Merchants

[Simna]

Hej!
Sometimes when I´m sending a merchant he just disappear.
At first there´s a little symbol of a merchant to the right in the menu, but then it disappears.
Does this mean that the merchant lost his way or is this a bug (I´m using the Swedish 1.05b patch)?

Lev väl.

 

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As far as I know, there are three things that can happen when you send a merchant to a trade center:

1. He expands your trade, you get one more 'shield' in the CoT view and more income.
2. He competes with the merchants already in the CoT, wins, and some other country loses a merchant there. All remaining merchants take over the lost merchant's piece of the pie; you don't get an extra 'shield', but your share of the local trade increases.
3. He competes with the merchants already in the CoT and loses; no change, except you just lost a merchant.