Silkroad Online Triangular Conflict System

The Triangular Conflict System – Silkroad Online’s most unique feature in the game. Where every level 20 player and above can select a job as a trader, hunter or a thief and take part in the Triangular Conflict adventures.

Triangular Conflict

Silkroad Online revolves around the triangular conflict, a three-job system allowing anyone to grow wealthy and famous.

Introduction

When you become lvl 20, you will be able to act a job. You are free to choose which job you want, or no job at all. When you registered for a job, you can’t act another job. If you changed your mind and decide you want another job, you will have to leave your current job and receive a penalty of 7 days. After that you can join another job.

• Trader: Buy goods in one city, and attempt to transport them successfully to another city to make profit. You will spawn NPC thieves on your way. You earn money when you arrive in the next town and you sell your goods.
• Hunter: Protect the trader’s transport to make sure the trade is successful. You earn money when you kill a thief or when the trader sells his goods.
• Thief: Try to kill the hunter(s) (if present), and rob the trader to sell the goods in thief town to earn money. You will spawn NPC hunters on your way.

How to register for a job

• Go to the job associate of the job you want to join. The Hunter and Merchant Associate are located on the map, the Thief Associate is in thief town. You can get here by searching for the thief town teleport in Jangan and Constantinople
• Click Join hunter/merchant/thief guild. You are now registered in a job.
• Create a Job Alias. This is the name that will be shown when you are acting a job.
• Buy a job suit. There are differences between Chinese and Europe job suits, and str or int suits. Choose the one you prefer.
• You can now put on your job suit.

Note:

1. If you leave your job guild, you have to wait 7 days before you can join an other job guild.
2. You can’t put on a job suit while being in a party. When you have it on, you can join a new party. And you can’t be in a party with players without job suit on, or players acting the opposite job.

Transports, levels and stars

Transports

You can buy special transports at the stable under Trans.

Horses are faster, but carry less goods and have less HP than camels.

Levels

When you first begin with your job, you will be a lvl 1 trader/hunter/thief. After you gain enough job EXP, you will lvl up in your job.

As a trader, you can gain EXP when you kill a thief, or sell your goods.

As a hunter, you can gain EXP when you kill a thief, or when a trader in your party sells his goods.

As a thief, you can gain EXP when you kill a hunter/trader, or when you sell you stolen goods.

Trader

Hunter

Thief

Stars

• When a trader buys goods at the Specialty Trader, the trade will be ranked in stars. You can see what your star lvl is in your transport, below your goods. The more goods you buy, the higher your star level will be.
• NPC thieves: When you go outside the safe zone town, NPC thieves will spawn around you. NPC thieves appear as normal mobs close to your lvl. These special mobs can only attack traders or hunters. The amount of these spawns will depend on your star lvl. For example, a 5 star trade will spawn a lot more NPC thieves than a 1 star trade.
• 1 star protection: If a trader is lower than lvl 40 and does a 1 star trade, player thieves can not attack him. NPC thieves that spawn around will still attack you. This is called the 1 star protection. However, when you are higher than lvl 40, you will not be protected even when you do a 1 star trade. Also, when you do a 2 star trade or higher at any lvl, you will not be protected either.
• NPC hunters: When a thief steals goods and has them in his transport, NPC hunters will spawn. These hunters work exactly the same as NPC thieves. NPC hunters can only attack player thieves.

Important

Make sure you have everything you need

• A hunter will not need anything else than his suit.
• A trader will need a transport and transport potions, these are recovery kits and bad status removers. You can find these at the stable.
• A thief will also need a transport and transport potions. A thief also needs a Bandit Den Return Scroll, you can buy these at the Thief Associate. This scroll will take you back to thief town when you stole goods, so it is very important you have these.
• If you are a trader you should get 1 to 3 hunters that are higher lvl than you. So you don’t have to worry about thieves and mobs. If you do a 1star trade and you are sure you can handle the thieves and mobs, you can also do it without hunters, but it is still recommended to hire some. Many hunters on the same trade won’t share job EXP or profits so everyone will get good earnings.

