Hey traders! It\'s been a loooong time since I haven\'t updated you guys on what\'s cooking. But fear not - I have been cooking!

Localization

By FAR the most requested feature the game\'s ever had was for localization. People want to play in their native language. I get it. Today I\'m happy to announce the release of the first localized version, featuring german, french, spanish and russian. The localization IS NOT PERFECT. I will be completely transparent in admiting this first version is created using large language models. You will see however it\'s quite a bit nicer than using google translate! Over the coming days, the localization will improve massively, since many members of the community have offered to help improve it!

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Once again, I\'m so thankful for everyone\'s input & help throughout this journey! In the next days I\'ll also be implementing a way to quickly suggest label translations in-game. This way you don\'t even have to join the Discord to suggest stuff! Well, you should do it anyway (Discord: https://discord.gg/7sKhteQv4w )!

You\'ll also notice that many labels don\'t naturally fit the UI at times. Between different languages, resolutions, monitors and scaling, I still haven\'t had the chance to see every bit of the game and update them. But rest assured, I will!

The new UI

The 2nd most requested feature of all time has been an actually readable font :D I\'ve listened and chose one of the coolest ones out there! It looks great, it\'s readable and supports maaany characters, accents and even cyrillic!

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There is now a fancy font that only ever shows up in titles and other BIG formats, and a sleek, clean one that\'s used throughout. I think you\'ll find the font a lot more readable now. If not - I got you covered - the new UI also allows increasing the zoom size EVEN MORE than previously. You can probably play the game on a tablet now.

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The NEW new UI

As you might know from the Discord, migrating the UI to the new format is only part of the equation. In fact, this was needed particularly because I want to go beyond that, and introduce both totally new windows that did not previously exist (e.g. new, more fun ways of setting up convoys) as well as refactor existing windows so they\'re better. Just take a look at what I have planned for the ship details window:

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As is always the case with game development, the interface has taken a lot longer than I had expected, so the new UIs have had to take a step back, if I were to ever finish the localization before Christmas.

So is this my only Christmas gift for you guys?

The Christmas update

I\'m planning a Christmas update with some things I\'ve set up already, and some more things I hope you guys will suggest! Hit up either the Steam Discussions board or the Discord ( https://discord.gg/7sKhteQv4w ) and let me know what you\'d like to get this Christmas! Don\'t suggest multiplayer, santa can only do so much!

One last note

The new interface WILL BE BUGGY! Please report anything breaking, and give me a few days to hunt down labels that don\'t fit well. Who knew words in German can be so long?!

I hope you have an awesome time playing and a lovely December month! Will wish you Merry Christmas and Happy holidays in a new post, soon.

Happy trading,

Lexy.

Tiniest patch ever!

Updated Unity Runtime to prevent a known exploit.

Fixed a weird bug where it was possible to end up with a ghost convoy.

Fixed a memory leak that made the game take more memory, the longer you played.

That\'s all! Back to trading!

Play the Spooktober challenge before the end of the month!

Spooktober update!

Features:

• You can now customize your ships! Switch between the different sail backgrounds and icons, unlock new ones for completing campaigns or challenges.

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• New campaign: A rough start / Isolation. This is the most complex campaign to date & definitelly the most difficult. I believe it\'s also the most fun!

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• Added the Spooktober challenge: a small challenge that rewards a new sail background and new sail icons!

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• Introduced a tiny balancing changes in the way consumption is presented & used in the calculation of prices. Expect some prices to be slightly lower, though consumption remains the same. More information on this soon.

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• You can now get the \"Actual VIP\" achievement by completing all 3 campaigns.

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• There is now a custom skin unlocked for completing the tutorial, the busy bee campaign and the new rough start campaign!

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• New mayor goals: adding a new bonus to population growth, allow the creation of a temporary bonus, invite a new trader to the city.

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QoL:

• When adding a new stop to your automated trade route, the default city will be your homecity.

