Funding your Empire

Sending resources directly to a location is performed in the marketplace. You simply select the amount of each resource you wish to send to a location and – if you have sufficient caravans for the amount you are sending, as well as the technology required to carry that type of resource – your trade caravans will be dispatched to their destination.

World-wide Trade

However, there is also a Trade Offers list, which is essentially a global marketplace where players can offer goods for trade for a price that they set themselves. The price can be specified in any type of resource, so it can either be a purchase system (ie Wood for Gold) or a barter system (ie Wood for Clay). It can also be a gift system, where you could for example give away excess resource for free to members of your own alliance who wish to partake.

You can filter this list by a wide variety of requirements (eg only show you players who are offering wood, or only show you players who are in your own alliance who are offering gold).

If you have excess resources to trade and the capability (and capacity) to trade it, or if you are looking to gather specific types of resource for your own purposes, you place your offer on the trade offers list to define what you are willing to trade for what.

You can also define some special parameters for your trade, such as defining that it is only available to members of your own alliance.

You can cancel a trade offer at any time up to the point that it has been accepted by another player. If you cancel the offer, you lose nothing – the offer is removed from the Available Offers list, the resources you were offering are returned to your storehouse, and the caravans committed to service your end of the trade are returned to your city's unit pool.