Changes between Version 6 and Version 7 of Ticket #3428, comment 1


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Nov 4, 2015, 1:57:49 PM (8 years ago)
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  • Ticket #3428, comment 1

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    77Trader garrisoning advantages:
    88- trade ships have much more defenses than a single trader and can sustain longer during an attack
    9 - too many ships on a comparatively short route mean a loss of efficiency due to the interference of their paths and thus movement blocking/slowing
     9- too many ships on a comparatively short route mean a loss of efficiency due to the interference of their paths and thus movement blocking/slowing (but often you can set up additional trade routes to solve this)
     10- sea trade routes are typically longer than land trade routes, especially on maps with small islands - in this case garrisoning traders might provide more efficiency for very long routes (hardly for the current 20% bonus)
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    11 All in all more disadvantages than advantages. I think we can assume that even if traders and ships had the same costs and each trader gave a 100% bonus it would still provide more advantages to not garrison traders. A 60-80% bonus would be useless except for very special situations (very few wood available - assuming we add wood to ship costs - or too many ships already so they are blocking each other). So my proposals are:
     12All in all I can't see why trader garrisoning brings more advantages than disadvantages. I think we can assume that even if traders and ships had the same costs and each trader gave a 100% bonus there were still many cases in which trader garrisoning is not profitable. A 60-80% bonus would be useless except for very special situations like very few wood available (assuming we add wood to ship costs), too many ships already so they are blocking each other or very small islands. So my proposals are:
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    1314- I absolutely agree with increasing the price for merchant ships, especially wood. A ship totally made from iron is also somehow strange. Your proposal for a total cost of 100 wood and 80 iron makes totally sense for me because it means total costs of traders and merchant ships are the same making them more comparable.