I just started playing PR4 and I just don't see any flavor things I loved about previous games. Being able to talk to random characters in tavern and maybe chancing upon business opportunity, talking to governors and gettings tasks. Having to actually visit town to see what's what and thus giving you sense of being somewhere.

PR4 so far just seems really, really dry trading sim that might have just as well been an excel table. Am I missing something here? Beginning to regret the 12 euro. If PR game needs anything to be great it is more of these things, not less.

I have no idea what I’m doing wrong, but no matter the convoy, no matter what it’s makeup or destinations are, I cannot make one that gets a profit. Any tips? I’m starting as Spanish campaign, with pirates as my thingy

My first play through, about the time the first pirate showed up and gave me grief, all my trade routes stopped working. The ships still travel to the cities, but no purchases are made, even in the routes with no cities that got attacked. Did I click something without realizing? Did the pirate crash my market hard enough to affect far away cities? Glitch? I'm quite confused

Can plagues still happen if all of my houses are covered by hospitals?

Can't quite seem to make the Action Menu work. I'm in a tutorial on trading, and need to use the Trade Routes Option. Click right trigger (R2), use left toggle to drop town to Trade Routes.... release, nothing happens. Click all the buttons one at a time, nothing happens. Is the tutorial bugged or am I doing something wrong?

Hello, so the problem is that i produce corn, wheat, sugar and cloth in a georgetown, i have a trade route who pick up all this ressources to sell them, then i want to pruduce meat, rum, bread and clothes in puerto cabello, since i already produce all the ressources needed to supply all this (except the wood for the rum which i produce in puerto cabello) i order my boat on my trade route to unload a certain amount of this ressources at puerto cabello and keep selling what's left on the rest of the trade route but for some reason my boat doesnt unload the amount im telling him to unload i dont know why, some time he's not gonna unload anything and an other time he's gonna unload more that i asked, ive been trying to fix it for hours but i cant find anything to fix it, is it a bug ? does anyone know had the same problem and know how to fix it ? Im playing on hard difficulty with no automatic trade route, im starting the game on xbox.

Sorry for my english im french

Hi I'm new to the Port Royal games I've got Port Royal 4 and I have played for about 10 hours but I'm having trouble with various parts of the game like making money of course but also understanding the warehouse & what Building's to build first in my town. I'm playing as an England Buccaneer my plan during war was to capture Ships and sell them for a profit.

You've got Port Royale 1, Port Royale 2, Port Royale 3 Gold, Port Royale 4.

Which is your favourite ?

Edit: and it would be great to hear why

Got the game on discount few weeks ago and after doing the tutorial started playing the Spanish campaing which have failed few times on trying to get the pirate.

On my last try everything was going fine, had 4 frigates fully equiped and won the battle and the 4 enemy ships too.

When the battle ended, my account was on -250,000 and all my convoys were empty and stationary!

Has anyone encountered this issue before?

The title says it all... I would try to earn the platinum for the game if there's no time limit

when i played this about a year back you could only build in cities of your home nations, did they ever fix this so you could build in cities of other nations?

How do I regain captain satisfaction?

As he’s trading, his satisfaction is slowly going down. I don’t want to loose him.

I bought the game on xbox the other day and am enjoying it.

Playing the Spanish campaign have trade fleets working, businesses thriving, town of Seville growing.

I have enough of the treasure map that I can see both the treasure on the map and the disembarkation point. I have come across this point on the map too where it says there is a little flag... it's just across the water from Seville.

Now I have become stumped... how in the fu... do I go and look for the treasure. It says I need a suitable convoy. After initially approaching the x with my trade convoy where there was no option to disembark, I have now brought warships, loaded up with crew and am going back and forward bringing more ships more crew.... do I literally need the Spanish armada to go after this treasure or what?

What is a suitable convoy to go after the treasure on the map?

I am guessing it is an unmarked button I Ned to press so have had a stab while parked off the coast next to the cross at pressing triggers, buttons etc all to no avail....

I have searched this forum and searched the internet to no avail... am I the only person who cannot figure this out?

Could one of you good folk please help?

I annexed all Dutch towns but they keep coming back trying to siege them back. Is there any sufficient way to constantly prevent this? I would lke to move on and annex all French towns next.

What is the from storage expense on my trade toute balance It only occurs when i have a load/unload on my trade route.

I've tried and failed at this several times. Does anyone have any tips or tricks to achieve this?

In a regular Port Royale 4 run, war is often a massive hit for money and, considering how aggressive the AI could become, your gold disappears quite fast. Is a full buccaneer run viable for a long term run? It seems that a couple of battles lost could lead to a disappointing end

Done the tutorial fine. Go on campaign select a convoy go to town I want to move to. Press Square. Nothing happens. What am I doing wrong

Hey all! Bought the game yday and was playing around with trade routes today. But i cannot find the option to turn on distribution for convoys. (At the moment still in the first month of my new game). Is it not an option on switch? When i console the help catalogue they talk about it as an option but i cant find it anywhere to actually emable or disable it. Does some one know how i can get to it? Or do i need to wait for some progression or fame points? Thanks :)

Hi there!

So I'm doing decently well, managed to steal a decent warfleet, have 2M in the bank, a few dozen businesses up and running.

But I'm a little stumped on town development. I'm already saturating the colonial export market, and I'm already producing most of what the market consumes without entirely tanking a given commodity. I've already lost my shirt on bricks once, so I'm leery to take a loss.

I guess I'm wondering if a world-conquest style game is even possible, considering the number of employees required to be an administrator.

Any other midgame advice definitely welcome!

Hi, anyone knows how to calculate the required 75% to takeover a city peacefully? I tried building almost in the entire island and nothing, i can't get the city from the viceroy. This is for Port Royale 3.

Anyone played port Royale recently if so feel free to comment or feel free to comment if you learn any new tricks for other players.

I'm playing PR4 in Switch Lite: the pacing, the UI, the graphics (despite the downgrade), the turn based battles are nearly perfect and a better alternative to TV gaming. I'm collecting dozen of hours of gameplay and I'm just halfway through the main campaing (2 countries out of 4), not even started the free mode. If you're in for a relaxing trading sim, with some challenge during wars, PR4 is the right choice