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 Posted: Tue, 14th Sep 2010 18:30 Post subject: Patrician IV - Conquest by Trade |
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RELOADED release:
Patrician IV: Conquest by Trade (c) Kalypso
09/2010 :..... RELEASE.DATE .. PROTECTION .......: Serial
1 :.......... DISC(S) .. GAME.TYPE ........: Strategy
The Steam Special Edition contains alternate textures for the Counting House
and Cog ship type.
Patrician IV is the sequel to the historical trading simulation and strategy
series. You are a merchant in northern Europe in the late Middle Ages when
the Hanseatic League was flourishing. Your goal is to rise to the most
successful and influential member of the Hanse, ultimately being elected
Elderman, leader of the trading league. You start bargaining with common
goods, build up your own production and establish a merchant fleet. Later on,
you will gain more and more political influence and even found new towns.
However, a Hanse merchant's life can also have its dark sides. On your way to
power you have to hold your ground against fierce rivals, whom you have to
fight with economic competition, price wars or impure means such as sabotage.
Will you even engage in piracy?
Features
* Become a powerful merchant - rise through the ranks using your increasing
fame and wealth to shape towns from small villages to glorious capitals
under your control
* A complete strategic simulation - balance competing interests, trade
routes, political turmoil, disease, weather, piracy and greedy royalty
* Build an empire - construct buildings and hire workers, stimulating
demand for common and exotic goods
* Battle on the high seas - protect your ships from pirate raiders in
realistic and exciting sea battles
* Visually stunning - a powerful new graphics engine lets you visit
bustling and realistically recreated medieval cities such as London,
Novgorod, Cologne and Bergen
* Friendly Interface and Gameplay - Players will enjoy a brand-new, user
friendly interface that makes Patrician IV easy to play but challenging
to master
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1. Unrar.
2. Burn or mount the image.
3. Install the game.
4. Use one of the following keys when prompted:
5. Play the game, but do not allow it to go online (protip: firewall).
6. Support the software developers. If you like this game, BUY IT!
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| Posted: Tue, 14th Sep 2010 18:32 Post subject: |
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Anyone have high hopes for this? I found the previous patricians sortof unapproachable, though I've played pretty much every paradoxesque strategy game - wondering if this is more user-friendly and less micromanagement.
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| Posted: Tue, 14th Sep 2010 18:39 Post subject: |
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Been having fun so far. Doesn't seem to be noticeably different from P3; some improvements, some missing features. Can't remember if P3 ever had this, but this one has auto-trade, meaning captains can be told to just buy/sell whatever they think makes a good profit. Seems to be working well enough. There's a lot of text replacement bugs though, at least in the version I have.
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| Posted: Tue, 14th Sep 2010 18:43 Post subject: |
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| Raap wrote: | | Been having fun so far. Doesn't seem to be noticeably different from P3; some improvements, some missing features. Can't remember if P3 ever had this, but this one has auto-trade, meaning captains can be told to just buy/sell whatever they think makes a good profit. Seems to be working well enough. There's a lot of text replacement bugs though, at least in the version I have. |
Autotrade!!! THAT IS FUCKING AWESOME. I got the trade concept in the previous games, but got really pissed that 90 percent of the game was clicking through trades when what I wanted to be doing was macromanaging an empire. AI trading is good.
And I was assuming there'd be 10 gamebreaking bugs through and I'd have to wait 3 months for a patch to play, but if it's just text replacement that's good. Haven't played a decent strat game in a year that wasn't full of blundering AI catastrophes.
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| Posted: Tue, 14th Sep 2010 19:05 Post subject: |
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Is there a way to block the game through hosts file instead of a firewall? I don't use one.
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| Posted: Tue, 14th Sep 2010 19:21 Post subject: |
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Does this include the content update?
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| Posted: Tue, 14th Sep 2010 19:29 Post subject: |
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Patrician 3 had auto trade as well, difference was that you had to manually assign cargo, while in Patrician 4 you can just select the towns and AI does the rest, this kills the game abit for me.
