Patrician Cheats (PC)

Loads of Money
  Hex edit and of your save games
  Search for byte 0213 and Change the values there to FF FF FF

Start a quick game and choose Lubeck as homeport then borrow 500 for each ship. Then buy
ale all you can and sail to bruegge and sell it and buy wine. Sell the wine in Novgorod
and buy furs and sail back to bruegge. Continue until you have more than 20000 then go
back to Luebeck and give all but 10000 to your homeoffice and pay back debt. After a
while you can buy many ships at auctions.