Trade Sources

[Bull4330]

Hey all,

Until recently I havn't bothered much with traders since they were so expensive and seemed to bring relitivly little income. On a whim though, I trained two traders playing at the English and sent them out to find whatever they could... Low and behold, I added almost 1000 florins per month to my income with those two traders with dye from france and gold from Spain! I've been looking around for other good trade sites but most of them are crappy with 14-30 florins per turn... anyone know of any good sites on the map?

[Freedom]

As the English, something like cotton, silk, gold, ivory, slaves or other "exotic", aka the nearest resource of that type is very far from your capital, would bring in tons of income. Also, don't be afraid to move your capital: I remember playing as Venice one time and I was able to skyrocket my merchant income by moving my capital from Venice to Thessalonica because that made the most valuable resources (spices and gold) all the more valuable for me.

[lpremus]

I think gold is the highest good.