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Here's a table with trade routes' estimated profitability. Higher number (greener) is better. Buy in the city from the first column, sell in those from the first row.

It takes into account differences between "Supplies" and "Looking for" goods. v0.66.4 and any future version supported as long as city goods preferences aren't modified.

I can update it with just a few copy-pastes though—as long as text phrasing doesn't change too much. Although it should be simple enough to adapt a few text input formulas to different phrasings.

There's a table with the actual goods a few comments below.

Edit: I realized I forgot to consider differences between "Looking for". Pseudo-formula is: ( S1 <> S2 ) + ( L1 <> L2 ) + ( S1 = L2 )

Camembert04 days ago(+1)

wow you are crazy! This is genuinely impressive - thank you for putting so much work into it. The table is also very useful for me as a balance diagnostic. At the moment, city supply and demand preferences are fairly stable, so the economy can indeed be mapped and optimised. but in future versions I plan to make profitability less predictable through seasons, wars, festivals, market saturation and other world events. Your table should still remain useful as a baseline, but the best route will not always stay the best route

dy24 days ago (2 edits)

Thanks! I'm glad you find it useful. It may sound weird but this is me being lazy. I didn't want to calculate profitability each and every time I decided to trade, so I figured it'd be easier to do this. I added the pseudo-formula above, which is fairly simple as you'll see.

For the sake of precision, there's an implicit assumption that a "Supplies_1 + Look_for_2" profit is equal to two "Supplies_1 <> Supplies_2" or "Looking_for_1 <> Looking_for_2" profits. It might need some weighing to properly adjust it (just a single parameter), but I haven't paid much attention to that proportion yet.

My goal was to find some circular trade route, ~~but I think it may need to be done programmatically. Or maybe with some matrices product... Something I never thought I'd need~~.
Edit: Actually, I realized it's an ant colony optimization sort of problem, which is solved programmatically.

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