Total War Rome Remastered Merchant Guide (Monopolization)
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- Total War Rome Remastered Merchant Guide. We will go over on how Merchants Monopolies in Rome Remastered
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▬ Contents of this video ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
0:00 Intro
0:31 What is Merchant
2:25 How Merchants Work
3:06 Merchant Distance
3:49 Resource Selection
4:58 Resource Value
5:50 Trade Agreements
7:10 Monopolization
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*Merchant is not a simple agent or unit he is technically a MECHANIC* . Merchant and Monopolization in Total War Rome Remastered is a really cool
I like what they have done with Merchants, especially how getting trade rights actually boosts their income and that they are tied to their home settlement instead of just their faction's capital and you don't even need to buy them to get them since they will come over to your faction so long as you control their home city. However I still think they can do more with them because while they can be worthwhile with trade rights, this is still Rome Total War and the AI usually will just go to war with you all the time which will make it hard to even get trade rights especially late in the game and therefore will mean Merchants will still barely make any money. Not to mention how long it takes for Merchants to still gain up points to make more money and I can understand why people who did not care for Merchants would still not be convinced to use them.
In my opinion I think they should up the amount of wealth Merchants make in general even without Trade rights or they need to add a bonus to certain settlements which can start off making Merchants with more points to them. Like instead of your usual Merchant starting off with 1 or two points at best, a settlement like Carthage would have it's Merchants start off with 4 at least. This would be good for both historical and gameplay reasons because Carthage was known for being a naval trade power and having a Merchant bonus would give it an advantage in making money compared to most factions if they have more of these "Merchant bonus" settlements in Carthage, the two islands they have in the western Mediterranean, and Cordoba. While there would be other settlements that also have a bonus on Merchants Carthage could start off with more to show off it's superior trade economy. What do you think?
@@rorschach1985ify yes some historical settlents can give bonus traits if recruited from there. And yea AI is fu and when you send merchant and they declear war he makes no money while before he did 2k. Advice for this is dont send merchant to you neighboursseend to provinces and Factions you dont border as they aill not declear war.
@@strategydux " yes some historical settlents can give bonus traits if recruited from there."
Could you please explain this more in detail? I'd like to know more.
@@rorschach1985ify it is as you said. Carthage has historical importance and we can for example make their governors palace to give special bonus for merchants etc. So when you can that settlement it gives bonus to their merchants because of the main building
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Very well made video! I honestly had no idea how to properly use merchants, this helped a lot!
Hey man I am glad it helped. I would also advise to check Richest Settlements video to see where to send them :D
Another excellent video, which along with your Trade Guide video provides a lot of useful information.
Thanks here as well. I forgot to ask in previous answer. Do you have any suggestions or something you would like me to make a video on in Rome Remastered? And sure subscribe if you enjoy the content I am already working on new videos :)
Agreed
Great game! Glad to see others playing it!
Great video, thanks for the explanations!
Thank you for checking. I recommend top 10 richest cities also as it adds up to the merchant
i was you 100 subscriber, congrats
Hahaha thank man. I hope you will enjoy the future content and stick around you are first milestone for this channel :D hahaha
Thank you so much, this guide really helped me start my trading empire !!!!!
Go review your Fenician fantasy :D
Love it. Could we get some opening moves guides at some point. No rush love your stuff
It's great as I am already working on it Haha. First faction will be Carthage and video will be by the end of the week. You can request faction you would like to see so I can plan it and start preparing.
Awesome video, helps a lot.
Glad it helped! Check top 10 richest cities also as it will add up and show you places where to send merchant
@@strategydux I sure did man and now I’m making lot’s of trade income, thanks!
Ty, this really helped me
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I am glad. Check other guides for additional help. I am making more videos also so you should subscribe to get notification when they are uploaded
Thank you for the video. Very informative.
Thanks. You should check video on richest settlements to check where to sent this merchant also :) . I will make more of these in future and for other total war games so you should subscribe to get notifications if you enjoy the content
@@strategydux Already a sub! Hoping for more videos on your opinions on the top 5 factions on Rome Remastered :)
@@MrPAACK Great thanks man. I am planning to start Faction starter guides and than move to top factions as I make few guides. Do you have a recommendation for a faction guide you want to see before we do top 5?
