Saf
Legionary
posted 08 February 2005 16:52 EDT (US)
Question about the Settlement Details Scroll. I hope this isn't in the manual, but forgive me if it was as I have lost mine. Say your settlement is making 100 trade income, then there is an icon of say, one cart. If you mouse over it, it says (Trade - 100). If you then queue, perhaps, better roads, it may put a greyed out cart next to the solid cart. If you mouse over the greyed out cart, it might say (Trade - 255). Then when the roads are finished, the greyed out cart is solid and simply reads (Trade - 255) for all carts. OK, I get that. But when I queue up a better port, it makes a blinking icon. My solid trade carts are worth LESS than before, and the blinking one is what my trade is without the queued port. I am very confused as to what this means. Is the bigger port hurting my economy?
Saf
Legionary
posted 08 February 2005 17:49
EDT (US)
4 / 6
So perhaps it means that while my port is being upgraded it cannot be used, and is thusly losing trade income? No rebels or enemies in the settlement territory, btw.
karoaper
Legionary
posted 08 February 2005 19:32
EDT (US)
5 / 6
If that was the case, shouldn't the icons disappear the second you upgrade. The blinking means they will disappear in the future. I think the traffic jam idea is probably closer to the truth. It might be the law of diminishing returns. When you have too many trade lines and too many workers, throughput suffers (I remember this from my microeconomics course). This happens almost everytime I upgrade my ports, so unless I need an advanced navy I don't upgrade to the last port type.
HermannTLombard
Legionary
posted 10 February 2005 15:46
EDT (US)
6 / 6
This is an FAQ-class item where I haven't been satisfied that the answers are correct. Victoria states that greyed-out icons are pending and blinking icons represent something that is about to go away...but as far as I can tell, my larger trade cities *always* have blinking icons, and the yield does not appear to decline from turn to turn.