decrease the amount of trade flowing out downstream, by far the hardest to accomplish.īecause merchants increase trade steered out of a node, by far the most lucrative method of increasing trade is to place merchants in a chain of controlled nodes so that each merchant compounds the value of trade it passes on to the next.Ĭontrolling trade nodes.
increase the amount of trade flowing in from upstream through trade steering towards it or again through increasing goods produced upstream or.
accumulating positive goods produced modifiers, e.g.
developing base production in owned provinces.
To increase the trade value of a node a player can: Trade value is the sum of locally produced goods and the inputs from trade nodes flowing in (upstream), and minus the value forwarded to other trade nodes (downstream).