You have a cot and an estuary in Normandy for English trade node so its worth doing it. England will always drain some of your power from champagne so best to drain some from their home node too
Yeah thats why there is an "if", but it also kinda hinges on if he needs to merchants for anything better, if he pushes into the Rheinland or Venice the second merchant is better used there.
Airplanes were not invented in the eu4 timeline.maybe you should pay hoi4.
As other said, your trade power doesn't matter if you don't collect (since Channel is and end node). As other said, you should also collect in the Channel.
Depending on his power
Why would you collect in both champagne and bordeuax?
Channel is usually a rich node and France is able to collect significant money if it maximizes its commercial power there (upgrading buildings and so on).
Because if you steer it to Channel or Genoa, more than half your trade value will go to other countries.
As far as im aware you trade power isnt "Wasted" it "brings trade upstream". This is not a reliable way to get income so i world bring your merchant from bordeaux to England or Valencia depending on ow your doing it. This will reliably reduce englands income and have a better affect using embargoes as well as giving a better economic boost to you then not doing it
Yes but collecting in both champagne and bordeuax means you lack the cumulative bonus from Bourdeaux trade moving to champagne, as well as the trsde efficiency malus
Op has a stranglehold on genoa, so it makes sense to assume he has more than 50%
Paris (champagne) is the default home node, so will always collect there until moved
Niet, like collecting in ivory coast and sevilla as Portugal
That would reduce your potential income drastically though. Collecting reduces profits being sent forward handicapping your economy its only usefull to collect on nodes that yo cant bring to your home node directly Like in the Persia region you should collect untill you have a lot of control over the region
I think these are all "It depends" things. Sometimes you should collect in Ivory Coast and Sevilla as Portugal, in particular if you have very high control in Ivory Coast and are sharing a lot with Spain in Sevilla. Bringing everything to your home node is a decent rule of thumb and in the long run it's usually what you want to aim for, but it's far from always right. So:
Is quite good advice. Sometimes you are throwing money away by forwarding, other times by collecting. In the OP's case, forwarding to Genoa is probably the right choice, but it depends on numbers that we don't know. Same with whether to collect in the channel or not.
