Global Merchant Trade Flow Map
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Selected: English Channel (Home Collection)
End Node. 45% Home Power Share. Retaining 412 ¤ of 1250 ¤ upstream potential.
Leakage: -838 ¤/mo
Colonial Expansion Simulator
Trade Income Breakdown
Net Yield: 33.0%
Merchant Power Dilution & Foreign Steering
-420 ¤
Tariff Leakage & Colonial Smuggling
-320 ¤
Piracy & High-Seas Privateer Drain
-98 ¤
Collected Trade Income (Home Port)
+412 ¤
⚠ Primary Bottleneck Identified
Merchant Power Dilution across 18 unincorporated colonial nodes
Grand Strategy Fix: Do not place single merchants in 18 distant nodes with under 15% provincial control. Concentrate light ships in Ivory Coast and Caribbean chokepoints, increase Home Node trade power above 65%, and assign colonial charters to raise tariff efficiency.