Merchants of Kaidan

Merchants of Kaidan - 1 DVD

About This Game Regain your riches, restore your honor and punish those who

have wronged you.

Merchants of Kaidan is a challenging trading game fused with lots of RPG

elements. You start very humble, one cart, a purse of gold and silver coins

is all that you have. Your task is to roam the world and search of

opportunities to score some profit. Buy low, sell high - a merchant\'s motto

is easy to grasp. And yet the job is harder than it seems.

A good merchant needs to know everything about the market, he is always on

the lookout for a deal, always listening, always engaging and deepening his

knowledge. He knows what forces influence the prices, what events affect

them. A good merchant listens to rumours and gossips spread by travelers at

inns and taverns hoping for a clue, a hint where to go, where a good deal

awaits. A good merchant surrounds himself with specialists smarter than him,

people who help him maximize profits and minimize losses. He always expands

his fleet of carts, he balances risks, calculates profitability.

The conditions are constantly changing, and supply and demand for different

goods with them. Maybe you\'d like to pay a cheaper price for furs in the

summer, and sell them for a hefty profit as the winter is coming and people

need warmth.

But is it worth carrying them for so many days, risking robbery, moths and

taking precious space that you could use to transport something now and make

a profit immediately?

Or is it worth to buy illegal herb in the out of reach swamps where it cost\'s

next to nothing, and risk smuggling it into the city where you can sell it

for an amazing profit? But what if the city guards want to control you

Should you pay a bribe? How big? Maybe the best course of action is to say

that you have nothing and hope they don\'t find anything?

These are the types of questions you will have to ask yourself constantly.

Merchants of Kaidan has 4 story lines each with many quests. Main quest

that brings you closer to avenging your father\'s murder, and 3 side-quest

lines. A total of over 100 quests each composed of multiple steps.

A set of random events that influence your journeys. A storm on the sea,

attack by dragons, highway robbery and many, many more.

Three types of transport of your goods: by roads, by sea and by flight,

each has its advantages and disadvantages and a unique set of events

associated. As you grow your fleet you can join a partnership and you\'ll get

to manage 3 traders.

You can hire advisers each specializing in a different field. Their council

will help you in a variety of issues. Some will show you shortcuts on the

roads, some will help you fight of the bandits, some will council you on how

to sail better and in case of a storm, how to minimize risks and losses. If

you wish, you can also send them to school to improve their abilities for

additional cost.

4 seasons of the year that influence the prices of goods, open some paths

for travel and block the others. They also impact the way the game looks,

each city has a distinct look at different time of the year.

Random blessings and curses that influence your statistics. They in turn

affect how well you conduct business.

A set of artifacts that influence your statistics or can help negate the

effects of random events.

A complex market fluctuation algorithm that include many variables such as

demand, supply, seasons of the year, localization of the city, random events

like droughts or rat infestation.

A complex trading algorithm

Over 100 quests each with multiple steps to success.

2 out of 10 planned mini games that accompany events with next ones

upcoming in the updates

Possibility to create a partnership with other traders and control 3

characters simultaneously

1 main and 2 quick scenarios

15 types of goods for trade with varying characteristics, some illegal,

some perishable

Beautiful hand-drawn localisations.

Your name is Olivean de Calinn, and this was supposed to be the most

important day of your life. Your father has been preparing you, for all these

years, for this exact moment. Your 21st birthday.

You were finally a grown-up, able to take care of yourself, a person worthy

of continuing your fathers\' legacy.

He wasn\'t born into money. To buy his first cart, he had to work very hard

saving every silver and copper. One trade after trade, step after step, he

climbed the ladder, transforming his tiny one-man venture into a trading

company of a rather significant size.

Then he met Van Talodd, the most famous merchant in the whole kingdom, and

soon enough he entered into partnership. This enterprise proved very

profitable, and Van Talodd promised your father something more precious than

wealth. A lordship. Few weeks ago he left to the Capital  Ovoros  to accept

the title. He was taking a little longer to come back than you expected, but

recent weather was unfavourable, maybe he got stuck, or a road turned into a

swamp... it happened all the time.

It was almost dusk when you heard the knocking to the door. A messenger, his

clothes soiled with mud, brought you a letter. There was no lordship, your

father was found a traitor, an enemy of the Kingdom, and hanged for

conspiring against the king, after a very hasty trial. All his assets and

estate confiscated and handed over to the person who exposed the entire plot

Van Talodd.

Suddenly everything became crystal clear, Van Talodd maimed him with promises

of lordship, the only thing money can\'t buy. But his real purpose was to

entrap your father and take over his fortune.

Instead of your birthday present, you got carts full of kings\' sell-swords

approaching quickly. There was no time to loose, you had to run fast and far

Flee from the men that were certainly sent to kill you.

That is only a beginning of your story, you\'re left with only your family

ring that you had on you. Take a fake name you need to avenge your father

Follow the same path as him, grow rich and destroy Van Talodd. The road there

is hard and long  are you strong enough to make it?

Kaidan is a fictitious world, that was once a home to a space-faring

civilization. It\'s history is almost unknown. Only that, once they developed

starships, they relatively quickly left the planet. And on the remnants of

the old civilization a new one has sprouted. A far less developed. If not for

the artifacts left by the predecessors, they would be no different than a

medieval country.