Buying Businesses from Rivals

[Coldhands]

Is such a thing possible?I am trying to become the only producer in a city but my rivals always have at least 1 or 2 businesses there and I can't buy them.

[smeagol001]

same for me

[Alta ♥]

It's impossible to buy them but it might be possible to oversell in a province and make the business not profitable and they just demolish it however I do not know if the AI is programmed to demolish it's own buildings.

I think you will just have to get used to having perminent competition.

[Coldhands]

I actually wanted it for that one achievement that requires you to own every business in a city.

[Alta ♥]

I think it would be better if you found a low population city and buy everything there. Places like Venice will always have a competator.

[Dray Prescot]

In theory, you can keep flooding the market with the goods being produced by that type of business, which drives the prices down, and makes your competition cut its labor and eventually close and sell off the business(s).

In practice, this is hard to do and requires a LOT of time and money in your bank account to cover the loses you will sustain.

In some games such as Port Royal 3, I think that you have control of at least 75% of the labor in that city to take peaceful control of that city. Which means you will need 3 times the number of production faclities in other (non) Players' control. In the Patrician series, I think that you need a majority of the votes being cast

[Alta ♥]

Nice 1 ½ year necro, try lookig at the date before replying next time. This game was abandoned and the disappointment that is this game has passed.

[AttilaTheHoon]

actually i'm enjoying it

[Dray Prescot]

Every now and then I look at games that I used to play and enjoyed (and hope for a new improved version), and sometimes I respond to messages in their discussions, even if they are a little old. If they made the AI merchant players comptete effectively with human Players, I would be a LOT happier with Kalypso's Patrician, Port Royale and Rise of Veice series, and I would be playing them a lot more.

At the moment I am waiting to see how their new RailRoad game is when it comes out in 2018.

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[Aoderic]

Originally posted by Dray Prescot:

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Exactly! so thank you

[Mr Chill Chill]

I tried wiping out my closest competitor's shipping, and took out a bunch of his convoys. It mattered little, as somehow he had plenty of money to rebuild the fleet and spend money sabotaging my rep with the entire council. Honestly I find it much easier to keep the entire council happy than to try and work around one or more unhappy council members. The scaling of the amount required to pay people off is absurd, but its far cheaper than the alternatives. You can keep most of the council close to the 100% mark relatively easy, but its always two or three that are more difficult to please as they always have businesses in the same regions. Anytime you build a handful of buildings in that region, it requires another huge payoff. The missions help, but keeping the pirates going is where its at, as successful attacks against pirates gives quite a boost in happiness to all council members. Tournaments are also a good boost.