Trading
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Trading serves as a major source of gold income and strategic depth, encouraging players to balance expansion, alliances, and defense to optimize their economic networks.
Trading in OpenFront occurs exclusively between buildings of the same type, ports can only trade with other ports, and factories only with other factories.
This allows players to establish internal trade routes between their own structures if they own multiple Ports or Factories. Trading between different players, often yielding greater rewards due to increased distance between trade endpoints.
Trade Units are generated automatically from ports and factories over time, with the spawn rate increasing based on the total number of that building type owned by all players. However, the benefit of additional buildings diminishes due to scaling limitations. When a trade Unit completes its route, both the source and destination owners receive gold.
Longer routes grant higher payouts due to distance-based scaling.
The selection of trade destinations favors nearby or allied buildings, making diplomacy and geography important factors in maximizing trade efficiency. While trade Units are protected when near the shoreline or their destination, they remain vulnerable while in transit. Enemy warships can intercept and capture trade ships, redirecting the trade or eliminating it entirely if no valid destination exists.