Europa Universalis 4 - Castile - Tutorial for Beginners! #3 - Trade Explained!

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[@nicholasaravena]

Peasant: Your Majesty, may we un-pause the game it has been 400 years? King: No not yet I need to explain to them *TRADING*. Peasant: But Sir!

[@ba-wp5zs]

King: 'KINGS DO NOT SPEAK TO STREET SCUM LIKE PEASANTS. WE SPEAK TO ACTUAL PEOPLE!!!'

[@dastoopid2871]

peasant: king: peasant: king:unpause peasant:aaaaa

[@kubbaa1351]

How can they talk if they are paused 😳

[@deusvult6920]

How has it been 400 years when time has paused?

[@DanFromIran]

"sire" not "sir" but hilarious comment in any case

[@jonhardjopranoto]

"We can't marry the pope.." Lol.

[@thegoose6647]

Dreams Crushed

[@blueiceani6833]

what the fuck is going on

[@JapanForSale]

Lol, did you just get the game on Steam as well?

[@blueiceani6833]

JapanForSale i bought it months ago but was so confused that i never decided to open it until now

[@TheThebestgame4]

lol your profile pic macthes %100 hahahah

[@Bleederino]

Weed

[@blueiceani6833]

Ismonkweddo dude weed

[@isolex_]

i'll just look up a quick tutorial to figure out trade *40 minutes* Oh

[@Antonin1738]

like other trade tutorials/guides lol

[@doctordrizzles1281]

Jackson DeCourcy it’s a bit too quick, not long enough to be an eu4 tutorial

[@RomanianJ96]

what I learned from this is basically anything you can do in trade is probably not worth it

[@sld1776]

To increase your trade power conquer all provinces in your home node.

[@ramses3445]

Everytime I see Murcia I think it says Murica, just why???

[@TahirNefjodov]

Cuz dat wot Murica wants u 2 think

[@rolandlll]

looks at camera

[@keechoocalzone8712]

god damnit i read murcia as murica reading this comment what the hell

[@Magidar]

Lol I grew up in Murcia and later in my life I was so confused when people were screaming Murica over the internet... I just thought people were dyslectic or something...

[@Voltron4ev4]

Murcia! Fuck yeah!

[@progaming123asd6]

Doing my history homework looks way easier than playing this game

[@vastowen4562]

what do you mean, they're the same thing

[@zapchat-9677]

vastowen456 No not really. Since when have you paid 20€ for extra homework? But many reviews are kinda like homework reviews.

[@BarakAvinoam]

i wish schools will use games like this to teach: history,math,economics etc.

[@tawnybassoon6231]

Its actually not to hard i play other simular games made by the same company and its not very difficult once u get the hang of it, it cam just have a learning curve at first because it has a lot of shit

[@michaelplace4754]

It is easier

[@adamladellofficial]

*Finally unpauses* *Pauses again after 5 seconds*

[@CountArtha]

*Me:* Yep, It's a Paradox game all right. :P

[@meandmetoo8436]

@@CountArtha and I thought Stellaris was hard... (I mean, after playing civ, it sure is but EUIV... It's something else...)

[@Unni_Havas]

@@meandmetoo8436 And this is the base game. there has been a lot of changes and a lot of dlc the last 4 years. May bee he should do 1-2 more videos explaining what have changed, and some of the DLC, at least common sense and art of war, since those are more or less a must have now.

[@marxussy]

@@Unni_Havas Ya I totally agree

[@holin59]

Hehe I have 600 hours in this game and yet I learned alot of new things. Thanks Quill!

[@schleifer36]

+Holger Lindh Did you spend those 600 hours on the main menu?

[@holin59]

+Pannenkoeklover I spent it not knowing I could create a 10% increase in income by perfecting my countries production values, pretty much.

[@tobiasbengtsson2112]

+Holger Lindh wait, what?

