A Complete Guide to EU4's Trade System

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0:00 Intro
0:48 Trade Nodes
3:08 Trade Power
9:13 Merchants
11:12 Transferring Trade
13:16 Trade Steering
18:54 Trade Value
20:58 Trade Companies
23:57 Privateering
24:45 Mercantilism
25:10 Examples
28:50 Outro

[@QuarbitGaming]

The run I'm showcasing was a streamed Norse 1Faith and Norse 1Culture attempt that I never finished, if you're wondering. I will not be answering questions that are answered by watching the video. Apparently caravan power also applies if you're steering towards or away from an inland node (or collecting in your home node if it's inland) "If it's so simple, why's the video 30 minutes long?" I added at least 10 minutes of examples to help visual learners. Also please uninstall TikTok. Things I missed will be added here: REALLY IMPORTANT "Ship Trade Power Propagation" (the age ability in Age of Reformation) is not trade power per ship. It allows your ships to apply the "transfers from traders downstream" modifier basically. Upstream nodes get X% of the ship trade power you have in a node. Privateering advice: worth it for high value nodes that have a low chance of stopping your pirates like Beijing or Constantinople. Also good for treasure fleet interception, which can be done at any node along the line. The Caribbean is good for this, and so is Sevilla usually. Embargoes: reduces that country's trade power mostly in your domestic nodes (based on provincial trade power). Reduces your trade efficiency though, unless it's against a rival. Sometimes worth it even without a rival, but rarely. You can only have as many level 3 trade centers as you have merchants. The transfer trade power peace deal does what it says. They give you 50% of their trade power in nodes you both have power in. (I think the peace deal option tells you this) Anyway, useful against Lubeck, Hamburg, etc. where annexing them makes everyone angry. Not as much against larger countries, who you could just take land from. Steer trade peace deal makes the country use their merchants to steer their trade towards your home node. Their home node will still collect, however. Results are mixed and generally not worth it over just war reps. TRADE COMPANIES ARE DLC APPARENTLY I'M GONNA LOSE MY MIND PDX Take trade ideas if you don't have Wealth of Nations or Dharma Any other questions? Put them below!

[@laurinseidelmann6652]

One good tip im missing is that transferred trade power, no matter if from vassal, colonial nations or through the peace treaty, does NOT get halfed when collecting outside of your home node, meaning that for example vassalizing a tiny novgorod, feeding it its cores for infinte negative liberty desire and than taking their trade power gives you near complete control over their node to collect from freely.

[@pixynowwithevenmorebelkanb6965]

PDX needs to start integrating more dlcs for us poor people, but judging how 50-75% of thier income is from dlc stacking, Its a miracle they even added base game features

[@spaceracer6861]

@@pixynowwithevenmorebelkanb6965 They've taken DLC ideas and Economy ideas at the same time.

[@survivalizer]

Lets say you're playing a roman empire game. Does it make sense to move my trading capital to the english channel and then collect in both venice and genoa if I have 100% trade power there and no one else can compete? Do I lose anything globally by having merchants collecting in non home nodes. Basically I want to collect in all the end nodes and start building backwards. Also, do trade companies affect the province count for actually forming Rome? I thought everything had to be a state...

[@Whisk3yKnight]

One time I was playing a multiplayer game with some friends and we stopped so one of them could explain how trade worked in the game…it took 2hrs💀💀 Thank you Quarbit. Thank you

[@2MinuteHockey]

seems like an overcomplicated and unrewarding mechanic because it is difficult to work with and fixed in its parameters

[@thanhvinhnguyento7069]

​@@2MinuteHockey yeah, so much abstraction, and that 3 destination nodes clearly isn't well thought out. Can't model trade without modelling production of goods

[@hanneswiggenhorn2023]

​@@2MinuteHockeyI think it's pretty rewarding, but it depends on timing. Generally i would say early game money is from taxes and late game money is from production and trade is valid mid game, but depending on your nation, that can change a lot. Colonies are very good for trade, and countries like Great Britain easily get half their income from trade

[@jormun]

5:20 "trade power per ship" includes ALL ships afaik, so it can be very powerful when you add your idle galleys and transports to your trade fleet.

[@QuarbitGaming]

that sounds stupid enough to be true. so I checked and it is.

