This question has been asked and answered many pages ago. In fact I used and linked an ECL game where everybody who traded lost money on it and the game decided before it could. Will you take back your statement? I bet you won't even respond to this paragraph. The existence of early fighting only delays your trade profit ROI. The 40 minutes that Ive been using where the non trader has a 22% gold unit advantage is based on untouched boom. If one has to devote APM, resources to fighting during that time, it pushes things back. I could easily see a 50 minute BF TG where no players profited from trade is what I'm getting at.Have you watched any high level gameplay like ever? What you’re claiming here makes no sense. Trading does absolutely not mean that there’s no important fighting going on for the first 45 minutes. Watch some TG gameplay from recent tournaments like ECL. Do you see teams sipping tea waiting for the 45 minute mark to start fighting? No, you don’t.
There are feudal fights and castle age fights basically every game. These fights can be decisive too, handing a huge advantage to one team over the other. And yet they still add trade. Because if you don’t, chances are high you will lose the game, because you’re unable to produce gold units etc. I have watched hundreds and hundreds of hours of high level gameplay and I don’t recall seeing a team lose, because they started adding trade and lost out on potentially saved resources. I have seen plenty of games, though, where a team had a bigger advantage by starting trade earlier or having better/safer trade than the other team and winning in the end.
Even if the numbers are right, the wrong assumptions you base them on leads you to a wrong conclusion overall. Math is a tool that’s only useful if you use logic to employ it.
On another note, there are way many more factors to consider why a team won vs the other than just wether they traded or not.
Finally, I‘ve seen you be condescending a couple of times now, to comments that didn’t have flawless grammar and spelling etc. If you feel like it’s so easy to have written discussions in a second, third or fourth language, how about we continue this in German, French or Spanish for example? See how many mistakes you make. And see how totally irrelevant and bad mannered it is to point those out and dismiss it because of that.
English is the international language of business. I think I speak for everyone when I say I'm glad German didn't end up with that honor .