After toying around with stellaris for maybe 3 weeks now, about 1 minute into this video i realized just how much i knew nothing about trade, thank you for this awesome video

Damn man I bought Stellaris thinking it would be a fun game but it is a freaking addiction, and has so much content it is always still magical, very nice tutorial man, new sub here!

I feel my brain nutting from the amount of knowledge I'm absorbing, thank you so much man.

These are the best UP TO DATE tutorials I have found. THANK YOU!!!

Man there are SO MANY systems within systems in stellaris! Thank you for taking the time to bring to light something the game hardly mentions and yet is so incredibly helpful.

Please make more of these tutorials for Stellaris. I would like one about Planets, workers and such

Been playing stellaris for a long time and there are still a lot of things i dont know about the game, these tutorials are awesome keep up the great work!

New Player here and I'm just blown away by this game -- I never should have bought anything else for the last couple of years hahah. Anyway, these tutorials of yours are really helping my understanding of the finer points of the game. Hope you'll keep them up to date.

Excelent tutorial Clear and calm voice Very detailled drawings and separated in chapters. Loved it ! Bonustrack, the mods

man...the markers in the video...the calm soft talk and explanations....this is a first video direct sub case. Thank you for you help. Starting to play the game first time on my console xboxone now. I have soo much fun

I have over 400 hours in this game, and I didn't know trade was this detailed and interesting. I just made sure my routes existed, made a couple small anti-piracy fleets and pretty much ignored trade otherwise. I never built starbases for trade, only for chokepoints and shipyards. As a xenophile, I think this will help me a lot. These are the best tutorials I have come across.

I'm french and you are the only person to give so precise and utile information in all the youtubers that I watched

THESE are tutorials, worth their name! Thank you so much, for all your effort. Great work! :)

Thank you, this was the shortest clearest explanation. Awesome job.

Thank you so much for making tutorials of this fantastically deep game that someone can follow!!!

I totally learned a lot with this tutorial you made, thank you! 🙏🏽 Your descriptions were very clear & the little additions you colourfully added to show protection (p) & trade (t) reach was super helpful! Cheers 😄🌌🖖🏽

Dude, that was clean and well explained, i wish other stellaris tutorials was like this one.

These tutorials have been awesome ColorsFade! I have learned so much about economics, ships and warfare, trade, and colony builds. My play through will be much more enjoyable now.

Dude, that was a really clear and well-ordered introduction to trade mechanics. I've been looking around this week for one and now I'm like, "Finally!" You got a new subscriber.

YAHOO! Another great tutorial! (Seriously, finding your vids has helped me so much.) Thank you very much!

What a life saver! ty for making these. I appreciate the explanations and examples. Trade was one of those things I just really didnt understand much tbh, this cleared things up for me and made the game that much more enjoyable. I really appreciate the time and effort on these tutorials and hope to see more in the future. I would love one on ship/platform design creation and thinking, as this concept is hard to figure out how to max your navy. I guess just trial and error, or knowledge of the surrounding empires would help out.

Great Tutorial. Could use some improvements on optimization though. It's better to have dedicated stations because it boost the range. So instead of the split on ports/hangers you should just use one centrally located Trade port because even at your current level 4 ports means placed on a sector capital it gets all the trade in that sector since they have the same range. This is really great for you Capital World as Piracy doesn't apply until it leaves the station so your Capital with 6 Ports late game can pull in all the trade 6 jumps away without increasing piracy. Defending against Piracy is the other huge advantage with specializing Starbases because it increase the protection range. And Mid-Late Game stations with range of 4-6 protection can easily over lap each other so you end up with 3-4 stations covering the same area to reduce piracy. Another not is pirates don't spawn in systems with an upgrade starbase. So the last 2-3 jumps along the trade route where piracy is the highest it is great to have 6 Hangered bases as not only does it prevent pirates from spawning on those systems but also extends 2-3 Starbases worth of protection down the various incoming lanes. If you want to nearly completely remove Piracy late game though a super easy, and cheesy, trick is to build gates. Build a Gate on your Homeworld and then a gate on every Sector Capital with the Max 6 Ports and it will cover your whole empire easily while all the trade routes will go through the gate meaning no jumps and thus no piracy.

