The Trader appears to all ranks Baron/Baroness and above. The first sighting is a message on the TE hud: "A Mysterious Trader has been seen traveling on the road to White Horse..." Typically, there are 3-4 turns between the first notice and the pay turn. If King Tremor is online, he will send a notice to the kingdom; if for some reason is not online or he can't, Princes/Princesses in the kingdom will send a notice.
We usually gather in the pub, where the White Horse Trader System is located (on the stage). Once you arrive at the pub, you should click the trader statue and you will be given a random style hat to wear (we opted for hats because we like to dance during trader and traditional Trader Circles require participants to sit, and we are a lively bunch). You should wear the hat you are given; when you put it on, you will get a pop-up menu asking you your sex: Male or Female. The next question will ask you your current TE rank. Once you click your rank, your rank will appear over your head in green for others to see. Once you know what you get from trader, you should click on your hat and click the choice for what he gives you. A line in chat will tell you what you should do with what you got from the trader. If you get Generosity, your title will turn to red, letting others with generosity know not to give acres to you. Once the trader year is over, you can remove your hat and delete it from your inventory, as the hats are one use only; you will need to take a new hat for each subsequent trader. Many thanks to our own Elgyfu Wishbringer for scripting and creating this one-of-a-kind system designed especially for our kingdom.
Always saves up enough gold that is 4 times what it takes to buy land and keeps it as base to work from as if it not there.
Then save up for your land to buy regularly. The trader is expensive, but the best money and acre making thing you can do to help yourself and your line.
It is not known when the trader comes, but usually comes every 24-50 hours… if Mysterious Trader comes.. announce in group to get your friends in so we all can benefit and have Trader party for year
IMPORTANT SUGGESTION: As soon as the Trader is announced, start getting to the Drunken Drow Tavern (White Horse's Trader Meeting Area) with your friends in the kingdom just in case you or someone else gets generosity. This will prevents losing out on a month of rewards and makes the most out of the year.
1 g forever more ( rare to get but best reward of all for long run ). What to do: 1 g per acre will be added to your gold per acres permanently. So you have to do nothing after that.
For 1 year, your generosity will be richly rewarded ("generosity" or "gen" for short). What to do: Give away an acre every month to someone. It will return gold in surprises that will make you much money. It has to be someone at 1 rank above you max, and anyone same rank or below. It is best to give to your down line, or up line, but if not, the rewards stills happen. Many of us give to the person that needs it the most to help each other out, our direct line or not. Gold rewards are greater if you give to a different player each turn.
For 1 year your land will be at low cost to buy ("buy low" for short). What to do: buy land every month for one year at tremendously low price, or if you are low on gold, buy/sell every turn for 6 months to recoup your Trader fee, then buy for the last 6 months.
For 1 year, purchased land is likely to contain surprises ("surprises" for short). What to do: buy land every month at your normal price, the next turn will reward you with gold treasure or gold bars in return. Similar to "buy low", you can buy/sell every turn for 6 months if your gold is low and then just buy land for the last 6 months of the trader year.
For 1 year your land will be worth more than usual ("sell high" for short). What to do: sell your land for high price which is more than it costs you to buy land. sooooo in same turn, buy land AND sell it at end of year you has much gold and you keeps the same amount of land.
Golden Seeds ("seeds" for short). What to do: nothing. For one year, your land production skyrockets, but it lasts only 11 months. The 12th month gold per acre and month goes back to normal.
Book (Federation Huds only): "He takes your gold and counts it. A book appears as if from thin air. It is leather bound, and appears to be very old. As you take it, you notice it is locked shut with an opening for a small key." What to do: nothing. Attend festival and pay the Fortune Teller, who will eventually give you the key to open it.
Gold Bars: Trader gives you a stack of gold bars, you count them and find there are 5 ("gold bars" for short, applies only to players on the Federation Hud). What to do: do nothing you just got 5 gold bars! Polish them up and wait for the Alchemist