New Game + ??

[Ragemaw]

Is there anything else aside from being able to recruit the other Captains into your crew when you start a new game?? No gold carry over, ships, extra materials, etc? I want to play this game forever as Andrew because he is my first run through but if I should just speed through his story so I can recruit him in Abdullah's and then do the same until the last Captain I will.

There seems to be no benefit of taking your time other than enjoying the game, right? Not saying that is a bad thing! I am just asking for context.

All the other NPC recruitment stuff is static for every Captain, right? Aside from what I assume is your starting 3 when you pick a new Captain. All the other events are not Captain specific and can be seen/done by anyone else??

[Sabin Stargem]

I think some of the captains have specific story rewards. As I understand it, Yoshitaka has a Flotila blueprint?

Anyhow, I want to speedrun all four captains, then share my NG+ savefile. Got Abdullah done, three more to go. I keep wanting to 100% the game...wish more stuff could be passed onto future playthroughs. Unfortunately, I need to finish all of the captains before going for a true playthrough.

[Grahor]

Nothing to carry over.

[Kel Athos]

I think you should do the full game playthrough on the fourth and last captain you play. Yun gets you more exploration exp, Yoshi for shipbuilding, repair and cabin expansion, Ab for being able to seize ships. Forget what Andrew does. But he is going to be my last one. Currently halfway through Ab(Third playthrough.) So Andrew will be my last and I'll work on full clearing the game with all those bonuses combined. (After you recruit each starter character at their start location.)

NPC recruiting is relatively the same besides the extra you start with. Ab gets Nassar, Yun gets Shen. Yoshi gets the samurai dude. Forget who Andrew gets. (I believe it is William)

[Nimea]

Andrew kinda cracked as a captain though. He gives 100 Contribution on new ports you visit, gets more XP just sailing around, *and* halves XP needed for characters below his level. Also, he gets William and Joyce as his starter characters.

[Mack]

with abdullah you can have a fleet of galleons in 2 hours lol.

[Antiga]

I initially didn't know about being able to unlock chars as you complete their storyline, or I likely would've done things different. But 70+ hrs on a single character makes me not want to do the other chars anymore. As usual, my first playthrough is going to be my only one. At least for the foreseeable future.

[Antiga]

Oh and each captain does have mostly unique interactions with secondary crew members and such. Some characters have different methods of being recruited depending on which captain you play.
But yea, I would say there isn't that much replay value if you try to get the most out of 1 playthrough.

[Kel Athos]

Finally on Andrew for my last Captain. Definitely will be going to recruit the other three ASAP. Now I'm curious if anything happen extra if you complete all four and start a new game.

[Nimea]

...I'm just amazed that you haven't burned out repeating the game 4 times in a row.

[Rei]

Hmmm I didn't know this and have invested about 18 hours on Yoshitaka. This is good to know that I might as well just rush through the first 3 and actually do a proper full playthrough on the 4th captain.

If you clear that captain's story, does his reward item carry over for the new game plus?

[Sabin Stargem]

Fraid' not.

[Kel Athos]

You only get the item that unlocks that captain for your next playthrough.

[Felix]

so the map , the discovery.. isnt carried over ?
dank i like yun mu so i play her first haha.......... if world map and discovery not carried over.. i rather finish other captain first and then play fully discover all things on last captain -.-

[Sabin Stargem]

Originally posted by Felix:

so the map , the discovery.. isnt carried over ?
dank i like yun mu so i play her first haha.......... if world map and discovery not carried over.. i rather finish other captain first and then play fully discover all things on last captain -.-

I finished my NG+4 profile, feel free to use it.

Sailing Era NG+4 characters - UnchartedWaters
https://drive.proton.me/urls/E31375DDS4#bos7HybGRkEy

[Felix]

thx. so map and discovery cannot be carried over ya. now in dilema starting over with other or not hahaha, but must replay yun mu again from start also -.-