Trade Port Monitor Results

[Hosakawa Tito]

It might be worth avoiding this is you can by opting for Tobacco or Coffee plantions whenever possible to avoid swamping the market with too much sugar. However, it looks as though there is a minimum market price below which it will not fall, as it seems to have become steady at 15 per loaf.

A good tip. In my GB campaign I took all the Caribbean Islands away from Spain & France, greatly increasing my Sugar supply, and the price dropped from 16/loaf to 12/loaf. It would be nice to know which Plantations are optional for Sugar/Tobacco/Coffee so one can dismantle some of the Sugar Plantations and reduce the commodity glut.

[TinCow]

It's interesting to note that even commodities with low prices (i.e. 15) still produce a sizable return on investment. Trade is definitely a great way to improve your income, even if you're stuck with only one trade port in a low-price commodity.

[anweRU]

A good tip. In my GB campaign I took all the Caribbean Islands away from Spain & France, greatly increasing my Sugar supply, and the price dropped from 16/loaf to 12/loaf. It would be nice to know which Plantations are optional for Sugar/Tobacco/Coffee so one can dismantle some of the Sugar Plantations and reduce the commodity glut.

It should be sugar-coffee and tobacco-cotton. You can easily look them up in the building browser once you capture the region.

IIRC, the three eastern-most islands are sugar only; Hispaniola has one coffee (or was it tobacco?) only plantation. The other two are sugar/coffee dual-use.

[al Roumi]

Everything on the N American continent is definitley dual use.

[Didz]

Monitoring the ROI of each Trade Theatre has produced some interesting results. The main thing I've noticed is that the East Indies in my game is far more profitable than any of the other trade zones, and so it is getting all the trade ships at the minute.