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Comguitoz Sep 27, 2015 @ 2:53am

What do warehouses do?

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Skybreaker has Grand Ages: Medieval

Sep 27, 2015 @ 3:04am

Hi Archer STerling.
They are storing goods above the needs. This means easier, or better enhanced trading for you.
As normally the trader is going round with and is buying goods deepening on the needs of your population and selling everything produced above the needs. With the warehouse you can buy and/or store your goods you have to plenty of.
-cheers

Comguitoz Sep 27, 2015 @ 3:29am

but like what for example? It will save (for example) bricks, or it will prioritize bricks to be trade?

thx for your help

Skybreaker has Grand Ages: Medieval

Sep 27, 2015 @ 3:34am

Hi Archer.
It is saving them and your trader can make use of them, or even you can. As you can e.g. get goods into the warehouse you are not producing. There you can setup more interesting trade routes and traders with more than one town as target. But be aware, you can only select three type of goods/resources the warehouse can store, such as the production of your town. So choose wisely.
-cheers

Mansen Sep 27, 2015 @ 3:41am

It basically lets your trade routes trade with each other - Let's say you have a small village making bricks and lumber.

This village trades with your Capital. On the other side of the side another village needs those bricks - But you can't get them, because the trade routes can't tell the Capital to store some bricks to pass on.

It is a critical upgrade early on if you ask me, because it lets you run much bigger trade routes that don't overlap. And of course lets you avoid having to have several cities with the same goods in the same region.

Comguitoz Sep 27, 2015 @ 4:14am

Originally posted by Mansen:
It basically lets your trade routes trade with each other - Let's say you have a small village making bricks and lumber.

This village trades with your Capital. On the other side of the side another village needs those bricks - But you can't get them, because the trade routes can't tell the Capital to store some bricks to pass on.

It is a critical upgrade early on if you ask me, because it lets you run much bigger trade routes that don't overlap. And of course lets you avoid having to have several cities with the same goods in the same region.

so what should i prioritize? For example in my playthrough my capital isnt getting tools, because the 2 main cities that produce tools are next to each other on the other corner of the empire what should i do? should i build a warehouse in my capital and select tools? or its on the other cities?

Mansen Sep 27, 2015 @ 4:17am

What I did (And I have since then restarted so don't hang me up on what I did) was produce tools in Sofia, and Ore and Coal in nearby cities, both connected to Sofia with a single "roundabout" trade route. Sofia had a warehouse and was the central hub that every trade route visited in the region.

(I chose not to produce Ore in Sofia so I could put in the Jewelry good, and the coal could be used for pottery in that other city as well - Optimizing production)

Last edited by Mansen; Sep 27, 2015 @ 4:17am

Comguitoz Sep 27, 2015 @ 4:22am

hum... i think i get it. i will build a warehouse on my capital and see what happens. btw is there anyway to see all the trade routes?

gmsh1964

Sep 27, 2015 @ 5:17am

Cannot see al trades routes at once. You can click on one trader, then go to the lower right of the trader box and you will two tiny arrows pointing left and right. That lets you scroll thru all the traders. It would help if there was a way to see all the trade routes (each with a different color) at once.

Ambermonk

Oct 3, 2015 @ 8:27am

Originally posted by gmsh1964:
It would help if there was a way to see all the trade routes (each with a different color) at once.

Agreed.

rkelly17

Oct 3, 2015 @ 9:07am

I set up a cluster of towns with a warehouse in the main city. The warehouse is upgradeable twice so that it can store every good. If the cluster contains cities which produce produce all 20 items (4-5 cities depending on how resources are scattered) then a trader working back and forth from the main city to each city in the cluster keeps things distributed. Other traders cana be st up for special needs, such as when you have to bring in certain raw materials for a specific industry. Then one trader works between the main city and the main cities of the neighboring clusters and goods spread around the whole empire. These ideas are not original to me, but I have tested them out and they work.

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Gelotri

Oct 3, 2015 @ 9:13am

Originally posted by Unerde:
Hi Archer.
But be aware, you can only select three type of goods/resources the warehouse can store, such as the production of your town. So choose wisely.
-cheers

Actually the initial warehouse can store 5 goods and with each upgrade to the warehouse it adds more up to a max of all 20 depending on the number of upgrades.

Edit: I had gotten to the point of building warehouses in each city to store an abundence of the goods produced in those towns only. It seems to be working out. However, you have to ensure your trade routes are successful or you add the cost of building maintenence to net loss of that route.

Last edited by Gelotri; Oct 3, 2015 @ 9:17am

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