Provincial Trade Power vs Trade Efficiency

[themaniac26]

i plan on going for some of the custom nation acheivements(ideas guy, for odin, and first come first serve) and i'm deciding on the ideas, but trade has been one of thoses parts of the game i am still trying to understand, so what tends to be better? Trade Efficiency or Provincial Trade Power

[AllGrainGamer]

Trade Efficency is generally always good, Provincial Trade Power is best for owning just a few estuarys and centers of trade territories in a node. Although I personally rank Global Trade Power better than both of them.

[themaniac26]

Originally posted by AllGrainGamer:

Trade Efficency is generally always good, Provincial Trade Power is best for owning just a few estuarys and centers of trade territories in a node. Although I personally rank Global Trade Power better than both of them.

ok thanks, guess i'll go with global trade power

[kaiyl_kariashi]

Provincal Trade-power works like Mercantism (and stacks with it), it's just a flat % boost to tradepower from a province.

Domestic trade-power works like global trade-power except it only affects nodes where you do control territory.

Foreign Trade-power works similar to global trade-power except it only affects nodes where you don't control any territory

Global Trade power is a boost all generated trade-power.

Trade steering is just increases the weight your trade-power share has on directing the flow of trade. If you have 20% trade steering, then your trade-power share is increased by 20% with regard directing how much trade is pushed out of the node in the direction you want it to go (only applies to nodes with merchants transferring trade).



Trade efficiency actually has nothing to do with tradepower and instead directly modifies how much income you collect based on your share of a node. it's just a flat bonus. If you have 10% trade efficiency and are entitled to collect 10 ducats from that node due to trade share, you'll collect 11 ducats instead. It's also capped at 200% like all the other efficienies are.

Privateer efficiency works the same way when privateering.

[Yxklyx]

I would pick trade efficiency over the others always. Trade power can be increased by other means and only helps in nodes where there's strong competition.