[@holin59]

UltimateToby 17 I have no idea

[@tobiasbengtsson2112]

***** extra 10 % income??? Did I srsy whatch this vid and miss the point!?

[@siryoyo113]

I love how the trade mechanic is so simple and straight forward :)

[@DirigibleDionysus]

Have something like 300 hours in EU4, I've never understood trade. This is great, thanks Quill!

[@peetwi]

Have 160+ hours in CK2; finally worked up the courage to take a stab at EU4. Just dropped ~$130 on all the DLC and micro-DLC (gotta have the complete game!), and your videos have been INCREDIBLY help in getting my mind around the various systems of the game. Thank you so much!

[@xarmanhsh2981]

I bet you regret going for the completion route now. Causee so many more expensive dlc came since then.

[@joaogabrielesteves1345]

@@xarmanhsh2981 theres a humble bundle offer now that lets you get all dlc for like 20$ too lol

[@MrTHECLASSICPRO]

this game feels like homework

[@ahmedbassam400]

exactly

[@Scott-lf6wl]

yay for anti-intellectualism. thinking = hard = bad

[@okinawadreaming]

+ok Is it fun being a such an idiot?

[@gryffith1378]

Bilbo Weer honestly I just wanted a strategy game, not having to take notes to know how to play

[@gryffith1378]

Update: figured the game out and having a blast

[@narch7632]

Such a useful tutorial, started the game and had no idea until I saw this series. Thanks Quill!

[@duckmcfuddle7537]

We have found the world's greatest disaster... THE HUNDRED YEARS PAUSE

[@Spigazu]

ARGH MY BRAIN HURTS

[@Cbobley]

Soep Poes r/gatekeeping much?

[@dudebro1249]

Cbobley it's called a joke

[@Foxygrandpa1912]

why is this game so difficult to get into?

[@DMSBrian24]

it's not, just start playing fail a couple times and thats basically it

[@Foxygrandpa1912]

BrianDMS Going into things; knowing that you're going to fail a lot; it's hard athing to do because I can't let go of my pride. That's why I can't get into dark souls. But very well, I'll try EU4 a bit more

[@DMSBrian24]

Iwan Lloyd Roberts same here, when i first started EU4 i didn't want to screw up, i never do, so i wanted to know everything before starting a campaign, just do all the tutorials, watch some arumba's campaigns or some other youtuber's etc. had the same thing with dark souls, it took me ages to get to know everything, the possible builds, skills, classes, items etc. but when i got to playing eventually i was kicking ass

[@Foxygrandpa1912]

thx I really want to get into this game due to me enjoying strategy games like civ 5

[@tsarovich2394]

It is worth letting your pride take some hits. My recommendation is to watch videos and go through the trial-and-error. EU IV is an incredibly satisfying experience. I also game from strategy games like Civ V, but now I vastly prefer EU IV. Just keep at it. g'luck!

[@mrjubjub]

thank you i may be able to play this game now

[@UseQPixinDune]

If we can't build artillery, how do we have cannons on ships?🤔

[@bigchungus7327]

this is pissing me off because you are so correct.

[@Jack-gp1ng]

Maybe its just guys with spears on boats?

[@adapt2003]

prntscr.com/ipstzz don't fucking move

[@civas666]

Cannons in the beginning were too heavy to be used on land in any efficient way. The tubes where too heavy, and reloading took so long, with zero chance of any real targeting. Siege of Constantinople by ottomans 1453, was the first time ever where cannons were efficiently used in a battlefield offensively ... it took a week to assemble and they were able to shoot 2-4 times a day, and one third of them exploded while being used... (I base it on amazing book by Mika Waltari) early cannons on ships because of a low fire rate were mostly used as attrition to abordage... impressive on a very close rage but useless further away... also it could basically fire once during the combat

[@Sextus70]

@@civas666 Very good and insightful explanation. I was baffled at first when I saw those "cannons" in the early game because I thought they were an accidental and crazy anachronism. Then I did my research and found out that naval artillery actually began to be used in Europe in the mid 14th century, and during the 15th most of the major Mediterranean nations gained access to them, so the game is historically accurate about that.

