Trade Routes

Trade Routes are manually set up on game start based on their Region and Religion, according to the historical flow of goods.

These initial Routes are Dynamically redefined whenever the current holder’s Religion_valentinianism Faith orRealm_capital-provinceCapital Province Region changes.

While Regions define the likelihood of a good reaching a certain point, pdx-Faith Religion is the most important delimiting factor for trade contacts to happen.

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1. trade-region Trade Regions

Dynamic Trade Routes defines different trade-regionTrade Regions for all duchies, mainly as subsets of pdx-Titles Regions defined in Vanilla (see image above). Some pdx-Duchy duchies are also relocated, such as:

  • pdx-KingdomFlanders belongs to the trade-region Northern France trade region and not to pdx-Titles Germania.
  • pdx-KingdomBrittany belongs to the trade-region Celtic trade region—including Goidelic- and Brythonic-speaking areas—instead of pdx-Titles Francia.
  • pdx-DuchyPomerania belongs to the trade-region Baltic trade region rather than to pdx-Titles Germania.
  • pdx-DuchyCatalonia belongs to the trade-regionSouthern France trade region instead of pdx-Titles Iberia.

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Region Modifiers

Each Productive Barony exports a percentage of its Production to other Regions, based on its defined Trade Region. These are the modifiers:

  1. Main Subregion: 80%. Within the traditional realm or very close ties.
  2. Main Region: 60%. Close geographical or historical (trade, diplomatic) ties.
  3. Neighbor Region: 30%. Relatively important (direct or indirect) geographical or historical contacts.
  4. Distant Region: 10%. Indirect geographical or historical contacts.
  5. Other Regions: 1%. Level “Hey I found this rare good”.

If the holder of a productive barony has itsRealm_capital-province Capital Province in a different Trade Region than the one initially defined for it, that region will also be considered Main Subregion for the purposes of trade.

trade-region Germania

  • Germania: Main Subregion
  • Northern France: Main Region
  • Southern France: Neighbor Region
  • Northern Italy: Main Region
  • Southern Italy: Distant Region
  • England: Neighbor Region
  • Celtic Region: Distant Region
  • Scandinavia: Neighbor Region
  • Poland: Neighbor Region
  • Hungary: Neighbor Region
  • Baltic: Distant Region
  • Eastern Europe: Distant Region
  • Northern Iberia: Neighbor Region
  • Southern Iberia: Distant Region
  • Balkans: Neighbor Region
  • Greece: Neighbor Region
  • Anatolia: Distant Region
  • Jerusalem: Neighbor Region
  • Maghreb: Distant Region
  • Egypt: Distant Region

trade-region France

  • Northern France: Main Subregion
  • Southern France: Main Subregion
  • Germania: Main Region
  • Northern Italy: Main Region
  • Southern Italy: Neighbor Region
  • England: Main Region
  • Celtic Region: Neighbor Region
  • Scandinavia: Neighbor Region
  • Poland: Neighbor Region
  • Hungary: Neighbor Region
  • Northern Iberia: Neighbor Region
  • Southern Iberia: Neighbor Region
  • Balkans: Distant Region
  • Greece: Distant Region
  • Anatolia: Distant Region
  • Jerusalem: Neighbor Region
  • Maghreb: Neighbor Region
  • Egypt: Distant Region

trade-region Italy

  • Northern Italy: Main Subregion
  • Southern Italy: Main Subregion
  • Germania: Main Region
  • Northern France: Main Region
  • Southern France: Main Region
  • England: Neighbor Region
  • Celtic Region: Distant Region
  • Maghreb: Main Region
  • Egypt: Neighbor Region
  • Scandinavia: Distant Region
  • Poland: Distant Region
  • Hungary: Neighbor Region
  • Northern Iberia: Main Region
  • Southern Iberia: Main Region
  • Balkans: Neighbor Region
  • Greece: Neighbor Region
  • Anatolia: Distant Region
  • Jerusalem: Neighbor Region

