Beginner Friendly Series - Trade Basics | Castile | Emperor | Europa Universalis IV | 4

This series is intended to help new players get to grips with and understand Europa Universalis IV (EU4). The idea is that through watching someone more experienced go through the same processes that you will, it will help teach the game. As such, I play through this as normal, but take the time to go into more detail about what is happening, and why. If you have any further questions or need things clarified, please do let me know in the comments! Hope this helps!
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[@alexandrem4679]

And episode 4!

[@Wulvena]

What i find interesting is if you take over Byzantium either whole or as a vassal, the Ottomans seem to just dlowly die every game. The Europeans take over the Balkans, Mamulaks take the rest over time.

[@Flight_of_Icarus]

What I've actually found, from my own experimenting, is that, because there's a relatively small amount of money going into the Seville node at the start of the game, it's actually more profitable to privateer from the English Channel, or the Genoa node.

[@MordredViking]

Certainly possible. Trade as a whole is worth a fraction at this stage compared to later.

[@talibaninternetexplorer]

Thx for helping me, i have had the game for 2 days but now i understand trade and colonies

[@MordredViking]

Glad to hear! Enjoy the game :)

[@talibaninternetexplorer]

@@MordredViking Yeah it gets pretty fun once you figure stuff out

[@maj.kingkong3004]

Nice presentation.

[@MordredViking]

Thank you!

[@paga1251]

I thought you'd automatically collect in your home trade node, no merchant needed. But it's been quite a while since I last played. Did they change that or I'm remembering wrong?

[@MordredViking]

You do, but you get 10% extra value with a merchant there PLUS gain 10% trade power in that node for each of your active transferring merchants so it's pretty much always a good idea to put one there.