Trade Routes

Ever wanted to play as a traveling merchant, buying goods cheap where they're plentiful and selling them where they're rare for a modest profit? Or did it ever bother you that materials and ingredients are sold in the same quantity and for the same price everywhere, even if they come from only one mine or grow in only one area? Then you might enjoy...

OVERVIEW Trade Routes dynamically adjusts the gold value and merchant supply of food, drinks, animal hides and parts, ingredients, ores, ingots, gems, soul gems and spell tomes according to the real availability and logical demand of each item in each hold. These adjustments can be influenced by the player's activities (where appropriate), and as the name implies, are carefully tuned and arranged in such a way that they create a network of profitable trade routes -- in fact, two separate networks.

The primary trade loop visits every hold except Whiterun and can start turning a profit as early as level 3. This loop is made up of the highest-margin routes, carrying goods from where they are most plentiful to where they're the rarest or in the highest demand. But of course, the greatest price differential tends to involve the furthest distance, so each leg of the primary loop is quite long -- often stretching clear across the province. There is also a secondary loop which only becomes profitable to dedicated, skilled merchants later in the game; although the profit margin on each leg of this loop is lower, the legs are also much shorter, offering a higher profit potential for a shorter distance traveled.

Many mods which add new lands and regions are supported (but not required), so they can be optionally inserted into both trade loops. Supported regions currently include Solstheim from the Dragonborn DLC, Moonpath to Elsweyr (partial), Wyrmstooth, and Falskaar; support is also planned for Rochebere, Luftahraan and Issgard whenever they're released.

Trade Routes requires Skyrim Script Extender (SKSE) version 1. 7. 0 (release 45) or later.

HOW IT WORKS Trade Routes makes several adjustments which work in concert to add some regional flavor and create profitable trading opportunities. Each feature can be tuned or disabled using a SkyUI/MCM configuration panel, however this is mainly intended as a fallback option in case there is a compatibility issue with another mod. For most users, it is recommended to leave all options at their default settings, which have been carefull