Expert Trade Guide - Mount and Blade II: Bannerlord

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The strategies described in my advanced trade guide are no longer enough to help you prosper, not after the political reforms that changed the economy for the worst. As such, I feel it is my obligation to share all of the cutthroat corporate tactics that helped me lay the foundation for my own medieval megacorp, and eventually dominate the world.
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TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 - The Question
1:44 - The Answer
3:00 - The Chessboard (Static Trade Systems)
5:27 - The Pawns (Dynamic Trade Systems)
8:07 - Setting up
9:36 - Every day I'm hustlin' ( • Rick Ross - Hustlin' (... )
12:08 - Establishing your convoy
13:42 - How to trade 101
15:02 - Shop Switching (destabilizing the local economy)
18:56 - Trading Tips
22:40 - Money Printer Alternatives
24:34 - Siege Trading
27:42 - Establishing Trade Routes
29:31 - Nothing of substance is said in here
30:20 - Are caravans worth it?
32:26 - Everything has a price
36:10 - A blueprint for trade
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LINKS to my other videos:
► Advanced Trade Guide: • Advanced Trade Guide -...
► Basic Trade Guide: • How to be a Merchant™ ...
► Traderlord Build Guide: • How to create the Ulti...
► Trader Stories edited playthrough: • Trader Stories - A Ban...
► Kingdom Come Deliverance guides: • Halcylion's Medieval S...
► X4: Foundations tutorials: • Halcylion's X4: Founda...
► The Outer Worlds stuff: • The Outer Worlds SUPER...
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If I could change one thing about this video I'd try to not repeat the stuff I've already said in my previous guides, but at the same time, I felt that was the only way of completing the gaps I've left due of my ignorance at the time.
While working on this video, I realized I could have split all the info between 4 separate videos, maybe more. That would've taken less time and effort, allowing for more frequent uploads and possibly more watch time, as people are more likely to click on a 10 minute video than on a 40 minute video. But a mega-tutorial is an entirely different experience altogether, and I'm proud of how this one turned out. If it doesn't perform well however, I will have to resort to doing my videos like that, from now on. The overall quality would be lower, but that's what youtube prefers.
This video was supposed to be out 3 hours earlier, but the project was so complex that it couldn't be rendered correctly and was full of errors. I fixed all of the problems I've faced, but knowing my luck, some other problems arised in the second version of the video. Let me know if anything looks out of place. There's nothing I can do about it, but I'm not watching this video again. 20 times is enough.
I had no inspiration about what thumbnail to use for this video, so I just took the mobile games approach: level 1 thug, level 15 gangster, level 35 boss. I think it represents the trader playstyle pretty well.

Пікірлер: 591

@Halcylion Жыл бұрын

I hope these trading tips have made you very rich. If they did, you can invest some of your denars into HALCORP at this link: www.patreon.com/halcylion

@awuza7045 Жыл бұрын

HALCORP sounds like a company in Cyberpunk lol thanks by the way, now I can trade without pretending I didn't just lose 10K denars on grain :)

@maximo161197 3 жыл бұрын

"but a balanced econonomy is not a merchant's friend" Man that was a bitter bite

@chengkuoklee5734 3 жыл бұрын

To be more accurate, a speculator.

@samirSch 3 жыл бұрын

A merchant trade for profit. Profits are the rewards you get for taking the risks to attempt to solve people's problems/needs. The more urgent and important is the need, the more people are willing to pay to solve it. But on the other hand, more urgent needs attrack more people willing to profit from it, thus increasing competition and balancing the prices. That's why a piece of rock (diamond) has a much higher value than a cup of water, but that changes if you're dying on a desert. That's also why socialism always fail, because the useless bureaucrats trying to "plan" the economy with intervetions and regulation end up twisting these price signals and disrupt the incentive to supply the urgent needs, generating scarcity.

