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No. Absolutely no. I can't stand games that not only insta-fail you if you can't complete something in time, but that run at super fast speed and you can't do anything about it. I want to look around, not panic and blindly click as I try to figure out the game. 1/5.
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This is brutal. Eventually I have no way to end the misery, cannot buy anything and never really understood what was happening. Most people want to learn how to play complex games as they play games. Not need a manual to just understand what is happening after 5 full minutes of dedicated time. Graphics are good. 2/5.
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This game is very luck dependent in the early game, 1838 needed 570 tea chests to advance to the next year. You can't reasonably buy that much tea in the late game because if you buy about 150 chests of tea prices of tea skyrocket. Therefore, you must stock up in the early game which is difficult with only one ship. I've noticed that many of the best deal requires lots of opium, for example 40 chests of opium at 99 each is sweet.
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This game is difficult, got to around the 6-7 seventh year on 2nd try. Need quick reflex and luck. If you can stock up on lots of money, opium, and tea early the game is a lot easier. Count on losing lots of money the last few years.
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Story is surely fake... Britain used a drug not called tea but OPIUM to try to conquer China and when the people of china got addicted to it they started trading it with their treasures... Britain is so great today because they abused many countries in the past.
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well it seems ive encountered a bug. time passed and passed and not a single trade showed up. not a single one. how can i win?
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i like this game a lot. i just wish u could upgrade or buy bigger ships to carry more cargo. as well as being able to buy get out of jail free cards. nice game tho. enjoyed the history lesson lol
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I think the British are more addicted to tea than Chinese with opium. Man almost 700 billion cups in one decade. Fun game tho~
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I noticed that Britain's tea order actually scales with the chests of opium you sold. Hence their numbers are almost the same at the end (if you win the game). So if you find the game too hard. It isn't. You just played too well that the game decides to give you hard mode.
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Strategy game ON TIME? It would be great if there was an option... Strategy-economy clicker? Sorry. At last make it as a "easy-hard" option. Pity, nicy game, very nice idea... Devastated.
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To anyone who's complaining about giving away free tea: Don't forget that the british goverment still considered opium an illegal drug so you're essentially still a drug dealer who's helping the opium industry in indea, within british landboarder. That's probably why you need to provide free tea to prove british goverment your loyalty.
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WOULD be good, if it wasn't so annoyingly reliant on rng and didn't punish you for trying to capitalize on low prices.
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Good difficulty and pretty educational. I could feel the panic of the traders. They didn't care about opium addiction or the morality of what they were doing, they simply had to buy as much tea as they could! And fast!
Very nice game. I had fun. :)