[@hritabanroy6911]

this is hilarious

[@IoanCenturion]

Oh wow. That's really useful

[@vartosu11]

Yep, that's one of the best modifiers for flagships just because it affects every ship. I get it on all my flagships. It's cheap too.

[@jevonjames3241]

I'm a little surprised that wasn't common knowledge

[@mpmmuirhead]

On Mercantilism: Mercantilism was important in the early days of eu4 before trade companies existed. On release, it was considered important to get to 100% mercantilism. Once trade companies showed up, mercantilism became mostly redundant There have also been various patches through the lifespan of the game where some cheesey strat emerged to get to 100% mercantilism and those were always nice patches to run an economy in.

[@danieldeburgh8437]

Yeah, used to be op.

[@delphidelion]

It is still useful to pump it up a bit. It gives loyalty to the burghers and makes it easier to build trade power in nodes you don't fully control. Also, crippling competing economies is a lot easier.

[@pixynowwithevenmorebelkanb6965]

If you don't have the dlc for trade company, mercantalism is necessary. Also, high mercantalism voids some bad events that decrease burgher loyalty, trade power, and/or opinion

[@user-zg4bk6rv1q]

1.34 has such exploit, didn't try it in 1.35 so i can't say if there still is one

[@zioming]

You can easily get mercantalism from granting monopolies to your estates. Each time you renew one (every 10 years), you get an extra point of mercantalism, and if you choose a good that you don't have much of, and wouldn't make much money off of anyway, it's basically free.

[@anti-spiral159]

Trade in every Paradox games is like trying to explain Quantum Mechanics to me, it is just unnecesarily complex or simple in some parts, but it is cool as fuck that it is included.

[@SereglothIV]

Exactly. In terms of EU4 economy, trade is definitely my favourite part.

[@QBrute_]

Really cool guide, thanks for explaining. I think what makes trade so complex is the sheer amount of mechanics and modifiers and other factors that are all connected in some kind of way.

[@michaeltomasicchio6895]

Also want to add in my two cents on the topic of trade node management, that being if your node bleeds trade into another node, you can try and turn your node into a "pseudo-endnode" by conquering the node that your node flows into. There are a bunch of videos that will explain it better than I can, but basically if you control all of the nodes that your node flows into, no more trade will flow out of your node, effectively making it the same as end node.

[@QuarbitGaming]

Yup. For example the Kazan node where I had 100% of the power.

[@KCCOmug]

As someone who also has 5,000 hours in this game I thank your for explaining Trade steering and the difference between a Domestic Node and a Foreign one.

[@3komma141592653]

True. Simple Domestic is good to have if you blob, foreign is good if you play tall.

[@oldetobie2568]

I've got over a thousand hours in this game and I thought I understood trade pretty well but I learned a lot from this video, thanks Based Quarbit

[@KaiserDragoon]

A minor thing that mostly comes into play pretty late game, but getting world ports (coastal level 3 trade centers) can help with achieving and maintaining high navy tradition. Each one reduces yearly navy tradition decay by -0.2%, so you can completely cancel decay with 50 of them, or 40 of them with 100% innovativeness (not likely to happen except in WCs lol). If you're gaining a decent amount of yearly navy tradition from ships and other sources like the Murud-Janjira Fort monument, you can get a net positive navy tradition every year. This isn't that useful for most players since you'll need to conquer a ton of the world for this to be relevant, but it is funny late game if you really want to generate the highest possible numbers by cranking up trade steering. Edit: Forgot to say, really good guide overall!

[@MinedMaker]

I have thousands of hours in EUIV and I still learned a ton in this video. I have watched tutorials on trade before, but this one told me what I actually needed to know. Big props!

[@the_niss]

It's Quarbit time

[@QuarbitGaming]

*Quarbin'

[@arcane2631]

A man of culture, clearly the greatest eu4 content creator

[@erusean8492]

​@@QuarbitGaming and then you Quarbed all over the place

[@trohntobi6134]

Oh sht

[@hellquent]

Privateering for big PP - it can help you to push power projection over 50. For me it always were more for pp than ducats from it

[@bilalghani8308]

Genuinely high quality vid Rare these days, love your content!

[@SereglothIV]

I knew most of the things in this video, but I finally found out what the hell is domestic trade power and trade power abroad 😂 Also, you mentioned DLCs a couple of times. I think, although I'm not 100% sure, that moving your main trade node is also a DLC feature. Without DLC, your main trade node is always where your capital is.

