Simple Trade Fixes
Vanilla trade is extremely boring and unrewarding to invest in, doesn’t reward small-but-efficient states and completely ignores the idea of middleman-merchantry.
So here’s some simple but game-changing rebalancing of base trade income:
– All trade route income roughly tripled.
– Trade route income gradually scaled by country rank, with city-states getting +100% and great powers getting -50% (which is still 1.5x vanilla).
– Exporter-Importer profit switched, so the importer gets the main profit in a route to simulate re-exporting from trade-hubs.
As a bonus, tiny countries can now hire lots of mercenaries provided they have the gold to pay for them; don’t mess with Rhodes.
