Trade Access Relation
You no longer need to minmax opinions up to 100 just to build trade offices. You just need to request Trade Access.
This mods replaces "Preferred Market Access" relation with just "Trade Access" relation. Instead of lifting market protection and spreading market on another’s locations, it simply gives you rights to build trade offices.
You can increase accept chance not only by opinion, but also by diplomatic reputation and trust.
This, for example, allows Genoa to build trade offices in Alexandria, Mamluk Egypt with only -30 opinion, but high trust and diplomatic reputation.
For balance reasons, I also made Trade Access to cost diplomatic capacity, so you need to think twice before requesting market access. The giver now also gets some bonus – each trade office in market capital increases market power 0.1%.
Also, to build Fondaco you also don’t need to minmax 100 opinions, first you get trade access, and only then you can ask for fondaco rights.
You can suggest how to balance it more, adjust AI accept score, bonuses, report bugs etc in the comments or on github:
