I noticed this playlist this week and wanted to return to the game. Started playing a bit yesterday and here is my experience, so far: I chose Stettin as my hometown (year 1300). Fairly quickly I noticed the city needs. Mainly Cloth, Iron goods, Skins, Meat, Leather, Wine and Wool. Secondary Pottery, pitch, whale oil and honey. To start off I had 2 main objectives, increase my fleet and fulfill city needs. I used a bit of the same strategy as you. Started mass producing level 3 crayers, filling them with large and small catapults, and cutlasses. When it comes to the economy I divided my products in high profit and low profit. Beer, Cloth, Iron goods and skins was my main source of income. Meat, Leather, Wool and so on was mostly to cover city needs. Therefore I did not make as much money on them early on, but it helped my city grow, which in turn increases demand for goods. After just a few months the pirate Beneke started attacking my ships. But I was prepared. He attacked a convoy with a fully armed level 3 crayer. Damaged him to about 50% health and then I boarded him. This gave me another level 3 crayer pretty early in the game, which gave a boost. Used it to purchase Wine in Bruges and cologne, and later on iron goods in Scarborough and Edinburgh. Another thing worth mentioning, taking down a pirate was noticed throughout the entire hanseatic leage. I got a reputation boost and cities all over gave me building permits :) In the future I will hunt pirates early to get a lots of building permits. When you take out the first pirate, your competitors starts to give their ships to pirates. If you have a fully armed level 3 crayer with 28 (full) crew (remember cutlasses for advantage in boarding), you can capture ships from the pirates. I got 2 crayers and 2 cogs from pirates during the first half year or something. Also want to mention that the weapon smith is linked to your shipyard. The more experience the shipyard gets, the better cannons the weaponsmith will produce. Check in to the weapon smith once in a while to see if it has better cannons, and to see if the production has stopped due to lack of needed goods. Later on I made convoys, 2 crayers in each and 2 cogs in one for big cargo. I made sure to always have 200-300 k gold in my pocket so that I did have enough money for stocking up goods in case of good deals. I.e 200 iron goods and 100 skins are easily 120 - 150k gold in goods. When it comes to production, I started off with: Lubeck: Timber and Tiles Stettin: Grain and Beer (later on timber and salt for meat in Gdansk) Gdansk: Leather and Meat Stockholm: Timber, Irone ore and Iron goods Visby: Wool and cloth Reval: Skins Cologne: Wine Later in the game I will also produce fish, whale oil, honey, pottery, pitch and hemp. But I find that the city demand for theese goods are met by other traders early in the game. Eventually, when the cities grows large enough, you need to produce everything to have enough supply to meet the demand. This turned out to be a starter guide. lol. Hopefully you find some of this information useful :)
Finally, someone is playing this game for a long run. Thanks man, I learn better when watching someone else plays and explains mechanics to me, so this is perfect!
Playing Port Royale 4 on PS5 and switch, and just bought a new budget notebook + Patrician 3 at 99 cents. I found simulations to be one of my favourite genres together with western RPGs. Chill and challenging at the same time
I love Patrician III. The physical copy of the game included a very fancy chart with very useful information like the recommended max and minimum buying and selling prices of all goods, and IIRC a map with the goods that every city produces so you know exactly where to go and what to buy there. I could never play the game without having it open. For me, the fastest strategy once I had enough money was to go north and buy all the skins I could and sell them south for more than twice the price. By far the most profitable item in the game.
You can change the game speed actively using + - keys on the keyboard. This will help a lot to set your own pace in game without having to rely too much on the calendar ultra speed which many times can lead to bad things that could be avoided.
Solo hay 2 capitanes en todo el mapa. Cuando contratas uno, aparece otro de forma aleatoria en otra ciudad. Si nunca contratas un capitán, esos 2 se mantendrán en el mismo lugar.
@@nicolasmzz7800 Si puede leer el comentario, significa que sabe inglés. Sin embargo, respondiste en español. ¿Qué sentido tiene esto para ti? ¿Qué línea de razonamiento podría explicar esto? Si está tratando de ayudar, la persona a la que está respondiendo no lo entenderá.