[@swordseye2]

I'm going to watch these videos over and over until I have every word drilled into my head and I know how to play

[@maximidze2286]

lmao i know i am 3 years late but me too

[@vedantthapar3666]

Thank you! Now instead of being completely lost, I’m just mostly lost :).

[@raymonddersch4195]

Just jumping into EUIVin 2019; these are great tutorials. I started with your first tutorial and will be watching the rest. Thanks for taking the time to explain such an in-depth game!

[@remoncoolegem1]

boy did you had a fun time during the lockdowns :')

[@Ash_Mrz1223]

Thank u so much man,i was dying of boredom in this 2nd quarantine.i bought this game off steam as i saw that it was a massive time killer game,but was discouraged after the first try.your tutorial made me a fan.earned my subscription.Thanks a lot

[@standez2629]

My god man you teach well! You cover all essential stuff with no *filler junk*. I watched your trade tutorial and finally can wrap my head around the concept. Please keep going with the great tutorials on ANY PI games Quill

[@CarpenterStateOfTheArt]

I really really like this tutorial series. You're explaining the mechanic really well and allthough I've been playing this game for more than 600 hours I learned some new things.

[@anzelak]

The section on trade is the best explanation available on the internet right now. I've been able to refer many newer players to this for a better explanation than I could ever give. So thanks a lot for putting the time in with this series Quill.

[@albertgao7256]

This gentleman has a fantastic clear logic and representation! And have a same taste of mine, I could learn a lot, save me tons of time! Subscribed! Highly recommend!

[@christofferaav]

This is so very helpful. Just got EU4 and looking forward to getting into it as I watch this great tutorial.

[@Kyushutube]

Best explanation on trade I’ve seen ro date. I just started playing this game and trying to understand how to stay profitable!

[@Horn3dR3ap3r]

If there is one aspect of EU4 that I haven't quite understand even though I have played it quite much, it's trade and economy! Thx for this series, especially because there were so many changes and major updates! :)

[@trixsterdo]

Another excellent video. Much appreciated. I still need to fully understand trade but will at some point.

[@Keylooh]

this is great explained. I understood it all and i play this game just like 10 hours.

[@andyusfca]

I just bought EU4 and a some DLs yesterday. Shame I did not find out such awesome game before. I played to tutorial in the game, but still does not know how to play. I am watching your tutorial now and find it very useful. Thanks

[@Pie_pi3.1415]

quill most tutorials do not help me but yours are helping a lot ty quill

[@rcportilho]

Amazing video!!Loving the series!!!Thank you!!!

[@badplus0176]

Thanks for the tutorial, Quill

[@therupoe]

Watched it a second time and I think I got it. Great videos btw. You are really good at this!

[@gvkJoris]

Thank you for this excellent guide, it helped me as a new player a ton 👏.

[@OstiguyBass]

Thanks so much. I cant wait to try this game for my third attempts. Very valuable playlist !

[@muteuser]

I have more questions than answers now.

[@tawnybassoon6231]

Whats up?

[@AFDefinta]

Wow. This just.. Makes sense, when explained this way. Thanks Quill.

[@ljeo332]

I now understand trade better now, thank you quill

[@ZanathKariashi]

you can move your capital to move your port in vanilla, so you could drop into to some of Aragon's territory after you conquer it and collect there. Wealth of nations lets you just move the port by itself.

[@TheRxNick]

Just picked up eu4 in 2022, these have been so much more useful than the tutorial

[@Joehuhn]

Quill, thank you for this awesome Tutorial and helping me get into an what seems to be an awesome game, but at minute 24.45 I don't really believe you anymore, that we are close to unpause.. =) Cheers, mate..

[@juspraetorium]

I don't have the "Protect Trade" option for my light ships. I'm opening the same menu, for a fleet of 3 light ships, but the button is non existent. Someone please help?

[@alexandersamuelsson1739]

if you still havn't found it it's under "select mission>protect trade". The game has changed alot since this vid

[@jackamodo]

Alexander Samuelsson thank you sir

[@eye_lube6022]

i honestly think it's harder to learn this game than ck2

[@dawdlinghazelstream8517]

Yea. It baffles me how so many people think ck2 is harder of the two.

