This is stupid!

[CSA FD]

I have 132,350$, my rank is 6, my ship is a sh*tty barque with only 41, get crappy missions from governors who want me to sneak in a Spanish harbor or find a pirate all the way across the map in very little time to do it in, soon as I leave port, attacked by pirates between 2-4 ships or Dutch/spanish war ships. I lose $ cuz I never can catch a small ship where I can capture/sell.
If I had it where I didn't have to worry about money, this would be a lot more fun to play, but since I lose $ on ship repairs and crew wages it's not really any fun @ all.
In TEHO, CoAS, u could change the files to fix the money, but on this it's pathetic 🤮 no way of ranking up or anything, one saber strike from an enemy boarder does me in? BS! that's absurd.

[StormRangerX]

skill issue?

[Hippaforalkus]

Money is the easiest thing to get in this game, what exactly are you doing that isn't making things profitable? Crew wages for a barque should be less than 10K a month and you can get that by just visiting a lighthouse and buying the ♥♥♥♥ he found washed up on the shore usually.

[titanopteryx]

One thing you might try as a new player is luring pirates to in front of a fort. Go on the overworld map then when a pirate chases you head over to a friendly town and enter the battle in front of the town. Forts love to destroy enemy crew. When the middle bar on the enemy ship reaches empty, board it. The top bar is the ship's health and the bottom bar is its sails health. The middle is remaining crew.

In a fight on foot what you want to do is press the - key on the numpad on the right side of your keyboard to slow down time. Pressing the minus or - key will slow time. Press it twice to reach half speed. Then you should hold space to block. Let the enemy run out of stamina hitting your block unless he starts doing a heavy overhead attack. If so you can stip pressing space and hold shift and press middle mouse button to counterattack or hold shift and press right mouse button to parry. Counter attack is better for 1 on 1 and parry is better against groups. If the enemy is blocking you can hit him with a heavy attack by pressing middle mouse button without holding shift. When you can afford it buy a pistol with lead balls and gunpowder from the weapon street vendor. Equip the pistol and you can shoot with the Q key. Best to wait until the enemy is blocking or he's out of stamina to shoot because you can't defend when shooting.

[Hippaforalkus]

Originally posted by titanopteryx:

Equip the pistol and you can shoot with the Q key. Best to wait until the enemy is blocking or he's out of stamina to shoot because you can't defend when shooting.

Solid combat advice
I'd add that you can actually animation skip putting the pistol away by hitting block after firing the shot, saves frames and allows you to block any riposte attack. Block can be used to cancel any combat frame, in case you miss time a counter.

[Hippaforalkus]

Originally posted by (KRA)Gray Wolf 3rdX0:

I mean dude aint wrong.... This game is truly messed up. for one if ya even get a good ship you get out matched by a fleet. Im in a rank 3 and im geting out matched by 3 or 4 pirats or any other they just gun the hell out of me as they zipp acossed the sea and im going .08 they also do that anoying spin and gun the hell out of you when you try to get close the keep moving away in circes so ya you never make any money... Its to the point my crew is mutaning and im killing them off though the enmey does a better job wiping them out.... even when it comes to trying to kill ships and forts unloading over 2000 and only killng 4 guns on a fort just to close in with remaining bombs to kill 1 as your ship is blown sky high 15 guns shoting out of range of fort so ya dont lose all your crew and ship I think you need 20,000 cannon balls or more considering it takes maybe 500 to kill 1 gun since I got 4 out of 45 and 1 more with bombs befor ship was blown up

Are you solo piloting a class 3 with very low NAV? Because that would explain the slow speed and constant mutinies

[Sejbr]

It's really hard at the beginning, but it gets easier and easier as you go on... but yeah, a lot of stuff is game-breaking. For me it's nations rep, I just can't change it at all.

Use a guide, it's not worth your time to just "figure stuff out", this is not a game that likes to tell you what you need to do. (I've found a nice pdf guide for TEHO, works fine with this version, I can share it with ya if you want)

[CSA FD]

I have a navigator, and I always use grapeshot.
I don't even get a chance to take a pistol shot before I'm cut down in a boarding.
I use my grapeshot but the other ships still fire cutting down my men, so when I board and they surrender I have barely any crew left for "minimum crew" both ships, I have one boarder and one navigator that's all the officers I have. Even if I go to a harbor fort the other ships turn and run where I can't catch em.
I can't even find jobs where u can transport someone from town to town, can't even find those anymore.

