The key to win this game easily is to be picky with your trade in order to control both chinese addiction to opium and british addiction to tea.
Never sell opium under 70, the more opium you trade the higher the alarm rate in chinese ports and the more opium you need to buy, rising the price in Bengal.
Likewise, don't be desperate to reach the quote of tea as fast as possible, if the clipper has to wait for a few weeks it will help keep british addiction under control, demanding less tea per shipment.
In the last year of the game, you need to purchase tea constantly, so you will need solid reserves of silver in order to ensure your victory.
Great game! I particulary depised the food management aspect, and towards the end of the game the battles become too long as enemies have too many HP. I had four damage-dealing items and still took forever to crawl trough the last world. On the other hand, better than a game feels long than short. Everything else is a 5/5. Loved the sketchy art.
My explanation to the meaning of the four endings: 1) Missed, you totally ignore your roomate, so you miss that she has a problem 2) Forgiven, you pay enough attention to know there is something wrong with your roomate, but you still go out instead of helping her, and feels gulty later for not helping her. 3) Survivor: You pay some attention to your roomate, but not in full (you either miss to hang out with her but pay attention when you find her in the bathroom, or hang out with her but miss to pay attention to her when you find her in the bathroom), so she survives... for now. 4) Hope: You behave like a real friend with your roomate, pay attention when you hear noises, when you stop hearing them, you hang out with her and hug her after you find her in the bathroom. So you help her all the way and she gets fixed.
The 4 endings: 1) Missed: go to laptop, chat with goth girl, ignore your roommate, go to the date, talk with the goth girl, go back, open door... 2) forgiven, same as 1 but check on your roommate when you hear voices, don't talk in date just let time pass, dont open door just call police. 3) survivor: ignore the goth girl, then either check on your roomate when hear voices and after they stop, hang out with her, talk about everything, then when you find her in the bathroom just leave, OR just work work work until you need to go to bathroom, then hug your roommate and pay attention to her. 4) Hope: check on your roommate, hang out with her, then when you find her in batrhoom hug her and pay attention.
It only took me 63 deaths to make it first time. I figured out that if I didn't collect enough money I wouldn't be able to pay for the pizza, luckly I got 8.75 so I could even give a tip to the peasant.
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