How to make more money in port royale 3

Submissions should be for the purpose of informing or initiating a discussion, not just with the goal of entertaining viewers. For an in-depth explanation of our rules don't forget to check our rules wiki page and FAQ! Some promotional submitting posting your own projects, articles, etc.

Do not solicit votes for your posts. For more information, see the self-promotion on reddit FAQ. If you want to promote without participating in the community, purchase an ad. Please report posts containing spoilers unless they are hidden using the following method or are inside a thread clearly labeled as containing spoilers.

The following topics are posted weekly. Click here to find a list of past threads! What have you been playing? Port Royale 3 - Do you have it? Can you help me figure it out?

Port Royale 3 - Do you have it? Can you help me figure it out? : Games

So i've been playing this game for the last couple of days because I love pirates and stuff, yet I can't keep myself from going bankrupt when I try to trade. Basically even when I trade in places where the goods are sold cheaply and I can get a profit, it's all a race against the clock as my ships cost maintenance and I don't earn enough to actually gain money. Alright I got this. You get that second ship early on. Set it to do a trade route from Port Royale, San Juan and a couple of other towns on the south coast of Cuba basically doing a big loop.

Set it to Profit. Over time they will start making cash.

Faster than you can. Buy another sloop set it to run up and down the east Carib islands that you have explored by then hitting all the towns on the way. Again Set it to "Profit" mode.

Rinse and repeat all over the place. Keep it to a max of ten cities per ship. I personally gave up on the game because it's broken. You build up your rep with any nation and then it slowly creeps down so you have to do more missions to keep it up.

But half the missions are "build seven of this business", or you get none at all. So you start building the business and bringing in the building supplies and the other merchants get your supplies instead of you so you fail the mission and your rep suffers or just keeps creeping down.

Keep in mind Rep. You also need an astounding rep in order to annex towns for yourself which is a very important part of the game as well. If you go to the forums of Port Royale it's one of the biggest gripes people have with the game. What good is a million bucks and a crap load of ships useful for if you can't kill other countries, or get your own cities? Or maybe even with the entire Ascaron games including the Patrician series very similar to PR but in Europe?

I have played very little of PR2 but PR3 is very different and from what I'm reading on the forums Patrician fans are also not happy with PR3 either. My take is that Patrician takes a bigger emphasis on trade than on confrontation than PR. The games seem to be very similar - I'd say P3 and PR2 are very very similar. It's annoying how they don't tell you "Hey, set up a trading route for money".

Most of my money comes from those routes, not from trading I do on my own. So how do I increase reputation? Just pick one nation and do a lot of quests for it? And how do I manage the warehouse so they dont sell stuff I need for construction? You have to do missions that you find at the governor's mansion for national rep. For local city rep it's easier. Bring them stuff they need. If they have very little grain bring them grain and fill the trade abr till it turns green.

Never buy so much from a city that the trade bar turns red. That'll slowly bring your city rep up. Oddly enough I don't think that one slowly depreciates like the national rep does.

IIRC t's a button available when you click on the warehouse. The good ones are "get x tons of y and deliver it to z". Only downside is, these missions are only available if two countries are at peace. In the case of Margarita, England and Spain must be at peace. Don't buy too many ships, and don't buy big ships with lots of cannons unless you have the trade routes set up to support yourself. Then again, most of this is stuff that I learned in Port Royale 2.

Pretty sure it still applies. Problem is, I was doing it according to the tutorial, which gives you an extra ship about ten minutes into the game. Should I just sink her or something? If the game is anything like Port Royale 2, you should be able to hire a captain and setup an automatic trade route.

Figure out what the islands need. I'm assuming you can still develop business as well. If that's the case, see what raw materials it produces and make a business that uses it. Sugar into rum, tobacco into cigars etc. Yeah, the game suggests creating a circle between Port Royale, Port Au Prince and some city in Cuba. So I should make a route between the three, automate it and see if I can turn a profit?

And than what's for me to do?

Try and manually trade? In my experience, manual trading makes more profit than anything else for most of the game. The rule is simple, buy all the goods any port has excess of. Buy until the commodity would drop to 2 green pips, then sell any commodity they need and you happen to have until it goes up to two or three green pips. Prioritize more expensive commodities.

