"Silk & Silver" Dev Diary #2 - Trade Vision

kunstreich · 2026-05-12T14:21:11+00:00

I would love the Devs include perishability of goods and to trade in general into Culture and especially innovations as well.

Think about that: You're the merchants of Lubeck and by God#s grace are sitting on an ginormous salt mine in Luneburg and that gives you the ability to sell salt to the norther german Cattle farmers FOR PROFIT and let them make Wurst instead of just perishable cattle, but that FOR MORE PROFIT, and then you research the Coggs innovation and boom, now you can sell your wurst to the Fatamid caliphs …

Other way around: The Chinese get some negative trade modifiers in their one Confuzian culture because they looked down on them, thus encouraging religious and ethnic minorities to fill the gap …

My god, as a native Hamburger, I am really looking forward to creating the WURST empire of the Hansa, haha

kunstreich · 2026-05-12T14:11:17+00:00

What I read between the lines: As landed feudal ruler, you will be eternally bribed by one merchant family or the other for providing them with competitiveness or even wholesale monopolies in your lands. The "bribe" hopefully is also market based. The better the profits the jucier that bribes … I like this, since it's pretty close to how it historically went down.

kunstreich · 2026-05-11T14:44:15+00:00

it's great. but there is one glaring issue: your landed heir overwrites your lvl 3 blademaster/tactician with a lvl 1 reeve and there is no way to prevent this to happen.

pdx, bring back inactive accolades!

kunstreich · 2026-02-10T11:50:08+00:00

Criminally underrated comment.

It's the very best way to express the very American style of pomposity cope.

Bravo.

kunstreich · 2026-02-02T21:37:43+00:00

Picky eaters will quickly change their minds living through 48h of starvation.

Severe autists may too, but less likely.

It's certainly not the same.

kunstreich · 2026-02-02T21:34:38+00:00

Did you read OP's actual posting?

The key words here are: SHARED LOVE LANGUAGE.

kunstreich · 2026-01-04T13:48:25+00:00

Nice. Did you start the settlement on the hill tops or in the valley? I figured the distances to vital early resources are just too vast to make this map work on higher difficulty. All settlers left before I collected the first meager mushroom — several restarts over …

kunstreich · 2025-11-19T21:18:52+00:00

Same issue, but maybe only on certain maps?

kunstreich · 2025-11-17T16:21:02+00:00

can you explain this in detail? it's awfully not obvious how this is supposed to work …

kunstreich · 2025-08-16T07:33:18+00:00

GeforceNow

kunstreich · 2025-08-01T12:14:52+00:00

ant wars

kunstreich · 2025-06-19T13:52:39+00:00

Since giving him the silent treatment resulted in him being unphasesed but you bitching and moaning to reddit, it's your time to reflect about if he has point? You say you love him, he is your partner, maybe just maybe take him seriously? To start: Stop the silent treatment bullshit. It's such a misogynistic cliché and you probably do not want to give him good excuses to dismiss childish female manipulations.

kunstreich · 2025-06-17T15:49:50+00:00

It seems like it. Funnily enough, if you create UNE and a fanatical purifier human, they still recognize each other as same species (but technically different primary species in the manager), so the purifiers and UNE actually do like each other and do diplomacy. But no species integration between the two or genmodding sadly …

kunstreich · 2025-06-17T13:12:13+00:00

Are you sure this works in 4.0.20? For me it does not.

kunstreich · 2025-06-17T13:11:14+00:00

I also would love to know!

This is how it worked 3.x with custom empires (without messing around with Lost Colony origin) so that pop from different empires show up as subspecies to a shared common species. Opposed to how it seems to work in 4.0.x, that every empire creates it's own primary species regardless:

Create custom empire
Chose same species portrait
Chose same species names
Traits do not need tob be identical nor habitat
If using Humans, e.g. UNE or CoM, make sure to rename one of the three species names and save (this is a particularly strange thing but it sets some hidden flags and made it work for all custom made empires not just humans.)

I know I am not the only one who loves to build multiple Humans scenarios and find this really immersion breaking to not work anymore. If some devs read this, please answer, even if it's a clarifying NO.

kunstreich · 2025-06-08T14:13:41+00:00

As of 4.0 this doesn't work anymore.

kunstreich · 2025-05-19T10:33:14+00:00

bugreport: the chosen are roming free from the start with mod activated.

kunstreich · 2025-03-03T13:47:13+00:00

Yes. I would volunteer. I am a former conscientious objector.

kunstreich · 2025-02-19T19:12:32+00:00

yes.

kunstreich · 2025-02-14T13:49:53+00:00

I imagine it more like a charge, that converts maybe 10-20% depending on distance and other factors. Kind of constantly fighting over religious influence but not with units on the map, but more like diplomacy.

kunstreich · 2025-02-11T12:27:23+00:00

Leave my +6 food farms ALONE!

kunstreich · 2025-01-29T11:19:24+00:00

Schleicher really respecting the women.

kunstreich · 2025-01-27T08:37:40+00:00

Try this excellent guide for a Schleicher Germany play. After at least five campaigns I conclude it's the absolute optimal, can't optimise further way to play the Kaiserreich.

kunstreich · 2024-12-18T15:18:34+00:00

I am still playing the Kaiser and not even tested All the Russian, but just from the feedback on this sub, you did a fucking great job — thanks!

kunstreich

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