1869 description
One of the first strategies that belong to the direction of the "strategy-a simulation trade."
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As the name of the game, you begin your journey in 1869, before the beginning of the era, which is then called "the age of steam and electricity," and the less romantic imperialism. In London for eight years, operates the first metro line in Brazil, only 19 years will abolish slavery, and the world holds many mysteries. Mass colonization of Africa will begin only in seven years, and in the North-West of the USA a proud Indian people are still not allowed the whites to their lands...
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However, you are not attracted conquest and travel, you chose a much more seemingly mundane mode of existence and occupation: international trade. That is only right to buy, sell and count the proceeds of specie coin will not work.
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The game features a fairly high degree of detail: before trading you need to buy a ship (a small start-up capital is), to find and hire his team (this process should be approached very responsibly), to decide which products you will load (before it carefully studied the situation on the market), and then to sail to the destination.
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It is clear that your final goal is to create your own trading Empire. To achieve this really difficult, but in words – is quite simple: it is only necessary to calculate in advance the most convenient route to your destination, allow the goods within the specified period, it is advantageous to sell them, the money to buy, for example, two new ships, thus increasing your possibilities for trade, and so on.
This game looks graphically amazing (what are some only drawing types of ports and separate buildings, screens with your trading partners and others), but, sadly, can seem boring. Alas, it was "action" in the game: know make sure sailed the ships to the right place, so quickly, that is, prepared the route and watch for days prior to arrival. However, there is a positive aspect – realism: maybe the was a large dealer in the second half of the nineteenth century it was routine and monotonous outwardly, but profitable and, ironically, quite dangerous: after all, bankruptcy may be much worse than already defeated pirates...
Can be recommended to fans of smart and deliberate policies of this plan.
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Source: Archive.org