@maximo161197 3 жыл бұрын

@@samirSch the first part of what you said is true yet not the whole story. It's a half truth. It wouldn't be if it wasn't for the fact that the environment in which a human operates is not only the condition but also the conditioned of the action. If there is an imbalance you can make profit of it while bringing balance and this is not a bad thing, quite the contrary actually. I agree with you that this is in fact the good thing about a market of free operating agents. But if you have enough economic power, in comparison with other agents of your market, you can also intentionally create an imbalance in such a market in order to profit from it, and this is a bad thing, as such an imbalance has social consequences. The market is free if you have rules that prevent dominance of agents over agents. If there are no rules to prevent dominance it isn't free anymore, it's savage. I don't know where you're from but your notion of socialism is very narrow. This is not necessarily a problem. It depends on which experiences you put under such a narrow concept. Stalin's URSS? Yes. Italy between the 50' and the 80'? No. I mean you could at least distinguish between democratic socialism of European countries and what is usually referred to as communism. I'm guessing you are from the USA or very exposed to USA's culture through KZfaq.

@samirSch 3 жыл бұрын

@@maximo161197 Not really. It's too hard to concentrate economic power in a free market because there are no barriers against competition. The "rules that prevent the dominance" on free market is the free competition. If you take that away, you don't have a "free market" anymore, you'll have corporativism, fascism or some other kind of socialism. Bureaucrats intervention or "regulations" can only help create that dominance. That's why you have billionaires like Soros and big corps supporting Lefties and their taxpayer funded bailouts. Your prejudice is also baseless: I'm from Brazil.

@Jupiter__001_ 3 жыл бұрын

@@samirSch My main counter-example of it being "too hard to concentrate economic power in a free market" is Rockefeller's oil monopoly. He created this by bribing all the shipping and railway companies with lucrative contracts to only ship his oil. Therefore, this killed the entirety of his competition, and he continued unopposed until government intervention broke up his monopoly into many companies. You only believe what you do about a free market because you have been told it and it sounds nice, not because you have observed it or because it makes sense. Truly laissez-faire free market economies always end up as slave-labour driven drug dens harbouring warlords, like Afghanistan or warlord-era China. Child sex-slaves and anthrax dispensers have market-demand, so a truly free market would allow them. I will never understand anarcho-liberals.

@legateelizabeth 3 жыл бұрын

I sort of love how this video goes from "Trade some goods where it's needed, make a little money on the side." and then goes through deliberately destabilising economies, creating unsustainable settlements just to enrich yourself, using your influence and power to deliberately destabilising and sabotage entire regions, establishing monopolies and cannibalising your assets after you're done with them, until eventually you're creating psuedo-banana republics and creating a military-industrial complex. Thank goodness there's absolutely no real life parallels here, eh? :p

@SirBojo4 2 жыл бұрын

We're in a democracy! shit...

@Snoogen11 3 жыл бұрын

I love how each time he mentions a currency it changes in name.

@georgeagar4210 3 жыл бұрын

His videos are full of subtle features like that, and I love it

@ongogablogian2525 3 жыл бұрын

bruh just call it "gold". He is overdone it, it's not funny if you do that in every goddamn sentence, should have been more subtle.

@YaFoSho 3 жыл бұрын

@@ongogablogian2525 wow, you must be great at parties

@ongogablogian2525 3 жыл бұрын

@@YaFoSho If you are a goddamn clown and you find every little dad joke funny and laugh at every sentence than more power to you, buddy

@Classic-- 3 жыл бұрын

I think at one time he calls it schmeckels from Rick and Morty xD

@rickysavage9557 3 жыл бұрын

Here's how to be rolling in denars with these few easy tips. Imperial economists hate him!

@jevinr7356 3 жыл бұрын

Pesos, rupee, deutschmark, rubel, dollar LOL😭, nice guide though, been searching all over youtube, but nothing compares to your comprehensive guide. Thanks, dude, bravo !

@RashaKahn 3 жыл бұрын

What’s fun is clearing 10 hideouts in a month to free your captured companion, spending 22500 denars for another caravan and have them to be recaptured again in less than a week.

@TheBloofyx 3 жыл бұрын

That's why you gotta make your companion caravans lead horsemen only parties

@dha2323 Жыл бұрын

@@TheBloofyx how?