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• Improved the wording in the popup that explains how to send your ship to different cities.

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• The tutorial is now fully migrated to be a proper campaign.

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• Completed campaigns are now finally, properly marked as completed in the UI.

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• Mayors may now complete their own city growth goal but ONLY if the city is really packed (could not possibly place a 3x3 building).

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• If a city\'s shipyard has no upgrades, mayor goals will now only propose T2 upgrades to regular items OR T3 upgrades to the trinket slot.

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• If a city\'s shipyard already has a T2 upgrade, new goals will no longer overwrite the existing upgrade type.

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• If a city already has a T3 shipyard upgrade, it will no longer be possible to get the shipyard upgrade goal.

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• The effect of parks added to a city (which may prevent unhappy pops from leaving) is now capped at 60%.

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• Upon buying a business, robot traders will also get a ship in order to move their goods around.

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Bugs:

• The \"remove winter\" toggle would show up behind the campaign panels in Campaign selection mode.

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• The jib sail accent color was not visible anymore.

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• You can longer sell a warehouse or fire its single employee.

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Honeymoon update!\n\nYou may have noticed I\'ve been unusually busy these past few days. It\'s because I got married! Planning everything was almost as stressful as releasing a game :D\n\nI\'m leaving on my honeymoon for a week, but I wanted to leave you with a little gift! (As I typically do before every vacation). Hopefully this time it won\'t introduce game breaking bugs :)\n\nThere is now a new custom map, the Mediterranean! It has 2 different versions, with 21 and 43 cities! The 21 version should feel a bit more like the original game, while the 43 is a bit more jumbo sized, waiting for you guys to build hundreds of businesses and tens of thousands of pops.\n\nThanks everyone for all the support and kind words so far, see you in a week!\n\nHappy trading,\nLexy.

Long awaited features:\n* You can now stop the production of a business.\n* You can now sell a business to other traders (more updates to what they do with the business next week).

Tiniest patch!\n\nBugfix:\n* copy-pasting a new line into your ship\'s name could break the save mechanism\n\nFeatures:\n* Added the first official cheat code. You\'ll have to join Discord to discover it :)\n* Added new mayor quest: Invite trader to city.\n

Mayors

Mayors in High Seas, High Profits! have been a powerful tool towards becoming respected, profiting and expanding your operations in cities, especially in the early-mid game. Their standard features were fairly solid, but it was clear they can be brought to life a bit more.

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The 1st game changer is that now, mayors can fill in their quests on their own, over time. You can still contribute to these quests, and can have a bigger impact than the mayor himself! Manipulating goal orders becomes so much more powerful since mayors will complete their goals in order.

With this change, even remote cities have a chance to improve and become more lively. The one goal that mayors can\'t quite achieve on their own is expanding the city size, as this is quite a big task, requiring donations and the collection of more and more stone.

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Ah, what about choosing your mayor? That\'s also possible now! A new quest has been added where you can cast your vote for the best mayor to rule the city. Your growing reputation has more and more weight in the city\'s future, so take a minute to learn about mayor types & vote for the best man for the job!

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Storage

Storage in High Seas has been a bit of a mini-game in itself. Some move goods around on their ships simply so they don\'t have to pay rent. Getting storage without renting it was difficult: you had to build more businesses (which end up producing goods anyway). There are now 3 new tools to help you tackle this issue.

1. Prices for rented space are now halved! Spicying up the meta a little bit, I\'d like to see more central-hub playstyles developing. Lower costs for rented space should allow players to have some items lingering around without breaking bank. In the future, we\'ll compensate this lowered price with something else (probably increased sailing costs )

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2. Shops now give a cargo storage allowance. Since they have their own needs, it\'s more than fair that shops should contribute their fair amount of storage to your warehouse. More storage!

