Each trade theater has five trade zones, marked by circles with anchors in them. Respectively, the trade theaters offer prospective merchants access to spices, ivory, more ivory, and sugar. These four zones are the East Indies, the Straits of Madagascar (East Africa), the Ivory Coast (West Africa), and the Coast of Brazil. He who would exploit the trade theaters profitably must find the right balance between supply, demand, and security.įor those who are new to Empire: Total War, the trade theaters are four areas of the globe in which valuable commodities can be acquired with trading ships. Like all high-margin investments, the trade theaters also carry high risk. The trade theaters offer opportunities for enormous wealth. After some trial and error, I have developed a system of accounting that helps me make decisions about prioritizing profitable investments. Some ventures that generate a lot of income also have a lot of overhead. Not all ventures that turn a profit are equally profitable. The variety of resources and the options for profitable activities demand a high level of discrimination on the part of the player.
The latest Total War game is a different creature entirely. In other words, I seldom have needed a formal development plan while playing Rome: Total War because I could keep the standard plan in my head, make on-the-spot modifications as each province completed a construction job, and keep all of my provinces in a near-perpetual state of activity. I found, too, that if I managed my money decently I had enough to keep each province in a state of more-or-less continual development. While playing Rome: Total War, I found that I could develop all of my provinces/cities according to a standardized plan with rather minor allowances for the particulars of each province. Please note that I use the dollar as my unit of currency, although Empire: Total War does not do business in dollars.Įmpire: Total War is a much more complex and intricate game than was Rome: Total War. Below, I offer one means of assessing profitability in the trade theaters. Keeping your trade theater operations profitable requires mixing avarice with good accounting. However, it is very easy for a player to run into trouble by flooding the market with trade theater commodities. The trade theaters of Empire: Total War offer great opportunity for profit.
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