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Winds Of Trade is a strategy game about running an ocean trading company in the 18th and 19th centuries. Building your trading empire will not be your only goal! Ruthless pirates, shady smugglers, wartime and fierce competitors will make the way to the top a long and hard road for you!
Official Site: Here (http://www.windsoftrade.net/)
Official forum: Here (http://steamcommunity.com/app/576260/discussions/)
Steam: Here (http://store.steampowered.com/app/576260/Winds_Of_Trade/)
YouTube: Here (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-vqMUX5i69uX-Y6ZQy2zPA)
Single-player:
Trailer
https://youtu.be/kLsShSD4neo
About
Winds Of Trade is a strategy game about running an ocean trading company in the 18th and 19th centuries. Building your trading empire will not be your only goal! Ruthless pirates, shady smugglers, wartime and fierce competitors will make the way to the top a long and hard road for you!
The Main Game Features includes:
Procedurally generated worlds: You will face different challenges and you will have to learn how the cities production chains interact every time you start a new game.
Realistic economic simulation: All prices respond to the basic laws of supply and demand. Every raw material comes from somewhere and every final product goes somewhere to be bought. No arbitrary game rules set, just the will of the free market.
Smuggling: Some goods that can be freely bought in one city may be illegal someplace else... Are you willing to take risks for some extra profit?
Smart Artificial Intelligence opponents that will make your way to the top even more challenging!
Dynamic world economy: Events such as forest fires, bad harvests or war alter the supply, demand and prices of the different commodities.
Contracts system: You can accept contracts from governments, private companies and even shady smugglers in order to make some extra money transporting goods. But don't forget, failing comes with a price.
Turn based battle system: Pirates may attack you if your cargo is valuable enough... Do you have what it takes to defend yourself? Also, be very careful during wartime, especially if you are transporting weaponry or troops.
Your very own colonies: Once you are powerful enough you can found your own colonies in order to exploit natural resources and play with the rules of the market.
Own warehouses to accumulate goods and manipulate the market.
11 different ship types from the Age of Sailing, including brigs, galleons, fluyts, frigates and schooners.
Automatic Trade Routes: Once your fleet is big enough you can make scripts for your ships to follow and they will trade according to your rules automatically.
Improve your ships' stats by hiring experienced captains or purchasing upgrades.
Stock market: Invest in companies, help them sell their goods worldwide and collect the profits.
Corruption simulation system: Obtain an advantage over your opponents by bribing corrupt governments.
Dynamic weather simulation.
A rich and immersive soundtrack.
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Free demo on Steam
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Overview of the updates to come!
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Hello everyone! Just wanted to let you know that the next release of Winds Of Trade is going to include a new "Jumbo" map size. Many of you have been asking for bigger maps, with more cities, more countries and more business possibilities... So we're going to deliver just that!
It's still being tested and not ready to be released yet, but we're confident we can fix the remaining issues (mainly performance ones) and ship this exciting feature in the next update!
To know more about the features that will be added to the game soon, please visit our Dev Blog here: http://devblog.windsoftrade.net/2017/05/exciting-news-about-map-sizes.html
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WoT updated to version 1.3!
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Hello everyone! We're happy to announce the new 1.3 update is now live! This update includes the following new features and fixes:
New Jumbo Size Maps: This is one of the features our players requested the most. And we are always listening! You will be able to continue playing in the 'normal' size maps, but you also will be able to start new games in the new 'jumbo' size maps, that have 125% more surface area than the 'normal' ones. Also, more countries and more cities provide experienced players with a more challenging and vastly improved experience.
Autosave: This was another feature that lots of people asked for, and it's finally here! If you go to the options menu and enable the "autosave" checkbox the game will be automatically saved every three months of game play. Neat, eh?
Performance Improvements: We've also been working hard in some performance improvements to the supply/demand and prices simulation. Now it runs three times faster than it used to! This was crucial in order to keep the simulation running at a decent speed in the new jumbo maps, as they have many more countries and cities that need to be simulated.
User Interface Improvements: The Cities Window now lists all warehouses you own and their current contents. You can also filter cities to only see those that produce a specific resource.
The minimap in the lower left corner is now automatically hidden when you go to the strategic view mode. I mean, why would you want to have two identical maps in sight at the same time? :)
Some other minor UI improvements: Now when you return from battle the camera will automatically focus on your surviving ships (if any!) so you can take appropriate action, like taking your ships to the nearest shipyard to repair them. Also, now when you change the value of an input field in the automatic trading route window, the corresponding checkbox will automatically be checked.
Minor improvements to the AI algorithms so opponents take smarter decisions about contracts and buying / selling goods.
Fixed broken texts when one of your opponents is bankrupt and you go to the strategic view mode.
Fixed bug that caused lightning sound effects to ignore the sound effects volume slider.
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WoT updated to version 1.3.2!
31 MAY - WINDS OF TRADE
Hello everyone. Today we are releasing a small patch containing a few new features and also a couple of bug fixes. Here are the details:
New peaceful mode, to play with no pirate or war ships attacks.