Plan your trading route and know each ones role

• As will be mentioned later on in this post, there are many trade routes and new trading centers like Bandits Mountain Stronghold, Black Robber Den and Niya Remains which will require a special quest being accomplished. These quests can be acquired by talking to the special trader NPC in those places while wearing your trader suit.
• Traders should get the Map on and always look at their path, they should also never stop… The point here is to use those green potions to go forward, most of the NPC thieves will be running after you instead of dealing damage.
• Hunters on their part should always be prepared to combat, many pills, HP/MP pots and buff between pops. The first goal of the Hunters is to protect the traders transport. That is to say, they should focus on attacking NPC thieves going after the trader. They should be higher lvl than the trader so they don’t have to worry about getting hit by NPC Thiefs. Many skills might be useful to be efficient in doing this. Skills like Nukes, Snake sword dance, instant casts, Knock back with glavie or any skill that can hit 3-5 thieves at once are very helpful in getting those 15-30 thieves on you instead of the traders transport.
• In the case you can get 3 hunters, one of them can scout the ferries and bridges before you get to those risky spots.
• If a thief activates his bandit den return scroll, he will not be able to pick up more goods. But he will still be able to move and attack. The bandit den return scroll takes about 5 minutes to get you to thief town, so in the meantime, you have to kill the NPC hunters that spawn around you, and protect your transport. If your transport dies, you need to cancel the scroll and start over again.

Don’t Panic

In the case you meet an obviously HIGHER lvl Thief human, here are some tips.

• Hunters first, should cast all their protection skills snow shield, castle shield, blessings etc… and jump on that high lvl. No matter he is lvl 80. Their objective at that point is to Knock-Down, Ice, Stun the thief to gain time … you won’t loose much EXP when dying on a job…
• Traders, while their devoted mates are busy, should get aside quickly, out of sight, and DROP THEIR SPECIAL GOODS… in a bush, in a corner, away from that busy thief. The point in doing so is that special goods on the ground are not glowing, NPC thieves popping on the contrary will execute shiny skills which can be seen in the far distance… Another thing about dropping goods is to save the fleeing traders life, which cant fight 30 NPC thieves 5 lvls over him alone
• When the Thief could not find the goods, killed your hunters, and left the area, get your goods back where you dropped ‘em and shall the trade go on again

Selling of Bargain Priced Special Goods has begun

This is a message that is the most important for traders. There are Special Goods Trader NPCs at the Bandits Mountain Stronghold, Black Robber Den, and Niya Remains. When this message appears, traders can buy and sell special goods at those NPCs. You will have to do a special quest at these NPCs before you can buy or sell anything there. You have to wear your trader suit in order to do the quest. These NPCs are especially handy for traders that are just not high lvl enough to get all the way to the next town, they can end their trade on those places and still earn money. But beware, when you trade with goods that are bought from the Special Goods Trader, you lose your 1 star protection, and you will spawn more NPC thiefs than usually. This only lasts for 30 minutes though, so you better be fast. When the Selling of Bargain Priced Special Goods has ended, you can still sell your goods at those NPCs, but you cant buy anything anymore.

Note: When you are buying your goods, and close the Specialty Trader window, you will not be able to buy any more goods for 10 minutes. So make sure you have a hunter to kill the NPC thiefs that spawn while you are buying goods.

Bugs in the Triangular Conflict

• When joining a job guild, it says the required amount of gold is 10k. This is wrong, the actual required amount of gold is 100k.
• Any player (also players that aren’t acting a job) can be hit by NPC thiefs or hunters who use Lightning. Lightning has the special ability to hit multiple targets that stand close to each other. Also NPC thiefs or hunters that use Europe skills that can hit multiple targets (like Earth Shock and Snow Wind) can hit other players. So always beware when you are close to a trader or thief.

Source: Silkroad Wiki

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