| Yes, I've had this game a couple of months and it's still one of our
favorites.
One thing you have to remember about timed deliveries, loading and
unloading time counts as part of your trip. The high-tech ships
can load and unload much faster than the older ones, typically one
day versus four to six days at each end of the voyage.
Keep up with repairs on older ships - below 50% state of repair
the ship will SINK! Try it once just to see the nice animation
sequence as she settles gently to the bottom... 8^)
I put FaccII onto my PoC game disk (backup copy), it *really* helps
speed up transitions between the various screens. If you work from
floppies, FaccII is a very good investment.
** possible spoilers **
My brother and I have found that this game can be played in very
different styles. The fastest way to increase your wealth is to "play
the market" with your ship(s). The market value of your ships varies
on a daily basis, high-tech ships exhibit particularly large changes.
If you buy the most expensive ship you can afford and watch its
market value every day, you can make millions of $$$ profit in only
a few days. We played this way once and had over $200 million each
within about 6 months on the game clock. Not very realistic in
terms of a shipping simulation, more like a stock market game: Buy
low - Sell high. Sometimes VERY high! (Most of the time you end
up selling the ships before they ever set sail.)
The other extreme is to spend all your time sailing around, trying
to make profitable deliveries. This is more like the real world,
right down to the point of running every out of business! It's
a very fine line between building up your fleet and being overcome
by accumulated debts. The object of this game is simply to keep
from going under...
We've found the most enjoyable play lies somewhere between pure
speculation and pure cargo hauling. We place restrictions on the
sale of ships, i.e. you must complete at least one delivery, etc.
This works pretty well because it's fairly easy to track (you know
when you've reached port) and it tends to stagger the transactions
so you don't have all players buying/selling at the same time (and
timing can make all the difference).
Uh oh, reef ahead - I have to take the helm... 8^)
-Bruce-
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| Is this a game with alot of depth? By this I mean does it not only
have good graphics, but is it the type of game you can play for
weeks and not see everything the game has to offer? I found that
Defender of the Crown was a poor game. I say this because at first
I was stunned by the graphics, but the game did not have very much
variey.
Dave
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