Trade Guild Newbie Questions

ZomZom

I just got into five trade guilds and I’m busily hammering, sewing, cooking and glug-glugging to meet the various sales quotas. I have to say it’s pretty confusing keeping track of all the various minimum requirements. For example, I can make N worth of sales, donate N2 worth of gold, or buy N3 worth of raffle tickets. Remembering these requirements across five guilds can get to be a bit much. Does anyone have recommendations for how you keep track? What about keeping track of your total sales? I installed Master Merchant and Arkadius and am learning those. Am I on the right path?

I’m also curious as to how guild leaders keep track of this across 500 members. How do they do it?

JN_Slevin

Im not gonna lie to you, it can be quite overwhelming for new players. The decision to go in 5 at the same time can be overwhelming for veteran players too!
You might want to start slow and work your way up^^

Everything below here is my opnion and can differ greatly between guilds.

Arkadius Trade Tools is by far the superior option at the moment in my opinion, but if MM works for you its fine aswell, both do the same thing. You do not need both.
Those are used to track your sales, for donations or raffle tickets you might want to check with your GM about those, some will write it in the note, some will have an external informationsource some only work if you ask. Since the bankhistory which is used to track donations / deposits is only available if you have the "View Guild Bank Gold" permission, And since this permission also gives you access to bids (a welll guarded secret) normal players usually dont have access to those.

As for how GMs keep track, i for one use ATT for sales and a new donationtracker addon (the donationtrackeraddon will not be useful for you, since you need the above mentioned permission)

Once a week (usually), we go through everyone in our guilds and check if they made the quota, if not they get a remindermail or get kicked instanlty (differs from guild to guild, ask your GM!).

But so far, you are indeed on the right path! To be an effective trader, addons for salestracking are almost mandatory!

I wish you the best of luck in your journey, while the system has its flaws, it is unique and if you know your way around it, it can be quite addicting with its depth

Inaya

I like Arkadius and TTC myself. You can track your sales in each guild by opening the guild window, going to history, sales, hit E every 30 seconds or so to make sure it's updated then go to roster and check your name. Your sales will be to the far right.
Most of the time it's lower than what you actually sold since ZOS made the addons update much slower.

I donate more than the minimum required to all my trade guilds regardless of sales and try to donate on the same day.

Personally I don't know how people do 5 trade guilds and still have time to play the game, but that's just me.

GM's use the same addons to track sales, at least that's how the guild I was an officer in did it.

Ratinira

1. Train your memory or take notes:)
2. Both MM and ATT keep record of sales, though you may install only one of them. They both do the same thing and have a hight impact on performance (on location loading, for example). Also install Tamriel Trade Center to see price (MM/ATT show price sold in your guilds, TTC shows all prices listed) And Awesome Guild Store for comfortable sales. There are donation addons too, but they are good only if your guild has fixed weekly donations.
3. Guild leaders use addons and notes too.

Ratinira

And, well, yes, unless you are a great fan of grinding keeping 150 slots filled (and not with trash) may be very pressing...
Put most valuable items in guilds that has higher requirement.
Also if some guilds have merchants in distant and not popular locations better put there special items. Most players will come there after seeng item on TTC and will not run across half of Tamriel for the ordinary item they can buy from nearest merchant.

deevoh1991

Only 3 of the 5 guilds are weekly dues. Others are mmire relaxed and chill I just spend 1 Saturday earning 3.6k in each of my 9 toons via crafting to make 30k in order to pay my dues on Sunday .

AlnilamE

I'm only in 2 trading guilds, the other 3 are social/PvP and have no trade requirements, even if they do get a trader.

I try to keep my slots filled in all of them, but I don't worry about sales quotas, I just reply to the weekly raffle emails with gold for tickets (or deposit the amount for the guild that does it that way) when I get those emails. Then I delete them from my inbox and call it a week.

Like, unless you really like trading and are going to farm stuff specifically to sell, you may burn out with 5 guilds.

That said, MM has a nice summary tab where you can see your totals across the 5 guilds for the week, so that could help you keep track.

Razzledazzle_dar

I'm in 2 guilds (yep, only 2 at the moment...keeping options open for the other 3 and I'm picky). Neither always have traders but usually do. I sell high value items in whichever one has the better location (or a location at all). They don't have any mandatory requirements but I pull my weight by donating or participating in raffles. I don't move tons of items or always keep my slots filled. I don't call myself a veteran but I've been playing since launch. I like this option cause it's low stress and I still can make a decent amount on the side of just enjoying the game for what it is. This is what I choose to do as a long term player, but the reason I've described it is that most long term players probably want the more intense options, but I'd actually recommend what I STILL do as a great way to get your feet wet if you are NEW.

ZaroktheImmortal

Just join a social/content related guild that has a trader and no worry of dues or anything. Also trader locations I doubt matter much as most people will just use tamerial trade center website to find items