Questions from the Barbary Coast

[Castellon]

Originally posted by Jarlen av Juks
1. does religion/relations with a CoT owner affect how your merchants are able to compete in his CoT. Or is just a question of trade eff + randomness? My merchants are pretty good traders on paper (high trade eff.), but once they are out there they seem to lose their edge almost immediatly and are booted out of the CoTs before they have unpacked their stalls.

Relations = No effect, Other than they may decide to ban you from the CoT.

Religion = I am begining to suspect that Religion does. We know for example that it is a big factor in which provinces trade in a CoT. And I find it very suspect that My merchants who are indistructable in Europe have such a hard time of it in the new world CoTs and the far east ones. It could be distance from capital, but I think that once I own the CoT and convert it To my religion my merchant do much better.