Special offers and Jahre Viking

[cwiese100]

Hi,

in the early 90ies I spent hole school holidays playing Ports of Call on a 286 machine and had really a lot of fun. Now I have played the xxl version and there are two results:
- Skills you trained as a child will be always with you (like steering a ship with full throttle out of a harbor or through some icebergs... )
- And this game is still wasting a lot of time

But after playing XXL several times, I have some notes:
- The "special offers" by smugglers seems to be very low compared to the risk for the ship owner and the normal freight rates. Higher offers may be more interesting.
- Tankers and passenger ships are a great idea. But the "Jahre Viking" seems to be competitionless, and that's not only a positive thing: If for example in a two player game one player is clever and quick, he buys all available models. Then the opponent seems to be nearly out of chance and the game becomes a little bit boring.

Regards,
Christian

[ANR]

But after playing XXL several times, I have some notes:
- The "special offers" by smugglers seems to be very low compared to the risk for the ship owner and the normal freight rates. Higher offers may be more interesting.
- Tankers and passenger ships are a great idea. But the "Jahre Viking" seems to be competitionless, and that's not only a positive thing: If for example in a two player game one player is clever and quick, he buys all available models. Then the opponent seems to be nearly out of chance and the game becomes a little bit boring.

You can just change the numver, of avalible ships, in the XML file.
In my game I can buy 20 Jahre Viking, in 1976, and another 20 in the year 2004.
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