What exactly do you do in this game?!

[Kero]

Hey so I just bought this game because I thought it looked interesting. I did the tutorial, started playing a bit, built a farm, fields, bakery....

NOW WHAT? What is the goal of the game? What does early game, mid game, late game looks like? What can you do? What should I do? What must I do?

Help? Can someone explain it?

[Fajeth]

Its a sandbox game, more or less. You set your own goals. Main goal: make money and a dynasty. Politics is a nice mid to late game aspect. Try out different professions and maybe start optimizing everything and make your own supply chains.

Some guys want to see the city burning, so they kill entire dynasties. You can do that if you like. Or you try to make friendships with everyone. Up to you

[Kero]

Originally posted by Fajeth:

Its a sandbox game, more or less. You set your own goals. Main goal: make money and a dynasty. Politics is a nice mid to late game aspect. Try out different professions and maybe start optimizing everything and make your own supply chains.

Some guys want to see the city burning, so they kill entire dynasties. You can do that if you like. Or you try to make friendships with everyone. Up to you

and is it me or is the game INSANELY glitchy?

[qDan]

If you mean problems with world interaction when speed set on 'slow/very slow' and some accidental freezes with council meetings - than yes due to engine limits. If something else - it might be problems on your side.

The key idea of the game is to become most powerful person\family in the city\country, by becoming rich and famous and either way eleminating other families and business rivals.
When setting up new game you can choose between 4 modes - Dynasty, Extinction, Timed and Mission. in all modes except 'dynasty' game is finite and consit of at least 1 solid goal to achieve.

[Don_Wooter]

I play as a rogue with the goal of building a criminal empire. I've done well so far. I control all of the trade coming in and going out of Danzig. All trade pays me a toll, and if there is any enemy of mine trying to get goods in or out I jack their goods. I extort all of the businesses in Danzig. If they don't pay I break into their business and jack their goods. These are just a few things that I have going on. Go to my profile, and read the review I wrote for the game. I give some explanations there. The game is about gaining power (legitimately or illegitimately).

[Kero]

Originally posted by qDan:

If you mean problems with world interaction when speed set on 'slow/very slow' and some accidental freezes with council meetings - than yes due to engine limits. If something else - it might be problems on your side.

The key idea of the game is to become most powerful person\family in the city\country, by becoming rich and famous and either way eleminating other families and business rivals.
When setting up new game you can choose between 4 modes - Dynasty, Extinction, Timed and Mission. in all modes except 'dynasty' game is finite and consit of at least 1 solid goal to achieve.

-Started as a patron, the carts tend to stop unloading/loading stuffs randomly

-the traderoute mechanic is hell glitchy and only allows you to unload as much as the lowest amount in the inventory of your business even if you have a slot that's full

-no way to instruct the cart to only unload a fixed amount instead of overloading your businesses

-The 2 cutscenes at the opening of the game shows a black screen

-The start game menu glitches out and stops displaying the scroll options if you press "back" in your character creation

It's a mess! I'm afraid I just wont play this game, the concept is interesting but its such a pain in the ass to play.

[Prince Rogue]

Hmm, I could recommend to you to get Fajeth's MegaModPack, it fixes ALOT of issues, changes things, and adds new things aswell. Id say try out his mod before hanging up the game completely, just a suggestion.

[Kero]

Originally posted by Prince Rogue:

Hmm, I could recommend to you to get Fajeth's MegaModPack, it fixes ALOT of issues, changes things, and adds new things aswell. Id say try out his mod before hanging up the game completely, just a suggestion.

does it changes the cart traderoute system?

[pdoan8]

Originally posted by Lunique Kero:

Originally posted by Prince Rogue:

Hmm, I could recommend to you to get Fajeth's MegaModPack, it fixes ALOT of issues, changes things, and adds new things aswell. Id say try out his mod before hanging up the game completely, just a suggestion.

does it changes the cart traderoute system?

In such way that AI control won't unload a couple breads at the windmill (or swords at the mine,...) then the game spam warning about some building stop producing?

MegaMod intruduce lots more content, but there are a few that I don't feel comfortable with (just base on the description). This is the main reason I still put it off for now.

[qDan]

1) Started as scholar and merried a patron last game - now owning 2 inns, 4 bakeries, 2 lvl3 fiends and 2 windmills, never had any problems with logistics besides 4th bakery sometimes not recieving floor sacks due to an empty stocks at mills.
If you are not playing on Venice map which was broken in literally everything including pathfinding and logistics since it appeared in add-on, than you doing something wrong, otherwise - change map to something else (London map possibly buggy to, not sure, go 'google it if curious).

2) No possibility to lock some slots in stock or choose fixed quantity of items really painfull but not a glitch at all, moreover nothing really limiting you to simply not buy all slots in main storage or fill it with random items (or simply send as many carts with items as possible so each unique stack wont deplete). And if its a critical problem for you - just play as rogue.

3) Game originally was released for WinXP so its weird to see a person blaming old game for not showing a startup videos on other systems with missing or wrong codecs.

4) Not sure what you mean by 'scroll options', but there was an old bug from original and early 'Pirates' versions, when highlighted arrows stop glowning. Still they should be functional, you just need to scroll to the 'left' side few times or press RMB 1-2 times because cursor may rarely 'leap' to some window or UI element.

[ThreeOfMe]

Originally posted by Lunique Kero:

does it changes the cart traderoute system?

Yes, it does. I've reworked the entire trading route system a few months ago. It's included in the MegaModPack by now. I'd recommend the MegaModPack anyway since it fixes a lot if bugs.

If you only care about the tradings routes then my mod is still available for seperate download. It just takes a few modifications to integrate it into the unmodded version.
http://www.gilde2.de/filebase/file/40-tradingroutes/

[Kero]

Tried the megamod, and now each time I say "Ask for hand" the NPC becomes a wife, but doesnt appear in my family tree.

How do people defend this game?! I'm twisting myself in knots in an attempt to play it and it still doesn't work.

[Don_Wooter]

Originally posted by Lunique Kero:

Tried the megamod, and now each time I say "Ask for hand" the NPC becomes a wife, but doesnt appear in my family tree.

How do people defend this game?! I'm twisting myself in knots in an attempt to play it and it still doesn't work.

Maybe this game isn't for you.

[Teralitha]

Originally posted by Lunique Kero:

Originally posted by Fajeth:

Its a sandbox game, more or less. You set your own goals. Main goal: make money and a dynasty. Politics is a nice mid to late game aspect. Try out different professions and maybe start optimizing everything and make your own supply chains.

Some guys want to see the city burning, so they kill entire dynasties. You can do that if you like. Or you try to make friendships with everyone. Up to you

and is it me or is the game INSANELY glitchy?

Yes it is glitchy, but not unplayable, unless you are using one of the beta versions... You need to be using the base steam game, not any betas or patches, they are all outdated.

[Kero]

So I tried Fajeth modpack thing, the game seems bearable now, thank god for those cart management fixes. However the meadows are gone from my building list somehow so my orchard is not very useful.

[Fajeth]

Originally posted by Lunique Kero:

So I tried Fajeth modpack thing, the game seems bearable now, thank god for those cart management fixes. However the meadows are gone from my building list somehow so my orchard is not very useful.

Thats part of the mod. Fruit and honey are ressources in the world now