Trade

[unmerged(600040)]

Ok so how do i get max gold out of trading? Do I send merchants to collect gold or transfer power?

 

[Lord636]

Collect from trade nodes you own and transfer power towards nodes you own, to put it very simply.

 

[unmerged(600040)]

ah ok ,so i guess it's best just to control all trade nodes? lol

 

[Lord636]

Yeah. A goal if you're playing Portugal is to get the uncolonised trade node in Africa, which will be a pinnacle point for trade from South America, and then to get the Brazillian trade node. That'll give you more cash than you need really.

 

[Red_warning]

ah ok ,so i guess it's best just to control all trade nodes? lol

The ones that lead to your capital province anyway. You get a bonus to wealth collected in your capital, and all wealth that gets transferred to the next node by a merchant will also get a value increase.

 

[justin6477]

Yeah. A goal if you're playing Portugal is to get the uncolonised trade node in Africa, which will be a pinnacle point for trade from South America, and then to get the Brazillian trade node. That'll give you more cash than you need really.

I don't know why, but the Carribean islands strike me as a better target that Brazil. I imagine Paradox won't connect a bunch of them with adjacencies, so as a country with naval superiority, it should be easy enough to maroon an enemy stack in Cuba. That and I like the idea of monopolizing the sugar trade.