Some Basic Experiments with Economy

[Oleander Ardens]

I might join your efforts soon, Tamur

Will keep track of my next campaign, possible with the punic trading power to increase our data...

Let us collect the factors which possibly influence the trade:

Quantity and Quality of the trading goods of the trading partners
Level of the market buildings of the T.P
Level of the port and the T.P
Distance of the trading partners, both on the sea and the land
Quality of the roads and of the T.P
Trade Agreement
Taxes of the trading partners
Population of the T.P
Managment skill of the Governor

So a load of possible factors, so a cheat to which allows you to control also the cities of the TP might be helpful...


In the meantime we could formulate a hypothesis, I'm working on it..

OA

[maestro]

Just a couple of things from memory (I'm at work)....

Right at the beginning of my latest game (Vh/M Juliiiiiii) I ran a couple of tests to see the effects of the various buildings.... from what I remember.

The first level of trader / market thingy gave a 10% boost to all trade, be it land or sea based.

The first road upgrade (from basic to paved I think) literally DOUBLED land based trade income!

Adding a market meant having more goods appear in the import section of trade and made no impact on sea based trade (don't know if this would impact on sea after on with more trade rights granted)

Adding a port made no difference to income levels but it added sea imports and exports which provided additional income.


edit - I think it's really important that we get this daa between us. To know exactly what impact the various economic buildings have on income will be invaluable for a VH campaign with difficult factions......