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24-02-2014 02:01 PM
humbe	Great work with the excel sheet on sales values ihotpockets.. Have been trying to record data into files myself to have it more handy. I've started playing this game a little again too for fun.. Played lots of ports of call back in the day, but just a little ocean trader. Some tips as far as I can figure: - Buying warehouses to lease for income gives you very little income compared to the investment. Seems like a poor way to make money, especially early on. - The additional fuel cost for running at full speed seems very small compared to the ability of being able to do more hauls with the same ship. Unless the engine gets damaged a lot faster at full speed, I see no reason to ever not run at full speed. - Seems like you constantly need to change what you're hauling. Not only do wares replenish themselves a lot slower than you'd want to, but whenever you do a haul, demand for that ware goes down, so if you repeat it it will be less and less profitable. - Sadly there seems to be little incentive for long hauls. You can find ports that are fairly close to each other that yield about the same profit per ton as ports far apart. - Lending money from bank early on to be able to fill your ship with goods that gives you good profit pays back well. The best hauls I've found to date for a heavy freighter at normal difficulty, have netted me around half a million per day (port charges and berthing deducted). However, they exhaust and worsen fairly quickly, so not sure what's a good deal in the long run.. Haven't played long yet, but so far, all the freight deals they've tried to give me have been poor compared to good hauls I can do myself. Wonder how quick prices return to normal values after they worsen due to me buying/selling.. Not that much info on this game out there it seems, so a ton of theorycrafting and data mining to figure out what's optimal it seems..
09-09-2013 11:40 AM
Unregistered_Rosty	... hi there, my tip for beginners is: start in sydney, coal to tokyo and pc/chemical back. and do NOT TRUST the range if you make an experience with speed. the distance between sydney and tokyo is 4605 miles. and i set the speed of my large freighter that it shows me a range of 9238 miles. okay, it comes back to sydney (because the fuel is cheaper than in tokyo) and had over 100 tons of fuel?!? and i tried it, now it says my range is around 8300 miles but drives von sydney to tokyo and back and there are just 10 tons of fuel and if you have a container ship: sheepwool from australia (and newzealand) to antwerp and machines back... its a long journey but the money is great!!!! and if you did it so often that australia is empty, than change to coffee from west africa to hamburg and machines back. and if coffe is empty change back to the australia route... nice and save money. im in the 6th year of gameplay, have 2 large freighters, the container ship, a maximum oil ship (380k tons ) and i have a m,aximum passenger ship under construction and all the credits from the bank is paid! and an easy way for good money is a large freighter from new york (steel and iron) to halifax (precious woods, copper and is it bauxite, that one over copper?) back. short ways and good money if you have the maximum freighter (20k tons). the credit payment for my passenger ship was around 19 mio/month and this route paid the debt
20-03-2013 10:29 PM
Smashgorand	No. File managers almost never show audio tracks on hybrid discs which is why I ran the disc through several of my CD/DVD apps to make sure there wasnt a hidden track anywhere. The physical disc image is only ~40Mb big so there couldnt be any audio tracks - which would also be the reason why there's no music on and the drive idles, when I use the setup app to use CD music. This could also account for the discount price I payed for the game back then, though it still puzzles me why they'd put two CD's in the package: one for the game and one for the manual (manual disc image is only ~10Mb with a single data track on it). Anyways - I'll do some more digging. It was so many years ago but I think I remember having a different game CD than this one, so I might have the audio tracks on that disc if I still have it. I need to go through all my boxes at my storage facility though so it might take some time before I have a definite result on the audio tracks. I can't make any promises but I'll definately look through the boxes next time I go digging at the storage. In the meantime we can enjoy having the full game and manual - that's at least something
20-03-2013 09:19 PM
kjps86	In my experience file managers often do not display CD audio tracks, particularly if they are encoded as redbook audio (for example I can't see the audio tracks when I use my Secret of Monkey Island 1+2 CD collection, but the music still plays in the game). Hence they might be there, even if they don't display. Your best bet if you really want to check is to actually create a BIN/CUE pair; the resulting file size should make it pretty obvious what is available. Just out of curiosity, when you play the game from the actual CD and select "CD Audio" in the setup, what do you end up with? Thanks again for this upload, I've been hoping for a proper CD image for this game for a while
20-03-2013 02:20 PM
Smashgorand	Hey guys. I took another look at my disc and there's only a single data track on it. I didnt find any additional tracks on the disc. I know that the setup program lists "CD music" but there's nothing on the disc for some reason. Sorry guys. The ISO that I already uploaded contains the complete MIDI music library that also comes with the game. I'll do some digging and see if I can find some more info about possible CD music for the game.
20-03-2013 09:21 AM
Japo	The manual and ISO can now be downloaded from the game page, from the extras section, above the review to the right. I don't know if Smashgorand's CD has audio tracks. Does it? If so we'd prefer the bin/cue full format, as Kjps says; although if the total size were then above 300 MB, we wouldn't be able to host it directly, only in the ISO Cellar. We could also resample the tracks and add them to the music section.
20-03-2013 03:10 AM
kjps86	This is pretty awesome. Are the CD Audio tracks any good for this game, and if so would you be willing to upload a BIN/CUE pair to enable those of us here to utilize them? Thanks!
19-03-2013 08:40 AM
Smashgorand	My pleasure - enjoy the challenge
19-03-2013 06:51 AM
mortenesser	That's great! I'm really excited to have a look at it Thanks for uploading!
17-03-2013 10:01 PM
Smashgorand	I have uploaded the game manual PDF to the FTP server now. Enjoy
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