Investigation of Trade Income

[Simetrical]

The first trader building seems to add 10% to the trading income from land trade (the local settlement only), and 10% to all exporting routes. A further 10% was added for each increased level.

Example:

None	Trader	Market	Agora	G.Agora	MerQuart
347	381	416	451	485	520
267	294	321	348	374	401
%	9.8	19.9	30.0	39.8	49.9
%	10.1	20.2	30.3	40.1	50.2

Is there any cap to this effect? What happens if you build a Pantheon to Mercury in addition to a Curia, for instance?

-Simetrical

[Quietus]

It seems that the population of the exporting city has some factor into the sea trade. But it doesn't fully account for it.

The higher the population, the higher the export. We really need to collect all the factors. What I meant are base factors not the tangible and upgradeable ones.

Try training queueing a peasant unit. Check the trade income. Queue another, then check. Each bulk of unit seemed to have a fixed effect on export income.

For example, I lose 3 denari trade export income for every 240 units I train in Rhodes. Since I can only queue about 9 units, I had to compute the rest. And it doesn't account for everything. Maybe, it is scaled.

Of course, the values differ for every region.

Laconia
Sparta
macedon
Helots
244 13 24
sparta, dogs, pigs
5
7

this is the sparta entry in region.txt in vanilla game..no tradegoods..
dogs and pigs are only for building troops. Kinda odd that there is a export of goods..might be the town is exporting goods from a landtrade over sea trade...

Will have to check this file out since I can't figure out the Resource.txt files.

[mfberg]

What effect on trade/trade income do the rebel/enemy units on your roads have? Do they block all trade between the connected cities? Can the trade re-route to bypass the blocking army?

mfberg

[Quietus]

Hi mfberg,

There are values I've posted in the Economics guide in the RTW guides section. They only partially block and no, there are no re-routes. All the more reason to get rid of those rebels quickly especially on rich provinces since it can affect both land and sea trades (not to mention the devastation on farm incomes).