Slave Trader Final quest

[DarkEternis]

Anyone know if/how to squeeze your money out of the bastard in the final quest of slave trader? I suspected he would cheat me so I did save the game right before I gave him the 7000 slaves. I went through an amazing amount of effort to finish this quest, so I will not accept that this is just "one of those things" where I lose out. The final note on the quest says we'll "meet again" so I can exact my revenge.

Any clues? Prepping for that horrible mission cost me more than the reward was going to be for the quest to begin with. If it really is just "you get cheated ha-ha" , then I'm just going to keep the 7k slaves to sell myself and deal with the stupid french bounty the guy puts on your head =P.

[alex6672010]

Nope, you won't meet this guy again. Yes, it's just "you get cheated ha-ha". You can go ahead and sell all the slaves.
But c'mon, don't you love to lose a couple million pesos just for the fun of it?

[davidontariocanada]

Hehehe yes that sure does seem like alot of work to get ripped off. Maybe slaving is not the best way to make money after all.

[DarkEternis]

lol yeah, I had to spend pretty much an entire month just going around hiring crew to fill up 3 line ships and a heavy galleon. my wages for that month were over 800k pesos. RIP. So yeah now I'm about to do a 10k slave trade run and probably make like 4 million pesos instead. That will probably pay off the french bounty on my head, don't you think?

[DarkEternis]

I knew that was going to happen too. Anyone who talks about trust that much is a freaking cheat.

[davidontariocanada]

So glad you posted this so I don't do these quests myself. Thanks for the heads up!

[DarkEternis]

well you actually get quite a bit of money for the quests, though he pays you kinda crappy per slave, you still get a lot of them and without a huge amount of effort.... right up until the last quest.

The last quest you have to storm Havana, which has been souped up with extra guns and garrison due to the fact they have a load of 5 - 6k slaves they are ready to distribute across the island stuffed into the fort. On top of that they have 2 ships of the line guarding the fort, each with 700 - 800 crew.

So all in all you have to defeat those 2 ships, and then kill the fort, that has 160 guns, and then storm the fort and town, which has around 2100 men. So by the time you are storming the fort you need to have at least that many crew left to do the fighting, or else you are going to have a bad time. The first time I went with 2 ships of the line and a heavy galleon... and failed miserably, since I only had like 1800 crew left when I attacked. So I head to load back and gather up an additional line ship and fill it with crew.

Then when you return with the slaves, dude steals them all and you get nothing, nothing but a lesson in trusting douchebag bankers who talk about how you are their partner and they would never ever betray you.

Well... the joke is on monsieur douche, as I am taking the slaves and selling them for 350 - 400 a head to a smuggler, which makes the quest actually worth like 3m pesos. Cha-ching. And I did capture one of those line ships they had defending Havana.

[DarkEternis]

boom, sold off that entire batch of slaves in one lump for 3.8m pesos. Eat that banker scum!

just as a side note, not returning the slaves gave me around 65000 bounty, and I was "good" relationship with france beforehand. So like 3 trips to Fahey at 600 doubloons a pop should about cover it. So costs you 180,000 pesos to screw the banker over, and you get about 2.5m pesos in slaves at 385 a pop, which is what they paid me on jamaica. I already had a few thousand slaves to sell is why I got 3.8m.

Another note is that in this quest line you get a permenant talisman that makes you immune to poison, and an excellent spyglass, the best in the game I think.

[davidontariocanada]

hehehe

[alex6672010]

Originally posted by DarkEternis:

boom, sold off that entire batch of slaves in one lump for 3.8m pesos. Eat that banker scum!

Another note is that in this quest line you get a permenant talisman that makes you immune to poison, and an excellent spyglass, the best in the game I think.

Nice job!
Sidenote: this spyglass is the second best, but the best one is a pain to get and isn't really worth it.