Steering is useful because value you take from a node to push to the next one gets a multiplier, so, more value comes to the next one. If you have 7 or more, put the next ones sterring trade towards home again. If you have 4 or more, Have your next 3 collect trade from other nodes. Yeah. The Caribbean has 20 ducats in trade value and two outgoing routes. You must log in or register to reply here. Do I need to make the venician trade node my next target to transfer all my trade to an end node? Cuba has high trade power, and collects 100% of the trade value. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Xsolla is an authorized global distributor of Paradox Interactive, EUIV: AAR's, Let's Plays, and Fan Fiction, EU IV: Alternate History Short Story Contest Contr. You lose the trade value of Alexandria this way unfortunately, which is quite a bit considering the spice provinces located there, but a vast majority of what you earn now can be steered into Basra instead and collected there where you should be able to control more of the power. Steer all the trade from the gulf back into Basra instead of Alexandria and move your capital there, so long as no downstream parties have costal provinces they're not going to be able to use ships to protect trade there, so you'll just lose a small amount of cash to the power of Ottomans/Persia Propagating upstream. A place to share content, ask questions and/or talk about the grand strategy game Europa Universalis IV by Paradox Development Studio. I am currently up to par with European tech. Is your capital there? Increase your trade power with buildings, light ships or mercantilism. To increase the trade value of a node a player can: 1. I moved my capital to Mecca (Alexandria trade node) from Muscat (Aden trade node)-- I couldn't move it any further for some reason. I moved my capital thinking it would be better. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. Getting real tired of their crap. Trade value is the sum of locally produced goods and the inputs from trade nodes flowing in (upstream), and minus the value forwarded to other trade nodes (downstream). Do I just need to apply more trade fleets? http://cloud-3.steampowered.com/ugc/612794559795505665/4ADC0142EC982B0172D589D44C4D335A766AD672/. The main goal of trade in this game is to bring trade into your home node and increase the value of the trade node, now that there is more money flowng into it. Press J to jump to the feed. Also go to war, sink your trade opponents fleets, or even better vassal them. JavaScript is disabled.
While I'm seeing a huge trade increase, I don't think feeding the European powerhouse money is a good thing for me. I moved my capital to Mecca (Alexandria trade node) from Muscat (Aden trade node)-- I couldn't move it any further for some reason. 2. I don't think there's a helluva lot you can do. Anything that boosts your power be it advisors, ideas, ships, etc, will get you the lion's share of the goods before they get diverted. So if you have A>B>C> N (N is home) and D>E>F>N and G>H>I>N, put 2 mearchants 1 node upstream and 1 maerchant 3 nodes upstream of home (and 2 nodes upgstream of one of the first 2) of home, focusing of places where yuo have trade power.