Post your ridiculous trade income

Myrten · Aug 17, 2013

I wonder how high income you can get from trade

Current records:
12073 by Myrten as Germany http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum...ade-income&p=16065478&viewfull=1#post16065478
10160 by firelordzuko as Spain http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum...ade-income&p=16056844&viewfull=1#post16056844

Here's my record income

How my trade route looks (From Spain game, add Bordeaux->London->Antwerpen into that for Germany):

Save if anyone wants to take a look at details:
http://speedy.sh/VT3kw/Spain1780-06-03.7z

BrunoDerKaiser · Aug 17, 2013

Ummm... how? Must be cheating.

MrLebanon · Aug 17, 2013

Well allow me to go cry myself to sleep as I thought my 30 per month Venice was pretty good.

Seriously which cheats :/

Myrten · Aug 17, 2013

BrunoDerKaiser said:
Ummm... how? Must be cheating.

ROTFL

Here's my save so you can check it
http://speedy.sh/hbXsP/Spain1739-07-01.7z

In short I simply control entire trade route from Nippon to Seville and trade gets a boost each time it's redirected by a merchant.

Tildeman · Aug 17, 2013

Man, those buildings that add trade value % stack up really damn well.

MrLebanon · Aug 17, 2013

You win the game woooH

Myrten · Aug 17, 2013

Tildeman said:
Man, those buildings that add trade value % stack up really damn well.

Actually not really, it's thanks to merchants lined up on a single long trade route who create this huge income at home effect.

zedyue · Aug 17, 2013

I imagine that spirals out of control at some point where the only thing holding you back from building things is your monarch points.

Kadanz · Aug 17, 2013

BrunoDerKaiser said:
Ummm... how? Must be cheating.

Nope he's not cheating. You can make a ridiculous amount of money with trade from your colonies and placing your merchants in good spots. Although the stack of 250 ships seems a bit OP.

superskierpat · Aug 17, 2013

Doesnt your inflation explode when you have to much gold?

Myrten · Aug 17, 2013

zedyue said:
I imagine that spirals out of control at some point where the only thing holding you back from building things is your monarch points.

Yeah, just look at my treasury - there is no way how I can spend this incoming money - I've already build manufactories in entire Iberia but monarch points are a problem.

Kadanz said:
Although the stack of 250 ships seems a bit OP.

OP is that 65 British ships take so much of my gold that I had to build 250 and they still steal 240 gold. I guess I'll end up with thousand ships there...

superskierpat said:
Doesnt your inflation explode when you have to much gold?

I have 19.49 income from gold despite having lands of Aztecs, Incas and southern Swahili, so no inflation whatsoever...

Smitzer · Aug 18, 2013

superskierpat said:
Doesnt your inflation explode when you have to much gold?

It´s sad but gold is not nearly as valuable as trade is.By linking nodes you make more money then whole Europe on tax and production.

Lessing · Aug 18, 2013

The funny thing is : he still cannot conquer the world because his empire is going to be ripped apart at 200%+ overextension.

Ri0Rdian · Aug 18, 2013

Seeing that you are Spain and there is no Spain in sight on that screenshot, you moved your capital to the Americas eh? Anyway, seeing how much money you have, it might be a good idea to put up permanent inflation modifier for when you are simply too rich. There is no difference whether you gain so much money from gold that you gain inflation or you have so much money, that you have nothing to spend them all on (which SHOULD lead to inflation, the more you have to bigger!).

Garothian · Aug 18, 2013

Ri0Rdian said:
Seeing that you are Spain and there is no Spain in sight on that screenshot, you moved your capital to the Americas eh? Anyway, seeing how much money you have, it might be a good idea to put up permanent inflation modifier for when you are simply too rich. There is no difference whether you gain so much money from gold that you gain inflation or you have so much money, that you have nothing to spend them all on (which SHOULD lead to inflation, the more you have to bigger!).

He has the trade map mode on.

Ri0Rdian · Aug 18, 2013

Garothian said:
He has the trade map mode on.

:rofl: Sometimes that what is obvious is impossible to see, thanks for pointing that out. But the part about inflation still stands!

OrangeOranges · Aug 18, 2013

Ri0Rdian said:
Seeing that you are Spain and there is no Spain in sight on that screenshot, you moved your capital to the Americas eh? Anyway, seeing how much money you have, it might be a good idea to put up permanent inflation modifier for when you are simply too rich. There is no difference whether you gain so much money from gold that you gain inflation or you have so much money, that you have nothing to spend them all on (which SHOULD lead to inflation, the more you have to bigger!).

Its in the trade mapmode...

letswait · Aug 18, 2013

I just noticed, that amount seems to be with 5 embargos against him, and 3 from him against others.
If those weren't there it most like would've been quite a bit higher as both supposedly give penalties.

calvinhobbeslik · Aug 18, 2013

letswait said:
I just noticed, that amount seems to be with 5 embargos against him, and 3 from him against others.
If those weren't there it most like would've been quite a bit higher as both supposedly give penalties.

The 3 he's giving are almost certainly rivals, so no penalty there; in addition, those embargoes help him by killing their trade power in important nodes.

Myrten · Aug 18, 2013

Lessing said:
The funny thing is : he still cannot conquer the world because his empire is going to be ripped apart at 200%+ overextension.

Yeah overextension is deadly for trade although I'm not sure when game considers node to be foreign because I didn't had that penalty in Ceylon node.

Ri0Rdian said:
Seeing that you are Spain and there is no Spain in sight on that screenshot, you moved your capital to the Americas eh? Anyway, seeing how much money you have, it might be a good idea to put up permanent inflation modifier for when you are simply too rich. There is no difference whether you gain so much money from gold that you gain inflation or you have so much money, that you have nothing to spend them all on (which SHOULD lead to inflation, the more you have to bigger!).

Capital is in Madrid, there is a difference in real life between printing\minting money and earning it so it makes sense that there is no inflation. In this case amount of goods have increased dramatically but amount of gold stayed on the same level so actually there should be deflation, but it's too complex for this game

letswait said:
I just noticed, that amount seems to be with 5 embargos against him, and 3 from him against others.
If those weren't there it most like would've been quite a bit higher as both supposedly give penalties.

3 rivals + I sometimes embargo some countries for a short period of time so AI would get their ships out of my nodes

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