[@renswieffer2645]

Thanks, this is the only tutorial about trade I really understand

[@samuelmayne6620]

Thanks, very comprehensive and in depth. Though still moving very quickly.

[@Sodomantis]

I have owned this game for a long time. And now I might invest the time to play. Thanks.

[@vedantthapar3666]

Andris Falks salty much?

[@sc18594]

Cant wait to start playing the game...

[@poisin224]

I honestly didn't think you'd make a tutorial for Cossacks, Quill. Will you do a video for when Mare Nostrum comes out, too? Also, I'd love to see you make a guide for more experienced players who are looking to get better.

[@mylescasey825]

Thinking about buying the game, these vids are convincing me :)

[@fogease]

Note that the workshop doesn't actually increase the size of the trade pie, as Production Efficiency only applies to the money from production that goes directly to the treasury. The buildings under the Manufactory category give Goods Produced, which does increase the size of the pie.

[@whiskyhotel3816]

Do you need to collect from trade to earn that money in Sevilla?

[@HeironFlex]

"heavy ships are the kings of the sea" The Duke of Medina Sidonia learnt this wasn't the case the hard way :D

[@DeDoentje]

While going through Quills tutorial I managed to get Overijssel and Utrecht, have allies and royal marriages and making a bit of profit. So I think I am doing something right, but still have a lot to to learn. Also I am playing on “very easy”, so I think the game give me some room to mess around. I started with Frisia as it has Groningen in it.

[@pulsering9859]

Thank you very much! Very informative!

[@2bellr334]

This is the number one video for learning EUIV trade.

[@TR-ru7wl]

I'm just gonna give up then...

[@mustafaalwan6523]

How about choosing larger trade nodes that has upward flow to your own home node, transfer to your node . And collect from your node . Eg : if you have 3 merchants as Byzantium . Put one on alexandria one in Aleppo and collect from Constantinople. If you have more put one in Crimea and so on . Increase the money flow to your own pot and collect from it .

[@Catishcat]

Yay! I now understand... 239,44 times more than I did before watching these tutorials!

[@black_death123]

I just started playing eu4 as spain. The funny thing is, aragon portugal is friendly XD. Good tutorial btw

[@michalcihala]

I bought EU 4 vanilla on G2A and got September 2014 edition. Worth it. (Please do more tutorials)

[@MegaBlueT]

+Michal Číhala You might want to check out quill's older videos. They're worth it, and the reason my weekends are so short.

[@michalcihala]

Ok thank you

[@user-kr3fw3tm7w]

Quill can you make a dwarf fortress tutorial?

[@CommissarMitch]

+李天诚 that will be a challenge Cx

[@BTGDelta]

+李天诚 He actually kinda did one on his "Dwarf Fortress, 3rd Embark" series.

[@ViniciusJorgeMunhoz]

+Alexey Puninskiy good to know!

[@nurhusni]

So, the conclusion, where do you send your merchants in early Castille? From what you said, I know sending merchants to steer trade power from Tunis is a must. But what about the other one? Do you send them to collect from Castille or to steer trade power from Safi? If Safi has another outflow node to another node that doesn't outflow to Seville, would you send them instead?

[@Foomandoonian]

Does anyone know what happened to the Crusader Kings 'Last Karling' series?

[@HateTaxesWASt]

+Foomandoonian Either a Karling died or he wasn't having fun, or that the series wasn't getting enough views.

[@CommissarMitch]

+Zandandido probably one of the first 2

[@TheTechzilla]

+Foomandoonian Hope he continues the series, or does a new CK2 series, as I much rather prefer CK2 than EU4

[@Foomandoonian]

Techzilla I agree. I found myself oddly captivated by the Karling story.

[@borismonkhorst]

great vids, higly appreciated

[@vsevolod1698]

Thanks professor Quil

[@sulinash3554]

this is the best tutorial for europe universalis ive seen so far

[@mitchelvanmeggelen6559]

These video's realy helps, thanks

[@Gnaaks]

So cool - so great!