@fnaf-life5883 Жыл бұрын

Just become the Azariah culture and it’s only 10 K

@gdbalck 3 жыл бұрын

Drinking game: Take a shot after every new currency.

@fishguts4378 2 жыл бұрын

Man I don’t know he so think I need to supp

@xavi4054 3 жыл бұрын

Truly golden content. This alone could be separated into several video. U got urself a new subscriber. Keep it up.

@Halcylion 3 жыл бұрын

That's what I'll be doing from now on: if a video is too long, I'll break it down into parts... working on a single video project for a month straight is keeping my channel inactive, and that needs to change.

@pebloo 3 жыл бұрын

After starting a new realistic rock bottom playthrough, winning an arena practice battle for the starting 250 denars and trading goods was the ONLY way to get money required to gather a few soldiers :))

@frostyheretic299 3 жыл бұрын

Best Bannerlord guides ive seen till date, shit i love the fact you even put time stamps in the discription. The effort you put into this makes you top dog in bannerlord content wise 👍

@user-pj1rh8vk6y 3 жыл бұрын

17:51 oh no

@discozillah 3 жыл бұрын

_oh no_

@olaff9771 3 жыл бұрын

Wow

@Halcylion 3 жыл бұрын

Well fellas, chat automatically closed. I was going to reply to Altsky: I cannot make mods, all I can probably do is come up with some concepts for the people with talent to put into action".

@theletterw3875 3 жыл бұрын

Respectfully, what "home country" were you talking about? I'm guessing India but you moved to central Europe from the your accent?

@lordav6960 3 жыл бұрын

@@theletterw3875 i believe he's romanian I gathered that from one of his KCD videos

@phillipdavey5921 3 жыл бұрын

Wow I am really glad I found this channel. Well thought out, articulated and entertaining at the same time. Excellent job good sir!

@pumbaonandromeda 3 жыл бұрын

This is a true masterpiece. All the known knowledge in a 40 minute video. Thank you

@KeyIow 3 жыл бұрын

Really appreciate all the hard work and effort you put into making this video.

@Pan_Z 2 жыл бұрын

Love how the video transitioned from basic economics on supply & demand, to complete moral destitution where you intentionally sabotage local supply to make them dependent on your wares (at inflated prices), while impoverishing the towns & peasantry. 17:50 Guess you found the inspiration with ease, eh? Though it's a bit simpler in-game.

@lordaragorn001 3 жыл бұрын

holyshit this is was more insightful than asking the local rabbi.

@Synochra 3 жыл бұрын

I get it, this joke is a playful reference to the stereotype of Rabbis giving notoriously hard to understand answers to simple questions

@thatrandomeliteultra1158 3 жыл бұрын

Im a jew so this made me happy

@lordaragorn001 3 жыл бұрын

@@Synochra that is exactly that,not something else

@RayRaySD941 3 жыл бұрын

It's always something up the Merchant's Guild

@thatrandomeliteultra1158 3 жыл бұрын

@They Live! Again. hahaha

@Eddison33 3 жыл бұрын

A few more tips for becoming an entrepreneurial god of Calradia. 1) You can boost your initial capital significantly by selling weapons from some backgrounds during character creation. For instance, I did Jareeds (Aserai skirmisher background) and a Fullered mace (Vlandian infantry). 2) Marry as soon as possible. Look through Encyclopedia to find a lad or a lass with the armour you want, find her/him, approach... With some points in Charm or some savescumming, you'll get what you want. You'll pay around 4-5k to get exceptional armour and weapons. As far as I know, Ira of the Southern Empire is the easiest, but I don't like her. I guess undressing your spouse shall be fixed in later patches) 3) The prices of some items fluctuate a lot while sold, while the others (mostly raw materials) does not. For instance, selling 30-40 pieces of iron or to a town can change its price from 85 to 35, while selling 100-200 loads of grain changes its price from 21 to 17. When selling goods to caravans or villages, prices don't fluctuate at all! Use it to your advantage. For instance, sell some expensive stuff which fluctuates to nearby villages before entering a town (not vice versa!). 4) You can trade with competing caravans. Prices are bad, but they are adjusted to the territory they currently pass. For instance, I liked to buy hardwood in Battania for 6-7 and then dump it to all the caravans I meet in Aserai (my favourite territory). It's more profitable than selling it to towns because of fluctuation (while caravans buy for a fixed price). 3-4 caravans have as much money as an average town. 5) Battania is the best region for fast trading. All the towns are close to each other, at the same time, they have some disparity in prices. Seonon - Lageta is one of the easiest and the fastest profitable routes. 6) When a faction is ravaged by wars, selling horses in their towns yields exorbitant profits. I remember selling Aserai horses for 3.5k each (bought for 600-900) and Desert horses for 500 (bought for 150-200). Slightly better than travelling with several thousands of grain sacks. 7) Keep 10-30 of expensive items (jewelry, velvet, leather etc.) in your inventory. You spoil the price if you sell them at once, but you can sell some of them for a huge profit per item in almost every town you visit. It's like a good habit. No encumbrance, no additional time spent, no risks.