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3. There is now a new, HIGHLY anticipated building: the Warehouse! Available through the building menu, the warehouse gives out a flat storage allowance for a monthly cost. You\'ll still have to strategize around whether the monthly cost is worth it, or you\'d rather just rent the space, but this new building still brings in heavy discounts to storage cost, especially in cities where you have tons of goods.

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Shops

I mentioned them above, but also wanted to have a dedicated section for them. Shops are here!

Ever felt like the world\'s not absorbing your pottery quickly enough? The new shops have your back! These new city-owned businesses will allow you to become a manager in someone else\'s business, supply it with goods and collect the profits!

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There\'s 7 of them and they each have their own needed input goods. Strategically competing for them & providing them with everything that\'s needed will be a source of great profit, as well as continuous reputation gains. Say bye-bye to \'Not enough reputation\'.

There\'s another interesting advantage you get with shops: you don\'t need to manage employees at all, there\'s always someone at the counter. Use that wisely.

Oh, have I mentioned you won\'t be the only one managing the shops? AI traders are perfectly capable (and willing) to do it themselves!

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You\'ll have to take care of your shop and supply it with needed goods often, otherwise you\'ll end up having a heart-to-heart with the mayor.

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Auctions

If you don\'t own the Shop, you\'re surely wondering how you end up building & managing it? Mayors now have new quests to build these Shops! You can help them or let them figure it out themselves.

Once a Shop is built, you can join an auction for its management (provided you have enough reputation).

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Be aware: AI traders will always try to get their sneaky hands on these shops too! it\'s essential that you get your prices straight, learn how they bid & let some of these \'opportunities\' slip.

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Lastly

It\'s been a crazy fun month working on all of this. I\'ve had so much great feedback from people in the Discord ( https://discord.gg/7sKhteQv4w ), and that\'s actually translated in many tinier features!

Work continues on the few remaining loose ends. Next month I\'ll share a bit of the new UI. I think it\'s absolutelly nuts. You\'ll see soon.

Until next time,

Happy trading!

Lexy.

Features:\n* there is now a custom quest after completing a warehouse, not the standard new business one.\n* the consumption tab of the trader\'s hall now also takes into consideration your shops\n* winter mode can now be disabled completely when starting a new game\n* you can now set a new price for a good when selling / buying for all trade routes AND all warehouses from the convoy automatic trade helper.\n* you can now see all your shops in a list similar to the businesses list\n* successfully supplying a shop will now grant additional reputation\n* you can now lose your shop if you neglect it for too long (not your own businesses, those are safe)\n* there is now a quest to notify you of a shop that has been neglected and could soon be seized\n* after losing a shop, an auction is now created for its management. While you\'re no longer explicitly invited, you can still participate in the auction.\n* AI traders can now lose management of their shops. It\'s random & the chance is low, but it still happens quite often, especially if there are many shops in your world.\n* mayors no longer work on the goal to expand the city on their own. That\'s something you\'ll need to help them with.\n* you will now lose part of your reputation in a city if you lose a shop.\n* player reputation is now directly visible in the world view for any discovered city\n\nBugs:\n* shops would sometimes sell less goods than planned.\n* the consumption shown in the trader\'s hall would not take into consideration businesses missing resources\n* it was possible to sometimes crash the convoy statistics window when changing the currently viewed trading session.\n* an error was thrown when you were in the ship sale window and the ship is taken away because it\'s in fact temporarily rented.

Features\n* new building: Warehouse! (buildable through the build menu)\n* taxes for rented space have been halved - enjoy it for now as other taxes will soon increase! :)\n\nBugfixes\n* broken warning could cause more stutters\n* some report files would not get deleted\n* some reports could not be sent because the save files were too big\n* autosave is a bit less frequent\n

Bugfixes:\n* very bad stutters on some maps\n* some average prices would exceed their boxes\n* a UI component (SmartContentFitter) could fail (this was not visible to players)\n* the version number had not been updated in game\n* a component responsible for rotating some UIs so they face the camera could fail. I think this was not visible to players.\n\nImprovements:\n4 new performance improvements, more are planned with a future epic (very soon)

