Hi Nowake,
Sorry for taking so long to reply... you have written a lot of good info, but it is taking me a while to work with it... I am mainly playing the game, and changes in trade can take days of play IRL to see major changes. Still, I am seeing things with new eyes, thanks to your help. It will probably be a while until I feel like I understand trade well. In the meantime, let may I say a few things?
You noted all the problems with how trade can change over time, and be hard to manipulate. But the worst one is, how all trade ends with Realm Divide
improves export capacity (increases trade values) by +80: The goods you produce are priced per unit and traded away through a sea lane connected to the nearest port, as I wrote above. In the absence of a land route of course. The increased export capacity simply raises the trade values of each of the goods traded through that sea lane by 80, provided you are able to export enough units to take advantage of that.
Are you sure that you mean prices here, and not capacity (number of units)?
One big problem (perhaps) with Chosokabe, is that there isn't a Naval Tradition province anywhere on their home island of Shikoku. I am still trying to figure out if this means that they can never take advantage of Naval Tradition, anywhere.
When you talk about tariffs on trade, is it particular to imports or exports? And, I assume that Trading Posts work quite differently from trade with other clans. (It continues past RD.)
Is there any way to see more information on tariffs, than with the Finance / Trade / individual trade partner's tariff amount? It's really intriguing that you said metsuke might be better placed in the Naval Tradition province dealing with an actual good being exported. (Right? Tariffs are all about exports?) But is there any way to gauge this? I don't think I can see anything about tariffs on a given province's info screen.
Thanks again for all your help! Plus, if you're Romanian, your French is even better than my native English! Except I'd like to be called Chevalier Rogue, not Rouge - thanking you kindly.
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