@Halcylion 3 жыл бұрын

Most of what you've written is stuff I've already said, in one form or another, in my previous videos. Also, regarding point 2: how do you think I got my armor? :)

@Robin-co7uq 3 жыл бұрын

You're an absolute madlad, its insane yhow deep you went into trading... Thanks for the tips

@balazare4927 3 жыл бұрын

Took me a few tries to pause the message at the end and I’d like to say that I really appreciate the effort and knowledge that was put into this video

@DragonWave2949 3 жыл бұрын

This is brilliant! You just made me love an aspect of the game I previously despised.

@phil6715 3 жыл бұрын

"is this good for the people in the city? Fuck no, but it's good for my pocket"

@sine375 2 жыл бұрын

Even knowing that a lot of this has changed, I'm watching this video just because this youtuber is so good. I have been watching many videos of him latelly. Ty and good job

@kakadooleo.o3147 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing my dude! Thanks for the hard work, keep uploading

@Halcylion 3 жыл бұрын

That's the plan! :)

@cheeseyeggs 3 жыл бұрын

Earned a subscriber. Very informative, funny, and useful. Keep it up buddy.

@realWorsin 3 жыл бұрын

Fantastic video. This goes way beyond most trade guides.

@marcolsen4314 3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely fantastic again. The research into this is phenomenal! Never even thought about killing the old work horses for meat! Some places I’m getting mules for 32 as well and selling up north for 100/150. Never thought of horse trading either.

@MaggotDiggo1 3 жыл бұрын

Great video. I never knew trade had so much depth in Bannerlord. In my next play through, I'll definitely start out by focusing on getting a high trade skill.

@Halcylion 3 жыл бұрын

One of my goals in this video was to showcase the importance of the trade system, and how you can use it to your advantage.

@jubilee5642 2 жыл бұрын

where so many other tutorials are boring and some telling you so much you already know yours are quite entertaining and actually alot of stuff i had no clue about...causing a town to have to lose their current supply need for their shops and rely on only yours to aquire that resource cheap elsewhere for 3 shops is very smart

@rickybuhl3176 3 жыл бұрын

'LoadsaMoney' reference. Colour me impressed sir ;)

@josiahsarunn9026 3 жыл бұрын

I don't trade but i have to commend the effort made to make quality content like this. great job

@cterrel 3 жыл бұрын

Very nice, sir! I have been doing shop switching wrong this whole time. Super informative video

@patrickdutton7243 3 жыл бұрын

Yet another fantastic guide! Please keep up the good work my friend. I always love tuning in

@GrandElemental 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your tips, these are highly appreciated!

@MacJonesnano 3 жыл бұрын

Little discovery from 1.5.0: Shop switching is no longer a long term option as the owners of the workshops you switched can switch them back and restabilize the region. Takes some time tho... Great guide and very useful, makes the merchant/trader/corperate-overlord playthroughs much more fluent and less grindy:)

@gamefreak173 3 жыл бұрын

this was very entertaining to watch and glad i watched this before i really sank my teeth into the game have been enjoying it alot!

@Hashashin_Fidayin 2 жыл бұрын

Another great video! You earned another sub, Thanks for spreading info and funny memes!

