In other words, I seldom have needed a formal development plan while playing Rome: Total War because I could keep the standard plan in my head, make on-the-spot modifications as each province completed a construction job, and keep all of my provinces in a near-perpetual state of activity. I found, too, that if I managed my money decently I had enough to keep each province in a state of more-or-less continual development. While playing Rome: Total War, I found that I could develop all of my provinces/cities according to a standardized plan with rather minor allowances for the particulars of each province. Please note that I use the dollar as my unit of currency, although Empire: Total War does not do business in dollars.Įmpire: Total War is a much more complex and intricate game than was Rome: Total War. Below, I offer one means of assessing profitability in the trade theaters. Keeping your trade theater operations profitable requires mixing avarice with good accounting. However, it is very easy for a player to run into trouble by flooding the market with trade theater commodities. The trade theaters of Empire: Total War offer great opportunity for profit.
