How Trade Routes Really Work

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  @HelloFutureMe · 1 month ago (edited) · pinned

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  @voxorox · 1 month ago

  An interesting point to make on this:<br>In the real world era of ships and piracy, the most valuable thing on any given ship was usually their maps. &nbsp;At the time, the routes themselves were incredibly valuable, and usually considered trade secrets. &nbsp;If privateers captured a ship, they would of course take the cargo, but they would also take the maps. &nbsp;That would give them access to potential new trade ports or faster sailing routes.

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  @Coldshrike · 1 month ago

  One of my proudest moments as a GM was a player mentioning that a city was way too big for what they could grow there, and another was able to instantly point out where the food would come from and what they were sending back based on the location of highway and a conversation with a farmer elsewhere. Connected world building really does make a difference to players, whether they consciously notice it or not.

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• KL

  @klaxxon__ · 1 month ago (edited)

  Playing Victoria 3 was when I finally understood that before the invention of the railroad, moving large quantities of bulk/heavy goods overland was essentially impossible. You just could not could not move stuff like wood, ores, even grain across any significant distance if you couldn&apos;t use a waterway. The stuff which would be traded overland would be value dense goods like spices, gems etc. Another thing that Victoria teaches is that overwhelming majority of goods produced would historically be locally consumed (and in general most consumption would be covered by local production), a fact which would also only change with modern transportation.

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• GA

  @gaara_of_the_desert1118 · 1 month ago (edited)

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skFI5LPBgOI&amp;t=745">12:25</a> You scared me, I thought you made a worldbuilding video without mentioning Avatar, I thought I was watching the wrong channel for a while there.

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• JA

  @jarlbreadmaker · 1 month ago

  I swear everytime you record something outside it&apos;s a cointoss of me being flashbanged by a place I know personally.

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• MA

  @mavisgray7347 · 1 month ago

  reminder that during brexit negotiations there were british politicians that had to be reminded that the channel tunnel was important.

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• CO

  @CodyWalton1979 · 1 month ago

  We all owe George Lucas a MASSIVE apology.

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• TN

  @tnttiger3079 · 1 month ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skFI5LPBgOI&amp;t=1610">26:50</a> Slight misrepresentation: The Green Pact only requires that they eat those slay, but generally this actually is to disincentivise violence. Bosmer generally dislike cannibalism- but see it as a necessary evil if killing occurs, to hold up the Green Pact.

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  @Great_Olaf5 · 1 month ago

  Something else to remember is that trade is not one directional. When we talk about routes like the Silk Road, or the Amber Road, it&apos;s easy to focus on what one and point (usually Europe) got out of the deal, but you don&apos;t just get something for nothing. When making trade routes, you need to think of what people at each stage along the route have that others want.<br><br>China had silk and jade and porcelain that other places wanted, southeast Asia has jade and spices, India has cotton and spices, Europe has glass and firs and gold and silver, Tibet had, asbestos, oddly enough that they exported both east and west. Every place along the Silk Road had something that other places wanted, and in commodity economies that&apos;s more visible than in monetary ones.

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  @SKALLRAG · 1 month ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skFI5LPBgOI&amp;t=60">1:00</a> Forget about the oil shortage, somebody open the shipping lane so that this man can get working markers!

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  @waltercole5335 · 1 month ago

  My favorite example of aggressive trade policies is that the British tea act actually lowered the prices on British tea to undercut American smugglers. And that’s why we had the Boston tea party.

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