10 years to become mayor? I'm a lazy bum and go for pirate who plunders cities for fast cash but if you are experienced and play it slow you don't need more than two years.^^
Dear friends, I would like to ask about how can I be a Lord Mayor in Oslo, I am already an Alderman but I can not change candidute list because of there is no selection "accept candidute yes/no" in Oslo town hall. I do not know how can I enter candidute list in Oslo. People already accept to see me a Lord Mayor in town.
@@LurkingLion please help how to move stuff from warehouse to ship and from ship to wareshouse, and because i lost ship in battle, how to put new cannons? it says at armored that warehouse is full???
@@Leverquin When you have your ship selected right-click on the dock. That should open up a window on how to transfer goods. Your initial warehouse is quite small take care not to overload it. If you have purchased weapons and have them in your warehouse you can equip them in a similar way to loading goods. Though keep in mind that your starting ship (snaika) has no gun mounts till you upgrade it. Early on best to run away from pirates or if you can't run away to surrender.
@@LurkingLion say what? Highly doubt it. The bath house is for bribing council members. A succesfull bribe may get you benefits like not getting fined actually. If you are caught in pirate activity, you will recieve a letter where you are under investigation. If you have 2 successfull bribes, you go free. Else a successfull bribe gives you 20% votes among rich citizens. Read section 12.7 Bribery in the instruction manual for further details.
Back by popular demand because one person asked for more of this - love your humour!
I noticed this playlist this week and wanted to return to the game.
Started playing a bit yesterday and here is my experience, so far:
I chose Stettin as my hometown (year 1300). Fairly quickly I noticed the city needs.
Mainly Cloth, Iron goods, Skins, Meat, Leather, Wine and Wool.
Secondary Pottery, pitch, whale oil and honey.
To start off I had 2 main objectives, increase my fleet and fulfill city needs.
I used a bit of the same strategy as you.
Started mass producing level 3 crayers, filling them with large and small catapults, and cutlasses.
When it comes to the economy I divided my products in high profit and low profit.
Beer, Cloth, Iron goods and skins was my main source of income.
Meat, Leather, Wool and so on was mostly to cover city needs.
Therefore I did not make as much money on them early on, but it helped my city grow, which in turn increases demand for goods.
After just a few months the pirate Beneke started attacking my ships.
But I was prepared. He attacked a convoy with a fully armed level 3 crayer.
Damaged him to about 50% health and then I boarded him.
This gave me another level 3 crayer pretty early in the game, which gave a boost.
Used it to purchase Wine in Bruges and cologne, and later on iron goods in Scarborough and Edinburgh.
Another thing worth mentioning, taking down a pirate was noticed throughout the entire hanseatic leage.
I got a reputation boost and cities all over gave me building permits :)
In the future I will hunt pirates early to get a lots of building permits.
When you take out the first pirate, your competitors starts to give their ships to pirates.
If you have a fully armed level 3 crayer with 28 (full) crew (remember cutlasses for advantage in boarding), you can capture ships from the pirates.
I got 2 crayers and 2 cogs from pirates during the first half year or something.
Also want to mention that the weapon smith is linked to your shipyard.
The more experience the shipyard gets, the better cannons the weaponsmith will produce.
Check in to the weapon smith once in a while to see if it has better cannons, and to see if the production has stopped due to lack of needed goods.
Later on I made convoys, 2 crayers in each and 2 cogs in one for big cargo.
I made sure to always have 200-300 k gold in my pocket so that I did have enough money for stocking up goods in case of good deals.
I.e 200 iron goods and 100 skins are easily 120 - 150k gold in goods.
When it comes to production, I started off with:
Lubeck: Timber and Tiles
Stettin: Grain and Beer (later on timber and salt for meat in Gdansk)
Gdansk: Leather and Meat
Stockholm: Timber, Irone ore and Iron goods
Visby: Wool and cloth
Reval: Skins
Cologne: Wine
Later in the game I will also produce fish, whale oil, honey, pottery, pitch and hemp.
But I find that the city demand for theese goods are met by other traders early in the game.
Eventually, when the cities grows large enough, you need to produce everything to have enough supply to meet the demand.
This turned out to be a starter guide. lol.
Hopefully you find some of this information useful :)
Finally, someone is playing this game for a long run. Thanks man, I learn better when watching someone else plays and explains mechanics to me, so this is perfect!
No problem, I hope my attempt is helpful to you. Thank you for watching.
I really wish they made a open source re-implementation of this wonderful game, like they've done for Caesar 3 (Julius and Augustus).
