The Paradox Interactive Forums now offer patches for East India Company to update the naval RTS as well as its Privateer expansion. The "Designer's Cut" Patch 1 can apply to any prior version of the game, while the Privateer patch obviously also requires that add-on, and both patches are available in your choice of English, German, and French languages. For the Designer's Cut, the English patch is mirrored on The Patches Scrolls, the French patch is mirrored on The Patches Scrolls and WorthPlaying, and the German patch is mirrored on The Patches Scrolls. For Privateer, the English patch is mirrored on The Patches Scrolls and WorthPlaying, the French patch is mirrored on The Patches Scrolls and WorthPlaying, and the German patch is mirrored on The Patches Scrolls and WorthPlaying. The patch notes for each follow.

East India Company: Designer's Cut Patch 1:

This patch can be installed on top of any previous version of East India Company. Please exit the game before applying the patch.

Patch notes:

- problem with combining fleets fixed
- problem with surrendered or destroyed ships still showing on strategic map fixed
- island levels optimized
- experience from trading is now gained
- bought ships are now shown in the Financial report
- continent-icon now changes according to the selected port in Port View
- Battle of Trafalgar can now be launched from EIC
- port positions fixed in Port View Map
- ports can now be selected from the Port View Map
- value of the ship being sold now shown when selling in the Port View
- imported tons now shown in Diplomacy


East India Company: Privateer Patch 1:

This patch requires East India Company: Privateer. Please exit the game before applying the patch.

Patch notes:

- escaped ships still on map bug fixed
- combining fleets bug fixed
- island level fix
- installer creates Cache-folder now
- in quick battle player won't sometimes start next to the fort anymore
- surrender popup added
- welcome-speech added
- experience from trading now gained
- portview-map port position fixes
- ship selling price now shown in the sell-popup