All Questions About Trade Answered

[Inverse Icarus]

so sitting outside a zulu port now has an added bonus.

[vovan]

What wonder about is this:
Let's say there are several civilizations (well, obviously). Let's say my civilization has a certain resource. Let's say it is iron. Now, all the other civilizations are willing to pay me 10 lumps of gold (or pieces, or coins, or units, or whatever gold is measured in) per turn for my iron. Now, let's say I have found all the sources of iron in the world and control them. (also, I am so powerful, that the other civilization will never be able to take the iron from me by the means of war). So, what I am wondering about is, will the prices for iron go up then? Would the other civilizations be "willing" to pay me more for the iron, since there is no other way to get it?

In other words, are the prices the civilizations would pay for certain resources predefined, or are they dynamic, depending on the supply of the resource, which is more likely.

[Lorizael]

Another question not answered...

Can one harbor connection trade all of your resources. I hope not... I hope that one harbor can only send and receive a limited number of resources.

[albiedamned]

Originally posted by Lorizael
Another question not answered...

Can one harbor connection trade all of your resources. I hope not... I hope that one harbor can only send and receive a limited number of resources.

What you are saying would be more realistic, but I doubt that's how they implemented it. I'd bet that one harbor is enough to trade everything, provided of course that it has an explored and traversable path to the harbors of the other civs.

[Lorizael]

Originally posted by albiedamned


What you are saying would be more realistic, but I doubt that's how they implemented it. I'd bet that one harbor is enough to trade everything, provided of course that it has an explored and traversable path to the harbors of the other civs.

I'll be fine however it turns out. But I don't think my suggestion would too difficult to implement.

But even if you only need one harbor, until the endgame at which point you have airports, if you only have that one harbor, that harbor will need to be able to "see" all of the other harbors you want to trade with. Which means that more than one harbor will be useful, especially considering naval blockades and the like.

[MxM]

Here is another question. Say A want to trade with B, but does not have direct trade root. However A has right of passage with C, and connected with C by road. However C is connected to B not by road, but say, through airport. In this case can A send goods to C by road and then to B by airport?

[Lorizael]

Originally posted by MxM
Here is another question. Say A want to trade with B, but does not have direct trade root. However A has right of passage with C, and connected with C by road. However C is connected to B not by road, but say, through airport. In this case can A send goods to C by road and then to B by airport?

If a train is heading east...

I think that only direct trade routes would be allowed in Civ III. I don't think the AI could handle it that way. You could indirectly do it by finding out that B wants say, horses, and that C wants iron. You give C both horses and iron for something else, and C trades the horses to B for something else. But I think that would be difficult to engineer.

That's one way where MP wins out over SP. The ability to communicate ideas and agreements.

[albiedamned]

Originally posted by Lorizael


I'll be fine however it turns out. But I don't think my suggestion would too difficult to implement.

But even if you only need one harbor, until the endgame at which point you have airports, if you only have that one harbor, that harbor will need to be able to "see" all of the other harbors you want to trade with. Which means that more than one harbor will be useful, especially considering naval blockades and the like.

Agreed. Although you probably only need one harbor which can "see" your trading partners, it would obviously be wise to build multiple harbors. Plus if it has the same effect as in Civ2 of increasing the food from sea squares, then you'll probably want to build multiple harbors anyway.