However, setting up the routes in the first place is MUCH easier than it used to be, and in general the UI makes it easy to get most of the info you need.Ī tip for anyone trying this out - setting up buy and sell orders in your counting houses is absolutely crucial to maximizing profits. For example, there doesn’t seem to be a way to look at the revenues and expenses of individual convoys, which means making your trade routes more efficient is a chore. Outside of the combat the game is still great, though. It’s very anachronistic, too - every ship has cannons with solid, chain, and grape shot in 1370AD? Combat has never been a selling point in this series, but this is kind of disappointing. You no longer have the option to ram and board ships, and the process of arming your ships has been abstracted almost to irrelevancy. More thoughts after a weekend with it: combat is actually a bit worse than previous games. People have already explained to you it is better because it is more user-friendly. The price does go up as you buy and down as you sell.Ĭonsidering the developer maintains that the economic model is as deep or deeper than patrician III, I’m going to be watching reviews from old players very closely. The spread does seem to be gone, for instance in my test I could buy or sell a unit of the good and the price was exactly the same. I’m playing the only option you could pick in the demo: the campaign. Hopefully though this is on some tutorial level difficulty that changes for the main game. I can’t IMAGINE losing money in this game if you had even the slightest clue what you were doing. This seems to be the case with every good in the gameĪt every port, the price only fluctuates about 10-15%. I bought out ALL of iron good’s from a town, and the price didn’t raise hardly at all.

Update: It’s even worse than I originally thought. At least I hope so! In any case they need to remove that ugly world map. I have a big suspicion that the demo may be different than the release though. Since I seem to be the only one who has the demo, I’m going to check how the trading works again and post a report =)

Patrician iii patches