I'm Patrician Mayor and Alderman, what to do now?

[marco.roc]

I also have 20M, what i am supposed to do in the lategame?

[swmackin]

Originally posted by marco.roc:

I also have 20M, what i am supposed to do in the lategame?

Flanders, Mecklenburg and Pomerania will all sell you "Land." For 30M you can buy 5% of their kingdom.

You buy land the same way you open up land routes. When the prince's satisfaction is over 90%, and you have unlocked all the land routes, he will offer to see you land.

I have no idea though what buying land gets you. I bought 5% of Flanders and didn't notice anything happen.

To be honest, the lategame does not seem as good as Port Royale 3, where you can capture towns and go to war with a letter of Marque.

[marco.roc]

Land routes uh? Are there land routes?

[swmackin]

Originally posted by marco.roc:

Land routes uh? Are there land routes?

Yes, there are land routes They connect to inland cities which are quite small.

I posted some screenshots of the road network. This is the best picture, though there are a couple roads yet to be built: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3311674322

Roads get built by the Prince of a given territory. To build:
- Get the Prince's satisfaction over 90%
- Then meet him at the gate and he may offer to build a road
- He will demand a Tribute of goods to build the road
- He will choose the road he wants to build
- If the road is to an inland city then that city is unlocked

To use the roads you need wagons:
- One a city is connected to a road they start building 3 wagon buildings:
- for: 1 construction of wagons, 2 managing unassigned wagons, 3 managing your wagon trains
- arrange the wagons into "Wagon Trains" which are like convoys
- each wagon in a train carries 100 barrels of goods
- hire "Escorts" for wagon trains at the tavern because bandits will attack them
- wagon trans can be managed manually or set to an auto trade route

All cities in Mecklenburg and Flanders (except maybe Haarlem) connect to the road network. In Pomerania Danzig and Stettin are the only cities that do not connect to the road network. In Livonia there is only one inland city (Kaunus) which connects to Riga, just to the north of it. None of the other regions have roads.

The inland cities are small and if you don't supply them regularly famine will start as none of them produce meat, fish or cheese. A few of the inland cities have unique production:
- Breslau which produces metal goods, raw metal and wood. It is southwest of Thorn
- Warsaw (south east of Thorn) and Kaunus (south of Riga) which produces honey and mead
- Nimwegen (north of Cologne) also connects to the river and it is the only city in the area the produces wood

My favorite aspect of the roads is that you can bypass the Jutland Peninsula (mainland Denmark) which saves a lot of time. For example, you can ship goods between Lubeck and Hamburg then have convoys on either side pick up those goods. The land route between Lubeck and Bruges is also faster than the sea route, which can be used to make expeditions more efficient.

I hope all of this was not too boring

[darkestkhan]

Originally posted by swmackin:

Originally posted by marco.roc:

I also have 20M, what i am supposed to do in the lategame?

Flanders, Mecklenburg and Pomerania will all sell you "Land." For 30M you can buy 5% of their kingdom.

You buy land the same way you open up land routes. When the prince's satisfaction is over 90%, and you have unlocked all the land routes, he will offer to see you land.

I have no idea though what buying land gets you. I bought 5% of Flanders and didn't notice anything happen.

To be honest, the lategame does not seem as good as Port Royale 3, where you can capture towns and go to war with a letter of Marque.

At land ownership 100% they stop sieging your cities.