Best trading game?

> I'm leaving out the sci-fi/space-sim trading games to keep the list
> manageable. Any others I've missed?
>
Advanced Civ - the entire game is about trading.

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>
> > Machiavelli, I think I know under the title 'merchant prince' and I used
> > to love that game to pieces. Had a hard time running it under XP so I
> > haven't played it for a long time. It was actually a challenge to do
> > well, esp. with random maps.
>
> Yes, that's the one. I downloaded it from Underdogs and have never got it to
> run, even in DosBox. It's a shame, as it's widely heralded as a classic of
> its genre.
>

Here is my D-fend config file for Merchant Prince:
D-fend 2.0 I think, it's a front end for dosbox and this profile mostly
works, except sometimes the game loses control of the cursor and that's
a gamebreaker. D-fend has managed to create dosbox configurations for me
on a few occasions where I myself failed miserably trying to get the
game up and running. Highly recommended.

[Extra]
CloseOnExit=1
Loadhigh=0
Exe=D:\games\PRINCE\PRINCE.EXE
Setup=
CustomSettings=
SyncUpDown=0
autoexec=
GameParameters=
SetupParameters=
LoadFixVal=64

[cpu]
cycles=15000
core=normal
cycleup=500
cycledown=20

[dosbox]
machine=vga
memsize=16
language=

[sdl]
output=surface
fullscreen=true
fulldouble=false
fullfixed=false
fullresolution=Default
hwscale=1.00
autolock=false
sensitivity=100
waitonerror=true
priority=higher,normal
mapperfile=mapper.txt

[render]
scaler=normal2x
frameskip=0
aspect=false

[sblaster]
type=sb16
base=220
irq=7
dma=1
hdma=5
mixer=true
oplmode=auto
oplrate=22050

[gus]
gus=true
rate=22050
base=240
irq1=5
irq2=5
dma1=1
dma2=1
ultradir=C:\ULTRASND

[midi]
mpu401=true
intelligent=true
device=default
config=

[speaker]
pcspeaker=true
pcrate=22050
tandyrate=22050
disney=true

[dos]
xms=true
ems=true

[mixer]
nosound=false
rate=22050
blocksize=2048
prebuffer=10

[modem]
modem=false
listenport=23
comport=COM2

[directserial]
directserial=false
Comport=COM1
realport=1
defaultbps=1200
parity=N
bytesize=8
stopbit=1

[ipx]
ipx=false

[ExtraInfo]
Genre=
Developer=
Publisher=
Year=
Notes=

[Export]
notes=
profilename=Merchant Prince

===========================

As for '1830', I can't really comment. I did try the game at one time, I
know that much, but I never really spent much time with it. Don't know
how I came by it, I may have had it out on loan or something. As I seem
to remember it it's like Sid Meyer's Railroad Tycoon with a stockmarket
that I struggled to understand. Or am I getting my wires crossed here?

cheers, -Peter

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By the way, this may be worth a look:

http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/972/Gloriana.html

-P.

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> In article <mdf0k6-h2u.ln1.TakeThisOut@news.terminalarrogance.com>,
> not.TakeThisOut@receiving.here says...
>
> By the way, this may be worth a look:
>
> http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/972/Gloriana.html
>
> -P.
>

Er - belay that. It's another Ascaron game so I'm prepared to bet it
will have exactly the same underlying engine, mechanisms and concepts as
Patrician (and it's predecessor 'Die Hanse').

cheers, -Peter

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First game w/trading I ever played on a pc was called
Incunabula. Very old, like 4 color monitor old. 1986, avalon hill.
Trading was done pretty much in the imperialism style. For its time
it was awesome, way ahead of its time, though there's no way I could
stomach it now I'm sure. Was amazing that they were able to get so
much out of one game considering how limited they were on computing
power at the time. It wasn't until imperialism that I had seen a game
that had this combo (I had missed out many games in between though as
I switched to board games rather than computer games for a long time
period.

did a quick search, some screenshots:

http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/incunabula/screenshots.

One thing incunabula had that later games did not - it had
alternative game modes. In one such mode, it was just about trading,
w/out all the normal TBS stuff from the normal mode.

Leo