[@QuarbitGaming]

aw hell nah. that has to be a joke

[@SereglothIV]

@@QuarbitGaming I just checked the wiki and it's part of Wealth of Nations, which also adds trade companies. 'Designation of a specific port as the main trade capital' Yes, vanilla Paradox games are a joke :P

[@bitofboth1229]

great video! I just bought some dlc so have to get used to more of the features, but I like that your video had some "absolutes" - build a building on ALL coal provinces, NEVER click that button, trade company trade centers and estuaries to get to 50% no further questions your honor

[@Am_Guy]

Really well made guide, helped me a lot!

[@ninjoe4195]

EU4 trade is not that complicated it only needs a half hour to be explained

[@QuarbitGaming]

exactly ;)

[@eragonshurtugal4239]

And not even that in depth

[@timgeiselmann2850]

Hi, great video, simple but efficient explanation. I have a situation that I'm not sure of. As Spain, with yet no influence in Genoa, should I transfer my trade capital to Aragon and steer from Sevilla or keep it in Sevilla; getting an additional steering ? By controlling Tunis and then Egypth it would start my chain without expanding in Europe

[@iarwain89]

Thank you, this guide helped me so much

[@AverageJohanson]

I swear over the years I've watched like a dozen videos like this explaining trade because the knowledge just leaks out of my memory over time

[@quintiax]

One thing you can do if you have a sub-par starting trade node is 'creating' an end note. Budgetmonk made a video on it but IIRC you should conquer your entire home trade node and the trade nodes where your hom trade node steers towards. It tricks the AI to not steer trade from your home trade node, allowing you to fully collect. (Budgetmonk explains it better though)

[@shibainuiscute4023]

I have over 200 hours in eu4, and this is my 5th time rewatching. I hope i will understand the trade system one day

[@spatrk6634]

you will dont worry. try playing short campaigns with venice or genoa. someone that is in control of end trade node. those nodes that only have arrows coming into them, and no arrows out of them. that helped me understanding trade better. you just use traders and trading ships to push trade from surrounding trade nodes to your own trade node. and more control you have in your own trade node, more percentage of income from it you get.

[@spatrk6634]

trade is very weak at start of the game tho. so difference in income is miniscule. but later game trade becomes most important thing to get money.

[@WealthyJester98]

Virgin trade fan vs based theocracy tax meta enjoyer

[@mitchellbenbrook2041]

>not that complicated >30m rant based and thank you for explaining-pilled

[@JesperAndersen]

Nice guide, thanks!

[@bradleycard3160]

Finally! Caravan power explained!

[@KingOfShadeEmpire]

Excellent guide. Thank you!

[@QuarbitGaming]

thanks! I was tired of explaining trade in every stream lol

[@patropro7761]

As the dutch just sending 350 ships to the seville trade node and collecting to just see the spanish trade income drop significantly is so satisfying. It may not be the most efficient, but when earning almost twice as musch as the 2nd great power you dont really need the money. And taking it away is more fun

[@jasonlange9637]

I kinda vaguely knew most of this but still never really understood it - when I play I still do just the default "collect in your best owned trade node, transfer everything there, make Trade Companies on centers of trade on other subcontinents" strat sort of mentioned here anyway. Even after watching this video...I'll still probably just do that without thinking about it, but at least now I'll more understand why it works!

[@javadhedayat4808]

I had a campaign with Port Royal, on of the pirate republics in new world, I had some awsome modifres for priveteer efficenty, and I did make more money from privetteering in my home trade node (Carribbean) than protecting the trade.

[@balintmolnar5153]

I like your videos! :D Details and fun!

[@abdellatifmegharbel9595]

Finally a great video on trade, that actually helps noobs not debt spiral. The only significant economic building thing missed in the video is the fact that collecting outside of homenode penalty ONLY applies to YOUR trade power, so transferring trade from vassals and peacedeals can be amazing to start your economic scale. For example as France you can transfer trade from England and collect a majority of the Channel, or as Brandenburg when kicking nations like bremen from lubecks trade league, you can collect a significant amount of lubeck.

[@realwizardry834]

Thank you, king

[@grimrider3807]

Could you please do a guide like this for combat? Specifically for a multiplayer game, so the viewer can be up to speed on how to handle combat and what to expect. (Also naval combat)

[@svlanloven8516]

Thank you for making this video, now I can finally start gaining more than a thousand ducats a game

[@bebe8090]

14:20 If you have a decent sized empire, a simple way to get navy tradition is to get level 3 coastal centers of trade. Each one decreases the navy tradition decay by 0.2%. The base decay is 5%, so if you get 25 of these, you can completely get rid of the decay and eventually you will get to 100 navy tradition and stay there permanently.

