The EU4 TRADE SECRETS Pro Players Don't Want You To Know! - EU4 1.37 TRADE GUIDE

[@Jack-ul8nn]

cant believe the pro's didnt want me to know about this. shameful

[@LudietHistoria]

I know bro its wild

[@red.menace0074]

Total disrespect by pros.. shameful behavior 😢

[@Yes-qj4bi]

I just wanna stay a pro and not be overtaken 😭

[@TheVirtuosoe]

Basterds…

[@DasArtyom]

5:05 ludi please let your editor out of the basement. he has a family, they need him

[@MijnAfspeellijst1234]

what is at 5:05?

[@petersva]

@@MijnAfspeellijst1234 look at the names of the armies on the right

[@alexanderchew1247]

@@petersva lmao, i just saw it, LUDI RELEASE UR EDITOOOR

[@Yes-qj4bi]

Lmfao

[@TigonIII]

When talking about making pseudo-end nodes like the Valencia one, you talked about just holding 100% of the provinces in that node, but that doesn't exclude other nations from pulling trade out of that node if they are downstream, in this case Genoa, they will have a small amount of trade power to divert a small amount of trade towards them. But in another example, like the Constantinople trade node, which can easily be made into an end node, because it only has Ragusa as the outgoing trade route, but if you control every Ragusa trade province, then you effectively stops anyone from pulling trade out of Constantinople, as you control the trade downstream.

[@tigrosabertooth4757]

Sometimes it works, sometimes not. If you're russia, and control 100% of novgorod and baltic trade nodes, there's always british and lubeck merchants, pulling trade through both "end-nodes"

[@erwanm92]

New video idea Ludi : go through the EU4 start date timeline year by year and comment on the map, time period, accuracy/inaccuracies etc ! Would love to have 30mn of Ludi commentary and ramblings on EU4 depiction of history from 1444-1821 🔥

[@bilbobaggins8794]

I know this is not trade tip but it is about trade companies: Shipyards give you full naval force limit unlike regimental camps. I wanted to write this because while building shipyards in the macro builder it says that it will only give fraction of the actual number.

[@DaGaJbmKojJe]

That's very useful, especially for my mzab run where im destroying everyone's navy and then raiding them

[@magician1231]

So, if it says 0.38, then it will give me 1 force limit?

[@bilbobaggins8794]

@magician1231 Shipyards give 2 naval force limit so, it will give 2.

[@magician1231]

@@bilbobaggins8794 ahh understood, thank you

[@bilbobaggins8794]

@@magician1231 Just make sure you are building it in the provinces that you added to a trade company, it doesn't specify in the makro builder. I usually build them from province view, besides you need to check those provinces one by one anyway, just to check if they have church or regimental camp for removal.

[@jarleisenfaust570]

When Ludi makes a video about trade and you have Revolutionary Ulm in it 😅

[@Bevalderon]

Always love Ludi tutorials. Can always use more information on trade in EU4 hehe

[@CatladyAyaki]

I'm in love with your video

[@LudietHistoria]

I love you

[@CatladyAyaki]

Love you too!

[@Chada-uNîzam-îCedîd]

thank you ludi good guide

[@TheOneIng]

Hope all is well in Bulgaria, ludi

[@Chada-uNîzam-îCedîd]

bulgaria ? isnt he romanian ı mean moldovian

[@alexander1055]

​@@Chada-uNîzam-îCedîdhe is japanese

[@Cheduepallottole]

I have always found super difficult to provide enough money to fund my wars. I hope I will improve now. Thank you

[@2077_cyberfrog]

i'm in video with your love

[@LudietHistoria]

Too me

[@DanielSanchez-bq6rl]

I'm in love with your videos

[@LudietHistoria]

I'm in love with your videos

[@Trumpkin777]

Thank you for the great vid. Only one thing I did not hear covered, what are the down sides of trade companies, I recall that you cannot convert, ect.

[@lewishand3531]

This video was super informative and really easy to understand. Awesome work Ludi! Do you think you could make a similar video detailing the mechanics of AE? Aggressive expansion always seems to be my bane in campaigns.

[@rafazieba9982]

To get a merchant you need 51% of the trade power from provinces in the node to come from your trade company. Other sources, modifiers and (your) total trade power don't matter. Unused trade power is not exactly wasted. You deny other countries possibility to collect that trade value. It goes to next nodes. You just don't have any saying as to which one. If you don't really care (because there is only one or you just control both) it's fine.

[@alexgmcm]

This video was super useful!

[@LudietHistoria]

really happy to hear that, thanks for watching ^^

[@navn_ukjent]

Nice video, but you should have mentioned the importance of your Trade Capitol, and how you can move it independently of your actual capitol. When playing as Austria, it makes a huge difference if you can abandon the Vienna node and switch to the English Channel or Venice.

