1) Click on the Upper Margin on the Word "Trade".
2) View your trade cards here.
To trade
1) Click on the box of containing the name of the player (or the nationality of the nation) you wish to trade with.
2) After discussing the trade with your potential trade partner (using standard email, phone calls, or the online chat system) you can proceed with the trade.
3) You need to specify what you are expecting to receive from the other player. Please note that only two of the three (or more) cards you are receiving will be what you have been promised by your trade partner so be careful!
4) Drag the trade cards you wish to trade away to the Big White Box that says "Drag Cards you wish to give to the other player here." They should disappear from the images that you see, and the name should appear under a "Cancel Trade" button above the box you just dropped it in.
5) When you submit a trade, the other player (now) sees what you are giving them. If you want to lie about something, then you click "Lie" and specify what you are saying that the card i, which is the card your trading partner will be seeing.
6) After you have dropped all your cards, the "Click to submit this trade" button should become active. Click it, the trade will be finished.
7) Don't say "Done" from the top drop down until you are actually done trading with everyone, not just this previous trade partner.
8) "Don't Care" If you set a card as don't care it means it can be anything, ,so if you expect to get Salt, Grain, Don't Care, your trading partner could give you Salt, Calamity (Lie as Grain), Calamity. Iif you really want to make sure you don't get screwed, don't use Don't Care, but it's there for those with too much trust on their hands
9) "Unspecified" You can only send a card as Unspecified by lying, so if you expect to get Salt, Grain, Unspecified your trading partner will have to give you Salt, Grain, and a third card he will lie about and set is as "Unspecified"
Notes: My personal recommendation is that you set all trades as 2 Named Cards + 1 Unspecified that way you are guaranteed to get those to cards, and avoid getting screwed
The trading system built into the site is NOT for negotiation, but is for the actual exchange of cards.All negotiation should be done external to the site, probably by email. When you are ready to finalize a trade, then you go to the site.
I have heard that some players are requesting or sending screen shots of their trade cards to request proof or prove that they aren't lying about trades. This is a BIG no no and should be considered cheating. You cannot in the real game, under ANY circumstances, show your hand to another player. Per the rules:
28.3 ... A player may not show his trade cards to another player during negotiations, nor may a player inform other players of the details of a trade after it is completed.
I consider taking a screen shot showing the trade cards to another player the same as showing your trade hand.
If you get a request for such a screen shot, refuse the request and point to the above rule. If they persist, either trade with someone else or let me know. If I do specifically hear of anyone requesting such a thing, I will punish them (remove whatever cards I feel like from their hand, for example). If they persists, I'll have no choice other than to ban them.
So, no screen shots.
Q: "If I can make a suggestion though, it has been quite common to make comments like I just traded that with, or just traded it away..."
It would help if you could clarify on this part of the rule: nor may a player inform other players of the details of a trade after it is completed.
Because it can be from not mentioning you've traded a calamity to someone to not being able to say "just traded it away" when you're asked for a commodity you had moments before."
A: Here is my interpretation: If you could hear it over the table in a face to face game, then it's OK. As far as I'm concerned, if you say to Crete "I'll trade you 2 gold and Barbarians", there is no lying going on, and it is public knowledge where the Barbarians are so you can say "I just traded Barbarians away". However, if Crete also got Epidemic as part of that trade (because only 2 were guaranteed) no one, neither the trader or the recipient can say anything about the Epidemic.
Similarly, if not all cards traded were the truth, you cannot disclose any further details about what was traded. Only that which could be public info.
That last part, understandably, is harder to enforce.
If it is the player's turn and they haven't put their orders in by the end of the time limit:
There will be a 50% time amount (24hrs in the example) where players can update their public messages and set up trades. However, no trades will exchange hands until the 50% limit is complete. This is to fix a problem experienced in other games where those that happen to be awake and at their computers when the trading round starts have a large advantage over getting the good trades in.
After the 50% trade embargo, trading will resume as normal. The cutoff for the trading round will be the number of players times the time limit (so 8x48 hours in the example). This is just the EXTREME edge for trading. As people leave the market, the time limit will be reevaluated. So, if after 24 hours someone leaves the market (7 players remaining), then the new time limit will be updated to the lesser of (number of players times the time limit) or (current time limit). In this way, the end of trading gets sooner and sooner as people leave. Re-entering the trading market has no effect on the time limit.
How availability works with trading is that we start with a base deadline, then every player's availability is analyzed ONCE. For example, say there was a deadline of 12:00 noon. Player A's availability is 1-3pm, B's = 2-6pm, C's is 11am-1pm. The new deadline for trade will (likely) be at 11am the next day since A's pushed the deadline to 1pm, B's to 2pm, and since 2pm is outside C's range so it's pushed to 11am the next day. Even though 11am isn't inside A nor B's range, it is still beyond the original base deadline.
Note that this calculation takes into consideration only the players in the market, and is recalculated any time someone leaves the market.