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[Luddite]

Based on that I would think that; when assessing cost and time of producing trade and escort fleets, balancing against the loss of early invetsment in other economic infrastructure, probably means that trade spots come to be profitable mid to late game with the rises in population and tech.

Do the trade spots cause DoW with AI factions, just wondering whether they are a general killing zone or mainly conflict there is with pirates and conflict drops once they are knocked out? Just wondered whether it is better to focus on dominating one arena or spread across the theatres to reduce the effect of over-supply.

Guess if it is combat heavy it can be profitable in prize money if nothing else.

[Cheetah]

Do the trade spots cause DoW with AI factions, just wondering whether they are a general killing zone or mainly conflict there is with pirates and conflict drops once they are knocked out? Just wondered whether it is better to focus on dominating one arena or spread across the theatres to reduce the effect of over-supply.

I have not got DoWs for trade spots but other factions attacked me like Prussia and the Maratha. It seems though that neither the pirates not the other factions seem to refill their depleated fleets and thus the fleets will wear down with time, thought the pirates will send in new ones. So if you want trade your first step should be definitely capturing the pirate islands on the Carribean.

[antisocialmunky]

Its too bad you can't bribe the pirates to attack your opponents instead and vice versa.

[Sheogorath]

Its too bad you can't bribe the pirates to attack your opponents instead and vice versa.

I wonder if it would be possible to implement a system like in Sins of a Solar Empire where you can put bounties on your enemies ships...