Trade research technologies

Cunning traders know how to avoid obvious traps. The Avoid Interception skill increases the chance that your traders will manage to circumvent any hostile blockades.

Mastering the intricacies of packing the perfect amount of resources into specially designed containers, this technology increases each caravan's carrying capacity to 1,000.

A more advanced trading technology, this skill proves that your town has mastered the ability to trade basic items and that you are ready to move onto more sophisticated trading. Allows you to sell secondary produce (Gold, Horses, Livestock, Books and Beer).

Having mastered the skills needed to Avoid Interception, your traders know that there are some blockades that are practically inescapable. To circumvent these, sometimes they simply have to plough through. This skill further increases the chance that your trade caravans can escape a hostile blockade.

A final upgrade to running hostile blockades, your traders use disguise, deception and misdirection to slip their caravans under the very noses of the enemy.

The caravanserai is a haven of rest for tired trade caravan drivers, allowing them to recuperate their strength and preform more effectively. With this technology you double the carrying capacity as well as the speed of all your caravans.

You are now truly a master of the intricacies of trade, opening up massive trade opportunities for your industrious merchants. This technology doubles the number of trading caravans your city can support.

It's the ability to haggle - and haggle well - that sets every budding trader on the path to riches. This technology allows you to build a marketplace and sell basic resources (Wood, Clay, Iron, Stone & Food).

The first step in increasing your capacity to ship goods around the Kingdom, Improved Loading techniques allow your tradesmen to pack more resources into less space; increasing each of your caravan's carrying capacity to 300 resources.

Your Guild of Tradesmen commission expert engineers to build massive caravans focussed entirely on balancing capacity and speed to create the ultimate Trade delivery vehicle, the Juggernaut. Researching this technology increases each caravan's capacity to 1,500.

Proving to the world that you have mastered the ability to trade all types of items, this technology allows you to sell advanced military items (Saddles, Siege Blocks, Chainmail and Plate Steel).

Expert wheelwrights have found a way of binding your caravan's spokes together with shafts of Iron, doubling the amount of weight it can safely carry - and therefore its capacity - to 600 resources.

Your trading sophistication begins to shine with this technology. Your trade caravans are now securely upgraded to transport basic military goods (Swords, Bows, Spears, Leather Armor).