New feature to repay loans before they are due.
Tweaked the maximum zoom out the camera can do before switching to the strategic view mode in Jumbo Size Maps.
Fixed bug that caused the auto trade window to stop working properly after renaming a colony.
Fixed bug that caused contract delivery markers to be missing after saving the game and loading it again.
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Preview of the new Prices Map Feature!
21 June - Winds Of Trade
Take a look at the upcoming Prices Map feature that will be added in the next update of the game! If everything goes according to plan, it should be available on Steam tomorrow!
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WoT updated to version 1.3.3!
Hello everyone! Today we are putting the game on sale with a 40% discount, and we are also updating it to version 1.3.3! This update includes two new features that lots of you requested:
1) A new Prices Map you can use to effortlessly find the best places to buy or sell your goods. It makes finding new deals easier and quicker than ever before!
2) A new dropdown to quickly switch cities without having to leave the City Window.
We feel these two changes make the game more usable and more enjoyable to play. We're already working on the next update, which will include a new feature to take over competitors and a few other improvements... Stay tuned!
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Winds of Trade (http://store.steampowered.com/app/576260/Winds_Of_Trade/) is priced at 40% off at Steam. Or you can download the demo from its Steam store page.
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Improved graphics coming in the next update!
3 JULY - WINDS OF TRADE
Hello everyone! Just wanted to let you all know that the next update will include, besides a couple of new features, a graphics overhaul, making the game more aesthetically pleasing. Here's a quick preview:
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Nice! The improved graphics will certainly make Winds of Trade a more attractive game to play. Thanks for sharing.
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Screenshots of the 1.4 update!
8 JULY - WINDS OF TRADE
Hello! Just wanted to share a few screenshots of the upcoming 1.4 update. It should be available on Steam in just a few days if all goes according to plan. Enjoy!
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WoT updated to version 1.4!
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Hello everyone! Version 1.4 is finally here, and this update is an exciting one. Take a look at the changes:
Major graphics overhaul that makes the world feel more authentic and detailed than ever before.
You can now take over competitors' companies to get all of their assets and take them out of business.
Smugglers will now find more creative ways to get back at you if you fail their contracts, including assassinating your captains or burning down your warehouses.
Camera zoom speed is now customizable.
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Looks great! But that bug in your sig is triggering me bro!
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Looks great! But that bug in your sig is triggering me bro!
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Demo updated to 1.4!
14 JULY - WINDS OF TRADE
Hello everyone! Just wanted to let you know the Demo Version of Winds Of Trade has received all the updates and is now in the 1.4 version, same as the full game.
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WoT updated to version 1.4.1!
15 August
Hello everyone! We've updated Winds Of Trade to version 1.4.1 today. It's a minor update, with the following changes:
New screenshot mode that hides UI, city names and country borders. You can toggle it using the F11 key.
You can now see the lifetime profit/loss stats for your ships in the Ships Window.
The game can now run in background, so you can do something else while a new world is being generated or while your automatic trading routes are running!
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v1.5 Public Beta Now Available!
27 OCTOBER - WINDS OF TRADE
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Hello everyone! Just wanted to announce a public beta version has been uploaded. It includes a few changes to the way goods sale prices are calculated. You can find all the details about how to participate by going here:
http://steamcommunity.com/app/576260/discussions/0/1480982338950689405/
All feedback is welcome. Thank you so much for your support!
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v1.5 Now Available!
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Hello there, everyone! We are thrilled to announce that version 1.5 has been released. This update brings several improvements to the game, such as:
A new algorithm to calculate goods sale prices in order to make the economic simulation more realistic.
Several performance improvements that allow the game to run faster, more stable and using less memory.
Players now can manually specify a world seed for the procedural generation of the world.
Fixed bug that caused country relationship tooltips to display incorrectly if they had too many items inside.
Fixed bug that caused rival AI companies to steal your captains occasionally.
Fixed bug that caused full screen mode to have some input issues on Linux.
Decreased the volume of ambient sounds a bit so they are not too invasive.
As usual, all feedback is welcome! Enjoy!
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Italiano Coming Soon!
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The Italian translation is coming very soon! The next update will also include some performance improvements and bug fixes. Stay tuned for more info!
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v1.5.1 Now Available!
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We have just released a new update for Winds Of Trade, version 1.5.1. This one includes:
Brand new Italian translation!
New buttons to have finer control over the amount of goods you sell or buy.
Fixed bug that sometimes caused world generation to get stuck forever.
Fixed bug that caused battle screen to display incorrectly in ultra wide screen resolutions.
Minor performance improvements in order to decrease RAM usage.
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v1.5.2 Now Available!
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Hello everyone! We're very happy to inform that a new update for Winds Of Trade has been released. Version 1.5.2 brings several performance improvements and some bug fixes that caused UI elements to be displayed incorrectly on some systems. These bugs mainly affected the "competitors" and the "auto trade route" windows.
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Here is a quick comparison showing how your frame rate might increase after updating the game:
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