@@strategydux Would love to see a Carthage / Parthia guide mate!
@@MrPAACK Wow great! It's your lucky day. I am working on Carthage guide now for 2 days testing and will start with production soon to have it by the end of week
Perfect - 9 minutes well used. Thumbs up...
thanks man i am happy you enjoyed. I would also recommend to check top 10 richest cities as it adds up to this video and ofc subscribe for more :D
Great work! I still have the "own It" achievment locked ....do you know how to unlock? I have merchants monopolizing all 21 resources + elephants and camels but doesnt work
underrated channel!
thanks bro :)
Thanks
Glad you enjoyed bro :D
Looks like it's an enhanced Medieval 2 merchant mechanic, I should try the merchants then :D
Yea it is little bit more deeper than medieval 2. I think it is a good direction for it to move forward I just hate losing the merchant when other merchant rolls for the resource it is such a pain they should change that
@@strategydux Can you send an assassin to protect your merchant?
Pls make a video on medieval 2 merchant,nice video btw
we'll see, we will get more medieval 2 videos but not sure that it will be those mechanics :) CoH3 is fresh atm
so do i keep the merchant in the other factions city or do i have to constantly send them back and forth?
Keep him on resource you want
It seems like if the island has a port, then the merchant will make a lot more money there
It might as Merchant is making a direct link and marine link is double as valuable as land route. Check my Trade guide also it is really connected with the Merchant and also top 10 richest cities :)
So do you place the merchant on the actual resource? Or do you just place it on the surrounding area?
place it on top of resource :D
I have a question. If I send a merchant to a city he seems to get more money than from a resource. So would it not make more sense to put him in the city?
Well he is monipolozing resources which are in the fields and mines so from that persepctive i think it is realistic in a way as it is now
So does the merchant monopolising a resource in an enemy town reduce that town's income?
No it just takes the resource away from other merchants in that province so they cant trade it.
Does crop from merchant also give population boost?
Even tough it says it does when you compare before and after it doesn't. Even the settlement inspection doesn't show it. And Even if it does give it so small that is unnoticeable
Is it better to just put the merchant in the province or to select thr resource directly?
I have been selecting thr merchant and right clicking on specific resource hubs- gold, copper, etc.- should I just leave thr merchant in the province instead?
Instead of just going after the gold mine, he'll go after all the resources
Hey buddy thanks for comment :D. Place merchant on resource you want to make money. And you have guide on my video where to send them to make most money :D
@@strategydux thank you
so the merchant is useless on own territory? only works on foreign country? if taking over the resource town, is the auto-trade profit higher than merchant?
yes is is gaining money from provinces from abroad and specially from those resources you do not produce :D
I have a question. Do you know how to get my trade routes bring all boys to the yard achievement?
Hey I haven't tried it :) What is your current progress are you struggling
@@strategydux I mean this achievement needs three foreign merchants in a region you control. And I tried everything, building the all possible buildings for increasing trading and etc. and still… I don’t know how it works.
@@khadajhin5130 Hmmm I will look into it. Egypt might be a good faction for that since I've saw lots of merchants there. Do rebel merchants count?
@@strategydux Im Not quite sure if rebels do count.
Do you have any suggestions on how to make money off merchants without having to micromanage them?
Well you make 1 merchant per town and sent him to the settlement which is rich but is the furthers away from that home town. Early game it is valuable to micro little bit more just to get empire starting later on you dont have to much. Check my Richest settlements video to see where to send merchants
Great video..was helpful. I have been playing for awhile now and one bug I can't find an answer about is why my merchants seem to lose their experience during my recent game.
I am playing Britain on hard level, campaign mode. Initially I shipped a bunch of them to Egyptian lands who I have trade rights with..no problem and they held their experience and made me great coin. This first group died out however and when I replaced them with another group, they all came off the boat with 0 experience, then when I walked a guy across the top of Africa to join them, he went from 3 experience down to 0 when I crossed the border into Egyptian lands. I should be making much better coin than I am. They still make me decent cash but with all them being 0 exp. it's making it harder to deal with Rome at the moment.
