Great to be back in the game

[Argus]

Man, this game is still the most rounded economic simulator out there. Even in 2021, where there are so many complex and multi-versioned games, Patrician 3 still ticks all the boxes. Grand fun in the early, mid and late game.

[greggB]

This is my favorite game of all time. I played Eve Online for a few months and then quit and returned to this.

With each new game I try to beat my previous game in terms of company value. I have yet to have my company value at 500 million 10 years in to the game. I'm thinking I may accomplish that this game. I start at year 1300 so I get off to a slower start than when you start later, since the towns are smaller.

I do wish a few bugs could be ironed out. I just posted about a bug I'm experiencing this game that winds up being a real drag.

Anyhow, what's your playing style?

[TheMaster1]

Welcome back:)

[knighttemplar1960]

I pick a town at random and set my victory condition to Hanse population of 200,000 and then have at it. So far my best game has been starting in Stockholm.

[Argus]

It's been a long time since I've played, so I'm still early game, but I mostly push lots of snaikkas to start, with captains and gathering piles of resources back to hometown, then use the same routes to push lots of goods out to the other places. I went for a Rostock start for a teensy challenge, will be setting my expansion to stockholm and stettin, and then pushing grain/beer north and iron goods/whale oil south. I'm all about middle margins on every product. I think I priced my purchases a little low this round, as I am not pulling in as many goods as I am used to.

[knighttemplar1960]

I tend to avoid snaikkas because the cargo holds are so small and I use crayers for lead ships since they are fast and hold adequate sailors and weapons to sink a pirate hulk and capture a pirate cog or crayer.

Sailor salary per cargo hold can eat you alive early game if you use a lot of small ships. My fleets that serve river towns are all crayers. The fleets that serve the open sea towns are crayer leads plus cogs/hulks for cargo capacity. Losing one knot of speed by using the bigger ships doesn't really seem to make that much of a difference.

[Argus]

Oh, no, my routes are hugely profitable. I even keep 7 or 8 sailors in a snaikka, because I believe in days off for the little man. I keep building snaikkas to boost the shipyard up to 3 flags, then move onto Crayers to beef up the snaikka routes, and a few cogs to move grain and bricks.

Once the big routes have the snaikka's switched over to crayer & cogs, I keep the snaikkas running wine or to torun/novgrad. If a wine convoy gets attacked by pirates, most of the snaikkas get away without issue.

[knighttemplar1960]

True but I like to capture the pirate crayers and cogs, repair them, and add them to my fleets, Free ships = good times.

[Spigo19]

is there a guide with known settings for new systems? I just tried to play P3 on a Win10 new laptop and the graphics are off, the controls are unfamiliar. It feels like I'm missing part of the screen and I don't even remember what part it's supposed to be.

[Argus]

The 1.1b patch + disable high dpi or something like that.

[Kepper]

One of my fave games for replayabillty, even after all these years!

[ViM.Rybakprostoj]

i played that game many years ago, it's the best game ever, the most complex and intellegent simulator without annoing help. And when you will be a patrician, game still can propose you a lot of interesting things.

P.s. best strategy is trade iron, start in Bremen or Lubek, Iron is the most stable and profitable ressourse in game ;)

[NottyBomoh]

I remember playing this game when I was a teen, in 2000s.

Recently I just got myself a new laptop, install Steam (first time using Steam) because I cant wait to play Patrician again.

I'm nearing 40 now and have a family, but playing this bring endless smile to my face.

Thank you, Patrician dev team.