Difference between revisions of "Trading Port (FOTS)"
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|Spawned Defence Forces=- | |Spawned Defence Forces=- | ||
|Basic Building Statistics=<li>Cost: 3900</li> | |Basic Building Statistics=<li>Cost: 3900</li> | ||
| + | <li>Improves export capacity (increases trade values) by +200</li> | ||
<li>+700 to wealth from ports in this province</li> | <li>+700 to wealth from ports in this province</li> | ||
| + | <li>+5 per turn to town growth from trade within this province</li> | ||
| + | <li>+2 to possible trade routes (sea)</li> | ||
| + | <li>Recruitment capacity (ship under construction): +1</li> | ||
<li>Coastal defences will be disabled once the port's health falls to 70%</li> | <li>Coastal defences will be disabled once the port's health falls to 70%</li> | ||
<li>Coastal defence range: 8</li> | <li>Coastal defence range: 8</li> | ||
<li>Coastal defence level: 1</li> | <li>Coastal defence level: 1</li> | ||
| + | <li>-1 to happiness from modernisation</li> | ||
<li>Enables recruitment of Rank 1 Foreign Veteran</li> | <li>Enables recruitment of Rank 1 Foreign Veteran</li> | ||
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|Clan Effects=<li>+2 to modernisation</li> | |Clan Effects=<li>+2 to modernisation</li> | ||
<li>Establishes trade routes with the western powers</li>}} | <li>Establishes trade routes with the western powers</li>}} | ||
Revision as of 03:44, 28 December 2012
| Trading Port (FOTS) | |
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| File:Trading Port FOTS.png | |
| Chain | Port Type |
| Requires | Buildings: |
| Enables | Buildings: |
| Spawned Defence Forces | - |
| Basic Building Statistics | |
| Clan Effects | |
| See main article; FotS Buildings | |
Description
Fortunes flow with the tides.
A trading port is a specialised harbour and support buildings that allow merchants free access to the seaways. While shipbuilding can happen here, the concentration of effort is on commerce, both in terms of overseas trade and in helping the province develop.
Japan had been a closed society to outsiders for many decades, but that is not to say that the Japanese were ignorant about the outside world. The truth was very different. After 1633 Japanese traders had been forbidden to go abroad, and foreigners had been confined to Nagasaki, but foreign books and the ideas they contained were still circulated. The Japanese kept up with European scientific, political and military developments through Dutch booksellers, and this contributed to their realistic appraisal of what opening up trade with the West might mean. A clear understanding of what had been happening overseas helped the Japanese to leap from the late medieval world to a modern one in less than 50 years.
