Raising income works up to a certain point. The problem is that port income adds much more to the balance than land trade (further complicated by the fact that the SPQR has plenty of AI neighbours to trade with as opposed to only Eleutheroi who will trade with nobody but other Eleutheroi) Furthermore a good deal of trade-to-India would occur outside of our map. And for a revelation, count the number of possible ports. In Italy alone you can have up to 10 ports I think? By comparsion all sea-trade between Memphis and Charax must make do with some 19 ports?
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