Ban caravans peace treaty option

[Latheloi]

Suggestion: as a peace treaty option ban an enemy from placing a merchant in a specific inland node. Would be very useful for countries in very competitive inland trade regions, and provide another option for tall play

 

[Fluffy_Fishy]

The only thing is it doesnt really make a huge difference to trade power.

 

[Latheloi]

It really, really, really can. The example that inspired this for me was the Samarkhand node, where I was losing a substantial amount of my Indian trade, which I was trying to push upwards towards the Baltic to just three traders pushing towards Persia.
The only way round it at the moment is forcing trade power treaties on people - which you don't really want in some circumstances, as it will give you power where you can't use it and take up a relations slot - or by embargoing, which is useless in most cases, as you need to embargo several small traders for a substantial loss of trade efficiency.

 

[Danfish77]

It would make more sense to have a peace-enforced embargo. You shoudln't be able to completely stop smugglers, and one country doesn't "own" an inland center of trade unless they own all provinces associated with it, and even then other nations get to use their influence and power to affect trade there.

 

[Latheloi]

Well, that would be why I suggested that it would prevent placing a merchant - the agreement in the treaty would merely be that the other country would desist from encouraging its own merchants, preventing them from gaining the trade bonus, or steering, but not actually reducing trade power from propagation or provinces.