I very recently started playing The Sims Medieval(Amazing game) and I've run into a bit of a ''pickle''. I was starting out the Merchant hero, and checked out Carl's guide on that bloke. I've found it incredibly helpful up until this moment. When I came to the bottom, Carl mentioned an email from a Dennis Matthews, mentioning how he bought potions in bulk from his other hero classes and sold them for a massive profit. Following this advice, I went ahead and bought 88 Mystic Grog from my Wizard, and put them up for sale in my market stalls and started selling. The dilemma is that I sell it only one at a time. I assume(perhaps wrongly)that this is not what Dennis did, and so I took another approach. I loaded the entire bulk to my cargo sold and sailed off to Tredony. To my surprise, this accomplished nothing, and my cargo hold was still very much full of Mystic Grog.
Could somebody tell me where I went wrong here?
The email :
"First of all a big thanks for all the info. This was my first time playing a Sims game and your site has helped me tremendously.
I have recently made a ton of money with my Merchant and in the process I made my Spy, Doc, Smith and Wiz wealthy too.
For example I bought 200 bottles of Pestilence from my spy for a few grand and sold them for $150,000. Then 200 strong health from the Doc for $133,000. You can also sell Mystic Grog from the Wiz but the returns are not as high. You can't however keep flooding the market with these items and get the same returns. On my second voyage I doubled to 400 but got less money then on my first trip. You have to be your own Sams Club to make big money by selling in bulk.
Caution: I did the same thing with the Smith and bought 200 each of swords and armor to sell. Made a ton of money at the cost of queing up each sword and armor individually into the cargo bay. This was very time consuming.
Thanks to your suggestion of sharing the wealth, my whale angry sim gave my merchant a ton of whale meat which she traded to get the starter money to buy the potions.
Since the merchant is the richest and has the most yard space I had her buy all the cooking equipment, best chairs and tables. And with 600,000 bucks she can easily keep the town larder's stocked with every item. So there is always a place for my sims to get the best food. I've noticed sims take food from the castle larder so I only stock the market, wiz tower, spy room and barracks.
After I finished my game I then sent my merchant to start a new kingdom - hoping she'd take her 600,000 bucks with her. No such luck - but she can trade unlike regular monarchs so she'll be wealthy in no time.
So get on that ship and make some money!"
Link :
http://www.carls-sims-medieval-guide.com/heroes/merchant.phpThank you!
Edit : Also, I apologize if this is the wrong board. I was in a hurry. I'm very sorry if this is the case.
