The trade routes - can they provide a bonus

[MDPR]

So, on the beautiful made loading screens, there are presented trade routes.

Wonder if they give a bonus should all the cities on a given route be captured?

[Fluvius Camillus]

So, on the beautiful made loading screens, there are presented trade routes.

Wonder if they give a bonus should all the cities on a given route be captured?

The route is just represented by the buildings in the cities on the roads. Some ends of a route might miss a building (no Silk Road in Seleukeia). Those buildings all give an individual trade boost.

~Fluvius

[QuintusSertorius]

Sardis has a building for the Persian Royal Road, which gives a trade bonus.

[MDPR]

Ok, thanks, so it sounds like I should not try and capture each city on a given trade route, to "own" the route, but just build the related structures.

[QuintusSertorius]

Ok, thanks, so it sounds like I should not try and capture each city on a given trade route, to "own" the route, but just build the related structures.

I didn't build it, and don't think I can - not sure if the Seleucids could have, or whether it's there automatically.

[bobbin]

They are alrerady present from the start, you cannot build them.

[QuintusSertorius]

They are alrerady present from the start, you cannot build them.

Like the Wonders, makes sense.

[MDPR]

OK, thanks.