Trade route and Management

[ezbutton]

I was wondering if there's an easier way set up trade routes aside from the continuous clicking its just really annoying to manage when you have 10+ cities and a minimum of 20 and max of 30 different trade routes going on. Can trade routes be established through the trade route overview?

 

[Memoryjar]

To add for trade route. Is there a way to know how many trade routes are available for a city, without waiting end of one and have access to relocate option, where you can see free slots ?

 

[ntr0py]

To add for trade route. Is there a way to know how many trade routes are available for a city, without waiting end of one and have access to relocate option, where you can see free slots ?

In the city screen, top middle, there are two numbers, used / available trade routes.

 

[cazaderonus]

BE's UI could really use some good mods. In that area, firaxis didnt much work tbh.

 

[civictor]

Trade route management is begging for a good automation mod. People are making mods to change or reduce trade routes, but what we really need is a mod that:

* allows you to set priorities for what kind of routes you want (e.g. set a relative value weight to each of production, science, energy, and food)
* automatically evaluates each trade route and scores it by summing the weighted values
* chooses the highest priority route for a city as the largest weighted sum

At a minimum, the automation process could have an on/off toggle so that you can take manual control. A settings screen is needed to update priorities. It would be really great to have a trade routes screen showing all routes that would allow manual control of routes and individual priorities for cities.

 

[Divi Filus]

Good points - This is a major time waster, I totally agree this needs to be fixed...
Option to Stop a trade route "midstream" - to redirect to your wonder building city would be nice too...

 

[ezbutton]

Thank god i'm not the only one who feels this way. Trade literally sinks 1/3-1/4 of my time in my games which is ridiculous.

 

[Seven05]

I'd be pretty happy if they simply made sure the previous route was always at the top of the list and the "previous" text stood out more.

 

[Koalmar]

Trade route management is begging for a good automation mod. People are making mods to change or reduce trade routes, but what we really need is a mod that:

* allows you to set priorities for what kind of routes you want (e.g. set a relative value weight to each of production, science, energy, and food)
* automatically evaluates each trade route and scores it by summing the weighted values
* chooses the highest priority route for a city as the largest weighted sum

At a minimum, the automation process could have an on/off toggle so that you can take manual control of. A settings screen is needed to update priorities. It would be really great to have a trade routes screen showing all routes that would allow manual control of routes and individual priorities for cities.

Or maybe just incorporate trade routes in to a menu system, similar to the covert operative screen. Even if they want to retain the 'fixed contract' feel to trade they could at least make it more intuitive/less clicky - an actual automation system which picks the best route takes away strategic decision, but I undestand that it would be better than the current system.

Im sure they could do something along a better way to sort all of it as well if they wanted to keep a unit oreintated system - a second suggestion would be (in a trade menu) allow a 'permenant' tickbox on a trade route overview view. And unticking it would have it return to the regular cycle (would pop up to refresh after a few turns or so)

 

[jshelr]

sounds like this should move to general discussions.

 

[kingsbury]

Thank god i'm not the only one who feels this way. Trade literally sinks 1/3-1/4 of my time in my games which is ridiculous.

At least civ is not like dota or lol where you spend most of your time trying to find a game where your teammates aren't trying to intentionally lose things for your team.

 

[Kanasuke]

Maximum one outgoing trade route per city. Capital has more. And even then it is still stupidly good.