About the automatic Trade.

[SchrodingerTheCatboy]

So... yeah,... what exactly does the convoi do when i let all goods in stay on the automatic trading field?

[Jim]

Make a save and try it out. Do you mean the captain trading? I'm not sure what you're asking here.

[shiggies713]

well the convoy will do whatever you have told it to do. Set a route up, it will move from town to town and automatically buy/sell goods that are profitable. By default it will do repairs in the first city on the route.

Eventually pirates will form and get stronger so you may want to consider protecting your most valuable fleets with warships later in the game.

[theLASTroman_NJ]

Basically when the trade route is set to automatic the captain will make judgement calls and normally only buy items that can be sold for a profit in the towns on his route, example : say you have three cities on your route, all three produce hemp so he will never buy it.

Manual trade is important for supply chains, you load and unload goods into your warehouse, example : you have a rum producer and a sugar farm in two seperate cities, you have the captina load the sugar from your warehouse then have him load into your warehouse in the second city to be used.

[lmnotgood]

you need a total of 4 xp points to do that route.. do you need 2 in trading so the captain will trade automatically?

[SchrodingerTheCatboy]

Originally posted by lmnotgood:

you need a total of 4 xp points to do that route.. do you need 2 in trading so the captain will trade automatically?

No, only 4 in total.