The Complete EDB Guide - discussion

**Teleklos Archelaou** · 10-10-2005, 02:15

Aha. I found a way to get a second set of factions into a requirement line in constructing a building, but it still isn't nearly what I would like. The "or" apparently will keep two things together, so this would work:

buildingalpha requires factions { greek_cities, romans_brutii, } or factions { parthia, } and building_present_min_level hinterland_roads roads

I had been unable to get any second grouping of factions to work. So one set can have no requirements, while the second set has some. But this doesn't do a lot, as I was wanting to have different sets for multiple different factions. If anyone has any idea how to achieve this, please let me know. But the above appears to work. The first two factions have no requirements, and work immediately, but the last one, parthia, has to have roads built first before it will be buildable. But once they are constructed you could build it.

**Dol Guldur** · 10-10-2005, 09:55

Thanks for posting your findings on this, could I ask you to post it or attach (edit) it to your last post at the 'complex conditionals for capabilities and buildings' thread at:
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showt...?postid=642173 which I link to from the EDB Guide?

I will update this all at some point ;)

Thx. again. This is the sort of stuff that needs to be known!

**Chaotica** · 10-29-2005, 18:04

Hello!

As it's not in the guide, I'll post it here:

"trade_level_bonus" only affects land trade. Though I'm not 100% sure, I think a trade level bonus of 1 is equivalent to a road level bonus of 1 concerning income. The difference is that there is no limit of 2 as with "road_level". This could be useful to make land trade more significant compared to sea trade, but it needs further testing. Just my two cents.

**Simetrical** · 10-30-2005, 04:45

According to what I've heard, trade_level_bonus gives +10% to land trade per level, whereas roads 1 gives +100% and roads 2 gives +200%.

**Chaotica** · 10-31-2005, 09:31

OK, I did another test with RTR:

I gave trade_level_bonus 1 to the academy and started a campaign (M/M) with the Romans. The trade income projected in the settlement details scroll was 707 both when I added the academy or paved roads to the queue.