Just to be absolutely clear, when you do this BULL will have no effect--even with Fractional Trade Routes (default off in the BULL release but
on in BAT). It's not until you end your turn that trade routes are recalculated (normally, every turn). At this point you may see a tiny increase in

and thus all

-based values

gold:,

,

, and

).
However, these effects occur each turn, so adding BULL with FTR enabled mid-game will have less impact than starting the game with it.
While it
should only increase your values, it works for the AI's as well. If you are comparing yourself to them, perhaps you'll be better or worse than normal. But if you're comparing yourself to your other games, you
should only be doing slightly better. If not, and it's not pilot error

, there could be an error in my code.