About This Game In East India Company, players will enjoy building the World's most powerful trading empire & engaging in vigorous battles in both single player & multiplayer modes, all within a breathtaking cinematic game environment.Players will fight, manage, and rule nations from Europe to the Far East with eight nationalities to chose from: British, Dutch, French, Danish, Portuguese, Swedish, Spanish, and the Holy Roman Empire. Starting modestly, you will build your fleet, establish connections to far away countries, and keep the rivaling nations at bay. Choose from a wide array of ship classes, including a variety of transport and military vessels. Create diverse fleets and assign each of them specific trading routes. Control and upgrade well situated ports as you form your strategy for domination.Conflicts and wars are inevitable. When hostile fleets engage each other, the spectacular naval battles are fought from a real-time tactical level. Devastating broadsides are fired with a deafening roar and cannon balls tear through enemy ships and their crew. For greater tactical depth, command your ship and give independent orders to each of your fleets. Fight against the other European powers to create a trading empire that will rule above all others in this groundbreaking strategy war game!Features:Spectacular cinematic & epic naval battles2 Command Modes: Give orders to all your ships in RTS or take the helm of a single ship in Direct Command-mode.Unique combination of war & tradingState of the art diplomacy AI8 playable nations: England, France, Holland, Portugal, Denmark, Sweden, Spain & the Holy Roman Empire Over 10 realistic ship types; from small sloops and cutters to East Indiaman and warshipsRealistic yet fast-paced naval combatHire fleet commanders who will gain new skills & increase the abilities of your fleetsTake over ports & protect your shipping routes to create largest trading empireMultiplayer (Internet or LAN):Up to 8 simultaneous playersPlayer statistics tracked on the EIC game serverSeveral game modes with single & team approachRaise your ranking by thwarting your opponentsHead-to-Head missions are a true test of strategic skillFIGHT!Use Military might to build your trading empireCommand ships & fleets independentlyWage war on the vast open seaSink your rivals' ship or board them to take controlMANAGE!Hire fleet commanders to boost your fleet's abilitiesUser commander skills to give you an edge in battlesUpgrade your ports with new buildingsBuy & Sell goodsEstablish profitable trading routesOpen diplomatic relations or declare WarNegotiate tense political situationRULE!Lead the most powerful company in historyTake over colonies & expand your empireUse well modeled diplomacy to exert your powerConquer strategic portsAccomplish missions ordered by your company or the Crown 7aa9394dea Title: East India CompanyGenre: StrategyDeveloper:Nitro GamesPublisher:Nitro GamesRelease Date: 31 Jul, 2009 East India Company Activation Code Keygen You either die a merchant or live long enough to become a warlord.. It's a good game but unfortunately the further into it you get, the more bugged it becomes until it is unplayable. It's a shame they haven't fixed it because it could give hours of entertainment.. Don't believe all the negative hype about this game. While the game does increase in difficulty rather sharply (What Paradox Interactive game doesn't...?), It's a solid trade sim. The diplomacy system is well fleshed out and the tactics one must employ to slow the devlopment of an opponents growth are fresh and varied. I don't know why everyone complains of save corruption or freezing... In 10 hours of play, I haven't experienced the slightest graphics issue. However, I can see the ship battles dropping Framerate for lesser computers.All in all, not a bad game. 8\/10. Like trading games? Yeah I do too. Except this one's kinda generic and not that fun. I thought maybe you get a lot of cool views based on screen shots, something a little new maybe? No not really. IF you need a generic trading simulation, then buy it, if you already got like 10 or so like I do, then don't. Play Port Royale instead. 5 disappoints our of 10. Nice Old School game. Gameplay is huge, personally I had over 180 hours. Well ballanced trading system, better naval combat system. Big advantage is the fact that you can dirrectly command each one of your ships. All in all good game.. I am having a lot of fun with this game. If you enjoy strategy and some challenge it is a great game. A few small issues with sound which isn't a big deal, the tutorial\/voice isn't very loud and you have to adjust the volume a bit. Other than that I highly recommend this game for it's price. Bought it on sale and even if I paid the $9.99 I would feel it was worth it. The ship battles are fun and you can grow your fleet by capturing other vessels or sell the cargo if any and the ships you capture if you choose. A little bit of getting used to the user interface, but with the option to play with tips on or off is a big help. Really good game.. Great game...But sadly, following an update October 2016 none of the DLC works.So would recommend purchasing elsewhere.I would happily switch my recommendation if it magically started working again.Having said that, I never did see any chimpanzees.... I really do love this game, the way you have to budget your money and buy more ships to trade more goods over time to make more money and eventually conquer India. The Politics between Companies is interesting along with dealing with pirates. Pirate hunting can be costly but the rewards are great, and be careful what you do as far as conquering India, because monopolizing one recourse can cause other companies to join forces against you. The ship to ship combat is fun, with the abilities experienced Admirals gain over time and the different kinds of ships. I like how buying Marines actually helps in combat is they fire muskets at other ships and are extremely useful during a boarding. A gem of a game for anyone who likes RTS Naval combat, and the direct control you can take of a single ship is very interesting and well done as well. All and all, a great game that for the $10 Dollars is well worth it. Although, I do advise paying the $15 dollars to get it with all the DLC as well. The pirate DLC is a blast, and Privateering as very mission based which is interesting as well, and the battle of the Trafalgar is a great challenge for all who think themselves up to it. It does have some issues as it is a bit old, but downloading some older software for drivers fixes this in under 10 minutes, and is worth the trouble, but is a drawback, for that I give this game a 7.5 - 8\/10. Fantastic.. Lots of seafaring fun with all of it's parts. Like a lot of games it can be exasperating at times especially when your maxed out fleet loses to a wimpy faction. Not a whole lot of differences no matter what level you play at except on Easy you don't have to worry that a port won't buy your cargo or that your homeport won't like any of their cargo.There are 2 methods of combat. You can control all your ships in a high resolution graphic war or use Autoresolve that determines the winner. At first I used the graphic option but found that controling 5 warships was a problem, especially since more often than not your surrounded by islands that will rip ships apart and the ships are not capable of sharp turns. The enemy of course is on the seaward side of the islands. Additionally your ships will not fire near as often as the enemy. If you put all the ships on auto except the flagship they will run right into an island and sink.The skill your Captains receive for destroying enemy ships are pretty much useless. They can still be womped by a wimpy enemy and they will sooner or later.The Galleon is a bit over rated in the game. It is a slow clumbersome ship more suited for cargo but the game lists it as a war ship. Back in those days a Scooner captained by an experienced captain could defeat one. The trick was to sail around behind them and hit them from behind. Another trick was to watch for the flash of the Galleon's cannon. Unlike shells of today it took a while for the cannon balls to reach you. You knew that the Galleon would be leading his target so a quick turn to the port or starboard would cause a miss. You didn't want to get hit by them even once!When the Frigate came out most nations switched to it because it was faster and more manuverable that a Galleon.Enuf of the history lesson, lol. It's a fun game if you like strategy sea wars.. Just started playing this after having it for some time (too long for a Steam refund, of course). I actually like the game. Its fun and interesting, and if there all there was, this would be a different review. The problem comes in when attempting to use any of the DLC, sold by Steam. They don't work in the Steam version. Digging into this, and looking at various sites, apparently it's a known issue which neither Steam, nor the original developer have, or will, address. They know it doesn't work and they don't care. Keep that in mind when considering the purchase of this game.
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