Quote Originally Posted by Slaists View Post
The key for uninterrupted trade (and a filthy rich, boring game) is to get rid of the pirates early on. It's not that ahistoric either. The Caribbean pirate problem was solved only once the territories that were friendly to them got under control of major powers.

I'm playing a VH Ottoman campaign and, in 1745, the pirates are ruining my trade so, the Sultan's fleet is heading to the core of the problem: the Caribbean.
It was not the pirates! Some pirating by belligerents of course but I had the fleets to deal with it…

There were just other things going on. No one will agree to trade. The money for the provinces held were not good enough to make up the difference.

You can see I was not spending a lot on upkeep. Also trade partners blockaded, so money down the drain.

I find the game more tedious and less enjoyable in its current state. At least with the Trade Nations, and I don’t find much challenge in the blitzing factions…They were historically poor but here it is the reverse!