Trade income

[chimera99]

I've been trying to understand how trade works. I got the ships deployed etc. but the ports never showed any imcone. Then on a whim I checked my merchants and they looked like they were actually making money. Are the merchants where the trade income shows up as opposed to the ports?

Also, on assins, did I understand the other thread correctly and if you just put an assasin in a province that has a bunch of emmisaries in it, he/she will start killing them off on their own? That would sure explain something I saw. I finally started crqanking out assasins in one province. Because I was trying to figure out trade, I wasn't paying any attention to that province, which also happened to have a whole load of "emmisaries". WhenI went to move one of my assasins I realized there were no more emmisaries in the province and one of my assasins alredy had two stars. hmmm...

[hrvojej]

Yes, the merchants are the key. There might be a small income from imports in the ports as well, but only if the AI has a viable trade route to that province.

They don't kill emissaries automatically, but they do autokill enemy spies and assassins when they are in your own provinces. You should be seeing the message when this happens. The emissaries in question just moved on.

[chimera99]

Thanks. Anyway, I just did a preacher with a 2 star assasin, hehehe.

[malkuth]

For about the 600th Million Trillionth Time. You dont check trade with The ports.

You can use the search feature on this Forum and find about 600 Trillion Answers to this same question.

We really need sticky. I know this board dont have it. But we still need them.

[chimera99]

Chill, the question was already answered.