Talk:Merchant Prince (video game)

Merge proposal
Merchant Prince and Machiavelli: The Prince are the same game. Per PC Gamer US, the game's name was changed after Holistic Design fell out with the original publisher, Quantum Quality Productions, and switched to MicroProse. Machiavelli was the title of the MicroProse re-release. Holistic Design itself said that Machiavelli was "initially released as Merchant Prince". Circa 2000, Holistic's official site did not even have a separate listing for Merchant Prince, and simply considered it the same game as Machiavelli. It only makes sense to merge Machiavelli into this article as a subsection. JimmyBlackwing (talk) 05:45, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
 * ✅ Klbrain (talk) 10:15, 18 September 2021 (UTC)

Slanders should be added
Slanders If the player was not caught in his slanderous actions, then the slander would start with "Someone said that [player's name]" ... followed by one of the 40 phases below, which are moddable by editing the SLANDERS.LIE file:

LIKES to wear tights.

has the manners of a Viking!

drinks canal water!

coins slanders like a mint.

thinks the world is ROUND! [though this is historically inaccurate]

is the son of siblings!

would sell his Ma for a Fl. [Florin]

spreads vicious lies!

is a heathen scoundrel!

is a rot-eating bastard!

is an eater of worms!

practices sorcery!

is an amoral cad!

sleeps with servants!

is a reckless libertine!

SUCKS!

is a REAL pocket fisherman!

has a nasty, fishlike smell.

is an instrument of Eeevil!

is a pestilent knave!

is subtle and treacherous!

is a pickel brain. [typo in original]

is a botchers apprentice! [typo in original]

is a pagan Heretic!

a muddy mettled rascal.

is gross and fat as butter.

is heir to a mongrel bitch!

is a WITCH! BURN'EM! [typo in original]

has hairy palms.

is a big goof!

is a bubou on a yak's ass! [typo in original]

bathes regularly!

stuffs his codpiece!

is TOO friendly with animals.

is a Momma's boy.

traffics with Lawyers!

is a Genoese bastard.

plots betrayal with Turks!

traffics with the Deviiil!

is a harlot's son!

... If the player was caught in the act of slander, then the player's name would be revealed.