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They are all good games, but the AI players do not build themselves up like a human player does to establish large production and trade networks. Pirates are often more of a challenge than your fellow merchants.
Rise of Venice has a more complicated family and relatives system as well as doing tasks for the 10 houses on the ruling city council of Venice, these tasks usually pay quite well when you complete them. Make sure you get the Beyond the Sea expansion (or DLC) for Rise of Venice, it adds more cities. In Rise of Venice you can only deal in about half the goods at the start, and get additional goods to buy/sell/produce at several promotion points.
In all 4 games (counting Patrician 3 and 4 as separate games) you need to establish production chains of the various goods and haul them to other cities to finish the production chains (in many cases) , doing this is what the AI players are poor at.
In Rise of a Dynasty (Patrician IV), each region (a group of cities) has a special good that is available ONLY in that region, as well as an AI Player Merchant House that tries to build himself up in that region, i.e. builds and owns industries as well as housing, and who objects to YOU trying to move into HIS cities. But that AI merchant house will ONLY be active in that particular region of cities
I have played a lot of time in all four games, and am waiting for better AI versions of them. Unfortunately, I do not think that we will ever see them from Kalypso and Gaming Minds. All of their energy is going into Railway Empires right now, and it seems to be doing well for them. You might want to try RailWay Empires if you like building up economic trade/production networks/empires using railroads. (I have played it off and on, and will play it some more when I am not playing other games).
Stay away from Grand Ages Medieval (it takes place about 400 years earlier), it is a watered down version of these games from an economic and trading Point of View, as well as a watered down Naval warfare side, instead it is a much more land based trade routes with land military units. It's main attraction was that it was multiplayer, but it is probably hard to find mutiplayer games of it nowadays. It also only allows ONE player to own and build anything in any ONE city. The other games allow multiple players to build in each city, if they meet the necessary conditions and costs, for that city. There is also NO Warehouse (or Counting House) that you can build/own in each city in GAM, unlike the other games. ALL goods that are produced are immediately sold to the city's market, and all transactions are either between your own merchants or with the city market since there is NO Warehouse/Counting House. It's land military combat system is very limited (as most players seem to feel).
The Patrician Series went through enough versions and development that there are a lot of scripted events that can happen to you and for you to respond to, such as getting married, handling big events (i.e. supplying ALL of the required goods) such as other peoples' marriages (you get a reward for delivering ALL of the goods in TIME), providing the resources to build up City Walls and new buildings, even starting new Cities (requires a LOT of goods and shipping by you, but you get to be the Mayor of that City afterwards). I made it to the point where I had founded several Cities and was about ready to run for Alderman of the Hanseatic League (it's elected leader, basicly the end of the game).
All of these games usually have a fair amount of Pirate activity which increases as the game developes, until YOU do something about them. It is also possible to play these games as a shady person, smuggler and Pirate.
I also got up to Grand Admiral in Port Royale 3 starting with the basic tutuorial/Campaign game with industries in 10 or so cities and a lot of ships (each rank level has it's requirements). I do not know what higher ranks are available in PR3. There are some players who have played an individual game to having a much larger number of cities and ships.
Port Royale 3 also has a large collection of scripted events to happen and for you to take advantage of and/or react to, particularly Piracy. You can play as an underworld type of Player if you wanted to in all 4 games.
Apparently Port Royale 4 is under prototype funding but nothing official on a project at this moment.
https://www.4players.de/4players.php/spielinfonews/PC-CDROM/40688/2182549/Port_Royale_4-Befindet_sich_bei_Gaming_Minds_in_Entwicklung.html
And for now this is the only Google result :) Im going to get some rum
I'm so happy this is coming :D
Really ?
:)