"Patrician 3" is a sim and is set in the northern part of europe in the 14th century. people drink beer, buy skins and wine, build houses and all that stuff. you're a trader -- someone with a ship or two and a trading office. you bring stuff to your town and take stuff to other towns. when you don't have enough of something, but have some extra cash, you can build a source for those things you want to sell -- like, build grain and then a brewery. it's like other sims, in a way, but the costs are always changing to reflect supply and demand, and you can't sell where someone beat you to the market. and, it costs money to keep up your factories and ships and even your warehouses. and, too, you have to try to get elected to this and that so that you can have access to that and this -- all to keep you afloat in a medieval busness sense.

then, there's the pirates, and the invading armies who destroy your hemp farm -- no more rope, no more boats to replace the one the pirate just captured.

it's way intense in its way, and there's a trainer out which will give you lots of money and let you sim out and see what happens. it's one of those games i'll play for two weeks every half year -- and this is for, what? the last 4 years or more?

it's a very tight economic sim.