Fat Samurai posted:

I finally got the Die Please Die achievement. gently caress Enrique de Trastámara the Unkillable forever.

Anyway, more of a thought experiment to see if I understand trade and production rather than a real question: I got the mission to increase my trade revenue to 60% and I’m sitting at 50-something right now, which got me thinking about it and wiki diving. I have the Sevilla, Caribbean, Cape and Ivory Coast pretty much locked down. If I understand correctly:

- Markets won’t help (much) because the amount of trade power is irrelevant, and only your power relative to others matters. I’m sitting pretty at 80-100% in those nodes.
- Workshops in Colonial Nations will increase the trade value of the node they are in, but also increase my tariffs because they get more money.
- Workshops in territorial cores suffer the 75% autonomy penalty, so they are a crappy investment.
- Trade companies increase the trade value of the node by increasing the goods produced but that only affects other nations, so adding provinces to a trade company where you have 100% trade power won’t help either. This doesn’t seem logical at all but it’s an ironman game and I don’t want to try stuff so far into it.

So my best bet to increase trade income is to either place markets or light ships in CoT where I have low power?