| Buy City | Good | Sell City | Buy Price | Sell Price | Profit / Unit | Profit / Trip | Time | Profit / Min | Return Cargo |
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This calculator estimates trading profits along the Silk Road route:
Tyre → Damascus → Palmyra → Ctesiphon → Ecbatana
Modifiers applied automatically: city traits, distance bonus, language skill, and religion perks.
Prices are estimates — in-game random events (Conflict, Festival, Drought, Harvest) shift prices by 2.5–10%.
Sell Price = Base × Distance × City Modifier × Language Modifier × Religion Modifier
All modifiers stack multiplicatively. Distance adds +5% per city hop away from the source.
Your native language always gives the Fluent (+5%) bonus at cities that speak it.
Christianity — L1: +3% in Capital/Cosmopolitan cities · L3: City penalties −50%
Judaism — L1: Penalties ×2 · L2: Language bonuses ×1.5 · L3: City bonuses ×2
Zoroastrianism — L2: +5% in cities with a Fire Temple · L3: +10% Metal & Craft goods