I know everyone on the forum seems to hate the autosend feature within the game, I've been studying it for some time and have at least figured out the logic on how it operates and a use for it. I'd appreacaite any comments you have.
The autosend's goal seems to be to generate more merchants for you to send, then to make money as a second priority. So, it will pursue monopolies that seem to have no purpose at all, other than to get the +1 merchant for monopolies. Once you are generating 12 merchants a year, and you know about valuable CoTs, it will start sending them to the valuable ones, literally swamping them with merchants. It will do this, provided you devote enough monthly income to allow it to use up the merchants you generate. Assuming it is later in the game, and you know about enough vaulable CoTs, you should generate a fair amount of trade revenue, though its still not as smart as a human can be.
The use for it is that it give you hands free way to get CBs on other countries. The autosend is so aggresive when it swamps a CoT, that if you don't own it, the owner of it will trade embargo you in no time, thus giving you a CB. You then turn around, and beat up the country who embargoed you, and wait. Because you won the war, you open their CoT. At the end of 5 years, they will embargo you again, and you can go beat them up some more. Very effective against Spain if they own valuable CoTs.
On a side note, what would be considered a high BB rating? I'm just wondering, because I've ended up with a current BB of 53 playing as the Ottoman Empire, and things are getting ugly in Europe. Nothing I can't handle, though my allies are starting to leave my alliance and declare war on me, even with +140 relations. In case your wondering, maybe half of the HRE is now Turkish, and Austria does not exist anymore. (Teach those Austrians to become Spanish vassals!) Persia and the Mameluks were partitioned between me and my allies. And its only 1617. If its true your BB goes down only 1 per 4 years, assuming you don't lose any wars, then I may end up being a Bad Boy until the American Civil War... Is it really unusual to have this high of a BB?
The autosend's goal seems to be to generate more merchants for you to send, then to make money as a second priority. So, it will pursue monopolies that seem to have no purpose at all, other than to get the +1 merchant for monopolies. Once you are generating 12 merchants a year, and you know about valuable CoTs, it will start sending them to the valuable ones, literally swamping them with merchants. It will do this, provided you devote enough monthly income to allow it to use up the merchants you generate. Assuming it is later in the game, and you know about enough vaulable CoTs, you should generate a fair amount of trade revenue, though its still not as smart as a human can be.
The use for it is that it give you hands free way to get CBs on other countries. The autosend is so aggresive when it swamps a CoT, that if you don't own it, the owner of it will trade embargo you in no time, thus giving you a CB. You then turn around, and beat up the country who embargoed you, and wait. Because you won the war, you open their CoT. At the end of 5 years, they will embargo you again, and you can go beat them up some more. Very effective against Spain if they own valuable CoTs.
On a side note, what would be considered a high BB rating? I'm just wondering, because I've ended up with a current BB of 53 playing as the Ottoman Empire, and things are getting ugly in Europe. Nothing I can't handle, though my allies are starting to leave my alliance and declare war on me, even with +140 relations. In case your wondering, maybe half of the HRE is now Turkish, and Austria does not exist anymore. (Teach those Austrians to become Spanish vassals!) Persia and the Mameluks were partitioned between me and my allies. And its only 1617. If its true your BB goes down only 1 per 4 years, assuming you don't lose any wars, then I may end up being a Bad Boy until the American Civil War... Is it really unusual to have this high of a BB?