I was wondering if anyone else has this issue or seen this issue discussed and can give me some guidance or send me in the right direction. I can't find anything on this.
Hmm weird. Maybe after some turns when they are not trading they start losing their stats. And/or maybe if they do not make direct connection to the port while trading it is not counted and they do not gaind exp?
@@strategydux Initially I thought it was due to the long boat trip as being why they lost all their experience but that was not the case. Eventually I took out Numidia and started walking some merchants to Egypt and after 1 turn in their lands they lost all experience. This only happened with Egypt, who I was allies with and had a fine relationship. If I walked a guy further east to Persia they held their exp. Persia however was not good for coin no matter the level.
If I took a merchant into any Egyptian land that was level 4 experience and let's say made me $1000...within 1 turn they dropped to zero and made me anywhere from $500 to $700 I guess depending on the distance from their home.
I had to live with this as I made not as much cash with any other faction.
Also I found that I could gain experience in their lands and hold it. for instance if I bought out a 0 level rebel merchant, my merchant got level 1 exp. and held it. however gaining exp. this way is not easy as they are 0 when attempting it LOL
I conquered the game with this going on anyway. I had to exterminate populations after taking cities to keep the funds up in order not to go broke. I now wonder if this is just something the game does to make it harder for you?
Anyway, cheers and thanx for responding.
@@eatonbeaver6972 hmm it is probably a bug I don't get the logic of it at all. I never had any issue with that... Maybe the competition made him worse? Other merchant in the region killing his work. :/
@@strategydux As far as I could tell it was not due to other merchants. Earlier in the game when I took first load over by boat, there were other merchants and they held exp.
I never try to monopolize a certain resource as I found that will get Egypt to try and buy out my merchants. I just place them in a region and they make coin that way. Frankly, they make the same coin that way than they would monopolizing something. Initially, it's too far away from Britannia to risk losing any.
I might understand why other merchants would effect the cash my merchants made, but I can't understand why they would lose all their experience, and in 1 turn.
This "bug" only effected exp. (which as a result, affected cash) In the course of the game I took out some cities etc. and picked up some merchants from them that were level 8 or 9. They lost all exp. as well once in an Egyptian help territory.
If your merchant's home city or the city they are trading in gets plague etc. then their cash drops to zero, but they don't lose experience. I can't think of any viable reason they should lose experience to be honest. Seemed to me like the game was "reeling" me in so to speak. As in, trying to make it harder for me.
I have found over the years that due to insufficient AI these types of games kind of cheat behind the scenes to make it more of a challenge for you. Like Civilization games, you micromanage every aspect of your cities to maximize output and then check an AI's cities and it's crap compared to yours and yet they sometimes out produce you etc. LOL
Anyway, cheers again. Sorry for the read. Happy gaming :D
It’s not giving me the option to recruit a merchant, I’m playing a standard julii campaign, is that why?
They are caped based on your markets :D
I confuse.. why Brutii is my Ally but they always Buysout my Merchant ??
money bro :D
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I can't recruit merchants? is this a common bug?
You need market to recruit one merchant and than every next tier of market allows you one more. So you are limited on how many you can get
@@strategydux You also have to enable them in the main menu as an remastered option instead of classic.
First thing I did was disable this extra micromanagement bullcrap.
Hahaha it is simple you place him once and that is it :D you dont have to bother to place 3 merchants from same settlement if you dont feel like it later on
@@strategydux True, but yeah glad its optional.
@@Casketkrusher_ yea that is nice
They make so little money, it's not really with the time
Hey, thanks for commenting. Follow thE guide and they will make a lot of money. As you can see they are making money like one city in my tutorial. You are not using them properly
I wouldn’t say it’s worthless. One merchant from its home region is adding 250 ducats to the regions income. 3 level 2 merchants from one region will grant 750 ducats. Now if you took the time to do that for two regions that’s 1500 ducats. Assuming their all level two. For the price of a merchant that’s a pretty good profit