[@michaeldoucet-morokael]

Thank you

[@jandavid5435]

I sometimes use the improve relations modifier from the merchants to decrease ae and sometimes spam trade companies to decrease unrest and religious unity Also what are your thoughts on maritime ideas for making cash

[@QuarbitGaming]

For making cash? Worse than trade ideas.

[@PsykerKaregg]

This is great! Can we get this but for governing capacity? Thank you

[@Speedster___]

Playing as Austria, Rival Otto blob and I split the balkans (grabbed Kosovo Gold mine!). Venice got canabalized so it’s just Venice Trezivo. Is it worth moving the port to just any port in Venice? It’s 1490 if that matters. Have a very light trade fleet steering from Egypt. Sorry for wall of text.

[@user-vv9jx6zi4h]

"Trade is not complicated" Title of the 30 minute video (P.S tiktok killed my attention span)

[@mathewcallaghan8692]

Best Trade Guide I've seen

[@QuarbitGaming]

thanks bro

[@Challengeyourwhy]

Oh, i get it now!!! TRADE IS IMPORTANT! 😂 Now, how does it work again? 🤔 I enjoy in learning to play this game. Complexity of it is very nice touch. Really makes you dive in all that politics, geopolitics, economy and strategy. What a master peace!

[@C1rn0n]

hey, did you mention the "Ship Tradepower Propagation" effect? (watched the video a couple of days ago so you might have done it and i forgor)

[@QuarbitGaming]

oh yeah I'll edit the pinned comment

[@survivalizer]

Somebody finally explained trade in a way that makes sense. 1200+ hours here and Ive been doing a lot wrong

[@AmiratheAlligator]

Love the new model tracking. I can now look at the bottom right of the screen! ;)

[@TheRivado]

I used to state everything in my own subcontinent and then outside of it add the trade centers to trade companies and leave everything else as territories ... Nowadays I do it differently since I found out that the goods produced modifier also works on states in your trade companies so what I usually do now is to add the trade centers to trade companies and state it if there are no trade modifiers (also delete all market buildings in those states to maximize it) ... Any thoughts on that ? Since I know many people like to do it differently As a side note, adding them to trade company becomes free in regard to gov capacity once you have town halls built there, making gov capacity much less of a problem ever since they no longer take a slot ... Also an important thing a lot of people forget in regard to gov capacity is that state houses give -20% state wide gov cost, which gets doubled to -40% statewide gov cost on paper, glass and gems ... Combined with the -50% from town halls, you can have -90% gov capacity in your high dev states if at least one province there produces one of those trade goods, which is surprisingly often the case Edit: Removed the add whole state part

[@QuarbitGaming]

Trade company investments don't only apply to trade company provinces. Read the tooltips for the investments, they'll tell you which are applied to trade company provinces, and which are applied to every province. Or look at the investments on the wiki eu4.paradoxwikis.com/Trade_company#Trade_company_investments

[@TheRivado]

@@QuarbitGaming Ah yes, sounds like I completely messed stuff up again

[@samuelhart3034]

I found this channel recently and I’ve gotta say I’ve loved your shorter play throughs (like 1-2 episodes) compared to the longer let’s plays on the platform. Your commentary is entertaining and you only keep us around for the best bits. Normally I keep up with the long let’s plays but I find it hard to stay interested when seeing all of the more mundane aspects of the game. But seriously haven’t skipped through any of these videos! Great work! Also I know this isn’t one of those videos but just wanted to leave it on the most recent.

[@Majora1988]

I would say that trade ideas are somewhat worth taking if you took Quantity ideas, that +goods produced modifier you get as a policy is pretty juicy.

