Trade

[Rodgers]

When establishing a trade route with another civ's city you get messages like "silk trade route established. Revenue: 120 gold". Now, when looking at my tax rate screen I do NOT see revenues increasing by such an amount, in fact it takes dozens of such trade routes being established before I see any real increases and am able to put more resources into science etc.

What does the (say) 120 gold refer to? Is this a one-off payment? If so, by how much does the ACTUAL amount of revenue I receive per turn increase?

Or is it somehow connected with the city of mine from where the caravan came? e.g more revenue/taxes/trade arrows generated by the individual city?

Not the most thrilling question but any answers would be appreciated.

 

[gerryandersson]

The 120 (say) gold is aded to the rest of the gold
you have in your tresury.
It will also increse the trade arovs in the city the caravan
was built, incresing the incom of the citey.

 

[Ren]

And you should be able to see how much extra trade you get from that trade route by looking under the in-city-unit information, Eg: York Spice +8 (or something to that affect)

 

[Duke of Marlbrough]

It is an immedaite one time payment that is added to your treasury. It also adds that much science to your current research.

Then, it creates a trade route which adds a certain number of extra trade to the city that sent the caravan as well as the city that received it.

There's a bit more detail about what trade routes do in the War Academy.

 

[nico65]

The idea with traderouts is to generate extra trade in your connected cities that can be taxed. The Revenue that is refered to is a one time bonus.

 

[starlifter]

A useful link about trade is:

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=6144&highlight=trade