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EU5: Stop automating trade for higher profits
This video explains why automating trade in Europa Universalis V can significantly limit your profits. The video highlights the importance of manual trade management to maximize profits, meet the needs of the population, and strategically use markets for economic advantages.
1. 🛑 Intervention: Stop Automating Trade in EU5
- ✅ Automating trade prevents you from getting the maximum profit.
- ✅ Trade is complex, but simpler than it seems.
- ✅ Manual trade management can significantly increase your income.
00:00 - 00:26
1. 🛑 Intervention: Stop Automating Trade in EU5
- ✅ Automating trade prevents you from getting the maximum profit.
- ✅ Trade is complex, but simpler than it seems.
- ✅ Manual trade management can significantly increase your income.
00:27 - 01:36
2. 🗺️ Understanding the Market System in EU5
- ✅ Each province belongs to an individual market where all trade accumulates.
- ✅ Each market has a value, storage capacity, food capacity, food price, and market attraction.
- ✅ Market attraction determines which province belongs to which market, influenced by attraction, protection, and market access.
- ⚠️ Due to the complexity of the system, random enclaves of different markets may exist.
01:37 - 02:44
3. 🎯 Trade Priorities: Maximize Profits, Meet Population Needs, or Market Stepping Stone
- ✅ Maximize Profits: Choose the highest-yielding goods from the market.
- ✅ Address Critical Population Needs: Improve population satisfaction by providing more basic goods.
- ✅ Solve Food Problems: Import food to increase market surplus and reduce famine.
- ✅ Market Stepping Stone: Import valuable resources from external markets to sell to closer markets for profit.
02:45 - 03:03
4. ⚙️ Disable Market Automation for Manual Control
- ✅ Disable market automation to manually control your trading capacity.
- ✅ Automation should be considered an "AI neglect."
- ✅ Human management produces better results.
03:04 - 04:32
5. 💰 Maximizing Profits: Understanding the Value of Goods and Trade Balance
- ✅ Buy low, sell high: Identify goods with a significant price difference between markets.
- ✅ Example: Buy fine cloth for 6.75 in your market and sell it for 16.85 in Nerburgg.
- ✅ Consider trade route maintenance costs, which can be reduced as the game progresses.
- ✅ Aim for the preferred trade balance for each good to maximize profitability.
04:33 - 05:21
6. ⚖️ Trade Advantage: Prioritizing Market Access
- ✅ Trade advantage is an underestimated mechanism in EU5.
- ✅ Determine your trade advantage in a market by ranking countries by trade advantage.
- ✅ Trade advantage determines the priority for obtaining trades in and out of the market.
05:22 - 06:13
7. 📈 Increasing Trade Advantage: Land, Maritime Presence, and Foreign Buildings
- ✅ Land: Owning land in the node provides trade advantage.
- ✅ Maritime Presence: Deploy navies in maritime zones to exert maritime presence.
- ✅ Foreign Buildings: Build trade offices to increase maritime presence, trade advantage, and trade capacity.
- ✅ Base maritime presence starts at 50% and can be increased by deploying navies.
06:14 - 07:03
8. ⚓ Maritime Presence and Trade Capacity: Fishing Villages and Trade Offices
- ✅ Trade advantage is especially important in your home market when exporting.
- ✅ Trade advantage in other nodes is crucial for importing goods.
- ✅ Fishing villages increase trade capacity, port capacity, and local maritime presence.
07:04 - 08:29
9. 🍎 Non-Profit Trade: Food and Popular Satisfaction
- ✅ Prioritize importing food to stop famine and increase stocks.
- ✅ Import food to fill gaps in the basic goods market.
- ✅ The population has needs and basic goods they need to be happy and increase their standard of living.
08:30 - 09:20
10. 🏘️ Meeting Population Demands: Basic and Luxury Goods
- ✅ Population demands are determined by their properties.
- ✅ Nobles spend on sugar, salt, horses, and fine fabrics.
- ✅ Increasing the supply of these goods can reduce their expenses and increase their income.
- ✅ Richer properties care about luxury goods, while poorer properties need basic goods.
09:21 - 10:26
11. 🍞 Impact of Basic Goods on Population Satisfaction
- ✅ If you don't have basic goods in your society, the price will skyrocket.
- ✅ Reducing the price of these basic goods directly increases their quality of life and satisfaction.
- ✅ Example: The satisfaction of the peasants in your primary culture is low due to the lack of hardy grains.
10:27 - 11:20
12. 🌾 Importing Basic Goods to Increase Population Satisfaction
- ✅ Importing a large amount of basic goods can significantly reduce profits, but it helps stop gaps in your market and can increase population satisfaction.
- ✅ You may not have full control over your market.
- ✅ You need to decide the priorities of what you want in your nation: food, profits, or satisfaction.
11:21 - 12:24
13. 📜 Privileges and Laws that Improve Trade
- ✅ Your burgers also trade goods in and out of your economy automatically.
- ✅ Giving the privilege of trade monopolies to burgers increases their capacity by 100% while directly reducing yours by 25%.
- ✅ Get 10% additional trade capacity through the trade advisory council.
- ✅ Increase market attraction through mall sponsorship.
- ✅ These privileges also push you towards the capital economy, which directly increases your production efficiency and reduces your construction cost.
12:25 - 13:05
14. 🏗️ Increasing Trade Capacity: Markets and Trading Villages
- ✅ Markets provide trade advantage, trade capacity, and increase the trade capacity of your burgers.
- ✅ Trading villages increase trade advantage, trade capacity, and improve market access.
- ✅ These decisions should be made based on your economy, how well you are doing, and what you are earning.
13:06 - 13:36
15. 🤖 Partial Automation: Problems and Considerations
- ✅ Automation has its time and place, and you can do partial automation.
- ✅ You can make a subsection of your total capacity for the AI to automate and control.
- ✅ This allows it to react to market changes faster.
13:37 - 14:18
16. 🚫 Disadvantages of Partial Automation
- ✅ Your AI takes advantage of that market advantage.
- ✅ You are fighting not only with other nations, but also with your AI over what trades are made.
- ✅ It makes more sense for you to take control of this yourself.