most valuable resorces

[Mister_R]

I have some merchants trading here and there.
I would like to place them in the most valuable resource, to generate higher income.
Where are the most valuable resources located? Is there any list rating all resources locations? I couldn’t find something like this in the manual. So, probably there isn’t such a list.
But have you find a similar rate? Or, based on your experiences which are the most valuable places?

[WhiskeyGhost]

The most valuable resources are usually either: Gold in Timbuktu/Zagreb(?), the stuff over in the America's, and some various things like Silk in Constantinople or silver.

Note that your capitols location relative to the resource also changes how much you gain from them, so it's quite possible to have Gold being less profitable then something like Amber or Slaves (which actually makes decent income as well).

[Galain_Ironhide]

Send some merchants up to the Russian lands (Smolensk, Kiev, sorry cant remember all of the province names). There are some quite profitable gold resources up there.

Also at the bottom of the map in the Dongola province (below Alexandria and Cairo) there are some good Ivory and Slave resources that are worth good coin.

Finally one other and probably the most sort after by the AI is the silk around Constantinople and Nicaea.

Make sure you take a pack of merchants with some assassins, these resources there are usually highy pursued by the AI. But as whiskyghost mentioned it can be all relative to where you are located on the map.

[Eikon the Magistrate]

Fortaleza gold mines 500+ fpt for a brand spanking new merchant
(whats with the chocolate here btw?? neone else know how to collect?)

Timbuktu: ivory/gold
Arguin: ivory/gold (IF you can keep the dam place that is)
Constantinople cloth or w/e
Stockholm Amber/silver ( ez monopoly/land bridge )


anything thats far away from ur capital and is a resource that you do not have an abundance of in your faction will trade for high(er) value ... tho Ill usually take the hit and keep my merchants in my own territory proper. (safer and less maintenance)

[The Wandering Scholar]

Could a russian merchant make a decent amount of Florins from the gold resources?

[Ramses II CP]

Among the top 5-6 most rare types of merchandise florins earned has more to do with the location of your capital than with the relative value of the item. I find it's easiest to just check the economic report between switching my capital around after I've placed merchants on all the premium resources nearby. Try to place your capital as far away as possible from the nearest instance of a particular item that your merchants control.

[Yoyoma1910]

It also seems somewhat driven by what your faction has access to. For instance, I've noticed as Portugal that the iron resources in Spain are substantially more valuable than if I'm playing, say France.

[Galain_Ironhide]

Could a russian merchant make a decent amount of Florins from the gold resources?

I have often heard from other players' accounts who have played as the russians saying that the gold resources makes them an economic powerhouse if they control them.

Maybe someone can back me up on this?

[Guru]

Send some merchants up to the Russian lands (Smolensk, Kiev, sorry cant remember all of the province names). There are some quite profitable gold resources up there.

I believe you mean amber by gold resources?

It also seems somewhat driven by what your faction has access to. For instance, I've noticed as Portugal that the iron resources in Spain are substantially more valuable than if I'm playing, say France.

That's a bit strange, since IIRC there's some iron resources in eastern France, too. Maybe it's just the capital... The French capital might be farther from the nearest iron resource than the Portuguese capital?

[Galain_Ironhide]

I believe you mean amber by gold resources?

Gold, amber. Its all yellow. Close enough

I stand corrected my good man.

[Bulawayo]

As far as I have understood these resources is that the money depends on the goods available for the capital. Goods which are not traded (normal trade between cities) to the capital will give better revenue, and is also depending on the size and trade buildings of the capital. Change capital and you will see that the merchants revenues are also changing. Anybody else here who has understood it the same way as me?

[Yoyoma1910]

That's a bit strange, since IIRC there's some iron resources in eastern France, too. Maybe it's just the capital... The French capital might be farther from the nearest iron resource than the Portuguese capital?

Yes, but wouldn't that make it more valuable for France?

[Rhyfelwyr]

Don't forget the ivory in Dongola, tends to make a lot since its usually pretty far away from your capital, unless your Egypt I suppose.

[Guru]

Yes, but wouldn't that make it more valuable for France?

Ah yes, sorry, misread the reply. That way it's even more strange... Could be capitals (moved capitals?) or differences in merchants' skills, can't think of anything else at the moment.

[WhiskeyGhost]

i think the infrastructure in the region helps as well (the Grain Exchange line)