Oversea Trading

[nightcrawlerblue]

I have a big province with lots of tradeable goods. I have a Port in it and two other provinces making ships. I created several longboats to use for trade and put them in all surrounding waters but my port isn't making any money I looked in the manual but I haven't found anything that I'm doing wrong. Can anyone help?

[Mysterium]

You gotta have all these things:

Tradable goods, a port, a trading post, an unbroken line of ships to another faction's province, that province must also have a port, and you must not be at war with them. If you fit all those things, you should be trading.

Check for the port in the other faction's province, and make sure you have a trading post.

Good luck

[nightcrawlerblue]

I have all of those things. I'm playing as the Danish and I'm trying to get a trade rout from Sweden over to the French and English colonies. I have a ship over the water in Denmark and to the left of it but Denmark and Sweden aren't getting any money. I checked and the French have a port that should be connected to my trade route.

[Mysterium]

'Nother thing is to hold down the 'V' key. That tells you what sea routes you have control of. Green is good.

To get to most of the French ports, you'd need 3 ships. Denmark/North Sea/English Channel. IIRC, Flanders' port is in the English Channel, so maybe you need another ship?

[Crash]

Are you checking your trading post or your port? The trade income is reported on your trading post, that's revenue from outgoing trade goods. The port gets small income from incoming trade - that's trade goods that another faction is sending to your port.

[katank]

by clicking on the economy screen and then clicking a province name would also give you a breakdown of trade income, agricultural income, cathedral income (if you have one) etc. try checking that

make sure that holding down V, the seas are all green from your port to their port and that you have a trading post built.

happy trading

soon you should be on your way to making obscene amounts of cash.

[nightcrawlerblue]

I got it working I didn't have a boat in the English Channel accidentally . Thanks for your help guys

[Ulair]

And thanks for the tip about the 'V' key, guys. I think I'd read that somewhere before (Froggy's guide?) but I'd forgotten - and I was just wondering how to check on trade routes the other night...

Cheers,
Ulair

[Obadiah]

My sea-trading works well - I'm having to leave a few factions alive to keep up my trading partners. Bummer Although, it kind of seems like a built-in counter-weight: as you get more successful, you lose trading income b'c there are continually fewer foreign at-peace provinces.

Question 1: If the foreign province has no port, there's nothing i can do, right? So I might as well conquer it??

Question 2: Can my landlocked province with tradable goods never earn trade income? Even if adjacent to another landlocked at-peace foreign provice?

[mcveigh]

Question 1: If the foreign province has no port, there's nothing i can do, right? So I might as well conquer it??

Conquer it if your confident that it ill give you more then it takes. And also remember that you cannot tranfers troops back if theres no port.

Question 2: Can my landlocked province with tradable goods never earn trade income? Even if adjacent to another landlocked at-peace foreign provice?

If you build a trading post your trade will start with all surrounding provinces thats not yours and is no enemy.
Of course upgrading your trading post will give you more trading income.

[katank]

take the enemy provinces if it's worthwhile. otherwise, leave em weakened in a poor province is better.

land trade is never worth upgrading beyond trading post. build farms or mines instead as you get lots more from that.