Hands off: Many bugs and abysmal AI

The game here is not written in detail laudable. There is nothing to add - except for one small thing vll: Renaissance does not play in the 14th but in the 15th century.. It starts in fact only in 1400)

Thus laudable the description here is so bad is the game itself. Renaissance is as a modder project from the game "The Guild 2" (DG2) emerged with the idea to revive some useful functions of its predecessor, "The Guild" again, who had disappeared in DG2 - so far so good. This Modder project was sold and commercialized as Renaissance, yet from now bankrupt previous publisher JoWood.

Unfortunately, the game engine is still based on the abysmal DG2 and inherits that all disadvantages of this unfortunate product. There are in Renaissance (Version with current official patch 4.15 the next Patch 4.17 is still in beta phase) much of what I already extremely unpleasant noticed in DG2:
- More often errors in the route finding
- Graphical glitches such as flicker
- Items disappear from your inventory

The biggest drawback, however, is the continuing lack of KI. This is a fundamental component of any trading simulation and strategy, since one with a growing number of establishments no longer any operation can take care of itself. The course is only due when the corresponding game progress on (many of the positive reviews here are by far not progressed so). In Renaissance (like the whole game series) In addition, there are 2 other important game objectives: the destruction of competition Dynasties (by sabotage, call manipulation etc.) and the rise in politics. So you are in urgent need of a functioning AI and that's what is missing in the Renaissance, even as birth defects of DG2 taken. The KI produces significantly less effective than oneself - the businesses throw barely profits from. The reason is that sometimes pointless things are produced or the products are sent to distant markets without achieving better prices there. Despite the improvements made in Renaissance (also concerning. The control parameters for the AI) is the AI ​​just abysmal.

In addition, as a further serious shortcoming that Renaissance unfortunately also contains serious errors, so-called. Game stopper, making a further play impossible. I am, for example, reproducible accrued on a non-continuous post election. Since this choice was not interrupted and also occurred the same fault again when loading a previous save game and re-start the Office option is to continue on as pointless as no political career is no longer possible (as I said above, this is a core aspect of Renaissance).

My Conclusion:
The game is also at this price (I've paid twice that) worth a recommendation. The good (albeit inherited) game idea does not save the game, because nothing has in a game stopper thereof.

Whoever finds the game was a good idea, should try the grandfather of the series "The Fugger". The game comes from the 90s, is still running under DOS (with DOSBox or the like not a problem), has an age appropriate graphics (2D), but virtually all the features of the guild-series and beyond a few more.