trade-region Britannia

  • England: Main Subregion
  • Celtic Region: Main Region
  • Scandinavia: Main Region
  • Germania: Main Region
  • Northern France: Main Region
  • Southern France: Neighbor Region
  • Northern Italy: Neighbor Region
  • Southern Italy: Distant Region
  • Northern Iberia: Neighbor Region
  • Southern Iberia: Distant Region
  • Poland: Distant Region
  • Hungary: Distant Region
  • Jerusalem: Distant Region

trade-region Scandinavia

  • Scandinavia: Main Subregion
  • North-East Fennoscandia: Main Subregion
  • Baltic: Main Region
  • Germania: Main Region
  • Northern France: Main Region
  • Southern France: Neighbor Region
  • England: Main Region
  • Celtic Region: Main Region
  • Northern Italy: Neighbor Region
  • Eastern Europe: Neighbor Region
  • Poland: Distant Region
  • Hungary: Distant Region

trade-region Central-East Europe

  • Poland: Main Subregion
  • Hungary: Main Subregion
  • Eastern Europe: Neighbor Region
  • Germania: Main Region
  • Northern France: Main Region
  • Southern France: Neighbor Region
  • Northern Italy: Main Region
  • Southern Italy: Neighbor Region
  • Balkans: Main Region
  • Greece: Main Region
  • Anatolia: Neighbor Region
  • Scandinavia: Neighbor Region
  • England: Neighbor Region
  • Northern Iberia: Distant Region
  • Jerusalem: Neighbor Region

trade-region Eastern Europe

  • Eastern Europe: Main Subregion
  • North-East Fennoscandia: Main Subregion
  • Baltic: Main Region
  • Poland: Neighbor Region
  • Hungary: Neighbor Region
  • Balkans: Neighbor Region
  • Greece: Main Region
  • Anatolia: Neighbor Region
  • Caucasus: Neighbor Region
  • Scandinavia: Main Region
  • Germania: Main Region
  • England: Neighbor Region
  • Northern France: Neighbor Region
  • Southern France: Distant Region
  • Northern Italy: Distant Region
  • Southern Italy: Distant Region
  • Western Steppe: : Main Region
  • Eastern Steppe: Neighbor Region

trade-region Byzantium

  • Greece: Main Subregion
  • Anatolia: Main Subregion
  • Caucasus: Main Region
  • Balkans: Main Region
  • Western Steppe: : Main Region
  • Eastern Europe: Neighbor Region
  • Jerusalem: Neighbor Region
  • Northern Italy: Neighbor Region
  • Southern Italy: Neighbor Region
  • Egypt: Neighbor Region
  • Arabia: Neighbor Region
  • Western Persia: Distant Region
  • Scandinavia: Distant Region

trade-region Northern Iberia

  • Northern Iberia: Main Subregion
  • Southern Iberia: Main Subregion
  • Southern France: Main Region
  • Northern France: Neighbor Region
  • Germania: Neighbor Region
  • England: Neighbor Region
  • Northern Italy: Main Region
  • Southern Italy: Neighbor Region
  • Jerusalem: Neighbor Region
  • Maghreb: Neighbor Region

trade-region Southern Iberia

  • Northern Iberia: Main Subregion
  • Southern Iberia: Main Subregion
  • Southern France: Main Region
  • Northern Italy: Neighbor Region
  • Southern Italy: Neighbor Region
  • Maghreb: Main Subregion
  • Egypt: Main Region
  • Sahara: Neighbor Region
  • Western Persia: Distant Region
  • Arabia: Distant Region
  • Jerusalem: Distant Region

trade-region Africa

Umbrella region for all African sites connected to Muslim trade routes, except Egypt.

