Today brought a major development step for Global Fleet & Trade.
For the first time, entering the world of shipping companies, ports and trading routes feels substantially more tangible. Players can now do more than establish their shipping company and own a home port: they can acquire initial port rights, establish counting houses and trade goods through the city market.
Most importantly, the systems are beginning to work together. Port rights open access to a harbour, a counting house creates storage space, the market provides goods and the player's own stock becomes visible in the warehouse. Step by step, this creates the actual core of Global Fleet & Trade: decisions, ownership, goods and movement combine to form a genuine trading world.
The interface has also received many improvements. The market and counting-house pages have been cleaned up, arranged more clearly and prepared for longer lists of goods. Prices, stock levels, storage capacity and counting-house status are now much easier to read. The game therefore feels less like a technical construction site and increasingly like a genuine economic simulation.
Another important point is that the data foundation has been cleaned up and prepared for a fresh start. Global Fleet & Trade can therefore be positioned as though the world were beginning anew today. Old test data, unclear game states and development remnants have been removed, while important core data such as ports, goods and building levels remains intact.
This is an important milestone on the road to the pre-alpha.
Not everything is finished yet. Major systems such as contracts, auctions, the stock exchange, shipyards, employees, city development and global events will follow later. But the most important foundation is becoming increasingly stable: a shipping company can be established, ports can be unlocked, counting houses can hold goods and trade can begin.
Global Fleet & Trade continues to grow — port by port, good by good, decision by decision.
‘Cast off — trading begins!’
The first trading and counting-house systems work together
