Trade is one of the simplest features in Imperator Rome. However, it might be a little confusing at the start since the game doesn’t teach you how it works. But don’t worry, I’ll break down the trade mechanic of Imperator Rome for you right here right now!
There is import and export in this game. Both earning gold for you. Yes, importing resources doesn’t cost you money, instead it earns money. Although export is much more profitable.
Now I’ll explain import and export trade mechanics separately to help you completely understand commerce in Imperator Rome.
Imperator Rome Export
Export is usually done by accepting other nations import requests. They can send you a diplomatic request asking for your resources that are available in your provinces. Of course, they both earn money and send you money from this deal.
You can manually accept import request and export your resources for money. Though it is a tedious process. Instead, you should press F6 and tick the “accept all trades” automatic trade acceptance on the trade screen. If you also tick the “block surplus” below, other nations don’t request resources from your capital which can disturb your capital surplus bonus.
That’s just about it about export. It’s very easy to deal with. Import on the other hand, it’s a bit complicated by I’ll break it down for you.
Imperator Rome Import
We need to discuss import in two categories. One is for capital the other is for the rest of provinces. Because capital import mechanics are different and highly important.
There is this capital surplus mechanic you need to use in Imperator Rome. Having a +1 surplus of a resource in capital is giving nation-wide immense bonuses. That’s why I build nothing but marketplace buildings in my capital province and use encourage trade governor policy. That way you can have bunch of resource surplus bonuses and actually make lots of money from your capital province.
Top resources to import for nation-wide surplus bonuses:
- Dates: National commerce income +5.00%.
- Stone: -5.00% build cost.
- Iron: +10.00% heavy infantry discipline.
- Leather: Light infantry defense +10.00%.
- Base Metals: Light infantry offense: +10.00%.
- Dyes: National noble happiness +8.00&.
- Prescious Metals: National citizen happiness +8.00&.
- Fish: National freemen happiness +8.00&.
- Olives: National slave happiness +8.00&.
To get these amazing nation-wide bonuses and more, you’ll need to increase the number of available import routes in your capital as much as you can.
How to increase import routes in Imperator Rome? – Import route modifiers:
- Roads in the province.
- Marketplace buildings.
- Population numbers.
- Entice business provincial investment. (Religious endowments are better if you have +7 cities in capital province. Because you can build lots of marketplaces.)
- Displayed relics with trade route bonuses.
- Various technological inventions giving +1 capital import routes bonus.
The rest of the provinces are simple. You conquer, you import random abundant valuable resources such as livestock, wine, etc. Then set the province auto-trade and forget about it for the rest of the game.
