A fantastic guide once again, and one is hard pressed to avoid things one has said earlier about your guides. I find almost everything as I have experienced it playing the game and have learned quite a few other things now in detail.

One of the few things I still could not work out neatly is how the demand for goods is created. It certainly is incluenced by a couple of factors, with bigger and richer trading partners being able to generate more of it, but exactly how it works remains to me a bit of a mystery. On a side note the demand of surplus goods does not depend on the town or commerce wealth of your provinces, as I have tested on my last campaign in which I have conquered all of Nippon. Even with a booming economy due to the huge rice surplus, research and economic building program my surplus goods never brought more than about 27500 koku in taxes rolling in.

(While I'm writing this I do thing in this case we might have found a case of a supply cap and not a demand one. I have to test that in the next days.)

Overall I guess that traded goods bring in more than twice and less than trice as much koku as goods sold as surplus to your citiziens, making as your wrote trade agreements also very worthy from an economic point of view.



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