To complete the mission, you have to put a warehouse on the island, which is kind of an ‘auto-expand your empire’ goal. If the Free Trader gives you a ‘recover treasure’ quest, do it. I managed to stay in the green for a decent amount of time, but the transition from Citizen to Merchant really hurt me as I didn’t have the tax base to support all those extra buildings, and I was counting on the uptick in pop I would get from going to Merchant to cover it. I was getting ready for another assault on the pirates base, after wiping out his towers and dropping a 6 strong land force that got obliterated.
I set the victory condition at 2000 pop, and one of the AI’s won when I had a touch over 1000, in the process of flipping to Merchants. What a pleasure to play longer than 90 minutes! Things start to get hairy after that point, with fishing grounds fished out, tornados wiping out my iron facilities, running out of clay, etc etc. I fired up a game with 2 Easy AI’s and the full complement of minor races.
Got it yesterday (yay, for once France wasn’t screwed on the release date).
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