Posted January 17, 2010
high rated
Hi,
I've been playing Patrician for sometime now and found these three tips useful so I thought I'd pass them on.
1) This gets round a problem when Patrician crashes and corrupts its message queues. That is whenever you click on messages and then select the message type you want to read the game crashes. I have seen this a number of times and its really annoying having to go back a even 30 minutes to your last save. To get around this go to the message option and then options for messages set the message type that is causing you problems to always delete. Go back to the game. Wait for a few minutes and the queue gets deleted and you can reset the delete messages option to what you want.
2) When playing the single player game you will no doubt setup loads of auto trade routes. When these complete you get a bell and a message. When you have 20-30 routes all going this produces a continuous annoyance. To stop just the "Ship trade" messages simply add a new town as the first in the auto trade list and mark it so the auto trader does not stop there. (-) Your ship will not travel to the town or spend any time performing the stop. It then means you can get the tax report :-( oh boy that tax is so high. You will also see when your expedition ships have returned from the Med or America.
3) At some point you will come across a pirate that is too quick for your pirate hunter. The pirate will always run away and make it. The answer is simple you need to slow him down. Since you cannot catch him to blast him with canon, You need another way. But , if he was loaded with cargo he will be slower. So all you need to do is send a ship full of cargo shadowed by your pirate hunter or even in convoy with the cargo ship. Let the pirate attach and plunder the cargo ship. He will now be slow enough to catch and you get your cargo back. Not only that but you stop the pirate and get a new ship.
Hope that helps
Zaf.
I've been playing Patrician for sometime now and found these three tips useful so I thought I'd pass them on.
1) This gets round a problem when Patrician crashes and corrupts its message queues. That is whenever you click on messages and then select the message type you want to read the game crashes. I have seen this a number of times and its really annoying having to go back a even 30 minutes to your last save. To get around this go to the message option and then options for messages set the message type that is causing you problems to always delete. Go back to the game. Wait for a few minutes and the queue gets deleted and you can reset the delete messages option to what you want.
2) When playing the single player game you will no doubt setup loads of auto trade routes. When these complete you get a bell and a message. When you have 20-30 routes all going this produces a continuous annoyance. To stop just the "Ship trade" messages simply add a new town as the first in the auto trade list and mark it so the auto trader does not stop there. (-) Your ship will not travel to the town or spend any time performing the stop. It then means you can get the tax report :-( oh boy that tax is so high. You will also see when your expedition ships have returned from the Med or America.
3) At some point you will come across a pirate that is too quick for your pirate hunter. The pirate will always run away and make it. The answer is simple you need to slow him down. Since you cannot catch him to blast him with canon, You need another way. But , if he was loaded with cargo he will be slower. So all you need to do is send a ship full of cargo shadowed by your pirate hunter or even in convoy with the cargo ship. Let the pirate attach and plunder the cargo ship. He will now be slow enough to catch and you get your cargo back. Not only that but you stop the pirate and get a new ship.
Hope that helps
Zaf.
