How do you make any money in this game?

[Mongo]

Everytime I go to a new area seem to spend thousands bribing pirates due to their crazy spawn rate I can never get ahead in this game the loot drops suck.

[axios2006]

I usually farm gold and items in low level areas then I not have to bribe pirates. Try to not rush areas. Game seems easy but it's challenging.

[Mongo]

Farm gold? i assume you mean get items from killing like pirate captains and such. But you still have to advance the towns in the area you take for good gold and questing takes forever and the pay out for the work is horrible.

[axios2006]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von joe dirt:

Farm gold?

Hours trading between cities, sinking pirate captains....

However for me the game is balanced...

[ArenMook]

Joe, if you play on reduced difficulty like I suggested you in the other thread, there is really no point in bribing pirates, as you will be buying weaker help. You should already be way more powerful than the pirates. If you still have difficulty... well, I just don't know what else to suggest. Maybe you're not doing something, such as using skills, like in that other player's youtube video posted earlier. He was not using Volley, thus missing out on 50% damage right there.

As for making money, easiest thing to do is trading. Good Diplomacy in a high diplomacy ship like a Galleon (or a Schooner if you don't have enough for a Galleon) can net a good profit doing trade runs.

When it comes to selling loot, make sure to sell items you find in the largest town of the highest challenge region you own. The amount of money towns pay depends on both the size of the town, and the challenge region they're in.

[Mongo]

ArenMook I have the sliders all the way down so my loot is crap. The ships are total crap takes me forever to kill any pirates at 100% and they spawn to fast even with sliders all the way down at 50% but least i can kill them crap loot thou. I do use volley. Course I guess I need to go back down to a sloop cause it's the only ship worth a damn that I can control. Or maybe it's all due to not having good upgrades due to the piss poor drops. But as always thanks for the tips my sails upgrade is super crap I do know that but haven't found anything better.

[Hafenzoll]

I do not make any money here. Just resources like wood, stone and black powder.

[Mongo]

I just went to an online server lots of helpful people there that gave me some upgrades including a sail upgrade which has just fixed a lot of my problems with bigger ships.

[Hafenzoll]

You see. It is called community.

[Mongo]

yeah learned about pirate raids. Thats the way to make cash!

[Binary Stylus]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von ArenMook:

When it comes to selling loot, make sure to sell items you find in the largest town of the highest challenge region you own. The amount of money towns pay depends on both the size of the town, and the challenge region they're in.

Hi - I did just this. I bought Jewellry in the beginner town - but then when I went to sell it in the level 15 big town - where it had been for sale at 2000, suddenly it was only worth 200 more than i paid for it. Might have been 300 more. But once I had sold it all. The price shot back up to 2000 - or near that.

Is the price you can sell stuff for linked to the price you bought it for?

Also - what you said about bribing pirates. I was playing on normal and it cost like 300 to hire a pirate friend. They were not rubbish - they were ok. So then I played on 200% difficulty and suddenly the pirates were spawning so much they were filling the map - but the pirates now cost 9K to bribe. So although on lower difficulty they are not such good friends they are so much cheaper - but they still seem dangerous compared to the baddies on the lower difficulties.

Also - on a 200% difficulty game - the quest rewards are only the same as on normal difficulty - but when you kill a baddie the baddie drops better gear. Is that right? I'm struggling to make cash. If I play on 200% I can't afford Pirate Friends. If I play on normal - I'm still struggling for cash - and that "buy from starter village - sell to difficult town" doesn't seem to work for me?

[Stavinsky]

If this can help

Try to play in 80% damage and 100% challenge. And fine tune your map to have no more
than 3 'level' of change between each area, extend the map if you need more levels.
Once you have edited the map and got the factions in place, before clicking on Done
you can use your mouse dial to fine tune every areas level.

Once you have done this, you start in your level 0 area. And there you speak to every town
getting some normal missions, some earning you cash, reputation and material.
Others are quest, that are usually the level of the area, so if you did set a level 0
starting zone, it should not cause any troubles.

There you start by chaining quests in the various towns, starting to make them level
up and offering more quests. Building your money in the process.

Ah, perhaps one detail about tools to help you get some money. You have to get
a spyglass, a diving suit, and a grappling hook to make it easier to get the loots around.
And if you did not notice, you can group them in a multi usage tool (add to captain's tool option on the right click).

So when you do your quests runs, use your diving suit on every wreck you get around,
and the grappling hook will let you grab most of the loots your diver pick almost without
stopping around. The same is true for every single boxes that float around.

Once a town has no more quest, you can open your map and see what the town
need, and you can look if others towns in the area are offering the material
your target town seek. If so, go and pick the needed cargo, and get it back to your target
town. That way you 'complete a quest' needed to level up the town, you earn some money
and you will help the town spawn new quests.

If I tell you to get those towns growing in size and level, it's because they are important
later on. As the price you get from an object is linked to your level, the object level,
and the city level where you want to sell it.

The difference I noticed myself can reach the double of the object price.
(difference between a level 4 town and a level 10 town in the same area).

So once you have a base of operation, you can start your journey around, having
leveled enough (if you did not check the 'limit item level option') to clean the
next leveled area, and once having a cargo full of loot, you fast travel
to your level 10 town to sell the goods. That way you will make plenty of money.

Another detail, leveling up those towns will earn you the right to put more towns
in the area you are in. Pick the location wisely and check what each town you add
can produce (the littele window that pop up will give you details about
the maximum size the town can reach and what it will produce once set).

And if you want to keep a town to max size, be carefull with the towers and
the lighthouse. Always bad to ruin your work when adding one that limit the max
size of the town when you worked hard to level it up.


That being done, and taking your time, you really should be able to make money.

By the way, I never buy any wood, powder or stones at low level. I only use the
ones I loot, and if I need more I deconstruct the loots I get.

And I apply a simple rule, when you need 'run to fight another day'.
And when I have the "construction boxes", that let me build towers and lighthouse
I set some 'traps' in areas, to have the towers helping me when I need a bit
more firepower.

Sorry for the length of the post, but I hope this will help you (and any other people having
troubles).

[Binary Stylus]

Thanks :)

[Pipuk]

I like to sell my booty to the higher players ;o