Playing Port Royale 4 on PS5 and switch, and just bought a new budget notebook + Patrician 3 at 99 cents. I found simulations to be one of my favourite genres together with western RPGs. Chill and challenging at the same time
I love Patrician III. The physical copy of the game included a very fancy chart with very useful information like the recommended max and minimum buying and selling prices of all goods, and IIRC a map with the goods that every city produces so you know exactly where to go and what to buy there. I could never play the game without having it open.
For me, the fastest strategy once I had enough money was to go north and buy all the skins I could and sell them south for more than twice the price. By far the most profitable item in the game.
ohh ty...
God I love this game! I always play it around Christmas ^^
Loved this game so much, awesome memories from a nerd.
The good old days I just start playing back RollerCoaster tycoon 2 next will be Patrician 3 thx for the video
You can change the game speed actively using + - keys on the keyboard.
This will help a lot to set your own pace in game without having to rely too much on the calendar ultra speed which many times can lead to bad things that could be avoided.
You have better chances to meet captain in river towns like Novgorod, Torun and Cologne.
Solo hay 2 capitanes en todo el mapa. Cuando contratas uno, aparece otro de forma aleatoria en otra ciudad. Si nunca contratas un capitán, esos 2 se mantendrán en el mismo lugar.
@@nicolasmzz7800 Si puede leer el comentario, significa que sabe inglés. Sin embargo, respondiste en español. ¿Qué sentido tiene esto para ti? ¿Qué línea de razonamiento podría explicar esto? Si está tratando de ayudar, la persona a la que está respondiendo no lo entenderá.
@@rgbbg2133 可是他可以用谷歌去翻译。这个评论者肯定是知道英文的，可是另外个人肯定能用工具去了解他的。
if you start in the year 1300 the captains are in torum and novgorod ^^ the good one in torum tho
I will definitely check that out :) Was planning on a new game with a early play.
10 years to become mayor? I'm a lazy bum and go for pirate who plunders cities for fast cash but if you are experienced and play it slow you don't need more than two years.^^
True, but I was far from experienced when I started this run.
Dear friends, I would like to ask about how can I be a Lord Mayor in Oslo, I am already an Alderman but I can not change candidute list because of there is no selection "accept candidute yes/no" in Oslo town hall. I do not know how can I enter candidute list in Oslo. People already accept to see me a Lord Mayor in town.
As Oslo isn't a Hanseatic town I don't think you run for lord mayor there.
@@LurkingLion Thanks Leo for quick reply! Continue watching your series.
i have never played this. everyone says that this is better then patrician 4... so i think i will give a try. any tips?
Take your time to learn the basics. Feel free to keep a guide or walkthrough at hand and most of all have fun with whatever you strive for.
@@LurkingLion please help how to move stuff from warehouse to ship and from ship to wareshouse, and because i lost ship in battle, how to put new cannons? it says at armored that warehouse is full???
@@Leverquin When you have your ship selected right-click on the dock. That should open up a window on how to transfer goods. Your initial warehouse is quite small take care not to overload it.
If you have purchased weapons and have them in your warehouse you can equip them in a similar way to loading goods. Though keep in mind that your starting ship (snaika) has no gun mounts till you upgrade it. Early on best to run away from pirates or if you can't run away to surrender.
@@LurkingLion wait is trading office = warehouse?
@@LurkingLion i build even new warehouse and i can't click with ship on it
What about Patrician 4?
Never played it. Don't know how it plays.
@@LurkingLion so it is a popular demand
@@googlesu Not really. I think you're the first one that has brought it up. Maybe I'll consider it once it goes on sale again.
What does bathing accomplish in the game?
Basically if you don't bathe you might get fined I think, similar to not attending the church.
@@LurkingLion say what? Highly doubt it. The bath house is for bribing council members. A succesfull bribe may get you benefits like not getting fined actually. If you are caught in pirate activity, you will recieve a letter where you are under investigation. If you have 2 successfull bribes, you go free. Else a successfull bribe gives you 20% votes among rich citizens. Read section 12.7 Bribery in the instruction manual for further details.
...T en years is the target? To be mayor? You can be alderman in less than half that time lol.
Yeah, and if I was an expert I might've been able to. On account of commentary and inexperience I need to give myself some room to screw up.
10:25