  • Maghreb: Main Subregion
  • Egypt: Main Subregion
  • Sahara: Main Region
  • West Africa: Main Region
  • East Africa: Neighbor Region
  • Northern Iberia: Main Subregion
  • Southern Iberia: Main Subregion
  • Southern France: Neighbor Region
  • Southern Italy: Main Subregion
  • Northern Italy: Neighbor Region
  • Jerusalem: Neighbor Region
  • Arabia: Neighbor Region
  • Western Persia: Neighbor Region
  • Eastern Persia: Neighbor Region
  • Caucasus: Distant Region
  • Rajastan: Distant Region

trade-region Egypt

  • Egypt: Main Subregion
  • Jerusalem: Main Subregion
  • Maghreb: Main Region
  • Arabia: Main Region
  • Western Persia: Main Region
  • Eastern Persia: Neighbor Region
  • East Africa: Main Region
  • Southern Iberia: Neighbor Region
  • Southern Italy: Neighbor Region
  • Sahara: Neighbor Region
  • Greece: Neighbor Region
  • Anatolia: Neighbor Region
  • Western Steppe: : Distant Region
  • Rajastan: Distant Region

trade-region Jerusalem

Used for coastal Latin Kingdoms and Byzantine Empire, so that changes in religion are the most important factor in trade.

  • Jerusalem: Main Subregion
  • Egypt: Main Subregion
  • Arabia: Main Subregion
  • Western Persia: Main Subregion
  • Greece: Main Subregion
  • Anatolia: Main Subregion
  • Caucasus: Main Subregion
  • Eastern Persia: Main Region
  • West Africa: Main Region
  • East Africa: Main Region
  • Southern Iberia: Neighbor Region
  • Southern Italy: Neighbor Region
  • Northern France: Neighbor Region
  • Northern Italy: Neighbor Region
  • Germania: Distant Region
  • England: Distant Region

trade-region Persia

  • Arabia: Main Subregion
  • Western Persia: Main Subregion
  • Eastern Persia: Main Region (to avoid overpowering Turan in resources that mostly passed through it)
  • Western Steppe: : Main Region
  • Rajastan: Main Region
  • Jerusalem: Main Region
  • Caucasus: Main Region
  • Egypt: Neighbor Region
  • Greece: Neighbor Region
  • Anatolia: Neighbor Region
  • East Africa: Distant Region
  • West Africa: Distant Region
  • Eastern Steppe: Neighbor Region
  • Tarim: Neighbor Region
  • Bengal: Neighbor Region
  • Deccan: Distant Region

trade-region Northern India

  • Rajastan: Main Subregion
  • Bengal: Main Subregion
  • Deccan: Main Region
  • Eastern Persia: Main Region
  • Tarim: Main Region
  • Tibet: Distant Region
  • Burma: Distant Region
  • Western Persia: Neighbor Region
  • Egypt: Neighbor Region
  • Jerusalem: Neighbor Region
  • Arabia: Neighbor Region
  • Western Steppe: : Distant Region
  • Eastern Steppe: Neighbor Region (for China-adjacent, until a new DLC comes out)
  • West Africa: Distant Region
  • Greece: Distant Region
  • Anatolia: Distant Region
  • Caucasus: Distant Region
  • Southern Iberia: Distant Region
  • Southern Italy: Distant Region

trade-region Southern India

  • Deccan: Main Subregion
  • Rajastan: Main Region
  • Bengal: Main Region
  • Eastern Persia: Neighbor Region
  • Tarim: Neighbor Region
  • Arabia: Main Region (intense sea contacts, goods passing mainly through Hormuz, Basra..)
  • Western Persia: Neighbor Region (goods passing mainly through Hormuz, Basra..)
  • Egypt: Neighbor Region
  • Jerusalem: Neighbor Region
  • East Africa: Distant Region
  • West Africa: Distant Region
  • Greece: Distant Region
  • Anatolia: Distant Region
  • Caucasus: Distant Region
  • Southern Iberia: Distant Region
  • Southern Italy: Distant Region

trade-region Western Steppe

  • Western Steppe: : Main Subregion
  • Eastern Persia: Main Region
  • Western Persia: Main Region
  • Arabia: Neighbor Region
  • Eastern Europe: Main Region
  • Scandinavia: Neighbor Region
  • Poland: Neighbor Region
  • Hungary: Neighbor Region
  • Greece: Main Region
  • Anatolia: Main Region
  • Caucasus: Main Region
  • Jerusalem: Neighbor Region
  • Egypt: Distant Region
  • Germania: Distant Region
  • Tarim: Distant Region
  • Eastern Steppe: Distant Region (for China-adjacent, until a new DLC comes out)

trade-region Eastern Steppe

  • Eastern Steppe: Main Subregion
  • Western Steppe: : Neighbor Region (poor trade)
  • Tibet: Main Region
  • Tarim: Main Region
  • Eastern Persia: Main Region
  • Western Persia: Main Region
  • Arabia: Neighbor Region
  • Jerusalem: Neighbor Region (trade with Persia)
  • Rajastan: Neighbor Region
  • Egypt: Distant Region (trade with Persia)
  • Deccan: Distant Region

