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debeest,
In one book it says cities on same continents connected by roads the trade route is increased by 50%. It says this applies both to the IC&SB and to the resulting route. To take a stab at your question if this is true, then your cities even after the 50% factored in was not enough to change the trade route value be a full number so you could see it. Make them larger and see if you see a differance then.
Also from the single player days when some games I played were strictly to see what the largest IC&SB was, it seemed consistant, and is confirmed in this book too that it and the resulting route are partly benifited by if the comodity is demanded by the city you want the trade route with AND if the city you sent the caravan FROM also demands a comodity from the first city. So if both cities demand an item from each other at the same time, it is bigger than if only one of the cities does. Remember it is a TWO WAY trade venture simbolized by the TWO TRADE ARROWS and two named items in the efinished trade route. The book says this applies to the resulting route as well but maybe I misunderstand it.
Also there was some discussion on how to know if say uranium or copper would be available from a city.
Copper seems to be from size 2 cities, and uranium seems to be from cities next to mountains from memory.
Sorry if I have recovered already discussed info, but I could not read this entire thread yet.
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The journey itself is the thing~Odysseus
In one book it says cities on same continents connected by roads the trade route is increased by 50%. It says this applies both to the IC&SB and to the resulting route. To take a stab at your question if this is true, then your cities even after the 50% factored in was not enough to change the trade route value be a full number so you could see it. Make them larger and see if you see a differance then.
Also from the single player days when some games I played were strictly to see what the largest IC&SB was, it seemed consistant, and is confirmed in this book too that it and the resulting route are partly benifited by if the comodity is demanded by the city you want the trade route with AND if the city you sent the caravan FROM also demands a comodity from the first city. So if both cities demand an item from each other at the same time, it is bigger than if only one of the cities does. Remember it is a TWO WAY trade venture simbolized by the TWO TRADE ARROWS and two named items in the efinished trade route. The book says this applies to the resulting route as well but maybe I misunderstand it.
quote: Originally posted by debeest on 10-04-2000 12:27 AM Another note: I recently completed a road between my city and the city I'd traded with (no airports), yet there was no change in trade value. Moreover, in the same game, I completed trade routes to three different cities with different trade, distance, etc., yet the trade values were all the same. This proves to me that the Scrolls of Wisdom formula is false (just as a single white raven disproves the claim that all ravens are black). |
Also there was some discussion on how to know if say uranium or copper would be available from a city.
Copper seems to be from size 2 cities, and uranium seems to be from cities next to mountains from memory.
Sorry if I have recovered already discussed info, but I could not read this entire thread yet.
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The journey itself is the thing~Odysseus
and having to road all over again
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