What can "Block" a trade route. Playing with no barbs and not at war. Can two cities of mine have the same target foreign city?

[MIS]

Title.

 

[AndreyK]

No

 

[Lifeordeath]

You can only send one trade route to a city across your entire empire, unless you are Venice, in which case you just can't send the exact same trade route from the same city

 

[burticus]

You can only send one trade route to a city across your entire empire, unless you are Venice, in which case you just can't send the exact same trade route from the same city

And vice versa. I just finished a game with Venice as my neighbor and I had a bunch of cities doing simultaneous trade routes to Venice (capitol). The science and gold return was so much higher than the other Venetian cities I mostly just stuck with the capitol (until Franchises came around then I start spreading it out to spread franchises)

 

[Lifeordeath]

And vice versa. I just finished a game with Venice as my neighbor and I had a bunch of cities doing simultaneous trade routes to Venice (capitol). The science and gold return was so much higher than the other Venetian cities I mostly just stuck with the capitol (until Franchises came around then I start spreading it out to spread franchises)

Yeah makes Venice a pretty good neighbor, you can kinda make bank off of them

 

[Recursive]

For next version, I've isolated the code for this:

        <!-- Proximity malus to the yields of international Trade Routes, scaling down from the furthest available route from the origin city -->
        <!-- Traits.NoTradeRouteProximityPenalty removes this malus if the player with the trait owns the origin or destination city -->
        <Row Class="5" Name="BALANCE_TRADE_ROUTE_PROXIMITY_PENALTY" Value="0"/>

        <!-- Players cannot send more than one Trade Route to the same destination city -->
        <!-- Traits.NoAnnexing removes this restriction if the player with the trait owns the origin or destination city -->
        <Row Class="5" Name="BALANCE_TRADE_ROUTE_DESTINATION_RESTRICTION" Value="0"/>

Additionally, "same origin and same destination cities" is blocked even in Community Patch Only. Can't have duplicates of the same route.