Need an explanation about Trade Routs

[osc13]

How does it work, why, when? How do i manage them?
I understand that if you have to cities and connect them by roads or they are connected by water, they auto-setup the trade route??! But why, but how? Okey i understand that a "trade" is some how a benefit in cash...

But if i harvest, lets say, COW! Do all cities connected with that city, get the benefit ( health, or happienes ) from that tile?! even foreign cities?! if i dont have closed borders?

and i understand that you have a limited number of trade routs availible in each city, and how do i pick the most benificial trade route?

AND do i still get the benefits of steal, for example, if someone harvesting it within my roadnetwork, even other civs.

and also, why do other civs ask me if i wanna trade like cow for corn?! dont they get it automaticly?! with open borders?! or what the hell is the benefit for me, if i already im harvesting cow? and whats confusing me more is the numbers after cow or corn or whatever, 1 of 4 or 1 of 3, do i give away one of my cow-tiles to one of his RANDOM, and i get a corn-tile, cities or what?!

I really need this explained to me. I love the game, but the tradingsystem keeps me up at night. I cant figure it out, how to use it and how to understand it... its a black hole, generating money.

If someone just want to explain all this to me like am a five-year-old, or at least give me a Link to a trade-route-web-tutrial for EXTREME beginners

(sorry for my bad spelling and grammar)

 

[buffalo6542]

Your cities get the health benefit from the cow and the city harvesting it gets a food bonus.

The computer picks the best trade routes for you based on Economic Civics and open border agreements.

other Civs cannot harvest any resources within your borders even if they were able to the turn before.

 

[Solid]

Your capital is the center of youre tradenetwork. A reasource must be conented via your network to your capital. All cities connected to your capital will be able to bulid units that need that reasource or benfit from helath bonuses and so on. You can only use reasources that you control, if you don´t trade with other civs for it.

If you have a cow tile and builds a pasture on it you get the benefits in all your cities in your network. However you only need one cow to get all benefits, so if you got another you can trade it to someoneelse in exchange for, lets say fish that you don´t have.

The automation in trade routes only happens with the monetary trades with other cities in the world. I think you need open borders to be able to get them and certain civics will get you more trade routes.

Hope this helped, and

 

[Willem]

Your capital is the center of youre tradenetwork. A reasource must be conented via your network to your capital. All cities connected to your capital will be able to bulid units that need that reasource or benfit from helath bonuses and so on. You can only use reasources that you control, if you don´t trade with other civs for it.

You don't need to have a resource connected to your capital in order for other cities to be able to use it. All that's required is that they're connected by some sort of trade route, like a road or river etc. Having it connect to the capital is only required if you want to trade with other civs.

The automation in trade routes only happens with the monetary trades with other cities in the world. I think you need open borders to be able to get them and certain civics will get you more trade routes.

And resources are not part of the automated trade routes, you need to set up seperate deals for those. So if you're harvesting a Cow, the AI doesn't get use of it until make a trade arrangement with the other civ. And you don't need open boreders for those to take place, you can trade with anyone you have a valid route with.

 

[osc13]

Your capital is the center of youre tradenetwork. A reasource must be conented via your network to your capital. All cities connected to your capital will be able to bulid units that need that reasource or benfit from helath bonuses and so on. You can only use reasources that you control, if you don´t trade with other civs for it.

If you have a cow tile and builds a pasture on it you get the benefits in all your cities in your network. However you only need one cow to get all benefits, so if you got another you can trade it to someoneelse in exchange for, lets say fish that you don´t have.

The automation in trade routes only happens with the monetary trades with other cities in the world. I think you need open borders to be able to get them and certain civics will get you more trade routes.

Hope this helped, and

wow thats som solid info! tnx.
but do i somehow, by my self, manage the trade routs?! or is it always fully automatic?!

 

[osc13]

You don't need to have a resource connected to your capital in order for other cities to be able to use it. All that's required is that they're connected by some sort of trade route, like a road or river etc. Having it connect to the capital is only required if you want to trade with other civs.



And resources are not part of the automated trade routes, you need to set up seperate deals for those. So if you're harvesting a Cow, the AI doesn't get use of it until make a trade arrangement with the other civ. And you don't need open boreders for those to take place, you can trade with anyone you have a valid route with.

ey... that lifted a great wight of my mind. tnx pal..

 

[allunderheaven]

Trade routes as indicated in your city screen are different from your road network. Trade routes are fully automatic and produce gold. They are affected by the civics you choose, the buildings you build and various wonders. Road networks give you resources and only one of a type resource is needed for every city in your empire to enjoy the benefits.