2. pdx-Faith Trade Religions

During the Middle Ages, usual trade happened between regions under rulers of the same religion, and inter-religious interactions—while possible—were rare. Common examples of inter-religious contacts are networks set up by pdx-Religion_kabarism Jewish communities or by feudal_government Republics in the Mediterranean.

Dynamic Trade Routes defines a set of common relationships between different pdx-Faith Religions or Religion_valentinianism Faiths.

trade-religions-routes

Religion Modifiers

Each Productive Barony exports a percentage of its Production to other religious groups based on its defined Trade Religion. These are the modifiers:

  1. Main Faith: 100%. Own Faith or Religion
  2. Main Religion: 75%. Traditionally associated Faith or Religion in the Region.
  3. Neighbor Religion: 50%. Traditionally not hostile Faith or Religion, or with active trading partners, in the Region.
  4. Distant Religion: 10%. Other close Faiths or Religions which could occasionally be trading partners in the Region.
  5. Other Religions: 1%.

A change in pdx-Faith Religion by the holder of a Productive Barony will have a variable effect, depending on the predefined religious change:

  • pdx-Religion_orthodoxOrthodox topdx-Religion_catholicismCatholic or vice versa:
    • The new faith becomes Main Faith, the older faith becomes Main Religion.
    • All other Trade Religions remain the same.
  • Change among the main Indian Religions – pdx-Religion_shaivismHinduism,pdx-Religion_lamaism_buddhismBuddhism,pdx-Religion_jainismJainism – will not result in any change.
  • Every other change will mean the new holder’s pdx-Faith Religion (orReligion_valentinianismFaith, in the case ofpdx-Religion_orthodoxOrthodox vs.pdx-Religion_catholicismCatholic vs.pdx-Religion_adamitesOther Christians) will become the Main Faith, whereas all other defined Trade Religions will lose one level of export: from Main Faith to Main Religion, from Main Religion to Neighbor Religion, etc.).

pdx-Faith Germania

  • pdx-Religion_catholicismCatholic: Main Faith
  • pdx-Religion_christianity_waldensianOther Christian: Main Religion
  • pdx-Religion_slavicSlavic: Main Religion
  • pdx-Religion_orthodoxOrthodox: Neighbor Religion
  • pdx-Religion_germanicAsatrĂº: Neighbor Religion
  • pdx-Religion_balticVidilist: Neighbor Religion
  • pdx-Religion_pagan_magyarTaltosist: Neighbor Religion
  • pdx-Religion_sunniIslam: Distant Religion

pdx-Faith France

  • pdx-Religion_catholicismCatholic: Main Faith
  • pdx-Religion_christianity_catharOther Christian: Main Religion
  • pdx-Religion_orthodoxOrthodox: Neighbor Religion
  • pdx-Religion_germanicAsatrĂº: Neighbor Religion
  • pdx-Religion_slavicSlavic: Distant Religion
  • pdx-Religion_balticVidilist: Distant Religion
  • pdx-Religion_pagan_magyarTaltosist: Distant Religion
  • pdx-Religion_sunniIslam: Distant Religion

pdx-Faith Italy

  • pdx-Religion_catholicismCatholic: Main Faith
  • pdx-Religion_orthodoxOrthodox: Main Religion
  • pdx-Religion_christianity_catharOther Christian: Main Religion
  • pdx-Religion_sunniIslam: Distant Religion
  • pdx-Religion_slavicSlavic: Distant Religion

