Port Royale 3

[JasonPratt]

In the Port Royale series, you're an enterprising merchant sailor-businessman (or whatever you want) and the only buildings your create are those for producing and storing your trade goods.  It's focused on trading & managing your merchant fleet(s), with options to do some side work like pirate hunting.

I'm not sure why that sounds like fun, but it kinda does. I might have to bite.

a man of your calibre didnt know this was the general premise??  ???

or has Nef simply nailed what it should say on the back of the box?

I would add to Longblade that the original (or previous anyway) PR2 was intended to be a direct remake and update of Sid Meir's Pirates (the original version not his remake) with tons more economic options but still the ability to career as a pirate or pirate hunter. That includes eventually building towns from scratch (like a city econ sim) if you earn enough political credit with a colonial government.

[undercovergeek]

so............. have you managed to play it or not?

Yes. I like it a *lot* more than I thought I would.

There is more to the game than just trading - city development, warfare. But honestly, I just love sailing from port to port making money. Finding a good bargain on dye in the Americas, then sailing down to the Spanish main to make a tidy profit is fun. Along the way I sell sugar, buy rum and cigars, and shuffle it all around. This is good, clean fun, and I have sat there for hours doing nothing more than that.

then we derive the same enjoyment from the game - ive no idea why its so satisfying to digitally sell low, buy high and play with the rewards

but it is