Civ VI: The Ultimate Guide to Trade Routes

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11 ай бұрын

Trade Routes might possibly be the most important part of any game of Civilization VI. They serve a role in every victory type and the flourishing of every empire, from domestic routes that feed the people to foreign routes meant to print gold. Knowing how to use and apply them in every game will give you the tools needed to compete against those higher-level deity AIs.
Today, I will teach you everything you need to know about trade routes in Civilization 6, from their primary functions to how they produce yields, the nuances of their diplomatic implications, and how to improve them to hit those +50 gold routes.
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@gabrielzinho3230 11 ай бұрын

I am actually impressed you managed to fit all this information in such a short video. Congrats, mate!

@Anolaana Ай бұрын

Yep, so much to cover and yet as far as I can tell, it was done very concisely and efficiently!

@HardcoreQtip 11 ай бұрын

Wow. im gonna be honest. This guide is more informative than most videos by bigger channels. Well explained and thorough. Trade routes are such an important part of the game that is often overlooked. Probably because of how complicated they are and how poorly they are explained by the vanilla game's UI.

@RidicAcidic 11 ай бұрын

Yeah this was definitely the most difficult video I've had to make so far, glad I got it out there

@kjerins 2 ай бұрын

I never really understood trade route duration until now, and this bit about efficiency is complete news to me! Thanks for quality content!

@agkk8910 11 ай бұрын

The animation/editing on this video is top notch 👌🏼 great work!

@MovieRelated Ай бұрын

I am a long-time but big time amateur player. You blew my mind in this vid.

@An1mat0rz 10 ай бұрын

Unironically some of the best informative content I've seen, really helps a lot.

@The.illiterate.libertarian 11 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for making these videos, this game can be a bit confusing, but you’re videos make it so easy to understand.

@mitchell-gordon Ай бұрын

Combo harbor and commercial hub is a great single city. Use the governor to get double yields!

@ededman10 11 ай бұрын

Been playing this game for a long time and never really took time to understand how trade routes worked, thanks for the explanations ! Greetings for France

@uncut_cowboy 7 ай бұрын

This video made me larger in both girth and length, thanks, Ridic Acidic!

@themazz915 4 ай бұрын

Amazing Video Mate! It really helped to understand the impact and factors on trade routes, thank you 🙌🏻

@NCISfreak123 11 ай бұрын

Love your vids as always!! I hope Firaxis notices and offers you work to make their tutorial videos in CIV VII!!

@RidicAcidic 11 ай бұрын

That would be the dream!

@spacepillow 2 ай бұрын

This is a really comprehensive guide! Nice work

@robinjac4322 8 ай бұрын

That was very well done. Informative, easily digestible and my adhd brain loves the visualizations of math. Great job!

@Mrdestiny17 10 ай бұрын

As a Mansa Musa main, im very thankful lol. I always focus settling and building as many cities I can to max trade routes😅

@gijskramer1702 3 ай бұрын

As a portugal enjoyer i agree

@seron16 11 ай бұрын

10/10, awesome vid mate!! Thanks!

@SirMorganD 9 ай бұрын

You are doing great with this videos, you are doing a favor to the Civ VI community!

@Dave-cj6km 9 ай бұрын

what a well produced video!

@RidicAcidic 9 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@twillis1998 11 ай бұрын

Fantastic video!

@virusj216 11 ай бұрын

love it. I learned a lot that I didn't know!

@d.alexandrasalazarperea529 7 ай бұрын

Your videos are awesome please keep doing them

@jonathansiesquen8027 6 күн бұрын

This is a great surprise, useful content in here.

@M4gl4d 4 күн бұрын

Very useful video, thank you

@pickleengi8123 11 ай бұрын

Great video! Need more about alliance bonuses!

@RidicAcidic 11 ай бұрын

Perhaps I did brush over it a little too fast

@bradsmith6966 5 күн бұрын

Really well made video

@tomselksnitis5215 4 ай бұрын

Very nice video! 👌

@williambreeze2659 8 ай бұрын

Quality information!

@HighHoeKermit 4 ай бұрын

Great job man

@Anolaana Ай бұрын

Very useful, thanks!