pdx-Faith Britannia

  • pdx-Religion_catholicismCatholic: Main Faith
  • pdx-Religion_christianity_lollardOther Christian: Main Faith (cf. Insular)
  • pdx-Religion_germanicAsatrĂº: Main Faith
  • pdx-Religion_orthodoxOrthodox: Neighbor Religion

pdx-Faith Scandinavia

  • pdx-Religion_catholicismCatholic: Main Faith
  • pdx-Religion_germanicAsatrĂº: Main Faith
  • pdx-Religion_finno_ugricUkonusko: Main Religion
  • pdx-Religion_orthodoxOrthodox: Neighbor Religion
  • pdx-Religion_adamitesOther Christian: Neighbor Religion
  • pdx-Religion_slavicSlavic: Neighbor Religion
  • pdx-Religion_balticVidilist: Neighbor Religion

pdx-Faith Central-East Europe

  • pdx-Religion_catholicismCatholic: Main Faith
  • pdx-Religion_slavicSlavic: Main Faith
  • pdx-Religion_orthodoxOrthodox: Main Religion
  • pdx-Religion_adamitesOther Christian: Main Religion
  • pdx-Religion_tengriTengri: Main Religion
  • pdx-Religion_pagan_magyarTaltosist: Main Religion
  • pdx-Religion_balticVidilist: Neighbor Religion
  • pdx-Religion_germanicAsatrĂº: Distant Religion

pdx-Faith Eastern Europe

  • pdx-Religion_orthodoxOrthodox: Main Faith
  • pdx-Religion_adamitesOther Christian: Main Religion
  • pdx-Religion_germanicAsatrĂº: Main Religion
  • pdx-Religion_catholicismCatholic: Neighbor Religion
  • pdx-Religion_slavicSlavic: Neighbor Religion
  • pdx-Religion_pagan_magyarTaltosist: Neighbor Religion
  • pdx-Religion_tengriTengri: Neighbor Religion
  • pdx-Religion_balticVidilist: Neighbor Religion
  • pdx-Religion_sunniIslam: Distant Religion

pdx-Faith Byzantium

  • pdx-Religion_orthodoxOrthodox: Main Faith
  • pdx-Religion_christianity_iconoclasmOther Christian: Main Religion
  • pdx-Religion_catholicismCatholic: Neighbor Religion
  • pdx-Religion_tengriTengri: Neighbor Religion
  • pdx-Religion_slavicSlavic: Neighbor Religion
  • pdx-Religion_pagan_magyarTaltosist: Distant Religion
  • pdx-Religion_sunniIslam: Distant Religion

pdx-Faith Northern Iberia

  • pdx-Religion_catholicismCatholic: Main Faith
  • pdx-Religion_mozarabic Other Christian: Main Religion
  • pdx-Religion_kabarismJudaism: Neighbor Religion
  • pdx-Religion_sunniIslam: Neighbor Religion
  • pdx-Religion_orthodoxOrthodox: Distant Religion

pdx-Faith Southern Iberia

  • pdx-Religion_sunniIslam: Main Faith
  • pdx-Religion_catholicismCatholic: Neighbor Religion
  • pdx-Religion_orthodoxOrthodox: Neighbor Religion
  • pdx-Religion_mozarabic Other Christian: Neighbor Religion
  • pdx-Religion_kabarismJudaism: Neighbor Religion

pdx-Faith Africa

  • pdx-Religion_sunniIslam: Main Faith
  • pdx-Religion_akanismWest African: Main Religion
  • pdx-Religion_catholicismCatholic: Distant Religion
  • pdx-Religion_orthodoxOrthodox: Distant Religion
  • pdx-Religion_copticOther Christian: Neighbor Religion
  • pdx-Religion_kabarismJudaism: Neighbor Religion
  • pdx-Religion_west_african_boriBori: Neighbor Religion
  • pdx-Religion_yorubaOrisha: Neighbor Religion,
  • pdx-Religion_west_african_roog_sene Roog: Neighbor Religion

