Winds of Trade Dev Blog

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 fa...

If everything goes according to plan, version 1.3 will be released on Thursday (May 25) . We've already finished coding the new features and several improvements and are currently testing. Here's a quick overview of the things you will be able to find in the game once the patch is released: 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. 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 d...

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! Some of the things that will be included in the next two  updates, besides bigger maps, are: Autosave. Adjustments to how supply, demand and prices work in order to make it more realistic. Take over competitors' companies. Make decisions over how production buildings work once you've acquired more than 50% of their shares in the market. UI Improvements, such as showing warehouse contents and the ability to filter by a specific industry in the Cities List. More interesting revenges and sa...

Hello everyone! We're happy to announce that the new 1.2 update has been released! Here are the changes this update brings: New advanced tutorial that gives you an overview on buying ships, smuggling, accepting contracts and more. Four new resources to trade: Gold Ore, Gold, Ivory and Jewelry. Captains now acquire experience when sailing and when attacking enemy ships, so their skills will increase as time passes, but their salary remains the same! :) Captains now have a small chance of dying in battle. New design for the loading screen. Clicking on the active contracts tooltip now opens the contracts window. Fixed bug that sometimes caused the city details tooltip to be in the wrong position. Small improvements to some texts to make them easier to understand. Now starts the road towards v1.2.2, which will include some minor fixes and improvements and then towards v1.3, an exciting update that will add several new features!