Caravans need to be re-routed so frequently

[Gary King]

For some reason, when I setup my Caravans to deal with a city, every so often the prompt will appear for me to choose a city again.

There must be something causing the Caravan to stop going to the city I chose, but what? Things like Open Borders getting canceled doesn't affect them, for instance, do they?

 

[Mr. Grieves]

There may be much more lucrative or safe destination cities in the future, so trade routes have a set duration. I'm usually counting down the turns before I can reroute a cargo ship.

 

[Gary King]

How many turns do they last?

 

[gsmart04]

Check the trade routes screen. Turns to go is to the right.

 

[Mr. Grieves]

I'm really not sure what determines the duration, but check Your Trade Routes in the trade route overview to see when they will need to be renewed.

 

[Callonia]

Don't each trade route last for 30 turns before it prompt you for renewal or new route?

 

[Sagax]

My guess is you are running several caravans that were launched with short intervals in-between. So what you think is a caravan asking you too frequently is actually each caravan finishing their trade on their respective turns.

 

[Mr. Grieves]

No, I just tried setting up three different trade routes, and they would've lasted 36, 30 or 32 turns.

 

[Fabio1701]

it could be that if the city you are trading with changed hands, that it stops the route. I actually would like the ability to choose when to stop a trade route and make another after X turns , say 15 on standard. This would help take advantage of changes in the political landscape and CS quests.

 

[dhialuck]

Or how about this: roads increase the range of trade routes so maybe if a chain of roads that the caravan was using broke somewhere then the caravan wont be in range to reach the destination and will need re-routing (I might have just given away an exploit on how to manually stop a trade route but in practice not useful since we don't know the range at which our caravan is going, thank god

 

[shaglio]

Has there been a lot of Embargoing in the WC? That'll prematurely cancel any trade routes you have with the embargoed civ.