What are the rules in trade?

[rotts123]

I did a massive trade setup in my last game after I had everything railroaded. I put taxes on zero and paid for everything in trade each turn. There seemed to be some sort of pattern to cities demand and supplying different goods and also they would shut off and pop back up at different times. Does anyone know what the setup is for the game on supply and demand? <img src="graemlins/hammer.gif" border="0" alt="[Hammer]" />

I had the week off of work and got my highest score ever. 1196% on deity/7 civ/random/max barbs <img src="graemlins/king.gif" border="0" alt="[King]" />

 

[starlifter]

Congrats on your score.

If there is a precise pattern to commodity production, I've never looked for it or observed it. It does not matter to me... I'll deliver hundreds, sometimes thousands, of freight/caravans in a large game, and my basic rule is to find teh most distant city that needs the commodity on a different landmass.

In late game when I have dozens of "instant cities" growing, I'll just slam 3 freight into a city to help with happiness & growth, as well as trade.

Keep an eye out for Oil, Uranium... the are mongo valuable, so choose destinations carefully. Gold, Silk, and Gems are valuable, and you'll usually make more of these than you have cities that demand them... so choose carefully here too.

On a large map, you can expect over 3,000 gold & science per freight if you meet long distance demands with big trade cities and valuable cargo.

But on your original question, I don't know the underlying "pattern" and do not set up my trade empire predicated on a pattern.

 

[Smash]

<a href="http://apolyton.net/forums/Forum3/HTML/000231.html?date=08:12" target="_blank"> Repeated Commodity Trade Strategy by Adam Smith</a>

<a href="http://www.apolyton.net/forums/Forum3/HTML/001778.html?11" target="_blank">Trading Ideas by Xin Yu</a>

<a href="http://apolyton.net/forums/Archives/Archive-000005/HTML/20000426-3-000096.html" target="_blank">Two Continents Trading Strategy</a>

sorry starlifter...Poly links <img src="icon12.gif" border="0">

 

[starlifter]

<br />sorry starlifter...Poly links<br /> <hr></blockquote>

Hey cool. Should have know Poly would have looked at commodity pattern. I don't have anything agianst Apolyton, except the are almost alway very very slow for me here in Seattle. When I got a new ISP 3 weeks ago, they did not speed up. My network analysis software shows it is a problem at their end, so I assume they'll do something about it one day <img src="smile.gif" border="0"> . When they do, I've got a lot of reading to catch up on over there!

Added note: After 6 hours, not one of the 3 links finished downloading... about 20% was the extent! <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[LOL]" /> <br />

[ September 19, 2001: Message edited by: starlifter ]</p>

 

[Smash]

Zoinks!!!!

their site has been running pretty good in the last week or so..for me anyways.