New Features:\nShops!\nAuctions! (for shops)\n(more info in a dedicated post soon OR jump in game and find them!)\n\nBugfixes:\n* the windows for different city buildings would remain open after you went to the world view and then came back to the city view.\n* entering building placement mode and then opening the world map would result in the building shadow hanging around in the world view\n* the list of previous automated trade runs would not show up correctly.\n* price sheets would sometimes not show up in the list of files you can load.\n* ships right on the edge of the map could fail to detect if they\'re near the shore or not\n* decision making for the ship to show when multiple ones are on the same tile would sometimes fail\n\nQoL:\n* when changing a Mayor\'s last goal, the goal selection window no longer disappears if you open some other window.\n

Urgent bugfix patch!
Fixed a bug where the new warnings could fail, affecting some players.

I can proudly report the new automatic error reporting mechanism is working well & already reported 950 errors in 2 days ( fortunatelly, it's mostly spam from Unity not playing nice with some controllers ).

Also fixed 3 more bugs that were very rare and not game breaking, but got picked up by the system.

Expect even more stable builds with the new system, as it's just warming up with reports from older, harder to reproduce bugs.

New features:
* new warning system! It will draw your attention if you have businesses that have halted production because you need input goods, if you're attacked by pirates, if you have broken ships, etc. Please send me more ideas on what kind of warnings you'd like to see in the game!
* new error collection system! Errors and crashes are now logged and sent to the server. None of the data colected is personal or can be linked back to players. You can turn off the system entirely in the settings.
* quest details now show the date by which an answer is needed for the quest
* started a new epic around mayors!
* mayors can now fill their own quests and goals slowly, over time!
* mayor elections no longer happen on the same day, instead they're staggered, over time.
* you can now vote for mayors if you have enough reputation in a city! An election quest will pop up and you can choose who to support. Depending on your reputation in the city, your support could have a very big impact on results.
* you will receive additional respect from a mayor if you voted for him

Bugfixes:
* an empty warehouse would still show the average price of the goods it used to contain
* hovering a city on the world map did not play a sound

Set it and forget it?

Automated convoys are one of the most powerful wealth-building tools in-game. They allow for a bunch of different strategies. Collect goods from all of your businesses in 1 or several hubs (then distribute them to surrounding cities), straight up carry everything on your back, and haggle throughout the world or anything in between!

One of the problems with convoys has been that after creating your route, you were a bit in the dark in regards to exactly what happened while they were trading. That stops today!

Granularity first

The new system registers up to 11 trading runs, with each one of them ending after the last city on your list is visited. In these runs, you can see where the convoy has stopped, what goods were bought, sold, loaded and unloaded, how the total cargo capacity changed, etc.

You can even filter your view to only include 1 single good! Moreover, you're only shown goods that have actually been traded in that run. This will help you debug your routes and ensure you buy/load exactly what you need and sell as much as possible, for the best prices!

Here's an example: I have a route where I buy every single production bonus good from every city I visit, and then try to sell them everything else.

Here's what I mean:

Here's how I've been doing in my latest run on Iron bars:

Bought:

Sold:

As you can see, I managed to load up on 10 bars on this run (in Pellin and Alemstra), and sold all of them by the end (and an extra 4 crates that I picked in a previous run!). Pair this info with my convoy's hold having no more bars, it's a pretty good indication that there's good demand right now! I might increase the prices a little bit or pick up more bars to further increase my profit.

What about available cargo space?

My convoy has about 650 total cargo capacity, and the max I reached in this run is 368. I'm good for now, I don't need to add any more ships in, I could even pull a tinier ship or 2 into some other convoy!

What is profit after all?

You might notice there's a couple of different ways profit is presented. That's because you can look at profit in different ways!

If you just look at all of our income and spending, that's the simplest way to consider profit! We sold stuff, bought more and then repaired our ships. Simple enough, right?