[@QuarbitGaming]

Fair enough, I just also don't take quantity usually :P Unless I need early military hegemony (which they removed admin efficiency from, so not as likely now)

[@Majora1988]

@@QuarbitGaming Yeah quantity isn't as good as it was before, so it's kinda situational now, but that policy had to be mentioned. :)

[@DiMitryV5]

Should you collect only in one node or in more then one, like venice and genoa if u hold Italy? :)

[@QuarbitGaming]

if you control all of the provincial trade in those regions, then there are practically no downsides so sure. even if you have like 30% power, it's probably still worth it

[@lol_histicall4289]

I lowkey need help I’m playing as later Jin and I put my trade capital to Beijing and normally this would be a good idea but idk when I razed Beijing the trade node got nuked and produces 1.7 DUCATS!!!!! Nippon on the other hand produces like 8-9 ducats, even Manchu node is wealthier but from this video ik that doesn’t matter but I still wanna know is it worth to put trade company in all Beijing centers of trade or just all centers of trade cause my nation is bankrupt and I’m in an inescapable deficit and I literally can’t find any other way to fix it that isn’t deleting 80% of my army which I literally cannot do rn I do have level 3 and 2 centers of trade everywhere and markets but they don’t help my income at all somehow like I’m playing as tall as I possibly can for a horde and I can barely scratch 40 ducat income mind you I’m almost 700 dev and have low autonomy everywhere I’m even like 15 units below my force limit and still my economy is trash maybe it’s the average dev of my provinces idk but if y’all got any advice pls tell me FYI: I own 90% of Mongolia half of Japan most of northern China all of Manchu like 80% of Korea and have only 2 merchants im also thinking of changing my economic ideas to trade cause I need to core a bunch of provinces from my ashikaga war and state cores I’m pretty behind in tech only in admin though behind an entire idea group actually I should be on my 3rd but idk army maintenance is killing me and so is my interest and the 20% inflation what should I do?

[@torgomaghanyan7633]

Basically go towards end nodes and trade company pretty much anything valuable outside your continent

[@AbdullahKhan-jt7qi]

I see quarbit I click I simple man

[@samwill7259]

Now imagine all the complications and abstractions that go into global trade in real life and I can probably be more patient waiting for my Amazon package

[@endlesswaffles6504]

Just send a merchant to steer trade to your house for faster deliveries

[@vandarkholme8548]

After 1,3k hours I finally know what trade steering is

[@xxassassimxx]

Ok, I'm relatively new to this game, how do I handle the religious and cultural unrest then? Do I need to go for Humanist ideas? I'm playing as Japan and I'm colonizing the Philipines and the Mallacas, how should I handle the unrest?

[@anastenazontas]

In my last ming game I noticed that upstreaming nodes seem to become downstream nodes (at least the icon does) when you put a lerchant. Is that just a visual bug?

[@QuarbitGaming]

what

[@teddys5775]

What about trade efficiency? Does that boost trade power or trade income directly

[@QuarbitGaming]

direct income. it's the modifier you see in the economy tab

[@combrade-t]

The Goods produced modifier from trade companies giving to non trade company provinces is so overlooked imo. Recent Run as GB Conquered India with EIC (not worth it, didn't realise only they would get the claims and my national goods produced was a lot stronger than theirs even with bonus) and just took all the trade centres using espo ideas to claim shit, even sub-optimally where I have weird isolated states in trade nodes you still get another like ~100% goods produced, it's insane - high trade value regions you can just steal trade centres thus stealing most of the trade whilst also boosting what is actually produced by upwards of 80% It's all wins apart from the bordergore produced. Also: I can't recall if Trade companies just stop the autonomy Appling to trade power like how they stop the penalties from unaccepted cultures, but if they don't with autonomy modifiers you could get some truly silly trade power modifiers. Very good video, really runs through a lot of the stuff in trade whilst being a good length.

[@DD-nb9rn]

Would you say trade ideas is more worth it with no dlcs since trade companies are a dlc mechanic?

[@QuarbitGaming]

wait, it's a DLC mechanic? fuckin PDX I swear to god. Okay yes in that case take trade ideas.

[@alext-j1851]

1000 hours in this game and I have no idea this is how it works just blow my mind

[@humanguyalsoperson7987]

I was once making over 200 a month as England super early on too and my friend was struggling with Money the entire campaign I gifted him thousands of over the course of the campaign

[@thomaswang4268]

Navy tradition is actually not that hard to get high. At level 3 the monuments in Chaul and Micronesia each give +1 yearly and you can reduce decay to only 2 through 100% innovativeness and 10 level 3 trade centers. Atistocratic also reduces decay by 1. This stabilizes army tradition to 100 even without national ideas involving navy tradition or taking naval

[@_J4ckazz_]

I play eu4 with the epic games store, the trade companies don't work for me, what can I do?