As far as trade routes go, they work, but aren't super useful early on. In my experience, long routes tend to work better, like stops. Just set them to prosperity. Also, make curacau your home city. As it can produce wood and brick, it's easy to build up an empire starting there.

You still need to manage your ships. You can set up price limits and what out but the AI can still manage to muddle things up.

Abnormal Traffic Detected

You can manually trade or take to the high seas and start pillaging. I personally like building up several business and starting over the markets before turning into the most well equipped pirate. I played the game. It has pretty neat settings when it comes to trading. Basically you can set it up to buy by himself and it always gives profit.

I set up like 3 trade routes and then sped up time and money just kept coming in. I don't know though if it has a diminishing return at some point so the routes become unprofitable. I did, but most of what I figured was mentioned by other people in this thread. I've played the first two, and I enjoyed them quite a bit. You should note that the Port Royale series has been mostly economic sims with some piracy on the side. I'm not sure how much of this applies to the third iteration, but hopefully some of this will help.

Each colony produces goods in a few different categories. The first is raw materials wood, hemp, sugar. There are actually two types of raw materials: The former is used for building, the latter is used in the creation of goods from the second category: Finished goods are used by a colony to sustain itself, and will disappear over time. They command decently high prices, and - especially at the beginning of the game - there are usually a few goods which must be imported from somewhere else.

There's another category of finished goods which are often very expensive, and those are exports. Every now and again a ship from the Old World will come by and take away some of the goods which can only be found in the New World coffee, rum, cigars.

Those same ships will drop off manufactured goods from Europe tools, wine. These are also really expensive, and are used by colonies, so they slowly disappear. The capital colonies Havanna, Port Royale, Grand Bahamas are where the European boats arrive, so they'll pay a high price for New World stuff to export , and receive Old World goods which you can sell to the smaller colonies at substantial profit.

So any time you visit a colony, see what it has in abundance, what it needs, and figure out where you can turn a profit. Make a loop involving a capital colony, buy Old World goods there cheaply, then go to the smaller colonies around it.

Blocked IP Address - GameFAQs

Buy whatever they have cheap cocoa, sugar, hemp, coffee , distribute your tools and wine, and make bank. Set the warehouse to buy when prices are below a certain threshold.

That way when you come back to visit you can pick up your cheaply bought goods from the warehouse. Likewise you can drop goods into the warehouse, and set it to sell them when the price is appropriately high. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy.

By signing up, you agree to our Terms and that you have read our Privacy Policy and Content Policy. Log in or sign up in seconds. Submit a new link. Submit a new text post. Please look over our rules and FAQ before posting.

Allowed submissions News and articles Reviews and previews Informative self-posts Questions likely to generate discussion Rules No content primarily for humor or entertainment No personal attacks, witch hunts, or inflammatory language No off-topic or low-effort content or comments No duplicate posts No enabling or linking to piracy Follow all formatting requirements Follow all specific content restrictions Promotion must be kept within acceptable limits Promotion Some promotional submitting posting your own projects, articles, etc.

Spoilers Please report posts containing spoilers unless they are hidden using the following method or are inside a thread clearly labeled as containing spoilers. Pong Spoiler Scheduled discussions The following topics are posted weekly. Free Talk Friday Sunday: Pillars of Eternity - Complete Edition: We are the creative minds behind Devolver Digital's E3 "Press Conference" - Ask us anything! This is an archived post. You won't be able to vote or comment.

Games submitted 4 years ago by whitesock So i've been playing this game for the last couple of days because I love pirates and stuff, yet I can't keep myself from going bankrupt when I try to trade.

Anyone here played it? Do they have some tricks, tips, a guide, something? I just gave up in frustration. Is this a problem with Port Royale 3 or the series in general?

Better or worse then PR?

That's the easiest course of action. Especially those in Margarita. I recommend doing what Creepybusguy said, but keeping your primary ship for these missions.

I have this game too. Once you have significant positive cash flow you can build ships and plunder some booties. Their web site shows September 7th Posts are automatically archived after 6 months.