@user-rx1kb3ry4b 3 жыл бұрын

Fantastic video. Keep up the good work chap.

@juliovnobre 3 жыл бұрын

I love the improvements they made to the economical play for banner lord

@jacksonwilson833 Жыл бұрын

Good ass video. I love guides with a little humor sprinkled throughout. Entertaining and highly informative

@Halcylion Жыл бұрын

It's a bit outdated nowadays, though...

@Jankubicek78 3 жыл бұрын

A ton of effort was put in this video, you are creative and smart!

@Halcylion 3 жыл бұрын

I don't know if I'm that smart, but I can confirm I put a ton of work into my videos. :)

@sirdeakia 3 жыл бұрын

Your editing is golden.

@acnine-ball8976 3 жыл бұрын

This was so helpful! Thanks! I played as Swadia in Warband so I thought the best way to trade was to just buy butter. I didn't even know it COULD be sold.

@mattkimmins7575 3 жыл бұрын

Funny and very informative best channel I have seen in a long time

@YuriKC 3 жыл бұрын

The best trader guilde i ever seen. great job

@Halcylion 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@abdulrahmanashraf5058 3 жыл бұрын

Man that is a good and enjoyable video, I used to play as merchant in warband, but I still didn't had my enough of fighting in bannerlord to start trading, but I have to tell you that I enjoyed every minute of it and found it informative, I for sure will use some of this tips to survive poverty since I am suffering not with low funds many thanks and keep up the good work

@Halcylion 3 жыл бұрын

Some of these tips don't work anymore in the current patch, so if you're having troubles, check out this updated guide for patch 1.5.4. and 1.5.5.: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rd-PmZWn28jJqI0.html Also, thank you for the comment! :)

@abdulrahmanashraf5058 3 жыл бұрын

@@Halcylion yeah I actually came here form that video when you kept saying why the fuck are you watching this video if we still didn't see my previous guide :D thanks for that :p

@drewdatification 3 жыл бұрын

Your manipulative trade guide convinced me to buy Bannerlord. Well, done, sir. Well done.

@Halcylion 3 жыл бұрын

I have to give you a fair warning: getting your trade skill to an optimal level is going to feel grindy, so enjoy the other activities in the game as well every once in a while.

@drewdatification 3 жыл бұрын

@@Halcylion , I have no problem with the grind. It makes the reward that much more enjoyable. Thanks again for the advice. Got yourself a new sub

@Crispedkillah 3 жыл бұрын

15:20 once you put bob ross in you got my sub thanks for all the hard work and info keep up with the hard work

@CounterpartJack 3 жыл бұрын

I don't know if the information is still up to date for 1.5.3beta but I learned the basics from your "blind leading the blind" a while ago and used it a step--up to figure some on my own. Then I watched this, and you got me on the social commentary at 18:00. My favorite playthrough so far was a Viking trader-warrior with friends in Battania who bought her way to a fief and ended up sieging Epicrotea. She had to defect to the Kuzhait tho. This time, I'll play a Kuzhait right of the bat and go fubar the Western Empire economy before taking them over with your tricks. Also, liked and subscribed.

@iBloodxHunter 3 жыл бұрын

This video is marvelous, thank you. It's given me the motivation and the information to create my trader character in Warband! Yes it's a different game, but it's built on the same foundation and mechanics. It functions (economy) similarly but is simplified and you don't have access to the background information such as innate workshops in a city. As an example.

@Halcylion 3 жыл бұрын

Latest patches changed a few things about trade, but I'm currently editing a video that should make it easier to deal with those changes. Hopefully, I'll be able to publish it tomorrow. :)

@iBloodxHunter 3 жыл бұрын

@@Halcylion 😀 Don't rush on my account, I don't have Bannerlord. I would have liked to see some of the stuff you had with Warband though, I'm always late to the party lol.

