Patrician 3 "20 Quick Tips"
1. Employ a Ware-house manager ASP (this is for very hard settings, if starting with snaikka, build another snaikka, then a crayer)
2. Build a Crayer
3. Upgrade Crayer to level 3
4. Concentrate on Beneke with Captain 4 or 5 in Navigation
5. Bet on Iron-Ore in Alborg ASP, then set circular route in Stockholm, Reval.
6. Buy 20-80 (depending on cities at start) 20=2000 pop
7.Set a circular route asp (ex: Rostock/Malmö/Stettin/Gdansk
8.When Beneke is captured set another Circular Route at Rostock/Stettin/Gdansk/Torun export just cloth/iron-goods/wine
at Alborg (Iron-Ore is very important) and Ladoga/Osla (iron-ore importI)
9. Build a Ware-house in Alborg first (or if you play at VERY HARD SETTING, which you should, Rostock and Stettin is the first Ware-houses due to high demand on grain and fish/beer.
10.When thats is settled, concentrate to build a brickwork in central hub (your main city) set the bricks to export and import timber for now (at the first 5 years anyway).
Remember every golden counts!
11.Build housing when there are 90-95% demands.
When it reaches 96-100% the AI builds and that is irritating.
Especially when you can earn secondary earning.
Ex: When in cenral hub there is a Merchant House demand
for 95% ca build a house then you can do this is every ware-house city you have built it.
All of this is important and vital.
12.Examples of selling prices for Patrician 3 (Very Hard)
Beer: 41
Fish: 490
Grain:115
Iron Goods: 325
Iron-Ore=1050
Meat:1050
Wool:1150
Cloth: 280
Leather: 280
Theese are the main import/export in the beginning.
Although the pricing can vary.
13.Take it slow, building Workshops is slow
14.Have a buffert when building 50K+
15.Go to city-house when Councillor or Patrician
Set taxes to 4%, set extend city guards. Later on when Patrician you can expand city wall...but that is when you have 400K+ in Golden...
The city-gate costs about 100K in Golden.. Dont wait too long, then there is a risk that the game "freezes" the build-wall method. For example when Alderman...or Lord Mayor..
This prevents any intercepting of Princes/Hoarding bandits later on, go to city-hall (when Alderman (or Lord Mayor) when expanded wall,
look out for the money if Patrician, you quickly can go bankrupt...and the choose expand military (if over 1000+ population limits) have a buffert of around 200K+.
16. Expand your fleet accordingly
17.Dont rush to Lord Mayor, because you have to pay for the City Wall (if doesnt build more ships)see above...!
18. Buy cutlasses and upgrade your convoy leaders
On valuable routes (ex Alborg/Stockholm/Malmö)
equip your best Captains with 4 or 5 in Navigation/Fighting
19.Build grainfarm, beer-house and fishing hut early on.
And then a Workshop.
Winter sets in early on, and theese building doesnt cost much,
if you have set up your ware-houses-and cities correctly
20. Use one Hub for central-warehouse storage
ex:
When trading you shall sell everything your city producing
and buy when it doesnt.
For example, dont build lumber in Lubeck,
import it from Alborg or Torun instead.
This is for the hardest settings in Patrician 3.
If you play on easy you can test to build lumbermills, because the pricing is ridiciously high.
If done right you have 250,000 cash in one year and Patrician in no time...14 months...