1 - Purchased game on Steam Sales 5 €
2 - Finished lvl 5 City badge
3 - Got 3 :weed: emoticons
4 - Sold 2 for 10 € - Kept one
5 - Profit

took over jamaica from spain, started growing weed and coke, sold weed and coke to england france and spain became a millionaire grew a monster fleet and took over the caribbean 10/10 would become a caribbean drug dealer again

This game is ever so much fun. Here's how it works:

Buy some ships and tell them where to go trade stuff.

Watch the money go up until you can afford more ships.

That's about it.

Everything else is basically a sandbox. You can fight pirates, for example, but you can either do that very early with an inadequate fleet that gets killed all the time... or sit around with your thumb up your butt until you have oodles of money and can afford big powerful ships the pirates can't kill. Or anything in between, really. But you're the one who decides when or if you fight pirates at all.

Similarly, you can buy a building permit in any town, and build a warehouse and residences and plantations and stuff, then run around dragging settlers to the town so they can live in the houses and work at the plantations and put stuff in the warehouse. Or you could, you know, NOT. Or, again, anything in between.

But if you combine this with telling your fleet where to trade stuff, you can make one city produce a whole bunch of bananas and another city produce a whole lot of cotton so your fleet can trade cotton and bananas back and forth between those cities and make oodles of money. Then you can combine this with fighting pirates and use the oodles of money to buy big powerful ships.

There's also some sort of diplomacy thing that goes on, but it's very shallow and pointless. If people don't like you, sell them stuff until they like you. By the time anyone is trying to fight with you, chances are you're filthy rich and sailing a fleet that can drop-kick them over the horizon. It's honestly difficult to make people dislike you, anyway. You essentially have to attack their ships and steal their stuff, but why would you do that when you can just sail your own fleet around and make oodles of money?

Oh and there's some kind of campaign or something that is basically a bad animation playing in a window while a bad voice actor tells you what to do. Then he sits around and waits for you to do it, unless of course you don't care, and then you'll be playing for hours before he pops up all suddenly because you accidentally did what he wanted.

There's no actual challenge here. It's very casual. If you like this sort of a thing, then this is the sort of a thing you will like. Also, I like the word "oodles." Oodles, oodles, oodles. It's almost as much fun to say as "quark."

-Install game
-load freemode
- skip tutorial videos ("move product from point A to point B = profit, how hard can it be?")
- buy 100 crates of bananas.
- sell bananas at a 20% loss because I didn't read the supply-demand tutorial.
- get bankrupt and heavily in debt within ten minutes of starting.
- only ship gets sunk by Spanish raiders.

Bankrupcty simulator 2015. 11/10 would trade again.

Obtained and sold mad dank in this game.

-Started with a single ship and manual trading.
-bought more ships and started profit trading routes.
-trade, trade, trade !
-built a military convoy.
-attacked pirates and attain high repuation with all nations.
-backstabbed Holland and conquered 2 cities from it.
-Holland decalred war on me.
-conqured one more city from Holland.
-All nations declared war on me.
-lost all of my cities.
-forced to fight pirates again and beg for mercy with the nations :3

10/10 would backstab Holland again ;)

I have no idea how to play this but it gave me a weed emoji that's worth more than the game is on sale so that's a winner.

Bought the game for about a buck, made a badge from the cards and the WEED emote sold for $10. Made more badges and two more WEED emotes sold for $10 each.

Capitalism works.

Steam players are pot heads.

Bought for ~4€ with the sole intent of farming :weed:
Got three of ´em and gained ~20€ \o/

The game itself ain´t bad either!

Once i learned to avoid right-clicking at critical moments, sending my camera all over the place like a mad woman's knitting when trying to attack, i found it fun. It left me feeling wistful for a previous version of this game that were a bit more substance and less style.