WTP: Dawn of Discovery Review

WTP writes: "At its core, the overall strategy is based on basic economics, with success centered on how well each community balances incoming taxes against outgoing running costs. This is simple task on a simple settlement with just a dairy, quarry and a few homes, but things quickly get more complicated. While Pioneers only need food to be happy, Aristocrats, the fifth and highest level of citizen, need 8 goods and want to live near seven different public buildings (guesthouses, chapels, teahouses, etc.). As the game progresses, players sail from island to island, trading with merchants from the Orient, battling pirates, and eventually raising and controlling their own armies".