I should have tried the open Beta, I know, my mistake and I paid for it. 
So basically I installed my preorder about 3 hours agao and played for 2 and a half hours straight, and I am pretty much bored to death already.
Don't get me wrong, what is in the game is OK, it's just that there is simply not much to do in EIC and I can't stand any more the absolute simplistic trade system, if you can actually call that a system.
As already hinted in a few articles and on the forums, all you do is buy and sell goods and it's not even exiting trade like in Patrician.
And not even that you have to do, since you can simply chose autotrade, sit back and wait for something else to happen...which doesen't.
The only exiting/interesting part are the naval battles, which are suppose to be complementary. But if you really concentrate on the main part of the game, the economic trade simulation, well the game completly failed in my opinion. There is nothig in there, not even closely, that makes a decent trade simulation and economic game.
To me it feels like playing a casual arcade game for EUR 5.99. There is absolutely no detail in the economic system. It is so simple that I actually ask myself in the first 10 minutes of the game, if I have missed some hidden part of the game I haven't found out about yet. :rofl: But nothing was revealed and all there is, is a very bland trade system.
This is my first game I bought from Paradox that I complain about and that with good reason. From all that makes a good economic and trade simulation game, EIC is at the far end of my list.
So basically I installed my preorder about 3 hours agao and played for 2 and a half hours straight, and I am pretty much bored to death already.
Don't get me wrong, what is in the game is OK, it's just that there is simply not much to do in EIC and I can't stand any more the absolute simplistic trade system, if you can actually call that a system.
As already hinted in a few articles and on the forums, all you do is buy and sell goods and it's not even exiting trade like in Patrician.
And not even that you have to do, since you can simply chose autotrade, sit back and wait for something else to happen...which doesen't.
The only exiting/interesting part are the naval battles, which are suppose to be complementary. But if you really concentrate on the main part of the game, the economic trade simulation, well the game completly failed in my opinion. There is nothig in there, not even closely, that makes a decent trade simulation and economic game.
To me it feels like playing a casual arcade game for EUR 5.99. There is absolutely no detail in the economic system. It is so simple that I actually ask myself in the first 10 minutes of the game, if I have missed some hidden part of the game I haven't found out about yet. :rofl: But nothing was revealed and all there is, is a very bland trade system.
This is my first game I bought from Paradox that I complain about and that with good reason. From all that makes a good economic and trade simulation game, EIC is at the far end of my list.
