SIGNALING
You should clear all of your leftover, non-performing trades each day, preferably just before a Spire, Tournament, Event, or Province run, as pending trade offered goods are placed On Hold and are, therefore, not available for negotiations.
Examine your non-performing offers as you clear them, and then get pro-active about developing additional Ideal Trading Partners.
After the run you can search for trades that will help balance your inventory, and then you can post a fresh cycle of trades for what you still need.
Because of the way the world map is structured, the two cities immediately above you to your left and right will only have one attractive boost; but other six cities will all have two attractive boosts.
You should obviously avoid cluttering up the trade list with additional large trades of the same type, and should delete non-performing trades, except that retaining (or reposting) a small offer of each type is just good business.
Surprisingly, posting a spread of trades is actually faster than window shopping. My boosts are Marble, Silk, & Gems:
- Offer Marble, 90, done
- Request Steel, done, confirm
- Request Planks, done, confirm
- Request Crystal, done confirm
- Request Scrolls, done, confirm
- Request Elixir, done, confirm
- Request Magic Dust, done, confirm
- Offer Silk, 60, done
- Offer Gems, 40 done
- If you have way too much of something that's selling, then you should offer additional spreads at
- 900, 600, 400 unit cycles
- or even selected
- 9k, 6k, 4k unit cycles.
- If you're short of something, then post it at 9, 6, 4 and hope that somebody will come to your rescue.
- Either way you'll need to whistle up your Business Development persona.