Jason Liang
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It always perplexed me that, however similar the Europa Universalis games were to Merchant Prince, Paradox always failed to make trading as intuitive, fun and thematic as it is in Merchant Prince.
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Any good to great Age of Sail games?
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There was a very interesting article on this topic that I found a lot to agree with. It seems to me that there are certain players that like these sorts of games (Patrician, Port Royale, Merchant Prince, etc) where the goal is make numbers go up and are not so much about trade as they are about making numbers go up.
If you've ever read books like Tai-Pan by James Clavell or Nostromo by Joseph Conrad, there's a certain aspect of trading that I don't think has ever been captured in any game, even though Tai-Pan was one of the first trading video games ever, released in 1979.
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/games-trading
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