Trade station founded?

[Cenobite30]

It seems like everyone else is getting trade stations except for me. I'm playing as Savoy, a kingdom part of Genoa's trade league. I checked through the files to try to find what requirements I'm missing, but I can't seem to find the right file. Can someone tell me the requirements, or point me in the direction of the file that will tell me?

 

[Cenobite30]

Also, since I started this thread, I might as well ask an unrelated question.

When you quit my game and return to the main menu, it shows the history of your country, right? Well, it seems to have forgotten about one of my wars. That is to say, it lists all of the wars and the decisive battles and the provinces gained and lost, but it leaves out one war (a crusade I started, if that makes any difference). Is that supposed to happen?

 

[tuore]

It seems like everyone else is getting trade stations except for me. I'm playing as Savoy, a kingdom part of Genoa's trade league. I checked through the files to try to find what requirements I'm missing, but I can't seem to find the right file. Can someone tell me the requirements, or point me in the direction of the file that will tell me?

IIRC, it's an event, which means it has a mean time to happen. It just fires up randomly. Someone can tell more about it.

Also, since I started this thread, I might as well ask an unrelated question.

When you quit my game and return to the main menu, it shows the history of your country, right? Well, it seems to have forgotten about one of my wars. That is to say, it lists all of the wars and the decisive battles and the provinces gained and lost, but it leaves out one war (a crusade I started, if that makes any difference). Is that supposed to happen?

Just a bug.

 

[Cenobite30]

Thank you.

 

[Darkrenown]

It's in events/tradeleagues. It's just a random event when you're in a league, can happen in any province with at least 4 base tax and 1000 pop. It's more likely to happen in provinces with:
trade_goods = slaves
trade_goods = ivory
trade_goods = tea
trade_goods = chinaware
trade_goods = spices
trade_goods = coffee
trade_goods = cotton
trade_goods = sugar
trade_goods = tobacco

 

[Cenobite30]

Another question: Switzerland and I are in the same (Genoese) trade league. They just competed away one of my merchants in Genoa. Is that a bug, or did I misunderstand the trade leagues again?

 

[unmerged(170635)]

Another question: Switzerland and I are in the same (Genoese) trade league. They just competed away one of my merchants in Genoa. Is that a bug, or did I misunderstand the trade leagues again?

That's not supposed to happen :S.

 

[Darkrenown]

I think it can happen if the CoT is totally full of league members, that is there are no non-league members they could compete away instead.

 

[unmerged(170635)]

I think it can happen if the COT is totally full of league members, that is there are no non-league members they could compete away instead.

That would make sense. Personally I think trade leagues need to be re-thought, eventually almost every country joins a league and starts to trade exclusively in league COT's, in the end they stagnate and collapse, in the space of two years I saw the Genovese Trade League disappear as every member left.

 

[Darkrenown]

Really? I always see the league CoTs being the richest in the world untill colonial nations get really big. The leagus to collapse when the leader get annexed/vassalied though, and Genoa is a prime target for that.