh, that's ridiculous, I would make no such trade" then you limit your potential in trade. But if you approach trade as "Meh, I don't need it but I'll do that trade, I'll see if I can get something else for that" then you open so many doors to where you can go take that next step with whatever resource you have. I would always tell new players this idea but it seems hard for them to grasp.

Ive been seeing what items go for gold wise then I use a resource and trade it for what I need by going by what the gold value is and Ive had lots of success with it, since Gold is really hard to come by for me, I cant buy with Gold. Ive also noticed people love to trade for high value items with non gold items so thats my advantage to working the trade.