While setting up the routes in Pat3 was MAJOR PITA it was part of what made the rest of the game fun.
Also i dont like the new rank up system, while the last game was about reputation in your home town and wealth, this one is about how many ships you have and reputation in other towns.
I was never really intrested in building a whole trade eco system, but more the diplomatic side of it and hometown growth.
So in my personal opinion this is abit blegh, and i think most that played Pat3 would agree with me.
KGen: possibly i havent checked, but you can block it with windows firewall so its no big deal.
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JBeckman
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| Posted: Tue, 14th Sep 2010 19:41 Post subject: |
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You need to block outgoing instead of incoming if you use the Windows firewall, played a bit of the German version (With English text.) and it's a interesting game though it will be a bit boring at first before you gain enough ranks to really make a difference, donations can help quite a bit if you have the money for it.
(Then doing it all over again to gain influence and ranks in other city districts, haha.)
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| Posted: Wed, 15th Sep 2010 01:06 Post subject: |
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| KGen wrote: | | Is there a way to block the game through hosts file instead of a firewall? I don't use one. |
Anyone?
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| Posted: Wed, 15th Sep 2010 01:25 Post subject: |
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You'd need the site name the game wants to connect to. No idea what that could be.
Anyway, looks like the auto-trade thingy sort of makes the game just like X3; get some universal traders then sit back and watch. The rest of the game is also similar to X3 in that it all just ends up being a means to get more cash. The Patrician series does the trading-simulation part incredibly well, unfortunately it just doesn't have much else to offer.
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| Posted: Wed, 15th Sep 2010 01:35 Post subject: |
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Well it does some sort of building manager too, like Anno. HAven't gotten too far as Anno is somewhat better IMO
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| Posted: Wed, 15th Sep 2010 02:22 Post subject: |
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launcher01.kalypsomedia.com
Using name resolution via Wireshark.
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| Posted: Wed, 15th Sep 2010 03:26 Post subject: |
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klans
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Location: Latvia
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| Posted: Wed, 15th Sep 2010 09:14 Post subject: |
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I installed game successfully, even reinstalled directx from the disc, still when I`m launching the game, the video signal somehow goes down, (I mean monitor is trying to find signal) and nothing happens. I can hear the intro and sounds but no video. I tried reinstalling ATI catalyst or directx from the disc.. Nothing.. I`m using win7 Ultimate x64, directx from disc and catalyst v10.8 and have all dot.net versions.. Does anyone have the same?
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Surray
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| Posted: Wed, 15th Sep 2010 09:42 Post subject: |
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when I tried it a few days ago it crashed when I tried to increase the resolution from the 1680x1050 or something default.
I'm also on catalyst 10.8 so maybe it just has some problems with that driver version or ati cards in general, who knows. too lazy to try anything atm.
it scares me how expensive it is on steam btw... it's like 50 euros on steam for the digital copy.
now, the physical copy you can buy on german amazon for 38 euros, while the collectors edition costs 49 euros. and on UK amazon you get the normal physical copy for merely 24.99 GBP which is like 30 euros.
seriously steam..wtf?!
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| Posted: Wed, 15th Sep 2010 11:27 Post subject: |
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Yeah, same here, when trying to increase the resolution from the default one the screen goes blank. 10.8 drivers too.
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| Posted: Wed, 15th Sep 2010 11:30 Post subject: |
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I could set it to 1920*1200 just fine, also using 10.8 drivers.
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klans
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| Posted: Wed, 15th Sep 2010 11:34 Post subject: |
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I couldn`t even see the main screen, it went black before the intro was shown. Still, sound was playing normally. I read that we need to install the directx from the disc but its not working anyway.
