I've put just over a day into the game at this point and I am greatly enjoying it. I love the atmosphere of the game, and I think its a great take on the city builder genre. With that said it has it's problems, most notably to me being resource management within each settlement not being laid out clearly.
I have found that when upgrading a particular building or ship it will show your resource stock from your entire game rather than that individual settlement. Most frustratingly for me this occurs when recruiting new crew members for more advanced ships. It shows me as having several thousand of that resource but turns out its on the other side of the map, so when I recruit them suddenly I don't have my necessary upkeep resources because the closest supply is a day's journey away. This is entirely my fault for not paying attention but its annoying as all get out. I would greatly prefer each settlement showing what upkeep resources are readily available there, rather than what is in my storage somewhere. If it could show me what is available within each settlement that would enable me to either get that resource building built there, or set up some kind of transport system for it. A good fix would be it showing foremost what is within the settlement followed by my total amount, and potentially even highlighting the closest supply line, I believe this would greatly improve the ability of the player to manage their resources and supply lines well, and improve the overall enjoyment of the game.
Outside of that I find the combat system to be very old very fast, its not reactive or dynamic in any way, you're just choosing the card that does the opposite of the enemy's until their numbers go down, and not paying attention to the dice rolls. If there was a timed aspect that would be somewhat more engaging but it would just make it more tedious in the end. Somehow Id like to see a more engaging form of combat in the game.
Also I think the game has a tendency of overreacting to lack of upkeep resources. If I have 2000 ales in storage with 3 active distilleries all on "all hands on deck" with efficient supply lines to the tavern, A: that tavern should never hit zero ale, but B: even if it does I should not have my pirates trying to mutiny because of a couple minutes of waiting. If the upkeep resources were slightly less sensitive to triggering mutinies, it would be far less tedious to manage.
All in all, great game, highly enjoyable, but its clearly unpolished. I'm glad to see the devs making changes and fixes though, it makes me want to play it more.
