Bone Cay Tobacco Collection price vs. Buying port stock

[P.Stein]

So currently it costs 3500 reals to collect 1 tobacco, but it also only costs 3500 reals to buy tobacco from port stock in bone cay. So why exactly did I just spend money to buy a tobacco plantation if it costs not one real more to just buy the tobacco? This seems a bit weird.

[Carpetbeater]

The devs are very weird

[Weitsicht]

how much tobacco is in the shop for you if i just buy it all ? ....

[Gallakai]

Originally posted by Weitsicht:

how much tobacco is in the shop for you if i just buy it all ? ....

Whats it matter when you can just set up a contract to purchase any tobacco that the port produces before anyone can see it?

[Weitsicht]

Originally posted by Gallakai:

Originally posted by Weitsicht:

how much tobacco is in the shop for you if i just buy it all ? ....

Whats it matter when you can just set up a contract to purchase any tobacco that the port produces before anyone can see it?

thats what i mean ... did you actually read the post ? ....
op is arguing like the market would have unlimited supply and everyone can just buy from there instead of building a plantation

[P.Stein]

Originally posted by Weitsicht:

Originally posted by Gallakai:

Whats it matter when you can just set up a contract to purchase any tobacco that the port produces before anyone can see it?

thats what i mean ... did you actually read the post ? ....
op is arguing like the market would have unlimited supply and everyone can just buy from there instead of building a plantation

That's not actually what I am arguing. I don't know where you're getting that from. The point, which I thought was rather obvious, is that it doesn't make sense that it supposedly costs 3500 reals to "produce" tobacco, but the port would be willing to sell tobacco for the same price it costs to produce. The virtual traders in port would also want to make a profit, so to speak. This kind of stuff just damages immersion, because it's unrealistic.

[Weitsicht]

Originally posted by P.Stein:

So why exactly did I just spend money to buy a tobacco plantation if it costs not one real more to just buy the tobacco? This seems a bit weird.

you literally asked why you should buy a plantation ...
and this destroyes your imersion cause of not realistic ? not the npc ships who are just faster, have more hp and do more dmg ? and save zones ? or the fact that you suddenly lose everything you own in the game and barly remember your rank ?

your kinda funny :)

[P.Stein]

Originally posted by Weitsicht:

Originally posted by P.Stein:

So why exactly did I just spend money to buy a tobacco plantation if it costs not one real more to just buy the tobacco? This seems a bit weird.

you literally asked why you should buy a plantation ...
and this destroyes your imersion cause of not realistic ? not the npc ships who are just faster, have more hp and do more dmg ? and save zones ? or the fact that you suddenly lose everything you own in the game and barly remeber your rank ?

your kinda funny :)

I said "damages" immersion, not destroy. And you intentionally misquoted. People only misquote when they know they are wrong. Otherwise they wouldn't feel the need to do it.
It's just one more thing that's a bit annoying, because it doesn't really makes sense, that's all. I don't know why you are getting so defensive about it. It's very objectively something that doesn't make sense and in this case, unlike in many other cases where games have to be unrealistic in some way in order to work properly, it is very easily solvable.

(also it's "you're")

[Weitsicht]

you asked "where are you getting that from" and i quoted the part i got it from ... and now iam misquoting ... ok

so you are really just arguing about the price ?

could be the locals have a "natural" spot they harvest the tobacco from
or they dont have an european plantation owner who demands more wage
or they are just better and more motivated at the job cause they arent enslaved ...

doesnt matter... this game has way more and bigger problems than some nitpicking about tobacco pricing

[88jaybird]

i agree, you have 200k worth of tobacco but it cost 200k to collect it?? the only way to make money off it is to spend all day and night sailing to other side of map which is absurd. trade buildings seem beyond uselless in this game, better off farming npc traiders for money.