@Halcylion 3 жыл бұрын

@@iBloodxHunter ah, damn. I completely skipped over the fact you mentioned Warband. The downsides of being a fast reader is that you miss certain stuff. :) Warband trading doesn't have the same depth as Bannerlord I'm afraid, but you can still make money this way. Now, I've not played base warband for a long time, so I can only give you some tips for viking conquest: Buy wine from Dorestad, sell it to Dunwic. There, find iron and wool to sell back to Dorestad, keep finding good trades and when you have money, build a workshop in each city. Enjoy unlimited money.

@farn1991 3 жыл бұрын

Damn, I love the narrative. God job man.

@dreamgod8782 3 жыл бұрын

Great Video man, it helped me a lot!

@ferdo19tato 3 жыл бұрын

Love your content man! Cant wait for the new episode of the corporate :)

@Halcylion 3 жыл бұрын

That episode is gonna take me a while to get it done.

@ferdo19tato 3 жыл бұрын

Halcylion take your time man, dont worry 👌

@kompav5621 3 жыл бұрын

12:12 - Wasn't expecting a Teladi, what a reference!

@Halcylion 3 жыл бұрын

X2 taught me the basics of business.

@WesternHypernormalization 3 жыл бұрын

18:50 There's only one way to find out!

@royalheratik2726 Жыл бұрын

Great video,i just started to play so im trying to learn more.

@hantront 2 жыл бұрын

Man, great video. I got an attention disorder and you managed to keep me engaged.

@barniespacullie3812 Жыл бұрын

This is quality work dude

@BolasDaGrk 3 жыл бұрын

Pro tips! Thanks for your epicocity. Not sure it is a word, but should be one!

@drshinobi3979 3 жыл бұрын

One thing i can ship in if i remember it right and prob is already mentioned...Quests when they require you to deliver certain products to a town to an character usually demands that product. Was something like this last time ive played as a merchant,. Anyways love to see an fellow trade lord in motion

@oddthomas8278 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome work, man!

@HitokiriShingo 3 жыл бұрын

Great editing man.

@NamFlow 3 жыл бұрын

I bursted out laughing at the Shop Switching part, LOL! I had to acutally stop the video and get back to it later, because I just couldn't stop laughing! This is truly amazing way how to destabilize economy :-D subbed! _"we will watch your career with great interest"_

@Halcylion 3 жыл бұрын

Just a heads-up: in the latest patch, shop switching no longer works long-term. Local merchants will revert any workshops you don't own into something more profitable to them.

@NamFlow 3 жыл бұрын

@@Halcylion Ahh, that's a shame, I just wanted to try it out, but honestly I'm not surprised they made that change :-) I guess "lucrative" javelins and other craftable items - which can be currently sold for ridiculous amounts - will be fixed soon as well, but that I welcome, as it makes you tons of money very quickly. Anyways, keep up the good work, I love your content so far!

@ryan7775 3 жыл бұрын

would just like to say.... great videos, hope you continue this channel for years to come across many games. P.S your accent is your brand. Love that you say I-RON instead of I-ERN

@Halcylion 3 жыл бұрын

Khajiit glad to earn new customer!

@forsterga 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you, I will put this knowledge into denars as soon as I am back home from holidays.

@Norfarvell 3 жыл бұрын

Great series. Thanks!

@robertbest6858 2 жыл бұрын

This was a great video thanks for all the info i just got into bannerlord and i enjoy trade as much as conquest, theres nothing like making that $$

@yes-bf4tz 3 жыл бұрын

masterpiece!!!! best bannerlord content on youtube

@soardx1000 3 жыл бұрын

awesome video thank you for the insight!

@DasCapitolin 3 жыл бұрын

Extremely well done, sir.

@Halcylion 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you kindly, my good sir!

@GRyan13b 3 жыл бұрын

great guide and nicely edited, making me fire the game back up after a hefty break

@Halcylion 3 жыл бұрын

Glad you like it!

@infernnal676 3 жыл бұрын

I just picked up bannerlord. Awesome game and awesome guide! 👏

@pedrosoria1990 3 жыл бұрын

Nice video, great info, better person!

@wsk1124 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the guide

@styxrakash4639 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for making this

@OmletKing 3 жыл бұрын

Thx for lot of info! Subscribed.!

