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EU5: Strategies for Maximizing Profits with Small Markets
This video explains how small markets can be more beneficial than large ones in EU5, especially in the early and mid-game. It discusses the benefits of market access, how to increase it, the advantages of small market centers, and the disadvantages of relying too much on a single large market. It also explains how market requirements and conditions change as the game progresses.
Market access is defined as the proportion of goods that are obtained from a province.
Market access is defined as the proportion of goods that are obtained from a province.
Creating a new market in a low access area costs less than in a high access province.
It is important to focus on port capacity when choosing where to create your markets, as they significantly reduce shipping and landing costs.
1. 💰 The Importance of Markets and the Advantage of Small Markets in EU5
- ✅ Markets are a key mechanism in EU5 that influences your campaign.
- ✅ It is crucial to understand the dynamics of the game to maximize your income.
- ✅ The video argues in favor of having multiple small markets instead of a single large market, especially in the early and mid-game.
- ✅ The main reason is market access, which is more difficult to obtain at the beginning.
Market access is defined as the proportion of goods that are obtained from a province.
00:00 - 00:36
1. 💰 The Importance of Markets and the Advantage of Small Markets in EU5
- ✅ Markets are a key mechanism in EU5 that influences your campaign.
- ✅ It is crucial to understand the dynamics of the game to maximize your income.
- ✅ The video argues in favor of having multiple small markets instead of a single large market, especially in the early and mid-game.
- ✅ The main reason is market access, which is more difficult to obtain at the beginning.
Market access is defined as the proportion of goods that are obtained from a province.
00:37 - 01:43
2. 📈 What is Market Access and How Does it Affect Your Economy?
- ✅ Market access is the proportion of goods you get from a province. For example, 62% market access means you get 62% of the goods from that province.
- ✅ It affects the profits of your RGOs (Resource Organizations) and the amount of money that enters your economy.
- ✅ Lower market access means fewer goods are sold to your population, reducing internal and external profits.
01:44 - 02:47
3. 🛠️ Methods to Increase Market Access: Roads, Marketplaces, and Market Villages
- ✅ Roads: Reduce the cost of market access for goods traveling per province to the market center.
- ✅ Marketplaces: Increase market access by 1% for each level in that location.
- ✅ Market Villages: Increase market access by 0.5%, being a useful option to expand in provinces with strong RGOs.
02:48 - 04:54
4. 📍 Advantages of Small Markets: 100% Access and Regional Control
- ✅ You get 100% market access in your market center, maximizing the efficiency of the buildings in that province.
- ✅ It serves as a source of proximity for market access throughout the region.
- ✅ Creating a new market in areas with low market access can significantly increase productivity and profits throughout the region.
- ✅ Small markets allow you to take control of provinces with low market access, boosting productivity and profits in the region.
Creating a new market in a low access area costs less than in a high access province.
04:55 - 05:30
5. ⭐ Additional Bonuses of Market Centers
- ✅ Market centers offer specific bonuses such as more construction levels, higher institutional growth, commercial capacity, and commercial advantage for the market.
- ✅ They also provide migration attraction, maximum storage capacity for the market, and national bonuses.
- ✅ These bonuses accumulate, increasing the satisfaction of the bourgeoisie, reducing the cost of market destruction, and progressing towards mechanisms.
05:31 - 06:19
6. 🛡️ Securing Land Control and Market Competition
- ✅ It is useful to create your own market when other markets put pressure on your provinces, preventing you from getting rewards for your goods.
- ✅ If you are not the leader in a shared market, you do not get access to good commercial goods and your AI automation does not know how to trade effectively.
06:20 - 07:36
7. 📝 Requirements to Create a New Market
- ✅ The location must be your own.
- ✅ It must be an urban location or have less than 25% market access.
- ✅ You must own the location or have buildings on it.
- ✅ You cannot be making a market currently.
- ✅ You cannot have a treaty that involves market attraction.
It is important to focus on port capacity when choosing where to create your markets, as they significantly reduce shipping and landing costs.
07:37 - 08:34
8. ⚖️ Is the Investment in New Markets Worth It?
- ✅ Creating new markets can be a significant investment, but it can generate a return on investment (ROI) by increasing commercial profits.
- ✅ It is crucial to make sure you have the right conditions before investing in new markets.
08:35 - 10:13
9. ⚠️ Disadvantages of Small Markets: Food Problems and Imbalances
- ✅ Small markets can cause food problems by dividing your nation into different areas, blocking food-producing provinces behind specific markets.
- ✅ This can make it difficult for goods to flow through your nation, leading to more profits for your internal markets.
- ✅ You can unbalance your market and industry, as seen in the example of London, where most of its industry is contained in it, leading to surpluses of almost all goods.
10:14 - 11:05
10. 🔄 Changes Over Time: Viability of Mega Markets in the Age of Absolutism
- ✅ A mega market becomes more viable as the game progresses.
- ✅ In the age of absolutism, you get market access for every building in your market (1% for each one).
- ✅ This means that if you upgrade all your provinces, you can get 100% market access in a giant mega market and use it to spread your power around the world.