Is it worth it after patch 1.4?

[GeeBee]

£17.99 on CD Keys. Worth a punt?

[69Inanna69]

Average...

Have a read through the forums, on the topics that concern you, and work it out.

IMO...
Great Game / Series...
Great graphics

The ship battles are a board game / which doesnt bother me / i prefer it.

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But...

Some things that really annoy me is its scaling based on networth.
The better you play, the more penalized you are..

I cant be bothered pulling real figures from in game..
But for example..... Its like....

If you own 1 million,
And earn 1 million/year
It charges you 1 million

But if you own 10 million
And earn 1 million/year
It charges you 10 million.
So now 10x worst off.

So need to keep your networth low.
And own 100k
And earn 1million /year
And get charged 100k.

My last game, i took over all of my countries cities, and other nation's cities..
So owned the whole map + mass of wargalleons and ship of the line's.
And the game comes to a halt, where fame / building rights / etc all become too expensive to level up or buy..

And i struggle to play a game thats based on "Stay small, or be severely penalized"
Goes against the principle of a 4x game...

But then again, maybe thats my problem / playing it as a 4x game. :)
Maybe im just meant to sail around, look at the pretty sunsets, and do a bit of light trading.. :)

[GeeBee]

Took the plunge and bought for £17.99. It is actually the extended version you get so an even bigger saving!

[69Inanna69]

Originally posted by GeeBee:

Took the plunge and bought for £17.99. It is actually the extended version you get so an even bigger saving!

Have fun.

[GeeBee]

Few hours into the Spanish campaign and I am enjoying it. Was worried that the automated trade routes would make it too boring but there is always something else that needs attending to.

[FiatLux]

Actually , in some countries one may be able to get the game even cheaper if first choosing local currency on site and then Epic version.. (You have to be logged in at Epic when being forwarded to shop for forwarding to work though offer may work directly at Epic)(There apparently is some extra Epic discount added at checkout at the moment)
No matter if you want to buy from a store or from key-shop then it looks as the site for listings is gg.deals (had never heard of it before myself)

[GeeBee]

£10 or equivalent Epic games coupon on offer at moment. Each time you buy a game over £14 or around this you get another £10 coupon. Even with this discount it was still more expensive on the Epic games store in the UK but might work out cheaper in other countries.

[FiatLux]

Originally posted by GeeBee:

£10 or equivalent Epic games coupon on offer at moment. Each time you buy a game over £14 or around this you get another £10 coupon. Even with this discount it was still more expensive on the Epic games store in the UK but might work out cheaper in other countries.

Yeah , but if buying from Epic then you at least buy from a recognized store , where as 'key stores' of the other kind is more of a grey area.
Personally I were tempted by the very cheap Epic offer (for me it were around equivalent of € 15 for the extended version), but I am still not so hot on Epic game store (I had one of their games installed and deleted it immediately when I found no controller support)) and I am not so hyped that I am going to buy Port Royale 4 from a 'Key store'..
The only 'key seller' that I regularly use is DailyIndieGame , the cheap bundle seller that also sells keys if you look closer. Though the last keys I bought were some Autonaut keys that I gifted away , those I bought very cheap from Ebay where there is recognized PayPal buyer protection...