Who should you trade with?

[Despot Dobrotitza]

Do you guys know if there is any consistency in the traid income from different countries or whether just whichever country is bigger gives you more in trade? Seems to me like the papacy and some mediterranean countries as well as hungary always start with high trade value in the middle period.

[Grand Duke Yaroslav II]

I dont know about u but i always trade with germany in the middle period, i guess the bigger the country's treasury is the more ull get from trading with them

[Mortimer]

If you go into another kings information pannel, where you do all your diplomattic stuff you can click the money bag by the rumor button in the lower right. it tells you how much money they have, their income, as well as trading potential, you will not get it all usually but it seems that the higher it is the higher your trade with them is.

[Da Bomb]

Well that is a general amount. That matters as well as a lot by your barrical relationship. If you have a trade agreement or higher but are feud you get 0 and the higher the relationship the more you get. You can see when you click on the merchant and it will tell you how much gold you will get, but it can change without you realizing if your relationship improves, worsens, becomes feud (in which you get 0 but it still shows you trading with them) or you break agreements/go to war. Also you get bonuses if your king has good merchant skills or if the merchant has experience (stars).

[Elvain]

the best is to trade with countries with:
1) as many provinces as possible (not in GoG and HolyRome mods, thi is useles in those mods)
2) as good relations with you as possible
2) as many markets as possible (especially with HR mod, not in GoG)
3) as many merchants as possible (especially in GoG and HR)
4) as many trade goods as possible (especially in GoG and HR)

1-4 shows what is the most important for 1.03 version of Knights of Honor

[Grand Duke Yaroslav II]

how can i find out how many merchants the kningdom has? it only shows trade income

[Illuminatus!]

how can i find out how many merchants the kningdom has?

You can't.

[Picotrain]

the best is to trade with countries with:
1) as many provinces as possible (not in GoG and HolyRome mods, thi is useles in those mods)
2) as good relations with you as possible
2) as many markets as possible (especially with HR mod, not in GoG)
3) as many merchants as possible (especially in GoG and HR)
4) as many trade goods as possible (especially in GoG and HR)

1-4 shows what is the most important for 1.03 version of Knights of Honor

I find that trading with nations your allies are on good terms with is important as well. If you're trading with a country whom you best ally despises, more often than not he will ask you to break trade agreements with them. This will end up hurting at least one relationship either way.

[eddieballgame]

I notice in the Later time period, your merchant incomes (gold) are a lot less due to there being so many more kingdoms, I guess. Makes for a possibly tougher game vs AI, paricularly if AI had gold bonuses on hard.