Monopolies

[unmerged(24819)]

I have played my game yesterday as the Netherlands.
And i've noticed that i got a lot of monopolies from holland,
About 6 a year.
It was a 500+ COT.
But when i looked at how many ducats i got from them it was about nothing.
I have read that if you get a monopoly you will get mony for every empty space in the COT.

So is it even worth placing merchants in european COT,
Cause of the many merchants always placed there.

THNX

 

[pelikan]

If you have a monopoly, placing more merchants will just compete out the concurrent marchants from the CoT, increasing indirectly you market share.

There seems to be always a lot of countries sending merchants in european CoT, so you have to see if you get competed out often and always need to send back some merchants. It can or not be worthy to send them depending of the cost to send merchants them vs. your increase in income, and the frequency you have to send them back...

I think it is much better to access a remote rich non-european CoT that a limited number of countries have access to...

 

[unmerged(24819)]

Yes but there are no non-european COT yet.
So i just have to wait till one will appear¿
I thought of a trade embargo. But if i do that to a country the money that goes to the technoly of trade decreaces by 1 for every country that i embargo..

But thnx

 

[unmerged(11600)]

Yes but there are no non-european COT yet.
So i just have to wait till one will appear¿
I thought of a trade embargo. But if i do that to a country the money that goes to the technoly of trade decreaces by 1 for every country that i embargo..

But thnx

Trade embargoes work best in low-competition CoTs. Keep in mind, you are the only country that will send merchants everywhere; the AI will only send merchants to CoTs that include their own provinces. If you own a CoT which covers provinces of five countries, that's four trade embargoes to guarentee absolute control. That's four levels of stability, four gold per month of research, and four CBs against you.

And there are always non-European CoTs, you just haven't found them yet (Edo, Delhi, and whatever the name of that one in China).

-Pat

 

[Morpheus506]

Tianjin.

I find that Tianjin and Edo often compete themselves out, but Delhi is full of goodies. Also, trade maps with Spain frequently to find their CoTs, and once Russia begins colonization of Siberia flood them with merchants. Quite profitful, that.