Or is there a whole other level of strategy above that that I am missing?Īlso, maybe I'm just not good enough, but I've had much better luck dominating Indian Trade & then rolling over India, the M.E., and crushing the Mamelukes & Ottomans as Kilwa (no early scary neighbors, easy 100% Zanzibar domination with Swahili & accepting Malagasy culture, gold mines, and massive Manpower off cored Madagascar & South Africa w/ +1/+1/+1 bonus on Colonizers), where as Oman has no easy route to top-tier manpower without using an Idea, surrounded by a web of small alliances, and will run up against the Mamelukes & Timurid allies much sooner. Africa to China, right? Unless by "trade" companies, you mean single, isolated stepping stone colonies, and even then, assuming you're abandoning the Caribbean, don't folks usually slow down to take all of South Africa's coast and the following islands to lock-out Castille, Brittain, and any others? Even as Kilwa, having to dev push the Renaissance slows early tech, and I'm still usually colonizing the South African coast and islands to the east around 1500. surely you meant 1580 for trade companies along the entire route from W. The above situation would then result in Japan's original 15 ducats becoming 146 ducats. The absolute max trade steering you can get is 253% (Omani ideas + Trade ideas + Trade/Expansion + Trade/Defensive + 100% Naval Tradition + TC investment) meaning that each trade node increases its total value by 17.65%. Meaning that if the value of each node was fixed to 15, the ducat count from just Japan, Hangzhou and the Philippines would come out to (60+54+49) 164 ducats, compared to the original 45.ĭo note that this excludes trade steering coming from other nations' merchants, trade value multipliers, and further trade steering policies meaning that it's probably a lower estimate than what's theoretically possible with Oman. This doesn't really seem too big at first glance, but when trade passes through multiple nodes – let's say Japan -> Hangzhou -> Philippines -> Moluccas -> Malacca -> Bengal -> Doab -> Deccan -> Coromandel -> Gujarat -> Aden -> Hormuz -> Basra -> Persia – the total ducat count swells to 399% of its original value, meaning if Japan's original value was 15 ducats, the amount arriving in Persia would be 60, WITHOUT counting the value from the other 13 nodes. However if I have 108% trade steering in Coromandel (Omani ideas + Trade ideas + TC investment), that would instead be a (5x2.08) 10.4% increase, meaning the total outflow would be 66.24 ducats.
At base trade steering (5% value increase for one merchant), the total value of Coromandel is 60 ducats, and the output is (60x1.05) 63 ducats. Let's say I have 100% trade power in Coromandel, which has a local value of 20 ducats, and recieves 20 ducats from Bengal and Deccan each. More importantly, it increases the total value of the node's output (not its local value).
So while the total amount of ducats leaving Gujarat for example won't change from trade steering, you can divert ducats going to Zanzibar to instead go to Hormuz.Ģ.
having 20% trade steering means you can divert 20% more of the total outflow to your node of choice. It increases the amount of value you can divert away from other outflows, I.E. Them being Ibadi also gives them +10% goods produced, which goes well with their location allowing prime access to India, Persia, East Africa and Southeast Asia, all ridiculously rich regions.Īs long as you can get them off the ground, they're pretty damn amazing to trade with.ĮDIT: *Small note explaining why trade steering is good - trade steering does two things.ġ.
Oman has the highest amount of trade steering in the game (33%)*, along with a bunch of naval modifiers that allow you to stack a stupid amount of light ships (-15% naval maintenance, -15% light ship cost, -5% sailor maintenance, +10% national sailors, -10% ship building time), topped off with +10% trade efficiency and +1 merchant.
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