pdx-Faith Egypt

  • pdx-Religion_sunniIslam: Main Faith
  • pdx-Religion_copticOther Christian: Main Religion
  • pdx-Religion_kabarismJudaism: Main Religion
  • pdx-Religion_orthodoxOrthodox: Neighbor Religion
  • pdx-Religion_kushismKushitism: Neighbor Religion
  • pdx-Religion_catholicismCatholic: Distant Religion

pdx-Faith Jerusalem

  • pdx-Religion_sunniIslam: Main Faith
  • pdx-Religion_kabarismJudaism: Neighbor Religion
  • pdx-Religion_orthodoxOrthodox: Neighbor Religion
  • pdx-Religion_catholicismCatholic: Distant Religion
  • pdx-Religion_christianity_armenianOther Christian: Distant Religion

pdx-Faith Persia

  • pdx-Religion_sunniIslam: Main Faith
  • pdx-Religion_zoroastrianZoroastrianism: Main Religion
  • pdx-Religion_tengriTengri: Neighbor Religion
  • pdx-Religion_kabarismJudaism: Neighbor Religion
  • pdx-Religion_shaivismHinduism: Neighbor Religion
  • pdx-Religion_lamaism_buddhismBuddhism: Neighbor Religion
  • pdx-Religion_christianity_armenianOther Christian: Distant Religion

pdx-Faith Northern India

  • pdx-Religion_shaivismHinduism: Main Faith
  • pdx-Religion_lamaism_buddhismBuddhism: Main Faith
  • pdx-Religion_jainismJainism: Main Faith
  • pdx-Religion_sunniIslam: Main Religion
  • pdx-Religion_zunistZunism: Main Religion
  • pdx-Religion_zoroastrianZoroastrianism: Main Religion
  • pdx-Religion_bonBon: Neighbor Religion
  • pdx-Religion_tengriTengri: Neighbor Religion
  • pdx-Religion_donyipoloismTani: Neighbor Religion
  • pdx-Religion_melieismQiangic: Neighbor Religion
  • pdx-Religion_nestorianOther Christian: Neighbor Religion
  • pdx-Religion_kabarismJudaism: Distant Religion
  • pdx-Religion_orthodoxOrthodox: Distant Religion
  • pdx-Religion_catholicismCatholic: Distant Religion

pdx-Faith Southern India

  • pdx-Religion_shaivismHinduism: Main Faith
  • pdx-Religion_lamaism_buddhismBuddhism: Main Faith
  • pdx-Religion_jainismJainism: Main Faith
  • pdx-Religion_sunniIslam: Main Religion
  • pdx-Religion_zunistZunism: Main Religion
  • pdx-Religion_zoroastrianZoroastrianism: Main Religion
  • pdx-Religion_nestorianOther Christian: Neighbor Religion
  • pdx-Religion_kabarismJudaism: Distant Religion
  • pdx-Religion_orthodoxOrthodox: Distant Religion
  • pdx-Religion_catholicismCatholic: Distant Religion

pdx-Faith Western Steppe

  • pdx-Religion_tengriTengri: Main Faith
  • pdx-Religion_pagan_magyarTaltosist: Main Faith
  • pdx-Religion_siberianTurumic: Main Faith
  • pdx-Religion_finno_ugricUkonusko: Main Faith
  • pdx-Religion_kabarismJudaism: Main Religion
  • pdx-Religion_sunniIslam: Main Religion
  • pdx-Religion_orthodoxOrthodox: Neighbor Religion
  • pdx-Religion_catholicismCatholic: Distant Religion
  • pdx-Religion_nestorianOther Christian: Distant Religion

pdx-Faith Eastern Steppe

  • pdx-Religion_tengriTengri: Main Faith
  • pdx-Religion_siberianTurumic: Main Faith
  • pdx-Religion_sunniIslam: Main Religion
  • pdx-Religion_quanzhenTaoism: Main Religion
  • pdx-Religion_melieismQiangic: Neighbor Religion
  • pdx-Religion_bonBon: Neighbor Religion
  • pdx-Religion_lamaism_buddhismBuddhism: Neighbor Religion
  • pdx-Religion_nestorianOther Christian: Neighbor Religion
  • pdx-Religion_shaivismHinduism: Distant Religion