[titanopteryx]

Originally posted by CSA FD:

I have a navigator, and I always use grapeshot.
I don't even get a chance to take a pistol shot before I'm cut down in a boarding.
I use my grapeshot but the other ships still fire cutting down my men, so when I board and they surrender I have barely any crew left for "minimum crew" both ships, I have one boarder and one navigator that's all the officers I have. Even if I go to a harbor fort the other ships turn and run where I can't catch em.
I can't even find jobs where u can transport someone from town to town, can't even find those anymore.

Get a officer with the doctor skills and assign him as the doctor to lower your own crew losses. Get a mission to haul cargo for a store owner and then wait on the world map at the town you're at. A Gentlemen of Fortune pirate ship will spawn because of the mission. They don't run and will just get shot up by the fort. When selling their ship remove the cannons first and sell them separately. Then go complete the cargo mission.

[Hippaforalkus]

Originally posted by CSA FD:

I have a navigator, and I always use grapeshot.
I don't even get a chance to take a pistol shot before I'm cut down in a boarding.
I use my grapeshot but the other ships still fire cutting down my men, so when I board and they surrender I have barely any crew left for "minimum crew" both ships, I have one boarder and one navigator that's all the officers I have. Even if I go to a harbor fort the other ships turn and run where I can't catch em.
I can't even find jobs where u can transport someone from town to town, can't even find those anymore.

if they have low crew get some distance and "goad out" a shot from a side of the ship, it'll take them forever to reload and that's the side you want to board from, if you get in close and they have 20 cannons on that side loaded with grape they're going to ruin your day. Also If you stay in close the AI ships will load grape shot and let you have it, so another tactic is to load grape, get in close and fire, then retreat out of range of their grape shot, the AI with stay with balls or bombs loaded as long as you aren't breathing down their neck.

If you can't get transportation quests you might have a guy you didn't deliver, you can only ever do one transport at a time. Failing a bunch might lead to not getting more like some quests in TEHO.

[Sejbr]

Do the main quest - not only you'll get a nice chunk of cash, you'll also get a nice ship.

[XŦĦ§¥]

Originally posted by StormRangerX:

skill issue?

Precisely.

[StormRangerX]

If you're in so much debt why are you trying to captain bigger ships with expensive officers? Drop down to a class 4 ship at least and focus on making money. Governors give jobs that pay decently. Harbormasters and storekeepers offer freight or courier jobs. Heck, try hitting some spanish traders if you're so inclined. You're never going to make any profit if you keep your expenses so high.

[Iskar]

Why are you trying to raid a fort when you only have a class 3 and have trouble making money? Attacking cities is a lategame thing when you can marshall a flotilla of class 1 and 2 ships. Ditch the expenses and get rich on boarding pirates and/or enemy merchants (or just do trading).

[Peer1677]

Originally posted by (KRA)Gray Wolf 3rdX0:

Originally posted by Iskar:

Why are you trying to raid a fort when you only have a class 3 and have trouble making money? Attacking cities is a lategame thing when you can marshall a flotilla of class 1 and 2 ships. Ditch the expenses and get rich on boarding pirates and/or enemy merchants (or just do trading).

I ment class 2 I had a 3 took a 2 and I beat the fort if you noticed... And I had more men then that but like I siad I killed them trying to get ther. Worst was a short run from Port roaly to the Duch port might have been french what ever the close one is and befor i got ther I had over 10 mutanys..... so ya thats a big lost of man power just trying to get a force to take it. why I trashed the other ship I was trying to bring with me in total I had around 300 guys trying to take it but as i said I tryed with what I had left after all the mutanys... I cant get more but I think ill lose Navagotr no mater what I do so oh well

still, why are you trying to attack a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ fort with a single ship? You need a whole fleet for that. Cracking the fort is 1 thing, storming it a compleatly different one. You'll need at least 2 ships (1 of wich is class 1) in order to bring the numbers required to actually attack that. Why are you doing this? Legit skill issue.

[StormRangerX]

Stop trying to siege colonies, ditch the big ship, and do work you can actually accomplish to pay off that debt. It's really easy to make a million pesos in a few months if you know what you're doing