Patrcian 3 or Port royale 2 + need advice - Page 2

2- increase your wealth : the wealth means several things

a- your cash
b- your facilities
c- your houses
d- your ships
e- your items in your offices and your warehouses

in another word wealth is all your items in every town and everywhere.

b- trader:

now you should build your first facility and its the workshop which needs 2.1 pig iron to make 21 iron goods don't forget to put pig iron in your office you can get pig iron from Malmo Aalborg and Oslo buy as much as you can if its cheap and then keep it in your office. and continue your buying and selling and just sell to your town except iron goods sell it elsewhere or an item that you got lots of it and isn't needed in your town and if you have any extra stuff put it in your office until your town needs it and don't sell it cheap so you get more reputation.
note: when you are doing a trade (buying or selling) there's a price near your item (other than selling and buying price) this means that if you sell more than that price you get money if you sell less than it then you lose money (means you bought high and sold cheap and if you sell higher means you sold higher than you bought)

d- Travelling merchant:

now continue the trading (i don't think that there are many differences between merchant and travelling merchant because i finished this rank in 2 months or 3 although they gives you 1 year) anyways when become Travelling merchant a message will be sent to you saying that you should make trading offices in other towns. I reached the next rank without making the trading offices but at the next rank i had to make them. but it takes time so i lost at the next rank but luckily i saved when i changed to this rank.anyways try building 1 or 2 trading offices if you got money and a tip to make them is to make a 3rd ship and then take out 20 iron goods and all the bricks you can carry then send them to a town and make the trading office and you cant make a trading office until the town sends you a letter named Permission which allows you to build a trading office. i recommend you build a trading office in Gdansk to produce meat,leather and beer and one in Aalborg to produce pig iron, meat,leather and pottery. by the way meat and leather are produced in the same facility. you should make them slowly not in a row so you can save money and get to the next rank so your time is extended.
note: don't forget to spend money on donations , extension and feeding the poor with food in church it helps increasing your reputation

Q&A

Q: what is tavern used for?
A: you can recruit sailors and captains ,give your ship to a pirate and sometimes people need help are in there.

Q: why would I give my ship to a pirate and what loot that he demands?
A: so he and his sailors go and hunt traders and he gives you some of the loot (if he demands 40% he gives you 60% and so on)

Q: where to buy weapons for my ship?
A: in the weapon smith

Q: i bought the weapons but they aren't in my ship how can I equip it
A: it goes to your office so you have to go to the town you bought the weapons from go to place where you can trade then press weapons and equip it.

sorry its not in one message because it dont let me write too much in one message. it have a limit

Lawliet, nice breakdown of prices...can't argue much with what you have posted here. Nice, succinct info!

For newbies, just realize, some items aren't really worth trading, like grain, bricks, fish. They are bulky and practically no markup. As noted, you will be buying (and making) plenty of bricks!!!

You will soon figure out to key in on the high-volume, high markup items like iron goods, pig iron, meat, skins (from the northeast,) beer (volume), wool, cloth, leather, wine, somewhat in that order.