Posted on: December 31, 2022
streetyson
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The Quintessential Classic Trading Sim
The early game is all about moving your first one or two ships around the map, mandraulic but fun enough as you learn the ropes of the game and taking orders/commissions and a few rare passengers. You have to balance prices, capacties, wear & tear, crews, pirates, a little base stuff too like warehouses. But to grow an empire you need to master setting up "automated" trading routes because managing more than two or three convoys manually becomes a pain. This is done by finding and hiring a named captain from a port, selecting a series of ports and what amounts/prices you're prepared to buy or sell at. This is where your manual experiences in the early game helps, because by now you know where stuff tends to be cheapest and where it tends to be in demand. But thankfully it's not that simple, because things aren't static. Prices can change (gluts, shortages, seasons, plagues etc). And your ships need repairs and crewmen after pirate attacks, so your earlier manual experiences and attention are still required. And as you build your trading empire there's other things too, like running for mayor and eventually head of the whole league. You need to first raise your presence & standing, get married etc. Your actions have affect how likely folk are to vote for you. Once into thsi side of the game you get involved in a little bit more base building (walls, garrisons, plagues, feasts etc). And there's sometimes a little fighting/plundering at city walls (it's basic and poorly optimised but ok because it's really not a significant part of the game, very minor/occasional in fact). Along the way there's also things like setting up your own industrial buildings & hiring workers, and eventually setting up a new town, become a banker, send a convoy to explore further afield to the med for lucrative new towns and goods. All from a 2D god map and in isometric displayed towns & pirate mini-battles. And surprisingly it hasn't dated too badly because they don't try to do too much.
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