Quote Originally Posted by Captain Pugwash
You should be able to make about 200 florins per turn from a 3 star merchant.

Keep operating your merchants like this until they hit the magical 8 Star skill level.

Daily income from each 8 star merchant should be about 700 – 1000 florins depending upon resource etc..


Capital is London. 2 x 8* traders doing silk at Constaniple only earning 110/90 each and both are pretty well traited up. How are you getting the above figures.

Please explain this capital switch/load trick again
When you reload the game, switch your capital to some city, then switch it back :P

And I like the Constantinople Area, it has 4 silk resources that you can control nicely, and silk is expensive (as well as a resource you don't find further west than this).

By the way, the reason for the capital thing is why I usually put my capital to some corner of the map if I can afford it public-order-wise. Can make a huge difference (seen several thousands of florins for large trade empires between Edinburgh and Jerusalem).