@rydenkaye9735 4 ай бұрын

Great vid! Would be awesome to include a section where you tried to maximize yields on both internal and external trade routes to show what the end goal looks like, as well as talking over the buffs that go into it

@RidicAcidic 4 ай бұрын

That's a great idea! Wish I thought of it lol

@leshakhalin 7 ай бұрын

Great vid!

@rabighkamal535 11 ай бұрын

Awesome video!!!

@RidicAcidic 11 ай бұрын

Thank you :D

@ORProductionss 9 ай бұрын

Dang, my cousin certainly has made a huge comeback ever since the chess video

@allanrasul5149 13 күн бұрын

thanks for making the background music the same volume as your monotone voice.

@forwat_9288 4 ай бұрын

is it only me or the background is a bit loud

@monkeygod027 11 ай бұрын

Fire vid

@nork8654 10 ай бұрын

Chill the music but thanks for the useful information

@christopherrobinson9521 8 ай бұрын

I bloody amazing vid man keep up the great work. could you do modded spotlights?

@siebert1995 13 күн бұрын

Trading empire so nice

@dominicgendron3011 6 ай бұрын

Alright! So, what should I do again ??

@chasefromtheplace 8 ай бұрын

Can I get a new discord link? The one in comments is broken. You make the best civ videos on YT, I have 600 hours and I learn a bunch from your videos so quickly and have a good time. Keep up the great work!!

@RidicAcidic 8 ай бұрын

Updated the link for ya! Sorry about that, discord links expire after 30 days now unless you want to pay extra, so I have to go in and manually replace it every month. Thanks for letting me know it was time to refresh it :D

@janwitt5220 Ай бұрын

Unexpected Doormonster :D

@MackNJacishopper 5 күн бұрын

Interesting I learned a few things and I consider myself an expert.

@WilliFR 9 ай бұрын

One question if I got a new city and I want to help that city grow with internal trade routes is better if I start the trade route from the new city to capital or from the capital to the small city? I'm new into Civilization

@RidicAcidic 9 ай бұрын

You would send it from the new city to your older city. The origin city is always the one that gets all the trade route yields

@yuriyi2859 3 ай бұрын

0:46 Wrong. In coastal cities build Harbor AND Commercial. Because Commercial gets adjacency bonus from Harbor.

@RidicAcidic 3 ай бұрын

Or instead of wasting production you could build a holysite, theater square, or campus to help you win

@dashyz3293 11 ай бұрын

if a trader starts in the renaissance and ends in the industrial era, is the minimum turns 31 or 41? like if it says it takes a length of 18(therefore it finishes its round trip at 36) turns

@RidicAcidic 11 ай бұрын

Wow this is a good question I actually did not anticipate. But I believe the answer is it stays the same from when it was sent. I know the yield of a route can change halfway through based on policies and new alliances, but I've never seen the time bounce back up. I'd have to double check though

@viniciousparable2550 Күн бұрын

I am having trouble establishing water trade routes, I have the techs to do so, my cities are costal and have harbours, they are not far away and there is a clear path from one to another. For some reason my merchants choose to go by land.

@Userd3258 4 ай бұрын

You forgot to mention partially sea routes need to be linked between 2 coastal cities and routes can't ever go from a coastal city to an inland city without a coastal city in between. Took me forever to figure that out through trial and error.

@HighHoeKermit 4 ай бұрын

Good info, thanks!

@LoremIpsum905 9 ай бұрын

Might be wrong here, but I thought Reyna's first ability gives a bonus to gold on incoming AND outgoing routes, as long as they're not domestic.

@williamlampke8083 6 ай бұрын

commenting for algorithm thanks for vid

@Bruhtater 9 ай бұрын

Is the envoy given by the "owls of minerva" an envoy to be freely placed, or an envoy in the city-state the trade route is sent to?

@RidicAcidic 9 ай бұрын

Envoy with the city-state the route is sent to

@Bruhtater 9 ай бұрын

@@RidicAcidic thank you. Do you have a vid or a short breaking down amenities?

@johnquarto 10 күн бұрын

why oh why do you need background music? your content is good enough on its own, without distraction

@draekalloy3673 9 ай бұрын

I never knew that trade routes were so complex 🤔

@RidicAcidic 9 ай бұрын

That's what I said when I began writing the script to this video lol. I didn't expect it to be this long but it turns out there was more to them than I thought

@doomlordkazzak6456 3 ай бұрын

just got into civ.... what the actually f... I always picked the shortest routes. because I thought I get better yield. I thiught I only got Gold if the Trader returned

@RidicAcidic 3 ай бұрын

Yep, it's not well explained. Even I was confused when I first got the game years ago

@cusy1054 11 ай бұрын

No way a Door Monster reference!!

