Maybe this is just me but I seem to notice that anytime I build an East India Company, then the AI civs seem to stop sending trade routes to that city?
Is there a possibility that the AI chooses a trade route that minimizes the amount of gold you get out of the exchange?
I tend to notice the same thing with the Colossus too. I've had it before and I never seem to get one trade route. Although I admit this can be related to where your city is placed and how easily other Civs can reach it with trade routes. If your city is remote than good luck in getting a single trade route...
Yet, the number of times I've seen my crappy new size 1 or 2 city with no connected resources or market get a trade route from the AI while my bigger cities with all the financial infrastructure seem to miss out.
Does anyone else experience this? But I've learned one thing, if you want to attract lots of trade routes than play a wide Civ. I just played a Pangaea map that had a real snaking geography and I had my cities scattered everywhere so they were close to nearly every Civ. From the mid game onwards I was making at least 40 gold per turn from trade routes. It also helped I guess that 2/3rds of the citystates had been conquered by Shaka and Atilla.
Is there a possibility that the AI chooses a trade route that minimizes the amount of gold you get out of the exchange?
I tend to notice the same thing with the Colossus too. I've had it before and I never seem to get one trade route. Although I admit this can be related to where your city is placed and how easily other Civs can reach it with trade routes. If your city is remote than good luck in getting a single trade route...
Yet, the number of times I've seen my crappy new size 1 or 2 city with no connected resources or market get a trade route from the AI while my bigger cities with all the financial infrastructure seem to miss out.
Does anyone else experience this? But I've learned one thing, if you want to attract lots of trade routes than play a wide Civ. I just played a Pangaea map that had a real snaking geography and I had my cities scattered everywhere so they were close to nearly every Civ. From the mid game onwards I was making at least 40 gold per turn from trade routes. It also helped I guess that 2/3rds of the citystates had been conquered by Shaka and Atilla.