

If no other nations are collecting in Nippon, Japan can choose not to use merchant there to be “more competitive”. Plus controlling most of Hangzhou and Beijing, Japan can collect more in Beijing than in Nippon. Q: If Japan is fully conquered all provinces in the Girin and Nippon trade node, controlling most of Beijing and Hangzhou’s trade node, is it a good idea to move capital or main trade port to Beijing?Ī: Yes, player can take the advantage of the new provinces in China because Japanese trade will eventually flow into China anyway. You can change it another province in another trade node with 200 diplio points.

If your main trading port is in those trade nodes, you might want to move it to a lower trade node to increase your trading income because that’s where your main trades flows. Genoa, Sevilla and English Channel are the lowest. In another word, Australia, California, Lhasa, Girin, Amazona, Ethiopia, Great Lakes, Hudson Bay, Katsina, Patagonia, Rio Grande and Siam are the highest trade node.


The down stream is the node where the arrow is pointing to. Main trading port: Where you collect moneyĭifferent colors represents different trade nodes.Trade power is a raw number representing a country’s control over trade in a node. Can be influenced by lightships, competitors, developments, mercantilism, trade power… basically everything on the list.Trade value is generated from the quantity and price of produced trade goods in each province. Trade value: represents the monthly sum of locally produced and incoming trade goods in a trade node.Mercantilism: giving bonus to your provinces in that local trade node, making your own nation more profitable, isn’t it?.Upstream/Downstream: trades are steered from upstream to downstream.They can transfer, collect or steer market share of that area. Trade nodes: static locations that player can put their merchants at.First, let’s get familiarize with these terms: In this post, I will briefly talk about how trade work and how to maximize it. In EU4, trade is variable income and usually dominates more than 33% of the total income.
