Introduction
Trading is primarily a money making feature.
You start out with 2 to 3 trades unlocked for each city, the objective is to purchase trades in one city and sell them for a profit in another city.
By making a profit you will gain unlocking experience, and by gaining unlocking experience you will slowly but surely unlock more goods to trade.
The more trades you unlock, the easier it will become to start making more and more money and thus unlocking even more trades.
Knowledge
Knowledge is key in terms of maximizing your profits from trading.
Trades vary per city in price, and prices also increase/decrease slightly every once in a while.
Generally speaking, per trade there are 3 cities which have an average higher selling price and 3 cities with an average lower buying price.
Figuring out which trade to take from which city to which city is very important to keep earning more money and unlocking more trades.
Prices
Every version the prices of drugs will be changed, which means every version there will be different routes for trades.
And every city will have a specific drug that peaks in minimum/maximum value to make routes more likely.
You can click on the trade name in order to check the recent price changes and get a graph of values.
It's useful to keep track of trade prices every time you travel to a new city and save the values of drugs in order to create a trade list.
Trade list
We recommend you keep a list of prices for each city with each drugs.
You will have to update this list as prices of drugs change every once in a while.
The higher the trades the more value you can get from trading them in other cities.
By keeping a list and updating the list together with other players you can start making loads of money on your trading journey.
Vehicle
Your vehicle can carry a certain amount of trades.
By upgrading your vehicle you will most likely gain more trade units.
You can also upgrade your trade capacity bonus of your vehicle by meeting the material requirements.
By both upgrading your base vehicle and it's trade capacity you can increase your overall profits from trading.
Talents
You can increase your trading capacity by leveling up your trade talent.
This talent will allow you to trade more units and carry more while travelling to a new destination, possibly increasing your income from trades.
Smugglers (Roaming NPC)
Every city will contain a certain amount of roaming NPC's, this is randomly determined based on several factors.
Smugglers will increase the amount of trades you can carry.
Every smuggler that is in the city you are residing will allow you to carry 2 more trades.