I know having a harbor increases your chance for a city to have a trade route open with another civ's city, but does a Custom House? If the city lacks any I don't build them because its a waste of hammers, but does building one increase the chance that one will start?
Foreign Trade Routes
- Thread starter Ashurdan
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FriendoftheDork
Keiser
Well I suppose if that city benefits more than any other city from a foreign trade route it gets it if you build the custom house. If however, one of your larger cities still will have more benefit from the trade route, it will keep it.
So without being an expert in the how this trade works in detail, I reccomend only building Custom Houses in cities with significant foreign trade routes, otherwise it's a waste of hammers.
I usually build them in cities with trade routes 6 or larger, depending on size. For example, a size 20 city with best trade route 6 is not that good, while a size 10 with lots of food to expand with the 6 trade route has alot better potential.
So without being an expert in the how this trade works in detail, I reccomend only building Custom Houses in cities with significant foreign trade routes, otherwise it's a waste of hammers.
I usually build them in cities with trade routes 6 or larger, depending on size. For example, a size 20 city with best trade route 6 is not that good, while a size 10 with lots of food to expand with the 6 trade route has alot better potential.
Take this with a grain of salt, but my understanding is that even without a harbor/customs house, a foreign trade route will be preferred over a domestic one, and will therefore originate if available, so the addition of those buildings shouldnt create new foreign trade routes. What it may do is draw a lucrative FTR away from one of your bigger cities to your smaller H/CH city, which could be detrimental if the bigger city has commerce multipliers that the smaller lacks. Note also that the 100% yield on an FTR is on the base profit, and most of the final FTR value is due to modifiers such as extended peace and its nature as a foreign route (mouseover an FTR in the city screen to see the breakdown). The base profit is, if memory serves, a function of the populations of both cities, and usually around 2 commerce.
AndrewN
Prince
I think you are misunderstanding how trade routes work.
You can only have a single trade route with each city belonging to a foreign civ. Every turn the game calculates the most valuable trade routes from your cities to the foreign ones and assigns the most valuable ones. All the remaining trade routes from your cities are domestic ones, you can have as many internal trade routes to a specific city as you want.
The Harbour and Customs House increase the value of the trade route from that city by the designated %. This tends to increase the value to a foreign city above those cities without Harbours giving coastal cities the majority of the foreign trade routes. However a large landlocked city (like your capital) will still be more valuable than a small coastal city with a Harbour.
You can only have a single trade route with each city belonging to a foreign civ. Every turn the game calculates the most valuable trade routes from your cities to the foreign ones and assigns the most valuable ones. All the remaining trade routes from your cities are domestic ones, you can have as many internal trade routes to a specific city as you want.
The Harbour and Customs House increase the value of the trade route from that city by the designated %. This tends to increase the value to a foreign city above those cities without Harbours giving coastal cities the majority of the foreign trade routes. However a large landlocked city (like your capital) will still be more valuable than a small coastal city with a Harbour.
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