I've been fooled. Where are my 25% from being in Free Market
Well it doesn't matter that much, but it would be nice to fix this bug or alternatively Free Market description. Here those 2 commerce routes should be 3 with that extra 25%.
Hmm. After closer inspection it seems like the city is producing 8 commerce from trade routes, if you check the city list. This city has also base commerce 13, even if all things counted up should give 12. Maybe this works after all .
IIRC (because this is my understanding of a discussion with Cyneheard 2 years ago) that 25% was only for cities on the same landmass. But to be totally honest I am not the best person to talk to about implementation.
I'm still wondering what is going on. This is what I see in capital (it seems I also get 1 extra commerce here i.e. city list shows 26 commerce form trade routes):
Now after closer inspection this 25% is better than I imagined. I though it would work like Harbor or any other trade route multiplier, but it is actually mutiplicative after all the other normal trade route multipliers are summed up. In capital this means 5 extra commerce (21 comes after normal multiplers are taken into account).
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Yes for all cities. After thinking it is not that much better than additive 25% would have been. I lose some in rounding since multiplication is done on integer numbers (after rounding down) and especially in small cities additive 25% would have been better since it would have raised all trade routes with +1. Now my small cities just get +2 not +3 from it.
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