Port Royale 3 Update Released

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Some bug fixes in various features, such as:

• Various random crashes fixed

• Various issues with Steward and Routes fixed

• Various updates applied to missions

• Some display issues and typos fixed

A number of community requested improvements have been added:

• Advisor hints are less frequent and more appropriate

• Shipyard, even when the player's rank has raised, still offer small vessels for sale

• You know see your reputation improve when you hunt pirates and destroy pirate lairs

• Looting towns is now more rewarding

• Mission rewards for commodities transport missions has been leveled

• You now have access to more missions essentially missions given by Governors and even sabotage missions

• The steward may now also buy commodities

• You may click on citizens (and listen to their feedback about the current situation)

• If a town needs construction materials, the price for those materials also increases on the market

• When you play on your own, you may now choose your own color

• You now have access to more starting options when you play a Free Game

• You may now set game speed to 0

• Player convoys may now only be set on Patrol mode in your own town to protect it (if that convoy is fighting, no one else can attack the town)

• Convoys on Patrol will automatically optimize their fighting power after each battle they win

• Shipyards in player towns will now have more frequently vessels to sell

• Doubled the view range of convoys

• Special buildings can now only be built when the player achieves a specific rank

Some improvements have been made to naval battles:

• Explosive barrels are easier to use as they last longer

• Explosive barrels have a larger range

• You may now also use the middle mouse button to dispatch explosive barrels

• Sail damage now has bigger impact (and makes boarding easier)

New features

• Try your luck to make some money in Taverns

• The Treasure fleet is implemented: convoys are easily spotted on the sea map and transport a lot of gold (especially when going back to Europe)

• More animated portraits, for instance for reports from town administrators and viceroys

• Two new commercial routes strategies are available to either distribute resources among warehouses or to centralize them in one warehouse

• The strategy Empty warehouse now empties only the first warehouse on the route

• You may now use an Xbox gamepad to play Port Royale 3

• If, on the sea map, you click on a town using the middle mouse button, the building menu for that town will open and you don't have to go into that town anymore to build things

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