Well, what happens with goods you already had on your ship? What about those loaded or unloaded in different ports? Deciding on profit for those is more complicated.

The 2nd profit formula looks at individual sales and what cost you to get that product. Say you had 10 crates of Iron Bars on your ship and got those for 185 coins per crate. When you sell them, the profit (or loss!) will be tracked. Adding the profit from every single transaction (and subtracting ship repairs) gets you the 2nd profit type!

In the example above, the simple profit is lower. That's because we loaded up on some goods that we didn't sell! We'll sell them eventually & then the simple profit will be higher!

More convoy updates?

Yes! But after the new UI gets implemented. There's still a lot of stuff that's too complicated, especially when setting up trade routes. I think you'll love the new UI. I actually started working on its design. Leave a comment if you'd like a sneak peek, or would prefer to be surprised.

Until next time,

Happy trading.

Lexy.

Urgent fix of a bug introduced yesterday, preventing game saves.
If your save failed, please use the most recent autosave.
Sorry for the inconvenience :(

Automatic trading statistics are here!

Bug fixes:
* there were still scenarios where you could end up with perpetual winter :(
* in the main menu, people could walk outside the roads
* deleting a ship from a convoy could incorrectly change the leader of the convoy
* the quest history could show up empty

Changes & new features:

* there is now an interface to see what, where, and how much your convoys have traded!

* ports can no longer freeze in the Tutorial
* adaptive consumption is now no longer used in the calculation of prices (prices won't jump lower after you buy some goods)
* Timberyard recipe no longer requires logs
* added 4 new difficulty levels! I've postponed the last and whackiest of them all (needs more time)
* ai traders now have a small preferences towards returning to their home town. Also changed where they spawn to be more balance[b]
[/b]* re-ordered monthly input goods & build cost goods to ensure they're alphabetical

Bugfix:
- winter would sometimes fail to end :(

Quality of life:
- you can now choose which difficulty modifiers you would like to play with. If you don't like one in particular, you can turn it off.
- added a new option to Prevent ports from freezing during winter.
- there is now a hotkey to Focus the selected ship in world view.
- there is now a hotkey to show the Town Hall.
- you can now replace the Mayor's last goal! It costs 50 respect and you'll be able to choose 1 of 3 different options.
- you can now reset all your movable windows (just the scratchboard) to their original position & size.

Optimizations:
- multiple optimizations to materials and meshes, removed Depth Of Field effect from start menu as it was (probably the one) causing some GPUs to heat up quickly.

Many tiny QoL updates
- there is now a warning (in the build window) when you have insufficient reputation to build.
- hovering over the warning also gives extra information about reputation tiers and how much you can build for each one of them.
- moved reputation information from Traders Hall to Town Hall in preparation for more details being added.
- there is now a bit more info about reputation in the town's hall.
- mayors will now no longer give a flat rate for goods sold as part of a quest. Instead, if a city has a lot of cheap goods, the mayor will also offer the same price as buying from the market directly.
- updated screenshots of ships in the Shipyard build menu so it contains the new sea.
- moved info about ship type and made it bigger.
- there is now a list of the most recent 10 seeds you've played in your games and the starter cities for each one of them, so you can more easily find the right one.
- every list allowing a file to be loaded or saved will now also allow you to double click to load / double click to save in addition to clicking an item and then clicking the load / save button.
- there is now a confirmation window when making a new save with the same name as an existing one (e.g. overriding the existing save).
- you can now set up keymaps to quickly select your ships!
- tooltips for city production and consumption now clearly specify this is monthly production / consumption.
- you can now drag the world and city maps around by clicking the ground. Can be disabled in settings.
- you can now temporarily disable the price guard until you close the trade window. It will allow you to do 'bad' trades for strategic reasons, but only until you close the trading window and open it again.
- I've adjusted some ship characteristics: Skiffs now need an extra sailor (6 instead of 5). Caravels and Carracks now have way larger cargo holds but also need considerably more materials to be built.
- the new business window now shows production with city bonus included, as well as information about the base production for cities having a specific bonus.
- winter production is now also shown during the summer, to allow a more informed decision.

