FYI Treasure Fleets

[Martin]

Was trying to work out why they don't start right away.

You need a coastal city, that's a city with one toe in the water, a dock, wharf or similar.
You need to harvest tea, sugar, coffee, cacao, can also do spices, silver and gold.
Then and most importantly, you need to learn ship building. Then you get treasure fleets. Which you sail to your home docks and unload.

They come in various sizes 1-4 4 is highest i've seen. 4 gives you like 1200 gold, 1 is 300, 2 600 3 900.. the level of fleet seems to be based on the number of resources in the city dispatching it, so if you can try to get all in one, but it might be all need to be supplied to 1 coastal city.. still working on that theory. Levels could also be distance related. However i've gotten fleets at lv 2 from cities with 4 resources and close by and lv 1 from cities further away.

In my currant game I get 5 fleets every 24 turns or so.

[Xenpo]

Do they tell you how to do this in-game at all? Or did you figure it out or were informed by someone else doing the same?

[Xenpo]

Also, thank you very much for the info.

[Bouncer]

Originally posted by Xenpo:

Do they tell you how to do this in-game at all? Or did you figure it out or were informed by someone else doing the same?

It is very poorly explained. City connections are needed to get a trade route going. The game can say "city is not connected" in the resource screen when something isn't equipable, but doesn't explain which cities is unconnected, what it means, what it does, or how to fix it.

And treasure fleets require connected cities. Or towns. or settlements. I don't know. I think you don't even need the city to be coastal, just a port, but the game just doesn't explain.

Other than that they are fairly intuitive. Find luxuries that say"makes treasure fleet", settle near 'em and work the tiles, and you get treasure fleets every so often.
Unless it doesn't.

[Talesin]

Yeah it says on shipbuilding tech, treasure fleets will start spawning. But it doesn't say that in the victory point panel.

If you go to the resource allocation menu, it will tell you how big of a treasure fleet the settlement spawns, and how long until it spawns.

It always spawn 1 for each resources afaik, but i don't know if a non coastal town conencted by road to a coastal one would do it. Never tried.

[Usana]

The fishing quay or what not isn't what always trips me up. I always forget Shipbuilding needs to be researched first. So you really need to beeline that since spawn rates can be slow, otherwise you might just miss the 30 by a few turns.

[DadouXIII]

Didn't know that Silver and Gold also triggered the treasure fleets!
That's neat, and it makes sense.
Thanks :)