[@neiledwards5391]

New subscriber. Love your channel. It feels like Patrick Bateman is teaching me about EU4 lol

[@joanrojotorrebadella8772]

Thanks

[@jevonjames3241]

Now I'd love to see an updated trade run any suggestions?

[@Anferes90]

I like how finally an AI can explain how eu trade works

[@amikelallan0]

You mentioned that you don’t use light ships because they aren’t worth it. They can be but only if you do it right. There is a SHARP decline in the benefit/cost ratio when you have multiple ships in the same node. The best way is to have 1 ship in each node.

[@QuarbitGaming]

nah I said I do it less than I should iirc

[@havenplays9376]

Love your voice

[@QuarbitGaming]

thanks! it was kinda strained in this recording since I'd already streamed for like 5 hours. glad it didn't come across though!

[@Vampiracus]

How do embargoes work?

[@Hadar1991]

I knew like 95% of what you did say but I still don't have idea where to collect and where to transfer trade when I have not establish my "trade node steering snake" other than trail and error. Also I still don't know what EXACTLY trade steering PEACE DEAL does. When I peace out random minors I can take ducat, war reparation and (transfer trade or steer trade), but I cannot take both and I am not sure when I should take what.

[@QuarbitGaming]

updated the pinned comment. 12:10 for collecting, 16:00 for transferring

[@Hadar1991]

@@QuarbitGaming Yeah, I know about you said in time stamps. Late in the game I can somewhat predict. But my min-maxing soul hurts when I am not absolutely sure is my merchant placement is optimal, especially in the early game when 0.1 ducat monthly makes a difference. The same with protecting trade, I know that EU gives some estimates but they are not really trustworthy and I never sure if I should split my lightships or protect only the most important node for me. It just a lot trial and error when you try to squeeze an additional ducat or two early game. I usually peace out minors for war reps, cash and trade steering (it sums up to 95% war score if I recall correctly) but I don't know when taking trade transfer would be more beneficial. And I know in which nodes country I peace out will steer trade (especially if they are downstream of my home node will still transfer from some furthers nodes upstream to me). And also if they are steering with their trade power only or with my also when I do not have a trader in that node. Because if they also can steer with my trade power then their like temporary additional merchants, but it they steer only with their power then this is kinda meh. The same applies to which countries I should choose to diplomatically transfer or steer trade to me. I usually just go for the steering because it always gives all the merchants, while trade power a percentage between 1% and 50%

[@jacobfreeland6881]

Not entirely sure myself, but I *think* trade steering forces the AI to use a percentage of its merchants to steer trade toward your home mode. For most countries, this works out to 0 merchants steering trade in your direction, since they don’t have enough to start with.

[@TheLazyBot]

Trade companies being worse is NUTS and I had no idea. Shame I don't really play the game anymore because that would be huge...

[@Draugtaur]

i think for me the main problem with trade is that i don't understand what these mechanics represent in real-world terms

[@QuarbitGaming]

they're so abstract, it doesn't really make any sense. no province would produce only 1 thing, and prices should have a rudimentary supply and demand model. but computing all of that is too expensive.

[@gdleaveonn8556]

Great video! Sad that: production > trade (late game)

[@QuarbitGaming]

thanks! I think we might be playing a different late game though

[@gdleaveonn8556]

Yea, It depends on the country and the nodes

[@redsun5929]

babe wake up it's another trade is not complicated video

[@matthewhannigan1916]

already know all this. watched anyway because quarbit.

[@QuarbitGaming]

unfathomably based

[@AbsoluteTruth-vm1zb]

I never thought I'd learn so much from a vtuber...

[@QuarbitGaming]

happens more often than you'd think (Clio Aite, an acquaintance of mine, recently made a whole history lecture for a stream)

[@zord1352]

Anyone has a take on the 10% trade value vs 50% steering TC building?

[@QuarbitGaming]

I take the steering, since trade value applies only to the provinces in the node directly iirc

[@zord1352]

@@QuarbitGaming but doesn't it better in the begging? If I understand steering well, that building gives +2,5% extra value at transfer. So you can use +10% value buldigng in the first 2-3 node, and you will will multiply a higher base. Your vid motivated me to do some calculations :p

[@QuarbitGaming]

@@zord1352 yes, the first node or 2 in a chain will have a larger benefit from the trade value

[@delphidelion]

I never understood how people have trouble with this. The flow of trade is clearly shown by the arrows.