Bugs:
- winter production would not be shown correctly in the UI
- after creating a new game with a custom map, if you loaded an existing save with a different custom map, the world generation would get confused and load in the wrong terrain.

Winter is here!

If there's one thing a high sea trader loves, that's opportunities for profit! Winter is definitelly one of them.

Jump in and discover some goods that have reduced production during winter & the impact that has on consumption, pop happiness and your own businesses!

All smooth sailing, right?

There's never a free meal, capturing these new opportunities comes at a cost: plan around ports freezing, ensure your supply chains are up to date and there's enough stock to pass a long winter. Or just risk everything, hope for a short winter and dump as much grain into cities as humanly possible! It's up to you.

Smarter convoys

New options have been added to allow you to instruct your automated convoys on how to act around frozen ports.

There's a few more effects / QoL updates that will roll out soon impacting winter mode. There might even be some difficulty modifiers targetting the new season.

Please give it a shot and let me know how it feels!

Happy trading,

Lexy.

Winter mode is here!

More info in a dedicated changelog, or just go ahead and test it out!

Major optimizations to turn simulation:
* autosave is done on a separate thread now and no longer stutters the game
* introduced some object pooling on world ships which decreases number of stutters
* dramatically improved pathfinding algorithm to almost completely remove end of turn stutters

Bugfixes:
* explicitly saved game screen mode setting (which is normally managed by the game engine) since it was not implicitly saved for some players

Goodies:
* new custom map, the Caribbean! This is the most dense map to date, featuring 60 cities! The map is directly inspired by the Port Royale 2 map.

As some of you might know, I've been on an epic month-long vacation. It's a first for me, and it has been incredible. The time of vacation-ing has ended. The time of building is now upon us!

In this post I'll present the game's Roadmap. It's a pretty long read. Strap in!

Loose ends (June-July)

• remaining difficulty modifiers
• winter mode!
• big list of QoL features
• rebalancing ships perks + pirate encounters
• trade routes: statistics + more advanced management tools
• mayors: election process, player managed city-owned shops, auctions, more mayor quests
• notification / warning system for broken ships, businesses missing resources, pirate attacks, etc.
• ship customization
• the Sarnis campaign (FINALLY!)
• mark campaigns as completed (major oversight, sorries)
• free-play goals
• new warehouse building
  

New UI + localization (July - September)

• new UI system thats cleaner, has a better font & nicer overall aesthetic
• improve many of the windows (looking at you trading window, buy 1, buy 5 shenanigans)
• more tools to manage fleets, trading routes, global inventory view & upgrades
• localization for the first language set: german, spanish, french, russian
  

The sandbox (September - November)

• fully featured map editor with a land painting tool, allowing the exact placement of cities and hand-crafting economies, setting up goals.
• steam workshop integration so that you can share your custom games + find new, interesting ones.
  

The future (November +)

• improve robot trader AI: robot traders will have goals, build their own businesses and more ships, allowing for a more immersive world, as well as making strategic use of them.
• v1 of mod support, probably in the shape of a demo mod, allowing new buildings, ships, UIs and hooking into the games event system
• a bunch of other stuff I have probably promised but am forgetting right now.
  

Maybe-land (2026 - 2099)

• extract the game core and open source it
• use the game core as a server and package it with the visual client, in order toooooo
• allow multiplayer
• add a pirate combat minigame (and becoming a pirate ofc!)
• church focused free DLC with new buildings, quests, economies and more stats to track!
• politics focused free DLC allowing you to influence elections or become the actual mayor
• community crowdsourced localizations for other languages or even a system to load localization packs from the workshop
• female captains & mayors
  

Goodies (all the time!)

