

So why the low score? Essentially there aren’t that many changes. With enough capital and fame you can even establish yourself in foreign cities, building your own shops and warehouses and producing goods locally. Prices rise or fall according to consumption and availability, with competing shipping companies pulling their own weight in the trading game and potentially interfering in your own money-making ventures. You can almost feel a Zen-like quality in the trading. With your ship, crew and some gold in your pockets you go about hauling goods from one location to another, carefully establishing a mercantile empire and, with enough riches and power, finally reach the position of Alderman in your home town. As a Northern European trader you have a choice of several medieval port towns spread around the Baltic Sea. If you’ve missed out on German developer Ascaron’s Patrician II then Patrician III might be a game you should consider.
