I am a bit dissapointed that WoN as a trade focused expansion didn't address this. In nearly every game you have to administer a constantly expanding trade fleet. This comes with two problems.
First problem: Trade networks are complicated things and is often very hard to tell where you would benefit the most from additional trade power. My current solution is to send a single ship to each node in question and watch how my overall trade income changes when a ship is added to a specific node. This is however a tedious things because you need to do this little probing again and again because the trade distribution is always changing. I am convinced it wouldn't be hard for the game to calculate a little hint for the player how much he would benefit from adding X trade power. This is also important for the decision whether the profit of additional ships would actually outweighs their maintenance cost. For more details see my thread from 8 months ago.
Second problem: If you keep adding ships to a node you end up with a billion of small trade fleets which clutter up the map, the outliner and are prone to enemy attacks. Gathering and consolidating them in one fleet again and again is tedious, makes you lose trade power for a while and you often catch fleets from a neighbouring node by mistake because the patrol areas overlap. A simple button in a trade node "Consolidate all fleets patrolling this node" would make life so much easier.
Discuss.
First problem: Trade networks are complicated things and is often very hard to tell where you would benefit the most from additional trade power. My current solution is to send a single ship to each node in question and watch how my overall trade income changes when a ship is added to a specific node. This is however a tedious things because you need to do this little probing again and again because the trade distribution is always changing. I am convinced it wouldn't be hard for the game to calculate a little hint for the player how much he would benefit from adding X trade power. This is also important for the decision whether the profit of additional ships would actually outweighs their maintenance cost. For more details see my thread from 8 months ago.
Second problem: If you keep adding ships to a node you end up with a billion of small trade fleets which clutter up the map, the outliner and are prone to enemy attacks. Gathering and consolidating them in one fleet again and again is tedious, makes you lose trade power for a while and you often catch fleets from a neighbouring node by mistake because the patrol areas overlap. A simple button in a trade node "Consolidate all fleets patrolling this node" would make life so much easier.
Discuss.