@Ubermvcht 3 жыл бұрын

M-am speriat când am văzut Decebal :).Misto clip!

@Halcylion 3 жыл бұрын

Te-ai speriat de Decebal? Te numesti cumva "Traian"? :D

@Ubermvcht 3 жыл бұрын

@@Halcylion haha,buna asta

@EITorsoGrande 3 жыл бұрын

Loved this!

@waddyz8802 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this guide!

@Halcylion 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! :)

@Zomrawii 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome as always bud ! I spent the last week watching your vids "the ultimate B.L" plus the trade guides you posted earlier trying to apply concepts and it worked greatly , ONE THING I wish if you can check if it's a bug or intended about trade levelling , I noticed specially early on the game just trading (using memory no perks yet) doesn't contribute to levelling I can say almost zero , I was confused I noticed that dumbing a good in one place is some times good for money but NOT for levelling !? Take grain as an example I buy for 7~8 and dumb all of it one place for 15~18 yet zero contribution to skill untill I figured out THE HARD WAY about the DEMAND system you just spoke of lmaooo Selling beyond the demand point RUIN the levelling contribution despite the price profits which is hard to monitor before the COLOR MARK system from perks . Anyway am so glad you brought it up in details , made sense to me Keep up the great work

@Halcylion 3 жыл бұрын

The only time I couldn't level my trade skill at all was when I was playing a raider character with SOCIAL 2 and 0 focus points in trade. I was doing some trades, because it was good early money, but I got no skill points after the skill's learning limit of 20 was reached. Other than that, I've never had troubles leveling my skill. And when I got lucky enough to buy grain with 8, I could sell it with 12-10 and still make skill points.... but who knows? Maybe beta 1.5 ruined trade again? I'll have to check.

@YuriKC 3 жыл бұрын

40:34 I paused to read the text. u deserve a lot of subs. keep going

@Halcylion 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@cevapipapi6167 3 жыл бұрын

wow. just wow. broken down so well. kudos, sir

@bigjimmyenglish 2 жыл бұрын

Haha amazing video, really funny and really pleasant to watch. +1 like

@Kyudayo9 3 жыл бұрын

Good merchant indeed, you just successfully persuade me to subscribe

@Halcylion 3 жыл бұрын

Tl;dr: Merchants have been nerfed in beta 1.5.4. . If you play on that patch, IGNORE TRADING! And if you want to play as a merchant: lock your game's version to patch 1.5.3. (Steam Library > Right Click Bannerlord > Properties > Betas > select 1.5.3. from the drop-down menu) Now to expand that subject, for whoever wants to know why I just said that. I recently had the pleasure of playing a bit on the 1.5.4. beta patch, and I came to realize that Taleworlds nerfed the Merchant playstyle to an extreme degree. The Fief Trading perk got moved to level 300 of the Trade skill, which you have to grind MANUALLY (caravans and workshops are supposed to contribute some passive XP to this skill, but that's currently not implemented). And that's not all: Siege Trading (the act of buying cheap goods and then taking them to a town under siege, or even laying siege to it by yourself), which is by far the most ruthlessly capitalistic move you can do, barely contributes any points to your skill, because nowadays, all towns are stocked with months worth of food and materials. Maybe there's still an efficient way to grind enough skill points to get the perk "Everything has a price", but I haven't found it yet, and because I'll be moving onto Cyberpunk for a few months, I have no time to compile a 4th trade guide. With all this said, I have a feeling Taleworlds are planning to re-balance this skill by making it easier to level up, because having to grind a single skill until your character is 60 years old - only for him to die of old age a day after achieving your objective - doesn't sound like good game balance. And also... why did they have to nerf trading so much when SMITHING can still make you millions in a single day?!?!?! C'mon now! Trade was a bit on the stronger side, I admit, but that nerf hits way too hard, rendering your merchant campaign unplayable. When trade is finally balanced, I'll edit this pinned comment to reflect that.

@Thingsyourollup 3 жыл бұрын

It's really bad bruv. They literally have nerfed every single legitimate method of making money. Your methods may be ruthless, but as an American, I consider them legitimate and the correct way to play the money game.

