Economy/trading/business games

[Vibe]

Anyone else enjoys playing business/economy/trading management games? So basically little to no focus on combat, but rather just making your business prosperous.

The Guild 2 has to be one of my favourite games of all times, basically running a medieval family business that can later dive into politics as well. Lots of great features.
I recently also discovered Capitalism Lab (standalone expansion of Capitalism 2) - I basically just started playing it so I'm still learning the ropes, but I feel like the game has a lot of depth. Plus, 2D isometric graphics yay!

If any of you know any other cool games like this (I know of Anno series), feel free to mention them.

[Torben]

ports of call ^^

[Vovka]

Guild 3 soon

[Vibe]

Guild 3 soon

yeah when

[Vovka]

yeah when

before december 2016 ^^ they already start preorder via Amazone )

[chadz]

I loved playing Guild 2 initially, but it became stale very quickly in my opinion - all the different activities were very similar and repetitive.

If you want oldskool, give oldtimer/motor city a try, I played it like a year ago, although the UX is bad, but not an atrocity by todays standards.

More modern, I've heard offworld trading company is interesting ( http://store.steampowered.com/app/271240/ ), but I haven't had time to play it myself yet

[Vovka]

http://www.old-games.ru/game/4469.html 

[Butan]

Vovka and chadz stroking themselves with fury over Epic-like games, why am I not surprised 

[Golem]

https://www.openttd.org/en/

[Kafein]

Cities in Motion 2 was pretty good.

[Tibes]

The Guild has got to be one of my favourites too. No game is unfortunately even similar to it. Turning your family of fishcatchers into a medieval mafia thats oppressing the whole town and mybe even a nation. 

[Leshma]

You punks playing Guild alone Get some friends and let hilarity ensue. My friend and his girlfriend fucked up mine business real good (they were rogues and I were good old carpenter) so I got them arrested. Trial was glorious. Think punishment was in some S&M dungeon of sorts. Crazy Germans and their games, that was one of the best multiplayer experiences I ever had.

But beware, it is worse than Civ and HoMM3 combined. Hours will pass and you won't even notice. It can suckwhen it comes to people with different schedules and commitments...

[Vovka]

http://store.steampowered.com/app/294100/
in steam soon 

[Dach]

EVE online... yep best market simulator online! 

[Teeth]

The Guild 2 has to be one of my favourite games of all times, basically running a medieval family business that can later dive into politics as well. Lots of great features.

I felt like giving this a go. Any pointers on what release to play? Vanilla, pirates or renaissance? I have the GOG version, are there any must-have mods?