- Can a Great Merchant enter territories that you don't have a border agreement with?

- Is is better to get the Great Merchant to enter a territory that is further away but poorer OR a bit closer and richer? i.e. what is valued more in the calculation?

Thanks

dimensions and distance.

dimensions as in City Size?

that's it? doesn't matter how strong/ rich they are?

1. No
2. As the manual says, rich and far away is best.What the exact influence of both factors is...well I guess we will have to wait until someone figures it out...

Actually, my Great Merchant just entered territory of a Civ I had no border agreements with, so I think as long as you are not at war, you'll be able to get your guy in any city.

Ok, didn't know that...thanks for sharing!

On a huge world map setting, a cross-the-globe trade mission net me 4.5k gold. Pretty good, eh?

I had 2 great merchants. One went to a city on the other side of my continent it was a size 13 capital and netted me 2.5K
Another one I put in a boat and sailed to the other continent and did the mission in a size 11 capital and only netted me 1.7K

From now on I look for purely huge cities.

It's like in CIV1 with Caravans:
- examine top5 cities.
- send him to highest rank city that doesn't belong to you

Yeah, its some combo of size and distance with an emphasis on size.

I netted about 2.5K as well for a size 11 capital on the other side of the world (another continent)

On a huge world map setting, a cross-the-globe trade mission net me 4.5k gold. Pretty good, eh?
:goodjob: Booyakasha!

So was that per turn gold or sum gold what you get from great merchant?

It's a lump sum, 777.

per turn? yeah, we wish! ;)