• more custom maps before the map editor is released (in fact, I have one in the works right now, and it has a crazy amount of cities in it)
• improved captains - be able to find captains in special places, earn them through quests or remove bad traits from existing ones. I also heard rumors about some kind of academy
• creating new settlements
• building dwellings and becoming a landlord
• more quests! in fact as soon as we have at least a decent pool of them, I should be able to re-enable quests in the free play since they wont be as repetitive anymore. Keep a look out in the Discord for some kind of quest-creation competition
• more campaigns!
• more achievements
• more city sizes (larger cities)
  

Lastly

2 bug fixes after returning from the vacation!

* automatic placement of city-owned buildings would not take into consideration higher city levels
* loading a save would result in weird values if the save was created on a different PC with a different culture

Bug fixes while on vacation!
A bug on trade routes.
3 bugs on the new Hanse map.

Have fun!

Quick gift to all of the lovely people who have supported the game so far! I'll be off for a few days, but figured I can leave you with something nice to play until I come back: the first ever, custom map! And yes... it is... The Hanseatic League! The city positions and names are the ones you expect, but the economies are not. In fact, they're still driven by seed numbers. I set up a default seed so that you can play in Luebeck, if you're nostalgic for any specific game...

Automated trade route quality of life:
* you can now save & load city action sheets with prices
* you can now save & load full trade routes
* setting a buy / sell order on a good will now prefill the base production cost OR the last price you manually set for that good and seed, if any was set
* there is now a new 'Quick price helper' widget which allows you to set prices based on a set margin percentage, push a price to all cities in a trade route or set a global price for all trade routes
* there is now a warning icon next to cities in which you've set up actions that deal with warehouses (loading, depositing) but you don't have enough reputation to access the warehouse

Bugs:
* the start game button was not clickable when the interface scaling was set to max
* in the main menu, some parks were offset and cutting the roads
* in the ship details window, captain names would overflow awkwardly when they were very long
* pressing escape while in the in-game settings window would not close the window but rather show the menu behind it

The highly requested city expansion is here! Yet another one of the features that almost made it into the original release! It was set aside to properly focus on the maaany things needed for the release, but it's here now!

Help mayors achieve their goal and expand their cities, all of it while profiting from the expansion of course!


Also added Parks which are one more way to ensure your people are happy and thriving!

Happy trading,
Lexy.

Hey there!

The long awaited Steam Achievements are here! They were always planned for the release, but I never had the time for them. That changes today!


We also had a small competition in the Discord where members suggested achievements they'd like to see in-game! It was fun and they were rewarded with a rare T6 achievement: Actual VIP!

The competition's closed for now, but I will open it up again in the future! So if you want to leave your mark on achievements or are just on the hunt for this rare one, jump into the Discord ( https://discord.gg/7sKhteQv4w )

Happy trading,

Lexy.

Bugfixes:
* a memory leak someone reported through in-game feedback! Thank you anonymous person!
* getting sacked by pirates while carrying non-sellable goods (Old Sailor, Ambassador) would result in the game crashing because the game could not determine the value of the goods Pirates will now no longer try to take these non-sellables from your ship.
* the Busy Bee campaign would not correctly register reaching 12 ships if they were obtained through fighting pirates and not through building in shipyards
* you could not repair your ship for free (following event) if you had negative balance.

Bugfixes:
* the window showing battle details would be hidden when the turn advanced, even if the pirate fight quest was still active
* the icon above a ship that's engaged in a fight would only be shown for 1 turn when the fight began and would not be shown at all after loading a save where you were already engaged in a fight
* completing a mayor quest when there wasn't a valid place for a building in a town would result in having the building placed at 0,0.
* after fighting a pirate ship, ships could be stuck at sea indefinitely

QoL:
* You can now SELL SHIPS! It's a much-requested feature and a big blind-spot for me, I should have expected & implemented it earlier. Sorries bout that.

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