Merchants in the HRE

**Commander_Vimes** · February 01, 2007, 03:50 PM

when i am playin as the HRE i sent some merchants down to egypt and its says that they make about 2florins!! for silk and sugar and that so i send some off to timbuktu but even then the make 16 for ivory and 20 for slave traders whats up with that!!!

**Snipafist** · February 01, 2007, 04:17 PM

Do you have trade agreements with those nations? Do you have the new patch? Do your merchants suck? We need more info, here.

**Commander_Vimes** · February 01, 2007, 04:29 PM

no i don't have trade agreement because they are just rebels i haven't got any patches yet

**Cowellini** · February 01, 2007, 04:33 PM

Sending merchants to towns??? like you manually control merchants now? THIS THING YOUR TALKING ABOUT SOUNDS COOL! what kind of game is this?? is this the new game medieval 2???? if yes oh my gosh i need to buy this. pls let me know coz i really like trading games thanks a lot!

**Snipafist** · February 01, 2007, 04:39 PM

Originally Posted by Commander_Vimes

no i don't have trade agreement because they are just rebels i haven't got any patches yet

That explains it. Go get the 1.1 patch and you'll notice a big difference. 1.0 had a trade bug where resource values reset after you loaded a saved game. 1.1 takes care of that bug. You can fix it in 1.0 by reassigning your capitol elsewhere and then moving it back. It made the game recheck resource values. Still, I'd suggest just getting 1.1 instead.

**Commander_Vimes** · February 01, 2007, 04:41 PM

well you don't send the merchants to the towns but to resoruces some are worth more depending who u are for example if u are HRE slaves and Ivory should be worht alot!!!

**Schattenjäger** · February 01, 2007, 04:59 PM

As the HRE I always send one merchant to a gold resource a little to the east/southeast of Venice, and four merchants down to the four silk resources surrounding Constantinople. The silk merchants give me about 4000 gold or more per turn, if they have average skill.

I also tend to place a couple of merchants by the two resources surrounding Bologna... amber, I think it is? Not certain.

**Commander_Vimes** · February 02, 2007, 02:32 AM

thanks guys now i can wage my war against denmark, france ,milan ,venitans ,hungary ,the byzantinime empire

**Elric von Rabenfels** · February 02, 2007, 02:40 AM

Have fun battling the whole world then!

**parvus** · February 02, 2007, 02:50 AM

try goin to baghdad. nice place for silk and further from ur capital than constantinople. then dont forget bout the sugar, spices and cotton round the east. there's heaps of it

**Commander_Vimes** · February 05, 2007, 11:48 AM

yeah thanks all i had to do was move my capital but now i have defeated denmark,milan,france,venitans and halfway through killing the moors, poland, russia,portugesee,spanish, byzantine empire england scotland so my empire stretches from helsinki to constinople to naples to oslo to zaragoza