[@spots2012]

Great tutorial. - do the trade arrows always point in the same direction?

[@kyleflounder9783]

Ok, so... I unpaused the game and got the notifications of both Royal Marriages being accepted. However, unlike what Quill experienced, I got two immediate requests for alliance; one from Portugal (which I'm guessing I should 100% say "HELL YEAH" to) and one from Navarra (which, ehhh?? I have no idea whether to say yes or no on this one). I was lucky enough to have gotten 6 Barques instead of 5 and 4 Heavies instead of 3. As a result, I disbanded only 3 of my 4 heavies because I want to have 1 in case of an emergency. I still happened to have 6 more ships I could build, so of course all 6 of those are going to be Barques. Obviously, this means I got a force limit of 23 instead of 22, which I'm pleased about. Just got some bad news; *Morocco decided to ally Granada.* I'm really hoping this happens to Quill, too, just so I can see what to do here. I'm guessing Morocco poses a decent threat since they are literally a couple miles across the water from me. However, I guess I shall see what to do!

[@edmundcowan9131]

Best game ever made for period 4x. You learn get a good feel for some issues and have great challenges that differ with each time. Hard to beat on sale. It’s the War in the East 2 for the period. No better.

[@Brhdjvkcdbv]

I have a few expansion ls and I'm not seeing the protect trade option on my fleet with light ships. In its place is something about in war going to a friendly port. The fleets also start in the north part of the peninsula, could that be why I don't have the option available?

[@pingpong_]

How can I return the trade from the next trading knot to my home knot? I see 3 states in the status window of the trade knot: yellow plus - for Collecting, green arrow - for Forwarding and the blue arrow - if somebody return the trade to the previous knot. How can I set that?

[@orangetayo]

For some reason when I click on my light ships as you do, the protect trade icon does not appear. I've rewatched that portion of the video to see what I've done wrong, but as far as I can tell, the button just doesn't show up in my game. Any ideas? EDIT: Figured it out! I missed clicking the missions button in the fleet viewer.

[@DejvZejn]

+orangetayo had the same problem, thought they removed it to force us to buy Mare Nostrum, but no, it's under the mission tab. at the bottom of the same pop up there is a sort of envelope button which lets you select a mission for the fleet. then you can select Protect trade...hope this help

[@LRuth53]

Is it beneficial to have a large amount of light ships in a rival's trade node so that you decrease their trade power?

[@AHMEDALI-vq4vc]

NO

[@morganromeo3819]

Watched tons of videos, but this video actually explains it in away that I understand

[@steveaustin4118]

It was your last tutorial that got me into this game

[@milesedgeworth132]

I thought I got a hang of the game when I conquered Granada but then war exhaustion and protests ruined me. The basic tutorial for EU4 teaches you how to create units and fight wars but you rarely do that in the start which is why their tutorial baffles me.

[@nyseknight]

Just a question, are the ottomans a good starting country for beginners?

[@elianos112b]

Yes, one of the best beginner country's

[@TheThebestgame4]

i think ottomans are really good especially their ruler has like 5/6/6 or something like that they are really powerfull.

[@muhammadzinc5228]

disagree. a very powerful country to get into, but too much diplomacies, provinces, and wars to manage. Best beginner countries are the smaller ones that have no immediate threat of getting taken over.

[@Delixous1]

Macro Economy in 40 minutes.

[@itme3929]

I was in a weird position , When I started the game , I was allied with portugal and aragon and france but mameluks and england were a pronlem so I thought of dipl uniting with aragon and france took navar within a week

[@eduardofreitas8336]

Wait wait so you do or don't leave a merchant to collect trade in your home node? Im still quite confused about this

[@suber36g]

will you do a Australia Custom Nation series after this Tutorial?