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| Posted: Wed, 15th Sep 2010 13:08 Post subject: |
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Thought about that already, installed the dx from the Iso and still had the same problem. Anyway I've looked at the official forums and there are plenty of complains about the game, anything from it being too easy to boring...so I'll just skip it.
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| Posted: Wed, 15th Sep 2010 16:47 Post subject: |
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I'd like to try this, but I can't be assed to enable Windows Firewall (or any firewall for that matter). Does the hosts file entry posted above -
launcher01.kalypsomedia.com - work for fooling it?
I can never be free, because the shackles I wear can't be touched or be seen.
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| Posted: Wed, 15th Sep 2010 19:41 Post subject: |
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yea that works for fooling it
this game is complicated as hell and the campaign tutorial sucks
how do i set the goods i produce in a town to be picked up on the trade route instead of buying the goods? how do i load the goods i produce onto my ships?
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| Posted: Thu, 16th Sep 2010 07:59 Post subject: |
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| 8ball wrote: | this game is complicated as hell and the campaign tutorial sucks
how do i set the goods i produce in a town to be picked up on the trade route instead of buying the goods? how do i load the goods i produce onto my ships? |
Yep, really hard, but fun too. Played about 7 hours now in 2 days, forgot to eat even, as my Mediterranean trade route finally started to work.
Might not be the best one to help, as I haven't played any of these or similar games..  But Just figured it out my self. To pick up goods you need to set wanted goods on the bottom, as trade certain amounts. You see the icon next to the good amounts to buy/sell, if you click on it it changes from city to warehouse.
Well the hole trade-route and warehouse buy/sell system is overly complicated, I've yet to get my trader ships to over 30% capacity. That's after countless tweaks on my 2 traderoutes, other route was 2% capacity at first.. edit: ah now with last tweak 84 and 71% capacity
Got to try and make a third route in which I'll just hit all stuff to automatic buy and see what happens. Although I also hate the minimum/maximum prices needed to set. Is there really no simpler what that to go through all the cities on the trade route and write all the prices up on some paper and then hit them to the captain. Couldn't have bothered to do that though, went with memory on the most common goods prices.
Autosave at least works, had couple crashes where own save would have been far back. Oh and sea battles were kinda fun, but also take forever. If you need a game to kill some ( a lot) of time, then this is it  Now to make couple million and to buy the whole town! Bough a brewery, as I though I'd get them all for 400k, but no, just one house :'( 3 more left for competitors.
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klans
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| Posted: Thu, 16th Sep 2010 09:27 Post subject: |
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still no luck with launching game. Black screen appears and nothing.. Although sound is working..
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| Posted: Thu, 16th Sep 2010 09:50 Post subject: |
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| klans wrote: | | still no luck with launching game. Black screen appears and nothing.. Although sound is working.. |
I'm going to say those dreadful words you don't want to hear. Keep in mind I'm a long-time ATI fan so I've been down this road before (the Anno 1404 release comes to mind): try an earlier driver set. I know it sucks but let me be honest when I say, I always have issues on my secondary PC (which has an HD4870) with new games and/or drivers. It's just a fact: I've had to rollback at least 3 times since I've gotten the card.
P.S. Yes, even the driver the game comes with can be bugged on certain cards.
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| Posted: Thu, 16th Sep 2010 10:20 Post subject: |
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Kinda good game, nothing high end, but still its something i like to play from time to time. (If you dont know what to do ingame go to your missions and watch the video they will give you always, it helped me a lot ! )
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| Posted: Thu, 16th Sep 2010 13:41 Post subject: |
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Gotta agree with mtj, it was like "ooh nice, but buggy game..........*yawn* guess not"
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| Posted: Thu, 16th Sep 2010 18:13 Post subject: |
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Can any of you guys confirm if the Reloaded release contains the 1.1 content patch?
It looks like it's adding some nice features like sabotage, marriage etc: http://bit.ly/cz8iJn
Thanks!
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ffs reloaded, make a crack instead.
It's just sailing back and fort with no real depth.
