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[laiocfar]

For sword combat, buy the super stuff and the rest its luck. :bleh:

Originally posted by Guest_Danny@Dec 15 2005, 01:39 AM
japan also has a hidden* dragon ship ....* i cant remeber which japanese port it was, but i think it was nagasaki.

Erm... i was in Japan.. and there is NO Town. Only North a smal "Vilage" to restock Food and Water (
Pls.. where can i find this Turtle-Ships? Invested in Macao, Zeiton and Changan up to 1000 Points... only Junk aviable.

Need Help :/

[Indonesia]

geez, "your rating 3.5"???? how come?? this is a great game, greatest sailing game, i played this since 8 or so years ago and i'm still playing this game... now i see why koei never released the english version for uncharted waters 3-5, which i think can make you think sid's pirates is a bad game, i mean come on, this is the 2nd uncharted waters and you already get this much, how about 3rd and 4th??..... have y'all play this game more deeply? there's a lot to do in this game.

btw, the japanese ports are unavailabe for some characters
and to win duels are so easy, there's an order to that, i think its 3-2 or 2-3, after you strike with the third option you defend with the second one, but it kills the fun

omg.. played as Portugal => No Jap. Towns.

Now is started as England, take a loan and start sailing with the small starting Vessel towards Japan. Nasty Storms on the Way ^^ (have to Save/load verry often *gg)

Finaly i have Arrived and: Japan is now Inhabited! :w00t:
thx 4 Hint.

Any other Special Ship than Full-Rigged (Antwerp) and Barge (Bristol) and this Turtle-Ship from Japan (Nagasaki?) ?

[another_guest]

Originally posted by Searcherii@Feb 23 2006, 09:47 AM
Now is started as England, take a loan and start sailing with the small starting Vessel towards Japan. Nasty Storms on the Way ^^ (have to Save/load verry often *gg)

Finaly i have Arrived and: Japan is now Inhabited! :w00t:
thx 4 Hint.

Any other Special Ship than Full-Rigged (Antwerp) and Barge (Bristol) and this Turtle-Ship from Japan (Nagasaki?) ?

If you buy balms (Amsterdam sells them, as well as one of the Northern French ports, and Zeiton) you won't have trouble with storms anymore. Otherwise it's indeed hell to reach Japan.

No other special ships I'm afraid...

3) If you're desperately short on cash, take glass beads (for example from Amsterdam) to Timbuktu. Buy them at 2-3 gold apiece, sell for about 45 each. Take as much gold as you can afford on the way back.

That is my favourite route once I get a little money together to start it. Hey, beads might be cheap, but you still can't exactly just go all the way down to Africa in your starting Caravel with a 1000 gold or so. You need balms for this trip, since West Africa is a stormy place, especially if your luck isn't maxed out (and I tend to leave mine a little bit shy of maximum, otherwise trips get a bit too boring ).

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:

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!

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.



As Joao, Ernst or Pietro, my favorite starting trade route is Madeira to Lisbon or any other Iberian port. Madeira counts as Africa, so olive oil fetches nice prices there (about 40-50) while it's available in any port round Iberia for 30 or so. Madeira's specialty Sugar is dirt-cheap there (10!), while Iberian ports will pay 40-50 for it. It's a nice little run to sail in your starting Caravel and the Light Galleys you first buy until you build up enough money for a decent ship or two and start trading with Timbuktu.

[laiocfar]

the only money maker machine is Istambul-Athens.

[Shrek]

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:

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.

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).

[laiocfar]

It isnt the same crew and fleet for a privateer, an explorer or a merchant. So cartography isnt always usefull.

[another_guest]

Originally posted by laiocfar@Feb 27 2006, 09:17 AM
the only money maker machine is Istambul-Athens.

It's only good for the mid-game.
Once you've got some bigger ships, you'll quickly see that you unbalance the market, reducing your profits on this route. After a few trips in a row, you even won't have any profit anymore in 1 direction.
Then it's time to switch to the gold/silver route. Personally I wouldn't want to save 10-or-so million (cost for a nice fleet with lots of cannons, from the top of my head) by doing the Athens - Istanbul route, it would take ages, whereas a few hauls of gold between purposefully unbalanced markets will make you several millions in profit.