It is when the price is sky high because the export buy orders create massive shortages at home when there should be surpluses.
I've still found that tarrifs do help significantly (as long as you have the one in the correct direction)
Domestic sell orders minus domestic buy orders = surplus available for export.
Buy and Sell orders are just price signals. The problem is that exports get preferential treatment in price calculations. This is a known issue and the devs are testing a possible solution.
Read his post again. Importing goods from you isn't stealing. Overimporting goods from you to a point where their prices are higher in your market than in the importing one, and the trade route still makes profit despite buying high and selling low, and there's nothing you can do to stop this except issue an embargo because tariffs are ineffective, that's stealing.
You're saying that like the trade centers are forced at gun point to sell to the French. They do it because it's more profitable than selling domestically.
Yes, it is still not stealing. And tariffs are not to completely halt imports. Become isolationist if you don't want others to import.
In that case, the steel plant is stealing from the mine. Exports create buy orders, which raise the price and therefore income and productivity of the producer.
Exactly this. I dont know in what world people criticising game design think they live. Be mad at the system, not at the game.
So same example, but now I know a guy who will buy it for $150 so I make a $50 profit taking it from you without your permission. Just capitalism right?
In this game you are playing as the country, not the individual business owners. The game makes the individual business owners are selling wood because they get a good price for it.
The game doesn't implement capitalism correctly. If you buy from an expensive market in the real world and sell to a cheap market you will make a loss.
