Event
Decline of the Spice Trade

With an increasing amount of competitors in the spice market the availability of the once extremely rare spices of the east have increased drastically in the west. While some have tried to stabilize the Spice prices by burning what they produce or imposing stricter rules for its export it now seems clear that the profitability of the business has taken a permanent downturn.
PepperGoodstrigger
ChristianityReligion GrouptriggerDefinitionin_game/events/economy/prices.txt:552
553type = country_event
554title = prices.22.title Decline of the Spice Trade
555desc = prices.22.desc With an increasing amount of competitors in the spice market the availability of the once extremely rare spices of the east have increased drastically in the west. While some have tried to stabilize the Spice prices by burning what they produce or imposing stricter rules for its export it now seems clear that the profitability of the business has taken a permanent downturn.
556outcome = neutral
558trigger = {
559has_markets = yes
560current_year > 1600
561capital.continent = continent:europe
564capital.market = {
566NOT = {
566has_temporary_demand = demand:decline_of_spices
}
}
}
570image = "gfx/interface/icons/trade_goods/illustrations/icon_goods_pepper.dds"