Establishing trade routes

[dawilko]

Hi guys,

Can anyone shed light on how to initiate trade in between my own planets?

I've also secured a trade mission in another race's home planet, how do I start trading with them too?

Not sure if I am miss understanding a game mechanic or just missed a screen.

[ASHBERY76]

Exporting colony needs something to export and a commercial space port. Importing colony needs a landing field and to be within range.

This is explained in the manual, and also covered by advice and tool tips for the relevant buildings

[dawilko]

Hi ASHBERY76, thank you for the info.

[mllange]

If the route will be tourism related (i.e., not trade goods), then both the sending and receiving colony need to have a commercial space port. (Natural wonders, etc.) A landing field is not sufficient for tourism but works perfectly for receiving goods.

[DasTactic]

I was wondering about trade routes as well. Thanks for the info.

[Wolfe1759]

ORIGINAL: nim8or

If the route will be tourism related (i.e., not trade goods), then both the sending and receiving colony need to have a commercial space port. (Natural wonders, etc.) A landing field is not sufficient for tourism but works perfectly for receiving goods.

Not sure that is quiet right. You need a Passenger Space Port on the planet with the tourist attraction(i.e. Natural Wonders), planets sending tourist there (i.e. that the Natural Wonder planet is "exporting" tourism to)only need a Landing Field. At least that is how it seems to be working for me.

[mllange]

It could be something that has changed with a patch or the expansion. I'll try to confirm with some testing, thanks for the head's up.

[Terrific T]

I'm in trouble with trades routes.
I 've built a commercial space sport on a planet with rare gems, and 2 landing stations on 2 others. So it worked fine, with 2 trades routes, but when i built 2 others landing stations on others planets, nothing happened, no new trade route created ?
 
after that, one of my first landing station was damaged, the route was "unused", but never came back after repairs. And no others were created.
then I tested and destroyed my commercial space port, my last trade route disepeared, built a new one, but still no trades routes after few turns.
 
Is there a max number trades routes for a commercial space port ?  Why the system can't created new ones ?
I don't see anything blocking my trade routes, no ennemies !
 
 

[Iceman]

Nim8or, nothing changed, it was always like that (no patch for SN yet, and SN is the expansion that introduced trade routes).

TT, are the new colonies in range for trade? ~23/24 sectors. Were the routes not created at all, or were they created but are unused?
The damaged landing station thing is a bug, which will be fixed in the next patch.

[Terrific T]

I quit the game and load a save, built new landing stations on Sparta and Troy, and it works... but no trade route between Argos / Earth & Mycenae. I didn't know there is a limit of sectors [&:] . If a sector is a square of the grid, then this may explain why, thanks.
I thought it was caused by the heavy dust.

[Iceman]

Yeah, Earth seems to be just outside range from Argos, and Mycenae definetely is.