[@Swagman12]

only 15 mins is crazy

[@jonesyjones8465]

Well I've learnt something today!

[@ВикторКовш-н3г]

Most I knew, but wish seen such video years ago

[@rellek4053]

So, fun fact: if you have 100% of the trade power in a node, you don’t need to keep a merchant there. It will automatically flow towards your home trade node no matter what.

[@Kyren01]

Not that easy. Trade gets multiplied by each merchant you have steering.

[@maxpont8989]

On the contrary, keeping a merchant there will ensure that the trade flowing is increased through steering and having more nations steering will increase your end value. The only node you need 100% of is your end node, for all others having other nations steering with you will actually increase your income

[@bilbobaggins8794]

@@Kyren01 Yes but you can use the same merchant in another node.

[@Kyren01]

But it multiplies the trade value via trade steering. In the Valencia example, if your end node is Genoa, a trade merchant in Valencia will multiplie all income in the chain. Big money is in doing big chains!

[@bilbobaggins8794]

@@Kyren01 I know, you can chain a more useful trade node instead of wasting him. Unless of course you don't have any other useful nodes.

[@crocworks]

At the start, describing end-trade node and non-end-trade nodes should probably also briefly mention origin nodes, which do exactly what they sound. They have nothing flowing into them and only flow out to the next non-end-trade node. These origin nodes only have local value.

[@kaltaron1284]

He showed one later. What are the others if any?

[@crocworks]

There's another that I remember in SE Asia. I think it feeds onto the Siam node.

[@Valkanna.Nublet]

Noooo, our precious secrets...

[@fatimamagno8781]

Noice. By the way, you should try out the mod Hellenic Renaissance. It's cool, Ludi, because it allows players to choose one of THREE Hellenic religions. Thought it'd be interesting to ya.

[@mane5471]

moostache back hell yes

[@ericeric-zv2qs]

3:28 the army names! please ludi let him go!

[@TheNoldaz]

Would be great if in EU5 we could create or move trade nodes

[@rizkiadriansyah1784]

Ludi can you do Aceh/Malacca run? Muchas gracias

[@Tups-kj8cl]

yes! Thank!

[@kaltaron1284]

Each production development is 0.2 trade goods produced so 13 translates to 2.6. You have a +210% production bonus so you have to multiply by 3.1 not "210%". 2.6 * 3.1 = 8.06 which checks out. How do the nations around the Malakka node compare to the European ones? Japan can also be pretty decent I think if you colonize the Pacific and West America. Maybe chomp into Korea and China as well.

[@skoneone]

Oh boe, ludi nexst time just ask me when you want proper numbers on how much trade can achieve in mp

[@LudietHistoria]

Gotcha bro

[@skoneone]

@@LudietHistoria i can send you screen shot of 8k trade income

[@jacobchacko8435]

Is it better to add all provinces to trade companies or only centres of trades and estuaries?

[@christoffer235]

You can really see their Swedish cause they made Gotland part of the trade company haha

[@taikutsunaneko9125]

@LudietHistoria Ludi you missed the trade company good produced bonus again.

[@riftcoco360]

Would you be able to play AOH3?

[@assainisateur]

25:00 wow-wow, hol up, is that confirmed by pdx? final patch for sure?

[@ChristianSamsel]

I have an hour or two in the game but I never recognized that trade nodes without outgoing connection exist

[@Bloise49]

Hey ludi, there is a noob question for you: When you click in a province, the terrain appears up in the window, but not in my game, how do I activate this? I've played EU4 for like 3 thousand hours, but dont know this 🤣

[@Rudra-b5d]

Probably has to do with UI size. When I’m playing on my laptop, it’s like as you say, but when I shift onto my desktop it’s fine.

[@Bloise49]

@@Rudra-b5d oh, im now using a monitor screen, but never changed the videosize, i'll try this, thank you man!

[@cyberwarrior9425]

3:22 imagine naming your armies NO WATER or NO FOOD

[@carlomariamizzi8387]

it's a cry for help >_

[@BaneofBots]

NO VEGANA 😭😭

[@90Degrees_]

5:50 No food, No water. Lol

[@KoRbA2310]

I think we have to have a talk about your editor that have no Vegana, no water and no food... At least get him some Vegeta!

[@tobiasd9003]

timestamps would be nice (:

[@LudietHistoria]

@@tobiasd9003 will do some when i get home thanks for the feedback

[@DieTreppenwitz]

I'm curious about the whole england and Italy being the 'sinks' of the game thing I know consumption has historically been towards Europe but how did this play out? Was it actually that all trade only went west ward? Then what went eastward? Just merchant after merchant taking his profit home? While in EU5 i do want Europe to have buffs, having the direction of these nodes being changeable should exist. Like, I want to make Russia the centre of consumption perhaps, or maybe Germany. Why not

[@techelitesareadisease8816]

I agree. I hope trade is truly dynamic in eu5.

