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Originally posted by Privateer@Feb 27 2006, 01:38 AM
I disagree with the gold part of it though. Timbuktu sells gold at a normal price of 800 or so, so you'll make 200 profit per lot. On the other hand, it has Ivory as its specialty, which it sells for only about 60-80 and sell in Europe to get the same 200 profit per lot. Difference is, you probably will not be able to afford a full hold of gold, while you will should easily be able to pack your ships with ivory, since it costs about the same to buy there as your beads sell for. If you think about it, that's a pretty awesome route: you start off paying just 2 or 3 gold per unit of beads, then trade beads for ivory 1-to-1, bring ivory back to Europe and sell it for 250.  k:
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6) Gold is probably cheapest in Eastern Africa (and of course you can influence their price levels). Sell it in Lübeck. Make sure to have balms with you!
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I haven't compared, so I can't say where it's cheapest, but South America had extremely cheap gold, I recall. If you just want a route with maximum profit per trip no matter how long it takes, it's probably a good place to try taking your silver to trade for gold. It and East Africa, like you said.
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At Eastern Africa you can buy gold at around 600. You can sell it in Europe for around 1000, making about 400 profit per unit.
But filling a ship with gold requires a large investment, so it is not a good way to start... and spending 2 or 3 months making a trip just to bring a ship half loaded isn't much for a business either.
Oh, and another hint (I don't know if anyone has ever said anything about this, so here it goes): if you don't play as Ernst Von Bohr, as soon as you can, go to Amsterdam, visit Mercador, and "learn" the cartographer skills... then, you can report at him and get some money for telling him about the "new territories you discovered" (do not expect however, an huge profit from there, but it can be enough to buy food supplies for your next trips).