(Need Assistance) A few game mechanics questions

[aksan5354]

1. What affect blockade efficiency and intensity? If I want to blockade the whole enemy market area, will I just need to block its market trade hub? Is it related to the number of Admiral executing blockades?

2. I don’t understand how Treat Port works now. For example I’m Germany and have a treaty port from Russia. I have heavy investment in oil industry in Russia and how can I maximize oil import from Russia? Do I just need to build enough trade centers in my Treaty Port?

Many thanks everybody

 

[yurcick]

1. there definitely is an individual ship stat for "blockade", which is massively better for capital ships compared to screens. I guess it's compared with combined hostile coastal states' gross product to get blockade efficiency of up to 100%
2. Basically yes. Although with Russian MA I'm unsure whether it will be more effective to spam trade centres in the treaty port (which will take Russian market price as the basic one for oil export to you) or in Baku directly (which will take Baku local price, which is likely noticeably lower; but which will not have treaty port bonuses).

 

[Helmut von Dandy]

1. What affect blockade efficiency and intensity? If I want to blockade the whole enemy market area, will I just need to block its market trade hub? Is it related to the number of Admiral executing blockades?

Each contiguous area of land in a market is a separate market area. Each market area has its own world market hub. Blockading that hub will reduce world market access for all trade centres in that market area. Note that a blockade level of 100% only reduces world market access to 25%.

The effectiveness of a blockade depends on a fleet's blockade strength. You can see a fleet's blockade strength by opening the fleet and looking at the number in the third column of the second row, between morale and supply. The requirements for a 100% blockade level are not exposed in the UI anywhere, but judging by some defines in the game files the blockade strength needs to be greater than:

• + 10
• + No. of imports and exports in the market area.
• + No. of goods produced by coastal buildings.
• + No. of convoys produced by the state's port.

Capital ships provide the most blockade strength by far, so fleets with lots of capital ships will be most effective at blockading.

 

[TitaniumMan91]

Each contiguous area of land in a market is a separate market area. Each market area has its own world market hub. Blockading that hub will reduce world market access for all trade centres in that market area. Note that a blockade level of 100% only reduces world market access to 25%.

I know that was one idea pitched, but I thought they had to walk it back a bit and each market only has a single market hub in release?

 

[Helmut von Dandy]

I know that was one idea pitched, but I thought they had to walk it back a bit and each market only has a single market hub in release?

No. Market areas have always been in the game. In 1.9 you can see them clearly because there's now a dedicated map mode. You can also see the hubs on the map.

What they didn't do was divide up large contiguous market areas. In the current version mainland Russia is a single market area, and blockading Ingria on the Baltic Sea blocks world market access in Okhotsk, 10,000km away on the Pacific Ocean, which is pretty silly. There was talk about doing something to prevent that, but it didn't happen for 1.9.