First mentioned in chapter 1828, when Shi Feng received the Transportation Firm Design.
Description[]
A Transportation Firm is a special construction that can increase the Popularity of a town or city, and expedite the increase of NPC Merchants visiting and doing business.
The construction of the Transportation Firm in Silverwing Town resulted in a 3-floors building the size of a sports arena at the cost of 20,000 Gold [1].
After its promotion to Bronze rank, the Silverwing City's Transportation Firm undergo reconstruction obtaining a 5-floors building the size of 4 (four) sports arenas at the cost of 40.000 Gold and 100.000 Magic Crystals [2].
Known Ranks[]
Basic Transportation Firm[]
Most of the Basic Transportation Firms only offered commissions made by ordinary NPCs, and only rarely would NPC nobles make a commission.
Advanced Transportation Firm[]
A Advanced Transportation Firm offer several quests commissioned by NPC nobles and a few by NPC great nobles.
Not only did a Advanced Transportation Firm offer many more commissions from NPC nobles, but it would also offer commissions made by NPC nobles of other cities. Meanwhile, by completing these foreign nobles’ commissions, players could obtain Reputation Points for the corresponding NPC Cities. [3]
Bronze Transportation Firm[]
At the Bronze rank, it offered thousands of quests daily, of which around a hundred of quests were commissioned by NPC nobles and around a dozen quests from NPC great nobles.
The Transportation Firm would no longer limit its business to the country it was based in. It would expand its operations becoming a hub connecting the neighboring kingdoms and empires. Atracting even NPCs belonging to neutral powers.[4]
Revenue[]
A Transportation Firm could charge the following fees:
- Intermediary fees: up to 10% of what a player earned from a quest taken from the firm. [5]
- Exclusive Trade Routes's usage fees.
- NPC Guard's scort service fees.
Quests[]
Players were able to pick up Transportation Quests from the firm. Completion of these quests, would allow them to obtain a large sum of Coins and also accumulate Transportation Firm Contribution Points (TFCP) that could be exchanged by items normally only traded between NPCs.
A Transportation Firm re-stocks on new items daily, allowing players to find new items each day.
Difficulty Ranks[]
Transportation Quests also known as Delivery Quests were divided according to their difficulty into the star-ranks below:
One-star Quests[]
- Requirement: Level 50 or above.
- Rewards: arround 80 Silver Coins, 50 TFCP and one other item [1].
Two-star Quests[]
- Requirement: Tier 2.
- Rewards: around 3 Gold Coins, 300 TFCP and one rare item or material [1].
Three-star Quests[]
- Requirement: Tier 2 or above.
- Rewards: top-tier weapons and equipment or rare Tier 2 Skill Books [1], estimated remuneration around 20 Gold Coins and 500 Transportation Firm Contribution Points (TFCP).
Three-star Advanced Quests[]
- Requirement: Tier 3.
- Rewards: top-tier weapons and equipment or Tier 3 Skill and Spell Books [6], estimated remuneration around 30 Gold Coins and 1.000 TFCP.
- Mininum difficulty for quests commissioned by an NPC noble or a neutral NPC. Only when a commission came from an NPC noble could players obtain City Reputation Points and a chance for a Secret Treasure by completing it [3].
Four-star Quests[]
- Requirement: Tier 3.
- Rewards: around 50 to 60 Gold Coins and 2.000 to 3.000 TFCP, may have additional rewards [6].