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- 10/8/2003 7:51:49 AM

YohanTM2

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[QUOTE=Le Tondu]England is the only nation that can trade? What a joke. :rolleyes:

What happens if England's Navy gets defeated and some other nation(s) have undisputed control of the seas? From what I've read, this happens. Does nobody trade??

This looks to me like a compromise just to keep a boardgame from becoming too complicated to play. I would agree with it for a boardgame, but NOT for a computer game. Computers are supposed to be real good at keeping track of things. Its their forte.

I certainly hope that this gets fixed. Maybe it did with EiH and will show up with those upgrades?? Can anyone say? Bart? Many thanks. :)[/QUOTE]

Umm, silly me but perhaps you could suggest to me what other major power has the commerce capability to mount International trade efforts? Pretty straight forward...none.

So unless you want to build in an option where other majors can spend a big chunk of their economy to expand their merchant fleets beyond what is already assumed in the model it won't work. (boardgame or not)

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- 10/8/2003 11:45:30 PM

pfnognoff

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Joined: 5/6/2003
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[QUOTE=Le Tondu]England is the only nation that can trade? What a joke. :rolleyes:

What happens if England's Navy gets defeated and some other nation(s) have undisputed control of the seas? From what I've read, this happens. Does nobody trade??

This looks to me like a compromise just to keep a boardgame from becoming too complicated to play. I would agree with it for a boardgame, but NOT for a computer game. Computers are supposed to be real good at keeping track of things. Its their forte.

I certainly hope that this gets fixed. Maybe it did with EiH and will show up with those upgrades?? Can anyone say? Bart? Many thanks. :)[/QUOTE]

There isn't anything that needs fixing here.

Everybody trades, housewives go to the market in all of the seven countries represented in the game. :)
The thing reffered to as Trade in the game is just an approximation of the struggle between France and England for dominance over the seas.
It's sometimes a tool in diplomacy, other times its money England is investing in French downfall...
Trade in EiA isn't trade in real life it's just a piece of the puzzle that makes the great game work.

(in reply to Le Tondu)

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