Excellent tutorial. No dead time, good pacing, good explanations. Short and to the point. Thank you.

What a great training video. There was so much that I didn't know such as what hanger bays actually did. Somehow I had missed that. Thanks again.

Yet another great tutorial! I surely hope there is more to come!

Great tutorial! Simple to understand and straight to the point. Like some others in the comments I’m still a noob to stellaris and I never understood what other guides ment when they talked about trade or trade roots. Again thanks and great video.

Great explanation, clear and concise! I appreciated the visuals.

Underrated KZfaq channel, really good tutorial and teaching.

Just started my great Stellaris Journey and these are the best Tuts out there. You must have played the game for a long time.

I'm brand new to the game and find it very challenging to learn all the "basics" of the game. Your tutorial on trade is bang on! You are to the point, no fluff and clear in your explanations. I will be watching any other tutorial you may have. I've watched other "tutorial" videos and by far, you are the BEST. Thank you so much for helping out this young Governor in its first mission and please make more :) 1,000 Thumbs up and subscribed!

I've learnt everything i know in Stellaris by trial and error. This is among the very few times i actually tried figuring stuff out by video. this really helps me out, ty!

I love your style of teaching. Very easy to follow and well explained. Thanks!

Great Tutorial. Calm. Informativ. Helpful. Thanks!

awesome thank you so much for this ive never bothered with trade routes but now i definately will , great video.

I have been a sub of this channel for several weeks now and I can confidently say you make the best Stellaris tutorial videos out there. Clear and easy to follow along with time stamps in the description for easy reference, they are amazing! I know you have a newbie tutorial series already which I have yet to watch, (Its next on the list) but it would be great to see a dedicated series on how to play the game from a more intermidiate to advanced perspective. You cover all the small details I have often wondered about clearly and I really appreciate it! That brings me to my next point. MAKE MORE OF THESE AMAZING GUIDES! They are so helpful with understanding the game and have given me a huge edge on my friends when we play together. I would love to see a guide on ship design, warfare, and tons of other things! A guide to some of the endgame crisis and how to beat them would be amazing too. We got destroyed by the contingency a few games ago and I have a feeling if I had a tutorial of yours to watch on how to beat them I would have survived. I would also love a tutorial on managing empire sprawl and how to improve that besides just building administrative offices and wasting building space. Keep up the great work!

Another great video. I linked a couple of your videos in the off topic section of the path of exile forum. I'm sure there are some people who would love to see this.

Absolutely amazing content you are creating here! Thanks a lot, very well explained. It helps me A LOT!!!

Great Tutorial and a very chilling voice. Thanks!

Thank you. I am new to Stellaris and hadn't understood trade routes at all. I feel set up to go now!

I have been playing for years and had no clue im glad i found your video thank you!

your vids really helped me getting started with stellaris and understanding my faults

One of the best if not the best explanation of trade for new players.

Thank you for this video and the hard work you put in brother.

Your videos are awesomely amazing! Because of you the eagerness of Stellaris has been reignited. Also because of you I purchased Synthetic Dawn the humanoid packs. Next month I'll get Necroids and Mega Corp. I had a choice between Mega Corp and Synthetic Dawn....I picked the latter. However I probably should have picked up the Necroids instead of the Humanoid. 🤷‍♂️ I'm on number 6 of your Newbie tutorials.

You excelent teacher. Thanks for your guides.

Man, thank you so much. THIS IS HOW TUTORIALS SHOULD BE. CLEAR AND CONCISE!!!

Great tutorials. Thanks for the clean and concise videos

Awesome vid, super condensed, just what i needed

Thanks mate! Clear and concise

These tutorials have been extremely helpful this makes the game less frustrating and more enjoyable thank you

I LOCE THIS MAN. I COULDNT FIGURE OUT WHY I WAS LOSING SO MANY ENERGY CREDITS BUT MY TRADE ROUTE WAS THROUGH MY ALLIED FEDERATIONS TERRITORY AND IT HAD ZERO PROTECTION AND I WAS LOSING HUNDREDS. THANK YOU. IM SUBBING AND IF YOU STREAM I WILL DONATE YOU ARE A GOD

Good guide bosmang!

