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[Nefartari]

Can anyone explain how to use the trade map?  Also how does it work with traders?  I know on the tech map you create clerics and then send them via the map to unlock technologies.   Is it similar on the trade map?  Do you create traders then send them to unlock trade routes?  If someone could post a more thorough explanation I would appreciate it.

[pad11]

Nefartari, the trade map does, indeed, work just like the tech tree.

You build the Customs (trading) building found in the same menu as the church.  Then you recruit traders in three levels to unlock the various trade routes...Some require more than others but the map is scrollable using a held down left click and you can try and track your path to one of the trade victory points!

In addition, each time you unlock a trade route, it's 'goods for trade' option will then appear when you click on the trade center located somewhere on your playable map (the same one that starts out each time w/ the ability to trade shirts or rings for some gold right out of the gate).

Hope that helps,
pat!

[City Builder]

Also see that each trade route might need a certain amount of gold.  If I remember correctly, there were times that I didn't have gold to open a trade route, and sometimes that I needed to backtrack my traders but again had to wait until I had enough gold to do so.  Again, if I remember correctly it's really a minor amount of gold, maybe 4 gold or so to open a new trade route and maybe 1 to backtrack.

[pad11]

I can't remember for sure, but I 'think' (emphasize THINK) that you need gold to simply 'pass through' any trade route that an opponent has already opened...you don't get access to it specifically, but in order to move on through the map, you can pay gold to pass through...i could very well be wrong on that, though!  I'll have to double check!

pat!!

[Nefartari]

When you send traders to open a trade route do you leave them there or do they return on their own?  Or are they gone like with the tech?

[pad11]

Like with the tech tree, they are gone!  Consider them permantly assigned to that specific trade route!

pat!