Trade Port Bug?

**Oaty** · 05-06-2009, 19:12

I have an idea of what is going on

Just say you start with Austria and get 5 land trade routes at the beginning of the game. these 5 land trade routes take up a spot in your trade route

So you develop a port and have 2 trade routes available but you do not have any open ports so you can't trade because you have 5 used but only 2 available

Now you build 2 more ports and have 6 available so you can finally open 1 sea trade route.

I think a land route doesn't require an open trade route but will use you your current and future trade routes, so you can't open sea trade route until you have more trade routs open then used

Bug or feature is hard to tell. May be a feature as to stop the initially landlocked empires from becoming super trading hubs

Another hard to notice feature is even if they are connected by land they also have to be connected by road so as United provinces owning Netherlands and Hanover are land connected but not road connected so a trade port in Hangover will not increase your trade routes until you own the province to the south of Hangover connecting them via road

**TinCow** · 05-06-2009, 19:39

Originally Posted by Oaty

I think a land route doesn't require an open trade route but will use you your current and future trade routes, so you can't open sea trade route until you have more trade routs open then used

No, this is not right. In my UP game, I was unable to create more than 3 sea trade routes due to the size of my only European trade port. When I noticed this, I set about a plan to capture another province with a trade port, but that was going to take a while. In the meantime, I opened up land trade routes with 2-3 other adjacent factions. By your account, this would have required me to get an extra 3-4 trade route slots via ports before I could open another one. This is not what happened. I eventually got my extra trade slots by spawning a new port town and building it into a commercial port. As soon as the most primitive level of port was ready, I was instantly able to open new sea trade routes, even though my land trade routes had increased while I was previously capped.