@Halcylion 3 жыл бұрын

@@Thingsyourollup That way of playing the game should be encouraged by the devs, not nerfed...

@Thingsyourollup 3 жыл бұрын

@@Halcylion So say we all!

@jhonnylee6685 3 жыл бұрын

i see no problem with cityies having suplys for months they only have 20-30k denars my javelins cost 111k pennys i just buy litterly everything in exchange for a bundle of 5 pointy sticks declare war wait until some lords decide its a good idea to run there 150 soldiers and 600 pesants in my army of archers on an open field for some renown influence and at this point worthless loot (but hey +5 relation for each lord that has atacked, don't take em prisoner) now i can simply take the city sell my stuff now its up to me take the garrison with me and let them take there town back and repeat that after a few days or just keep it (Vlandia now consist of 4 imprissoned lords thanks to my companions)

@DeathMetalSon 3 жыл бұрын

Damn you devs, stop fixing all the exploits that made the game fun

@AndrewPeaceMaker 3 жыл бұрын

amazing stuff friend helped me understand the game better :)

@Halcylion 3 жыл бұрын

That was the goal! :)

@drevil7vs13 3 жыл бұрын

21:18 instead of using memory I use win+shift+s to make screenshots of the prices in town, win+right and win+left to have at least two screenshots on the screen, and alt+tab to switch between game window and screenshots of the prices

@puchomuc 3 жыл бұрын

This is the best Bannerlord video in the whole wide web

@bigq5582 3 жыл бұрын

Great vidio! I learned a lot and was entertaining

@allesarfint 3 жыл бұрын

Something I like to do at the start is buying Old Work horses and sell them as meat, great earning ratio

@allesarfint 3 жыл бұрын

nvm you also do it

@Halcylion 3 жыл бұрын

every day we hustlin'

@GeneralFuct 3 жыл бұрын

Solve the perk issue by using a Excel ledger of your trades. My ledger also tracks min/max/median prices for goods as well as horse prices in each region.

@Shaikoten 3 жыл бұрын

That fucking Teladi, lodsamone, the currencies, masterfully crafted sir.

@MattCantu76 3 жыл бұрын

I love your instructional and the previous one you made. I mostly do global and trail traiding. My biggest money-maker is stocking up on food and then looking for a sieged town, then selling to all the starving people. 🤗 I hope they don't patch it. Also, good profit comes from buying from villages.

@Halcylion 3 жыл бұрын

There's no reason to patch it, selling to besieged towns is supposed to be profitable.

@kevinschm9798 3 жыл бұрын

you sir are what i call a jack of all trades

@AzoiatheCobra 2 жыл бұрын

What i do with the shop shifting is: create monopolly. Pen Havoc or whatever is called, for example. Has alot of clay villages, so i buy and switch all of the workshops there for pottery. then i search for all potteries in other towns, buy them, switch to whatever, and sell. Now i know where to sell my clay at high prize and where to buy my pottery at low prizes, and go sell them at other towns.

@rangergreen1935 Жыл бұрын

I know this isn't new or anything but I thought id share something I found on accident pertaining to the smithing hustle. Buy wood (duh) get the 25 perk for more coal (duh) BUT lookout for wooden hammers. Super cheap and if you smelt them down you get a piece of metal and 3 wood for each. Use your main Smith to turn the wood back into coal, and use every other follower to dismantle the hammys. More wood less travel ☺

@Zulu_Infinite 2 жыл бұрын

How do you only have 40k subs? This was hilarious.

@williamm.3612 3 жыл бұрын

Smithing nerf gonna wreck most peoples finances lol. I been avoiding it on my first play through - and defacto required to have max caravans out to fund just a single main party.

@Destroymaster100 3 жыл бұрын

i just got the game like 2 days ago and so far without even starting any main quest, i just been trading, buying green selling green and ive accumulated up to 41k shekels so far. i think i should invest into some market places now :0. ill create a steady source of passive income before i start the ultimate hand rubbing shenanigans. and that is creating markets that the villages outside of town dont support to cut them out and i take it all. ill watch more of your videos on that so i can understand it more. so cool though haha.