Traders suddenly not working

[Rob Evans]

For some reason I can no longer send any of my traders to any city. I have to keep skipping turns on about 6 traders because they can't do anything anymore except change their home city. Anyone else experienced this?

 

[Ronald Gordo]

Basically you can have as many traders as trade routes you can create. If you have 3 commercial hub or harbor, you can create 3 trade routes and can create 3 traders.

Well, after you have 3 traders, if you lost a city with a commercial hub or harbor (or change politics), you can not command traders until regularizing the number of traders with the number of commercial routes.

Sorry for my bad english.

 

[Browd]

This also happens if you switch governments from Merchant Republic (which provides +2 trade route capacity) or cease to be Suzerain of Carthage (which provides +1 trade route capacity for each encampment you have). When that happens, your existing trade routes will continue until they expire in the ordinary course, but they cannot be renewed -- all you can do is put the excess trade units to sleep and wake them up and put them to work when you get more trade route capacity.

 

[Ace Belder]

Sorry to necro this thread, but I'll just add to this in case there's done passer-bys:
- along with what Browd posted, you could also have gotten a +1 trade route from winning the World Congress "Trade Policy" resolution

"Trade Routes sent to the chosen player provide +4 Gold to the sender. The chosen player receives +1 Trade Route capacity."