The Quest for a market.

[jfw3661]

Since I was able to forge a few bars of cast, I decided it was finally time to find my place in the world.

After traveling around for about 3 hours I decided I had found enough tiles to locate my bases position. I opened up the world map and compared what I had captured. Eureka! there was my little hermitage. Time to make it a village and add a means of transporting to market.

First things first. I must travel to the markets Charter stone and memorize it. My main claim has my main toon and I just started a farmer alt. I have an alternate reserve claim on the otherside of the world. (his position was easier to find).

Since the alternate was closer to Sevilla, I decided to take him out and use him as my market transporter. After one and a half hours by rivers, I arrived at market.. boy I was excited. I had 2 crates full of misc goods since I was unsure of what I could trade. (this alt had no metal yet) As I approached the markets stone, my client crashed. Logging back in, I was informed I must relog at my hearthfire since I was on someones claim. I traveled back to the market in a new boat. Later arriving at the market again, I noticed someone had already helped themselves to my previous boats crates. No big deal, my main mission was to memorize the markets stone. Entering Sevilla I inspected the stone and checked out a few markets.. Seeds.. High quality..

Now my plans changed. I will take this alt and join my mains newly formed village, get a few bars, teleport to market, get a few seeds and return. This would mean abandoning my secondary claim, but its small with a couple crops.

I plotted a new course to my main claim and set off. Along the way I picked up a few items and made a couple crates to carry them. After 2 hours I finally arrived. I put the crates near the gate and logged off so I could log in my main, get the crates and let in my wayward alt. After retrieving the crates, I went to log on my alt.. Ouch.. I needed to respawn at my alts hearthfire again since I was on the village claim.

I could find no way to join my reserve alt to my village. Time for a different plan.

My farmer alt was already a part of my village so I would take him to market so he can memorize the markets stone. After 2 and 1/2 hours by boat, my farmer made it to market, memorized the stone and teleported back home. Since I now had a village, and the means to teleport, all I needed was a stone of my own. Since I could make the new portal, I was ready to go to market. I loaded up my alt with all the bars he could carry, I clicked on the portal, entered the name Sevilla, and .... nothing. I didn't have enough charisma to teleport that far.

Seems it's going to be quite a while before I can get a pair of cattle or trade for goodies.

[Kaios]

I enjoyed your story, it's a pretty great example that highlights some of the existing barriers involved in global trade for a majority of the players. Especially when one faction holds the monopoly on trading, everyone wants to trade but there's only one place to really do it at and depending on your location in the world this can be a major issue.

[jfw3661]

I'm not trying to compare H&H to Salem, but having Providence as a accessible area for everyone from the start, seems like a decent idea that should have been carried over.

[Ukhata]

I'm not trying to compare H&H to Salem, but having Providence as a accessible area for everyone from the start, seems like a decent idea that should have been carried over.

i sorta agree. ring of brodgar in center of the map would have been a great idea with a static charter stone and no combat zone. the area around it will be a fukkin melee ofc. but the area around it itself should then be a no combat zone.

[Atamzsiktrop]

sorry we own ring of brodgar and are not willing to give it away

[Tammer]

I'm in a similar situation. When I started the game I settled in the new lands, not realizing that it would take hundreds of charisma to travel to a market. I read on the forums that it takes about 160 charisma to travel from the map edge, which seemed doable for an alt. So I devoted a few grape harvests to raisins and got an alt to 70 charisma and figured I could hit ~160 with another week of raisins and sweet beets.

Reading some more, I realized that 160 was the target for the OLD map edge, which I am nowhere near. So my options are 1) get 300+(?) charisma and then do the traveling you write about, 2) build a "transit town" with a charter stone and do my trading in two hops, or 3) do insanely long market trips by boat.

All a bit crazy just to buy a quality carrot.

[MrPunchers]

I'm in a similar situation. When I started the game I settled in the new lands, not realizing that it would take hundreds of charisma to travel to a market. I read on the forums that it takes about 160 charisma to travel from the map edge, which seemed doable for an alt. So I devoted a few grape harvests to raisins and got an alt to 70 charisma and figured I could hit ~160 with another week of raisins and sweet beets.

Reading some more, I realized that 160 was the target for the OLD map edge, which I am nowhere near. So my options are 1) get 300+(?) charisma and then do the traveling you write about, 2) build a "transit town" with a charter stone and do my trading in two hops, or 3) do insanely long market trips by boat.

All a bit crazy just to buy a quality carrot.

Remember exploration is a part of the equation too.