Quote Originally Posted by antisocialmunky View Post
I hope you enjoy your ridiculously long trade routes that get pirated by absolutely everyone.
On the contrary, trade routes in ETW are almost totally fire and forget. I think I've had to run various pirates or belligerent fleets out of the African theatres ... three times at most in a game.

While I like the trade element to the game, the amount of money you can bring in so easily is simply too much. I've had 100k in trade in early games with virtually no maintenance overhead or risk in getting or losing it.