

Build Merchant Ports only on well developed counties, preferably where you have your cities, or where you own the county yourself or build them if you have enough money to spare. When upgrading posts, upgrade Merchant Enclave first, it will give the most imediate income return. In The Republic you play as a Patrician in one of the great medieval Merchant Republics.


You can acumulate insane amounts of trade posts (above the cap this way), in my latest republic game I accumulated around 50 trade posts, my limit was 16. What happens is when one family is extinguised, the remaining families will inherit their trade posts, including you. When I have a firm grip on the republic, I let the other patricians families build 4 trading posts, and then start killing everyone in that particular family. So if you lose elections, you lose the republic wich is represented by the county capital, but you mantain the other holdings. As said above, upgrade your mansion first, you won't lose anything if you lose elections.Īlso, don't upgrade your capital first, build cities in your capital county and upgrade them.