This is exactly what i needed. Thank you.

Late game tip. You can use gateways to route trade between major hubs or even directly to your capital without worrying about protecting the intermediate trade routes. A station set up with 6 trade hubs and a gateway will collect trade from every world within 5 systems of any other of your gateways. That way you can convert some of your trade stations to other uses. Same applies to trade protection. A base with 6 hangers and a gateway can provide trade protection to any system within 5 steps of any of your gateways

Very interisting guide! thanks!

Thank you! Very helpful and informative video.

This was very helpful, thank you!

Fantastic tutorial thanks for the content ColorsFade!

*The longer your trade route is protected, the stronger your empire's economy will become.* Now I can finally make full use of trade routes, thanks.

great simple guide, thanks for making it easy to follow

best video game tutorial i have ever seen. thanks!

Thanks for the great tutorial.

Definitely a worthy tutorial. I like the visuals along with it. I like that you stay on subject, definitely keep visuals simple but more of them. Like you showed us what each system is generating in trades, illustrated in green 3:22, but you did not give an example of what a planet looks like that does not have a commercial zone. I presume that illustration would say something like 12 in red. Awesome tho, tysm!

Superb content, thank you!

That was so helpful thank you for the video!

Short, simple, effective...thank you very much

Perfect explanations, thanks so much !

Dude, super informative. Great stuff.

Super help full, thanks.

Just an awesome tutorial

Love this video so much!

Even its from 2019 - i learned a lot from it, well explained, thank u :)

Very useful, thank you bro.

This is just... perfectly clear ! thanks ! :)

Oh man this is such a big help

This is a 10/10 guide, Very Many Thanks !

Thank you for this tutorial.

Another quality video. Now I feel I can give trade a go, Something I normally avoid like the plague. Thanks

Nail with this video , thank you so much. I had so much pirates cuz i was not using hangar bays, only patrols and it was useless. btw loved your noobie series (second one) watch it all.

Awesome video! Thanks for the help! I kinda just spammed Trade Hubs all over my star bases randomly... xD

wow i didn't even know this mechanic. Thnx very much.

keep making tutorials. i like your style

Thank you for the great explanation. You earned yourself a sub :D

Thanks for explaining this, it's very confusing starting out.

Thank you!

I only recently got stellaris(like 4 days ago... dont ask) and ive been struggling collecting enough resources for my upkeep. I tried adjusting my trade like you did and suddenly im collecting +500 energy!!! Honestly thanks for the help bro!!

Only those who really want to play this game will go in depth to learn into playing it. This game is not for newbie who is into grand strategy game. Your tutorials are making me playing this game endlessly. What an addictive video game.

Thank you very much!

Your tutorial easy to understand thank.

That was a great tutorial video, well done. I'm new to the game and have been having a hard time with finding good tutorials. I'm playing on console so I also have that to consider when trying to process information from the computer version. Anyway, I'd suggest a tutorial that's actually a playthrough, not only teaching the mechanics but also suggesting things to do and focus on. Edit: in that last sentence, I mean as a suggested video, but not implying that the current method used in this video is not good. This was a great, well edited and well explained video.

Oh my God, this helps out so much. Now, I can properly maintain good trade and economy while plotting to conquer the universe.

Very nice thanks!

Great help thanks a lot

great use of highlighter, I can't thank you enough for showing which icon to click

As a new player, i salute you for your amazing work, thank you!

Have you considered doing a tutorial covering the galactic community / senate? Love your content. Very helpful in my understanding and enjoyment of the game. Thank you Sir

Very informative! thanks.

For trade I have switched to a key trade hub, which collects for the whole of the core sector or even to the planets in other sectors. Then you ironically ONLY have piracy where military bases interrupt the distributed trade hub collection. In late game one hangar bay base provides protection via gateway. Earlier defence bases are pushed out to the periphery in other sectors and choje points avoiding the dense trade volume caused by base chains focusing trade into high value routes. Later build gateways to connect provinces with central capital trade collection hubs directly. I repeated a game using the same map, where trade route protection was tricky and discovered the sector hub approach economises on bases and minimises trade disruption by hostiles.

Thx for thous tips!!

Awesome ... thank you!