[@kkoff]

how did you make the north sea empire?

[@spatrk6634]

Is triggered only by Completing the Scandinavian “The North Sea Empire” mission Completing the Danish “The North Sea Empire” mission Completing the Norwegian “The North Sea Empire” mission its part of Lions of the North dlc

[@HazmanFTW]

If transferring is so good, why don't you transfer from the North Sea to the English Channel node? Or from Lubeck into the Channel?

[@QuarbitGaming]

You can see 4 countries are already steering trade in those directions for me. The AI is stupid, and doesn't realize that they gain nothing from doing this, but they're doing it anyway which is nice. If I placed a 5th merchant in those places, the value increase would be about 1.2% since, as mentioned, additional merchants provide diminishing returns. It might(?) make more money, but as per usual the best way to find out is just to check.

[@HazmanFTW]

@@QuarbitGaming Thanks for the answer :)

[@aubertmassondiane5621]

ok this video is very cool but the fact that alençon owns caen and that spain owns alençon's core territory is giga cursed

[@Bigsmoke11001]

What's with the hentai cam?

[@QuarbitGaming]

for your enjoyment specifically

[@nudlz5343]

Learning trade is harder than learning math what the hell!

[@haulperrel2547]

You might be a weirdo vtuber but damn if these vids aren't informative. Subbed

[@reallifeautismsports]

He says in a 30 minute video

[@QuarbitGaming]

30 minutes *only* though ;)

[@reallifeautismsports]

@@QuarbitGaming trve

[@lanleskovec8697]

ah yes another clip from the norway gaem i know nothing about

[@baschkan]

It is weird to show this little guy on right bottom part.

[@johnnyboy3410]

that why you made 30 minute video explaining it ? yeah

[@QuarbitGaming]

yup, I added examples that I didn't need to. Could've been 15 without them, but then it wouldn't be as useful

[@WileyBoxx]

Quarbit is a vtuber now?

[@ericschmit5911]

I understand that people have short attention spans so creators need to keep videos as short as possible. However, when you talk like you've had 50 Red Bulls right before you record it's hard to follow...

[@QuarbitGaming]

"why's it so long?" "why do you speak that quickly?" there's no winning I give up

[@ericschmit5911]

@@QuarbitGaming I did not say the video was too long. I am talking about how fast you talk and that it is hard to keep up with what you are trying to explain. When someone is trying to give you advice, sarcasm is not a good reply.

[@QuarbitGaming]

@@ericschmit5911 When commenting, it might be good to read the other comments first. I'm outlining the conflicting complaints I get between different comments. The primary complaint was "why's it so long of a video?", I even put it in the pinned as a FAQ

[@ericschmit5911]

@@QuarbitGaming so letting you know that another person wishes you would not talk so fast it a bad thing? Maybe you could try talking slower. It might mean that you have to do a series of videos on the same subject to get all the information out, but more people would be better informed which is what you are trying to do anyway.

[@QuarbitGaming]

@@ericschmit5911 I sincerely believe, with statistical backing, that that is a poor idea. Also "do you think you could please speak slower" is a reasonable request, while "you sound like you drank 50 red bulls before recording" sounds like you get a rise out of insulting the way I speak naturally.

[@giannistsanas4174]

"not that complicated" half hour vid

[@QuarbitGaming]

would you have preferred the 2 hour version?

[@Billious]

I understood 0% of this I’m a little stupid

[@QuarbitGaming]

Anything I can help you with in particular?

[@electricVGC]

Trade can also convert foreign provinces to Islam praise be to Allah

[@PlayJasch]

Everything in this game is so arbitrary.

[@QuarbitGaming]

I think it's less arbitrary and more about creating an efficient model for what was a really complex system irl. Remember, these systems were created for 2013 computers. I can only hope they're improved upon for EU5

[@herbivorethecarnivore8447]

I'm sorry but the Vtuber made me flee in terror

[@QuarbitGaming]

boo 👻

[@Monifans.]

look, idk if it's just me but i absolutely hate the anime thing in the corner of the screen. you make good videos but holy shit i hate that.

[@papalol1327]

I'm not going to take any help for a Vtuber. Sorry

[@QuarbitGaming]

then suffer in ignorance

[@Airland-xx3pr]

He is not that bad bro