Instead, you should focus on making your fleet as big as possible (I'm pretty sure the cap is 25 ships) and using it to store all your goods. The only way to avoid warehouse robberies is to simply not use them at all. Finally, you will sometimes get robbed yourself and be forced to pay some of the gold you're currently carrying with yourself. Unlike normal warehouse robberies, hiring guards won't prevent these from happening. What is significant however is that they'll also start robbing your warehouses. Since you can still refuse them, this is of no real significance. The least important one is that Gossamer's henchmen will annoy you with further tribute demands almost every single month from now on. Instead, I'd advise ignoring tribute demands altogether.

Fail to pay it back within the next few months and it will spiral out of control and become completely impossible to ever repay. Furthermore, if you're ever unlucky enough to get hit with a tribute demand at a point where you don't have nearly enough gold, it will result in a huge debt. You may be able to slowly get richer at first, but once you reach about 250.000.000 gold, the tribute demands will eat up your entire income and you'll never be able to hold onto any more gold for long. If you agree to pay, but don't have enough gold, the moneylender will pay the rest for you and add it to your debt.ДЇrom my experience, paying tribute makes the game basically unwinnable. The precise amount of tribute seems to be random, but it generally scales with how rich you are. The biggest disadvantage of merchants is that they're occasionally asked to pay tribute to Gossamer. Due to poor game design, pirates have almost nothing but advantages over merchants. Douglas McGowan and Madame Tso are merchants, whereas Petra Gale and Gossamer are pirates. The four starting characters are divided into two groups.

On the other hand, not fighting pirates allows you to sell all your cannons for extra cargo space. Defeating pirates makes future encounters increasingly stronger, forcing you to pay lots of gold for repairs. Like I said in my previous post, don't ever defeat pirates. The game is won when you have 1.000.000.000 gold. If you're interested, here is a short 'blurb' I wrote for then Tradewinds games (on occasion of Tradewinds being the free game of the week on Sandlot games).Okay, having played the game a bit more, I can now give you better tips. Also, while the combat is rather boring in the Patricians, I think in the Tradewinds games it's outright yawn-inducing. For instance, buying and selling goods (thus, changing supply) in any given town has no effect on the price of the goods - you could buy hundreds of crates of anything and still pay the same, which you can't do in the Patrician games.

Well, I do have played Tradewinds, Tradewinds 2 and Tradewinds Legends (the latter two I've even completed), and while they're certainly fun games for someone who hasn't yet played trading games before, and somewhat enjoyable for those who have, I've found they're nowhere near the Patrician games in complexity. But I find the combat in Tradewinds better. The trading aspect is almost the same and enjoyable.

While playing, I was reminded of the Tradewind Series. Joek0: I bought this game after playing and enjoying Capitalism Plus.

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