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Pirates vs Port Royale 2

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Mabye you can help me . A female friend of mine wants to know what is the difference between these two games? What is better / worse? Thx in advance for your answers.



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Port Royale 2 is more of a trader game (though you can try to be a pirate if you like), and Pirates is more of a go out and kick some cans on other ships if you like, or you can try to do some trading.

PR2: Better trading system
Pir: Better pirating system

Both have ups and downs.

Personally I like them both, but for different reasons. Im a number cruncher in real life so I like to play PR2 for that, and when I just want to have a beer and pretzel kind of game, then I play Pirates.
 
Pirates! is too simple, Port Royale is too complex, tell her to play PoTC or Uncharted Waters <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="xD:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" />
 
Port Royale 2 is a pretty flexible game. One hand it's like a tycoon game. You setup trade route and production type. You own farm or factory and then sell the production to make profit. Or you can have your own town and build it to a florishing cities. THe economic system is rather on supply demand basis. It's pretty easy to follow if you think about the products logically. A city with garmet production will constantly have abundant supplies on garmet (so lower prices), but then demand a lot of cotton and thus your can make profit by selling cotton in that city.

Or you can approach the game in military way. You obtain letter of marque and destroy other nations military convoy to weaken them. And then you attack the city to conquer. Playing method will be pretty similar to Pirate! in this gameplay.

Or you become a pirate. I've never tried this, but it seems that only after you make deal with pirates in the inn, you can set foot on pirate stronghold. You will set up pirates network and get percentage loot from other pirates that use your convoy.

It is very hard to approach the game in military and tycoon method at the same time because once you organize a strong fleet, you will have at very high cost that is impossible to cover using an even profitable trade route. This is because you need to maintain the ships cost, crew cost and captain cost, which can only covered by looting other military ships and then sell them in the shipyard. More over, once you wage war to a nation, you can't trade with that nation for quite some time making your market smaller.

It has treasure searching mechanism as well, but rather brief as all treasures are floating on the sea. SO don't bother to look for treasure on the land.

THe battle is sometime annoying because you mostly have to use one ship against five. So you usually have to sustain a high damage for you first ship, but you can capture the enemy convoy in your second to third round.

Fun level is not too great though. Pirates! is more fun because it looks more like a children version of Port Royale.
 
Both of those Games have ups and downs..... Well the best thing would be... she should see for herself... and make a decission.
 
If you want to build a town, do alot of trading in a quite good trading system then Port Royale 2 would be it. I just wish I could do my own boardings in Port Royale 2, the lack of a boarding system (even if Pirates! boarding is very simple) is the only reason I prefer Pirates! over Port Royale 2. That and the fact even if you have a huge armada of ships you can only fight with them one at a time.

Still though, Port Royale 2 has more depth in it than Pirates!
 
This was a good game

Cutthroats terror of th ehigh seas is excellent, played it for months <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/onya.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":onya" border="0" alt="onya.gif" />


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Moning sailors <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/hi.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":gday" border="0" alt="hi.gif" />

Thx guys for your early and detailed replies. <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/onya.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":onya" border="0" alt="onya.gif" /> I´ll give everyone a bottle of rum. <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/par-ty.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":cheers" border="0" alt="par-ty.gif" /> Port Royal isn´t my case sorry. After playing it several times I soon get bored. <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/whistling.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":wp" border="0" alt="whistling.gif" /> It´s true that pirates is / was to easy on Amiga and nowerdays no matter which difficulty you choose. <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/unsure.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":?" border="0" alt="unsure.gif" /> Maybe pirates is a Child game cause of its comicstyle graphics , animations etc... But that suits me more than a blood & gore pirates. Less Comic and more realism would be fine but not to much of it.



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Have you tried pirates of the caribbean? Graphics in that are great, fights are very fun and different every time. Their not state of the art, half life 2 type graphics but the water and skies with the reflections and great boat models make for an open water experience that I havn't seen in another game yet.
 
<!--`QuoteBegin-CapnSunk`+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(CapnSunk)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Have you tried pirates of the caribbean? Graphics in that are great, fights are very fun and different every time. Their not state of the art, half life 2 type graphics but the water and skies with the reflections and great boat models make for an open water experience that I havn't seen in another game yet.[/quote]

I´ll try this out in a few weeks. Hope I`m cured than from the "Pirates! Desease" <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rolleyes.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":rolleyes:" border="0" alt="rolleyes.gif" /> <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/icon_mrgreen1.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":cheeky" border="0" alt="icon_mrgreen1.gif" />
 
Pirates Diesase

No cure dude <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/keith.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":keith" border="0" alt="keith.gif" />

Cheers <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/onya.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":onya" border="0" alt="onya.gif" />
 
Port Royale 2: A very good game but it's just not that fun
Pirates: A pretty okay game that is a LOT of fun
 
Regarding PotC

<!--`QuoteBegin-hafensaenger`+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(hafensaenger)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteEBegin-->I´ll try this out in a few weeks. Hope I`m cured than from the "Pirates! Desease"  :rolleyes:  :cheeky[/quote]Numpty is right, there is NO cure!!! <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/par-ty.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":cheers" border="0" alt="par-ty.gif" /> <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="xD:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" />

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You can have what you think is a game because you see it in the game.

But then, you can have Pirates! (the original) and find out that what you thought was not in the game usually is, it is just the fact that you do not see it.

Use the Chase view in the game of Pirates! and zoom in all the way using the plus and minus keys of the numeric keypad.

Change the economy around in an area, or in several areas or the entire Caribbean.

Use nothing that the game supplies you with personally for those are all cheats in this game of Pirates!, and become a gaining experienced for you and your crew -- Nortorius Pirate!

And the Evil Baron Raymondo should give you Nightmares, or not, it is just a game, and the only way to me to make this game better, is to have it in Virtual Reality, but that will take a better computer!

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