Imperial routes

[felix_r]

Can you please explain what is it good for?

[Dint]

Imperial routes can be built to connect annexed provinces. Every level of the imperial routes shortens the time of resource transportation and army traveling time with 5% and also gives a 10% raise to the trade potential between provinces.

[felix_r]

Imperial routes can be built to connect annexed provinces. Every level of the imperial routes shortens the time of resource transportation and army traveling time with 5% and also gives a 10% raise to the trade potential between provinces.

Thank you.

But what is "trade potential" ?

[Dint]

Trade potential gives you extra gold income, which is generated by provinces that are connected by imperial routes. So the higher the trade potential and the level of the imperial route, the more gold you get.

[felix_r]

Trade potential gives you extra gold income, which is generated by provinces that are connected by imperial routes. So the higher the trade potential and the level of the imperial route, the more gold you get.

Thanks a lot. I suspected this, but was not sure

[Dint]

You're welcome!

[Lo]

And what about "Commercial Itinerary"? How to develope them and how to get more gold from vassals? They also have trade potential (for example vassals 3lv may give you 440 gold, but you get only 132 from them) , but it's not equal to the sum of income.

[Angela]

Trade routes (Commercial Itinerary) can be constructed only in Colonies and Trading posts, they work as the imperial roads and shorten the transportation time to the capital with 5% per level. Every level opens further 10% of the trading potential based on the holding with less population.
Vassals have trade potential which depends on the number of their population, the trade income is calculated according to their levels of trade routes and trade potential. But these values are fixed and you can't build more levels of trade routes in the vassals, each vassal has own fixed level of trade route (depends of the kind of the NPC) and population. You can increase the trade income only if you annex the vassal.