PBEM "October Story"

[SebP]

720 bc sent to sir ralph

[Harovan]

720bc sent

[rumpo kid]

Afternoon off work.

685 to Claus

[Claus]

685 to Sebastian.

One thing that I've never really understood: I have three cities which are connected to each other. However, the menu shows only one trade route per city. Shouldn't there be one trade route for each city you're connected with?

[SebP]

685 to sir harovan

0_o that would definitely defeat all of firaxis' attempts to kill ICS... the number of trade routes per city depends on your tech level and civics mostly, +in some instances (great lighthouse/coton/castle) wonders/buildings

You start at 1 trade route per city. Currency gives another 1, the great lighthouse another 2 in any coastal city. Depending on tech and civics, the number will then vary between 2 and 5 over the game

[SebP]

Further points: The choice of trade routes in a city from the possible ones is not in your hands. With domestic trade routes, it doesn't matter, because the best will be chosen locally and each of your cities can appear in any number of your other cities' trade routes.

With international trade routes, it's more complicated: A city can only appear in the trade list of a certain number of cities. So everyone with open borders is competing for good trade routes. As far as i can remember a thread about this in the strategy forum (in last december?) harbors and high population are the prime factors to pull in good trade routes, NOT science/gold multipliers
Note this thread dates back to before the source code was revealed. I haven't read anything about the subject after and am too lazy too figure it out myself

[Claus]

Thanks, so I finally got it right.

[Harovan]

685bc sent

[rumpo kid]

650 to Claus

[Claus]

650 to Sebastian.

[SebP]

650 to harovan

[Harovan]

650bc sent

[Claus]

615bc sent to Sebastian.

rumpo kid wrote me that he has again some severe ISP trouble. His turn rate might therefor be somewhat sporadic tonight.

[SebP]

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[Harovan]

615bc sent