@RidicAcidic 11 ай бұрын

You know it!

@spacepillow Ай бұрын

So how many cities are you settling, and how many are you conquering? And do you really not build a campus or anything until later?

@RidicAcidic Ай бұрын

Varies each and every game. In civ 6 you generally want to get as many cities up as possible quick or take as many as possible if you lack room to settle. I like getting gold first because it helps to either upgrade my army, or buy builders and tiles to improve the lands I'm settling. Think of it as exponential growth as opposed to the linear growth the AI experiences

@natsurr 11 ай бұрын

Amazing video! Just the music is a tad too loud, your voice barely audible at parts.

@RidicAcidic 11 ай бұрын

Thanks for the feedback! If you don't mind me asking what were you listening to my video through? Earbuds? Phone speaker? Computer speaker? TV speaker? I want to make sure my videos sound good on all devices

@natsurr 11 ай бұрын

@@RidicAcidic I was using my phone's speakers. Great work, btw! Love the effort you put into these videos. :)

@smell.fishy.reveal Ай бұрын

"After all every nation live by exchanging" Gandhi exchanges nuke with my capital💀

@RidicAcidic Ай бұрын

Lmaoooo

@ApurrrkyPSVR2gamecat 3 ай бұрын

So the thing i haven't figured out is how to adjust who gets what. So far I have Geneva and Brussels. Each place says I trade NOTHING and get gold and science points. I pissed them off because I am giving them nothing in return. How do I change this?

@wrjtung3456 9 ай бұрын

1:50 based

@8thdayadventist911 6 ай бұрын

I use traders to create roads for my troops to use during war.

@OdeezyBaby18 4 ай бұрын

8:38 😂😅... 🤔

@Zondagskind.Gaming 5 ай бұрын

If there's only one Dutch word I could teach everyone, it's "Wisselbanken".

@RidicAcidic 5 ай бұрын

Ah, my favorite diplomatic policy

@alchemyphoenix2374 5 ай бұрын

Thank you for this. Out of all the mechanics in this game, trade was explained the most poorly by the game itself.

@LoremIpsum905 9 ай бұрын

Efficiency points?!? Never in all my years...

@albersonphill9093 5 ай бұрын

One city state is needed: samarkand

@penknight8532 5 күн бұрын

Yes, but you didn't solve the oldest debate in Civ VI history... Should you send your first trade route internally or externally??

@RidicAcidic 4 күн бұрын

Depends, does the neighboring city-state have an envoy quest?

@flapjack-qr2le 9 ай бұрын

hmm I cant join the discord server

@RidicAcidic 9 ай бұрын

Sorry, discord removed permanent links so they all expire after 30 days. Replaced it for ya

@lennox8151 9 ай бұрын

Promo>SM 🤘

@davidanderegg1232 7 күн бұрын

Why does everyone trash on great Zimbabwe? Its one of the best wonders in the game 😢

@darrenlee2775 2 ай бұрын

Informative video but it's a struggle to watch due to the 'background' music fighting to be in the foreground. It's too loud and obnoxious, just dial the volume down a little so we can hear the instructions clearly please.

@LoneKnight02 6 ай бұрын

So what you're saying is. If you're mid game into the Renaissance and modern Era and you didn't know to make trade routes early game because everyone declared war on you, you're basically just screwed?

@samuelhakansson6680 2 ай бұрын

Wait what, its a GOOD IDEA to declare a surprise war because of an UNDEFENDED TRADER? Your guide was really good until this miserable piece of trash advice popped up. Looting an enemy trader gives very little gold to begin with, and you now ruined your standing with other leaders and got into a war for pretty much pocket change. Ok if you wanted to declare on that turn anyway because you actually want to attack them FOR OTHER REASONS, but NEVER do this for the trader alone. Trash advice.

@nihg8259 2 ай бұрын

so i am supposed to make most of my money from trade routes? i just conquer 90% of someones empire, demand money and sell the conquered weaker cities to some poor fella