Advice for a noob first captain? (w/ map) (no zubmarine dlc)

[hat15]

Hey,
I'm just still kinda in the first 15 hours of the game.
I gotta house and a kid who is a scion.
My funds are around 1880 with 10 fuel/ 4 supplies.
I still have the starting ship with all it's basics, I haven't bought any add-ons.

I'm currently docked in london, this is my crew with 8/10
I have a blemmington gallivanter mascot
Cladery heir as surgeon
Irrespressible cannoneer as gunner
Bandaged poisonner as cook
Maybe's daughter as chief engineer
Sigil-ridden navingator as first officer.
I haven't really done the stories for them, maybe I should?


I choose to be a priest this time around and these are my stats

42 iron 37 mirrors 48 veils 35 pages and 64 hearts.
I have 10 secrets to spend, I usually just up veils but keep around 7 incase I wanna do something in the study.


This is my map
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1544308461

I'm planning on doing a bigger tour since i got decent money to buy supplies and fuel at other places even if they are more expensive, but I'm planning on going north east to mount palmerston for the cheap fuel and maybe buy supplies at port cecil along the way.

Before that though I wanna get a hunting trophy because my second strategic information gathering is at chelonate and so I'm gonna search for the pirate poet for extra monies. she usually hangs around the demaux island to salt lions to godfall area, but I'm itching to explore. and then find a beast around there

I'm not playing hardcore mode so i save a lot and reload if something pretty bad happens, like this one time I met mt whatever and he totally wrecked me lol.

I'm kind of worried about money but I have one of those 1000 dollar treasures that hasn't been seen by the curator, just kinda saving it. I really want my next game to pass on my veils and mirrors so I get all the money so I can get the merchant boat and do the sphinx stone, (i've already exausted it this game.)

Plus the admiral wants me to get strategic information from chelonate, but I need a hunting trophy for that first. And it's been kinda difficult killing those, I just run away. Also isn't the maybe daughters have something to do with chelonate?

Anyways I don't know what to do except my plan, maybe I'll get a gun to get a hunting trophy? Idk I still feel poor in this game and I'm not sure what to do,
I haven't started on the first currators of vanderbight neathbow quest, should I start doing that?

Feeling lost, please help!

[Ellixer]

I'm no expert (I got three non-game over endings myself, through a lot of save scumming I might add) so I don't have a whole lot to contribute.

I primarily make my money through port reports and downing ships. There is what I think an easily exploitable ship AI behavior. If you go straight up to them, they tend to turn away from you and sail some distance away. Hound them and stay as close to them as possible and they will continue doing this, meaning they usually point away from you and not shooting at you.

Hunter's Keep come in real handy for reducing Terror and gaining Supplies. Note that it is a finite resource for this.

I'd recommend doing the Cladery Heir's quest eventually as that one rewards you with a really good ship (not as good as the Dreadnaught I think but that's hideously expensive). I finished it fairly early, but I also save scummed to hell to pass checks that I have no business passing. I tend to buy the Phorcyd-class Corvette before doing that so I can at least survive more fights and earn more loots.

Doing delivery for Salt Lions I found was one of the most effective way to make money early game. Be warned that this is finite.

I found that getting a good engine is among the most useful things to do. Not only does it help getting to places faster and allow you to more easily outrun problematic enemies (*cough* Mt Nomad), it also save supplies in the long run.

Do not attempt to sail all the way to the edge of the map unless you really know what you are doing. The Unterzee works in mysterious ways.

I like getting Stone's attention to have the option of sacrificing to her when I'm low on fuels (only if I don't have any existing wound already). That adds one wound for fuel, which is very manageable once you arrive at London. I really wouldn't recommend sacrificing to Salt. Storm is very risky (50% chance of it just hurting you).

Also yeah taking on Mt Nomad, a literal floating mountain and (literal) demigod of the Unterzee that weaponize the Correspondence, is probably a poor idea.

[Elitewrecker PT]

Problem with the claddery heart is no front gun. The corvette allows you to early farm icebergs though.

[Ellixer]

That is true enough (though it does have more than twice the hull). On the other hand the Claddery Heart I think is a more balanced ship (second best hull, third best hold) I feel and acquirable through means other than money.

[Elitewrecker PT]

It'd be op if you could mount a front gun (without glitch). Still have to manage the huge crew.

[hat15]

i see i see, thank you guys
currently i just bought the 900 dollar hull weapon and made that back hunting pirate poet. I think i'm gonna do that for a while till i can afford the corvette and then a better engine
I love the pirate poet she's such a gold mine, sometimes i encounter her twice on a run

[hat15]

so i've ammassed like 4400 monies now just hunting pirate poet
she hangs out around bonny reef godfall and north east of salt lions
next im gonna get the impeller and then finish up everything else i wanna do
i like my starting ship so much though don't know if i wanna change,
case closed guys i think i know what i want to do
thx all

[Elitewrecker PT]

You won't be able to get the impeller with the starter ship hold size.

[Ellixer]

I agree. The Impeller (Tireless Mechanic's questline, be warned that I do recall it being pretty bloody difficult) is a ridiculously good engine. Three times more powerful than the most expensive engine available. It pays for itself in the long run.

[hat15]

ah yeah i see,
thanks for the input