[@MrVykis]

playing as emperor is boring

[@Esty6]

In this situation, it's better to move the merchant from Tunis to collect in Seville. It adds 10% to the money collected, and since you collect like 7.4 gold there, 10% would add .74 gold, instead of the measly .26g it's transferring from Tunis(of which you'only get a% based on your trade power % there, so like half).

[@orko4185]

+Esty6 You forgot the +10% trade power increase from merchant transferring trade. Its a toss up of +10% income or +10% more trade power in the node. You can forget about the trade steered from tunis since your power will always transfer out of tunis if your merchant are present there or not. And most merchants are already steering towards sevile. Only thing the merchant does in tunis is give a bonus to outflow. But since there are already several merchants transfering out of that bonus is very very low. All merchants he has are doing very little in their nodes for him. Since most merchants in those nodes are already steering towards his home node. The big thing they do is give a 10% bonus to trade power in his home node. If they would collect somewhere and not steer, he would loose those bonus to trade power. So it is a calculation of if it is better to collect somewhere, or have 10% more trade power in the home node. And in the starting situation it is bette to have more power.

[@Esty6]

+Orko Still not enough, I made my calculations and it's really better to collect in Seville. I just checked myself. With the merchant steering from Tunis: 3.46g. With the merchant collecting in Seville: 3.6g.

[@orko4185]

Esty6 So it becomes a decision of if i want to earn some more gold or do i want to deny others some more gold. (me more tradepower = others smaller piece of the pie)

[@n0denz]

But if you sent your merchant from Safi to Genoa, then you'd still get the bonus for steering trade, wouldn't you?

[@Real_SkyRipper]

If i may correct you in just one thing, instead of destroying the ships you should sell them

[@BarakAvinoam]

how does the node arrows flow from americe ,before it was even been DISCOVERED???

[@LilTaco-_-]

Thank you

[@davincordingleywiid]

I'm planing on buying two dlc packs since I don't have any which to would you recommend I get?

[@Derpasaur12]

+Sir Winston Churchill El dorado, art of war. but conquest of paradise is fun. and common sense...... and Cossacks......THERES SO MANY that add different things to the game. just read their descriptions and see which one you think would flavor your game the most

[@poilboiler]

The navy tutorial will be out of date in the next patch. :p

[@florinburian7291]

Jesus it's been two hours and we still did nothing.

[@tonifreizeit5237]

florin burian he did nothing? He did a lot of stuff

[@tonifreizeit5237]

florin burian if you are this impatient in don't know if EU IV is a game for you

[@nukalegend]

Feel like you're doing this at the wrong time. With the new DLC and patch coming out that overhauls trade and ships (which is a big part of the game) and along the corruptions system, this would only cover a small portion.

[@josetorres3355]

Not really im just buying this game (sale on steam) so i'm going to be playing vanilla and it will help me out. It is for new players by the way!

[@darthnoxthegerman]

you know the game you're about to play is complicated when you are on tutorial episode 3 and the first thing the guy tells you is: "We are juuuust about ready to unpause/start the game"

[@ninak1949]

Is this EU4 without any dlc?

[@bronynexgen]

which expansions should I get?

[@JENNLOCKHAR90210]

Could you teach about colonial trade?

[@MrTurtleyDude]

Why would you not get a 10% bonus from Genoa? As far as I could understand, you get the bonus for having a diplomat transferring trade to your home node, so if you just moved him from Safi to Genoa, would it not just move where you're getting the bonus from?

[@darkhawkgames]

+Mr.TurtleyDude Merchants can't send trade back upstream, I don't think.

[@menglish59]

+Mr.TurtleyDude No because the if the merchant was in Genoa they would be collecting trade not transferring. The 10% bonus in the home node is from each merchant that is transferring.

[@poilboiler]

+menglish59 I think ALL merchants have to be transferring to get it too.

[@ZakTheFallen]

+Mr.TurtleyDude Because you can't transfer trade out of Genoa. End nodes like Genoa don't allow it, you can tell that because there's no arrows moving out of it.

[@twigjuice9240]

yo they like decreased the amount of money u have at the start so what do i do i cant buy tons of light ships