[@ManicMiner79]

Oh nooooo... I'm on a Mughals WC run (at 1640 atm) and I thought trade steering was not as useful as Roman Township (+10 trade power)... probably due to a video I watched 8 years ago and never looked into that again :( So all my Trade Companies (and they are A LOT) have the Roman Township instead of the Property Appraiser that you suggested... Do you guys think it's worth changing all of them?

[@jarrettpeterson227]

I thought it was almost impossible to get 100% of the trade power in a node because there were diminishing returns for a single person compared to steering etc

[@SebastianVezzoni]

Day 1 of asking ludi to try age of history 3

[@AchieveGod-u4u]

Ludi could you play Age of History 3 its a New Strategy game its like EU4 but more casual and its available on android steam and IOS and Epic store

[@potatomars2443]

HRE Ottomans sunni one faith one culture world conquest when?

[@ottovonbismarck7742]

ONE CULTURE? BROO

[@DasArtyom]

@@potatomars2443 *hre ottomans sunni one faith aztec one culture world conquest with martime ideas

[@kaspersteiermark115]

what about pirates ?

[@rafardzrba]

We should all trade … for our wallets 💳🤙

[@aqvamarek5316]

Lübeck's superpower, thx to mission tree, very fast expansion into "eastern europe" which allows them to trade company for example teuts, poland, hungary, lith or russia area, and pushes there trade company merchants and income massive. On the other side, there jump into the best end node, english-channel is very short and easy to do, so they can tunnel the "east Europa" trade perfectly. For the HRE, simply trade league on the "free cities" and you are fine, and get a 25% share on this western Europa area, even with zero conquest there, spend your AE better on Netherlands, or in east Europa. The fastest i did as Lübeck was a "Octopuse" Trade company in 1510, which reaced persia main node as trade company, had trade company in crimea and georgia, this node were Novogrod->muscovy/white sea/lithuiana->kazan->persia/crimea/georgia And I were ready for war with ottoman, to get there "trade company" areas (hungary trade node were already a trade company from me over a teuts->poland->hungary octupuse). Map looks ugly, but the income is worth the "lines" of trade company. Also, i pick always merc ideas first for this kind of playstyle, to transfer the income into armies into conquest. p.s. also missed the part about "trade cities" which boost your income massive.

[@sethwright2096]

Trade... one like for my wallet back?

[@LudietHistoria]

@@sethwright2096 meow

[@athosribeiro6705]

showing the roman empire is easy, how about forming it??

[@charlesiphone5765]

West>rest

[@raihanrusli2720]

Why dont you make video about government reforms ?

[@Gevorest]

The Italian trade nodes make no sense to me. You're telling me there's no movement of goods from rome (genoa) to the eastern papal state provinces (venice)? Or that Genoa and Venice just kept all the goods they got? No, they would trade (bidirectionally) with mainland Europe.

[@kaltaron1284]

The whole end node concept makes no sense and I think it only exists for mechanical purposes. I hope they don't need them in EU5 but I don't remember if they've talked about that.

[@rjs69]

A made up computer game doesnt reflect reality..... shocker.

[@Baranovich45]

​@@kaltaron1284eu5 you can make your trade node

[@piotr_jurkiewicz]

yes yes yes, tell us how stupid we are in our fav vidoegame, Daddy

[@TusharHalder-jw7ds]

Play Age of History3

[@xouri8009]

First, many hugs my Latin/Romance brother, don’t take my wallet please. 1- you forgot to mention that there is a PENALTY MODIFIER if you are collecting from more than 1 node. That is the main reason for you losing all the trade value, not caravan power. 2- you forgot to mention in your Aragon trade node example, that you have 100% BECAUSE you have 100% of the provinces in the regions after that that (downstream). Having 100% of Aragon alone does not give you 100%. For example, if you want 100% in Constantinople, then you need to conquer all the provinces in Ragusa node. 3- you didn’t go into detail on what you should put in a trade company. Generally speaking to maximize a trade company output, you don’t want to put all provinces in the trade company. You want enough for the merchant and let the rest have bonus modifier from trade company buildings etc and cost less gov capacity

[@mistrzjuliusz9372]

that means Ludi is not Pro player i guess

[@tigrosabertooth4757]

Ludi, do you really think that "chadicus" is a suitable name for a node, where comes all the trade from other nodes? If someone's trade comes into you, you're not chadicus, you're whoricus.

[@clarkwoods4035]

50 minutes

[@Bagman666]

2:36 oh no, are You in basenent with no food and no vegana? Beat some meat than 🥲

[@NWA-TjalfeTooStonedToAim]

End Trade Nodes are Wallet Nodes .. free money 😁

[@peachprincess758]

I’m in love with your videos