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VII - Discussion
I was playing civ BE again, and honestly, I think the way it handles trade routes addresses some problems I've had with V and VI's system.
For those of you who haven't played Beyond Earth before, the way the trade routes work is that for a city to send out a trade route it first has to build a building, then that city is able to send out a number of trade routes based on it's size. Each city has its own limit, so you can send at least one from each city you have a trade depot in, but bigger cities can send more.
Personally I think this hits a nice balance between wide and tall play, unlike 6 which heavily favours wide, and 5 which works better with a tall playstyle. It also addresses a personal pet peeve of mine: trade route stacking. I don't know if anyone else is bothered by this, but the fact that most of your trade routes are coming from one city feels a little off to me.
While I think there may be some rebalancing required to put that in a main game, I think this is a system that could inspire the trade route system for civ VII.
I'd love to hear what you guys think.
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The whole trade-resource system needs to be modernized. You can have as many traders as you want, but other than lil bit of gold, they dont inherently create value out of the ether.
You need to have improved resources in your cities for them to generate value. You can still concentrate your traders, but you have to invest A LOT to get traders getting the goods to your trade cities to sell abroad
That's not a bad idea, but it removes one of the main strategies for trade routes, domestic trading to help boost a new city. In the early game, that's arguably the best use of a trade route while nobody is making more than 3 gp per with even a low level upgrade from slinger to archer costing 60gp, or 20 turns for one route..
For me, I'd like something which includes someone telling me a luxury trade has ended. I'm using a reports mod which lets me know if an AI has something I don't, but that still doesn't help with things I've traded to them.
There are domestic trade routes in beyond earth.