Trade and the Economy

[Megas Methuselah]

I think this deserves a thread of its own. Although Fisherking commented about this earlier in a small, obscure sentence in the thread about the latest patch, I noticed that it didn't really get a lot of attention.

Anyways, here I was ready to take advantage of the nigh-empty spice trade nods (pirates were being a pain in the ***), sending in 14 Indiamen ships as a full-stack to occupy one of them. As soon as I hit the nod, the price of spice went down, IIRC, from 21 to 13!!!

Isn't that a bit extreme? I can only imagine how far the price will continue plummeting as the rest of the trading nods are occupied.

Oh yes, and I'll make a poll, too.

[Knight of Ne]

Its extreme but i've never seen a trade commodity drop below 10 while ive been selling it. So as long as you supply lots of spice you should be able to make up for the drop in price. (I hope)

I hope that made some sense.
Ne =)

[antisocialmunky]

You do make better polls than Fisherking

[Megas Methuselah]

It's an old specialty of mine.

And btw, none of the resources so far fell lower than 10 monies. The global economy in ETW is kind of messed up.

[Ratwar]

14 Indiaman on a single trade node? Was there any sea left, or was it simply all ships? Still an extreme drop though...

And yeah, in my most recent game, Furs are only bringing in 8. Kinda annoying to finally Smack the French and assorted natives out of Canada only to realize that Furs are worthless... Well, more worthless than usual at least.

[Monsieur Alphonse]

In my GB campaign which I started to try out the new DLC, I noticed that the AI is less interested in the trade nodes. I was able to grab all nodes near Madagascar and all the spice nodes (alas not the girls ). I did notice that prices could crop very fast. I controlled the North American fur trade and when I upgraded most of the traders at once the prices went down to 7 gold.

May be it is time that we revere to this update as patch 1.6