What dictates trade amounts received on goods sent?

[Grandpa Troll]

I am doing some scenario making

I have where Labrynth is good all game and took ability away to have trade routes pillaged/pirated..

I also increase the amount of incoming/poutgoing trade routes from "4" to 400 in a city (using the govt.txt file)

Now I see where I have some trade goods vauled at 650 say and some at 65?


Is it the length traveling that puts the "worth" in gold received or am I mssing something?

I was wondering so i may further tweak this game..like say a city is on grassland should give moree money to the city whom has ice to get Caribou (deer)

Just wondering

Thanks

Gramps

[Martin Gühmann]

In CTP2 it is a definite Yes. It is the length of the way. In the source code edition it is the fright cost of this way. Unfortunatly I can only speculate how it is done in CTP1, since the programmers messed the whole thing up. But I guess the Freight costs of terrain.txt are part of them and some hard encoded ones for the road improvements.

You can test it by using the cheat editor, the larger the distance between two cities the more expensive the good should be. And you can also test it with roads railroads and maglevs.

-Martin

[Grandpa Troll]

Thanks

I am not the great modder's you,JBytheway or Locutus are but with your help have been very successful in making my own workable very desirable scenarios

Thanks for the response

Gramps

[J Bytheway]

Don't forget that the size of the monopoly has a large effect on the value of trade routes in CTP.

[Grandpa Troll]

Originally posted by J Bytheway
Don't forget that the size of the monopoly has a large effect on the value of trade routes in CTP.

If I have 30 beaver going to Boston, that would make each beaver less or more profitable than say 4 beaver?

Just asking
because in real life an overabundance means less profit since more product on market

Thanks

Gramps

[J Bytheway]

Well, in CTP having more makes them more valuable - IIRC the value increases linearly with the number already present. You're right that this is rather unlike the real world - but noone ever claimed CTP was hyper-realistic .