I Am Low On Gold, How Do You Farm For Gold?

[gunner]

Hi guys, I am new to this game and I have reached Neketaka. I tried attacking merchant ships hoping to make some gold but I end up paying more for medical supplies after my crew gets injured.

How do you Farm for Gold, are there any repeatable quests that constantly give pay outs? Traveling around the open seas drains my gold very fast to keep getting supplies.

[A.J]

Steal. It's ridiculously easy, even from shops. Stealth, pick lock and loot. You won't be able to loot every single thing, but you can make loads this way.

[Yaldabaoth]

Just kill people and take their stuff.

[gunner]

I am trying to maintain good reputation, so stealing is out of the window, any other insight or ideas?

[Sleazy Ninja]

You can easily steal without any reputation loss. You can even hide in plain sight by doing the following:

1. have your thief go in stealth mode near the target or chest
2. thief will probably be detected but thats ok
3. use any other character to talk to the shopkeeper
4. watch as the detection drops to 0
5. exit the conversation and quickly pause the game
6. steal away. to unlock things you will have to unpause but you will always have enough time. If you run out of time just repeat everything

Alternatively just go explore by ship and raid every island, sell the loot and do it again.

[Brian Sirith]

Do the quests in the city and take the bounties. By then you should be high enough to just board and win the ship battles,

I dont steal either. I get that sometimes you can do it with no reputation loss but Im not playing a thief personality :P

[Sleazy Ninja]

Originally posted by Brian Sirith:

Do the quests in the city and take the bounties. By then you should be high enough to just board and win the ship battles,

I dont steal either. I get that sometimes you can do it with no reputation loss but Im not playing a thief personality :P

Ye but your companions may be thieves and they can do it without you noticing :)

[Brian Sirith]

Originally posted by Sleazy Ninja:

Originally posted by Brian Sirith:

Do the quests in the city and take the bounties. By then you should be high enough to just board and win the ship battles,

I dont steal either. I get that sometimes you can do it with no reputation loss but Im not playing a thief personality :P

Ye but your companions may be thieves and they can do it without you noticing :)

Hahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! Ive kicked the shady ones out but thats one really good justification!

[Enfys Ellezard]

Gold becomes a LOT easier to obtain as you play the game. You gets like 50-100 per item being sold at first and it later jumps to thousands.

If you really need money in the early game, sell the arquebus you get from doing Fort Deadlight. That should help out until level 8-10 when you start attacking bounty ships (Named ships) and fighting enemies with exceptional gears. I have like 200k toward the end of the game and I have no idea what to spend them on now since I'm already using legendary unique gears that I looted/stole from.

[Sleazy Ninja]

Originally posted by Enfys Ellezard:

Gold becomes a LOT easier to obtain as you play the game. You gets like 50-100 per item being sold at first and it later jumps to thousands.

If you really need money in the early game, sell the arquebus you get from doing Fort Deadlight. That should help out until level 8-10 when you start attacking bounty ships (Named ships) and fighting enemies with exceptional gears. I have like 200k toward the end of the game and I have no idea what to spend them on now since I'm already using legendary unique gears that I looted/stole from.

Fully upgrading the ship, the biggest one, cost me 150k, so thats a good waste of money.

[Enfys Ellezard]

Originally posted by Sleazy Ninja:

Originally posted by Enfys Ellezard:

Gold becomes a LOT easier to obtain as you play the game. You gets like 50-100 per item being sold at first and it later jumps to thousands.

If you really need money in the early game, sell the arquebus you get from doing Fort Deadlight. That should help out until level 8-10 when you start attacking bounty ships (Named ships) and fighting enemies with exceptional gears. I have like 200k toward the end of the game and I have no idea what to spend them on now since I'm already using legendary unique gears that I looted/stole from.

Fully upgrading the ship, the biggest one, cost me 150k, so thats a good waste of money.

Already did that too.
And saved-reload to buy all the ships for achievement so that achievement won't eat any gold.

[Pillagius]

Worry not - game has pretty slow sart money-wise. I struggled a bit with it, having like 50-100cp barely avoiding going broke... For like an hour or two as I got off the first island.
But as soon as you start facing more or less high level enemies - they can drop Fine gear - 400-800cp, and Exceptional gear that's sold for 1k+ per item making ship expenses an obsolete issue.

For early game:
- definitely maximum exploring of every area you're in.
- you don't really need to buy food from supply stations and merchants - you can find plenty of water and fresh fruit on islands and just set them in ships rations(which I somehow missed at first), or any food you find. That saves a lot of money
- attacking various ships using different flags (you find various flags as you go, and one of the earliest flags you can get is pirate "principi" flag). It seems it doesn't affect your personal reputation, can yield good money and items, and upgrades your crew. Though you do need to figure out the naval combat minigame for that.
- bounty quests. At Nekataka you get about 4-5 relatively easy bounty quests each yields about 1-2k cp(managed to do all of them as soon as I got off the first island on Path of the Damned difficulty).

[Sleazy Ninja]

Originally posted by Enfys Ellezard:

Originally posted by Sleazy Ninja:

Fully upgrading the ship, the biggest one, cost me 150k, so thats a good waste of money.

Already did that too.
And saved-reload to buy all the ships for achievement so that achievement won't eat any gold.

Awesome tip thanks!

[ruppe27]

They force you to steal because you need alot of stuff and everything is ridiculously expensive.
I'm glad they ripped the stealth/steal system straight out of the Divinity original sin games but I'm not so happy about it being forced on you just like in DOS.

[Enfys Ellezard]

Originally posted by ruppe27:

They force you to steal because you need alot of stuff and everything is ridiculously expensive.
I'm glad they ripped the stealth/steal system straight out of the Divinity original sin games but I'm not so happy about it being forced on you just like in DOS.

Not forced. It's only forced if you want broken gear early. There are only like 2 locations where stealing can be quite ridiculous

1) Crookspur merchant crate. Gets legendary unique armor and saber.
2) Smith shop in Neketaka. Easy legendary shield.

Other than that, most of the time, if you're stealing, it's to get quest items to sabotage a certain person.

[gunner]

Originally posted by Pillagius:

Worry not - game has pretty slow sart money-wise. I struggled a bit with it, having like 50-100cp barely avoiding going broke... For like an hour or two as I got off the first island.
But as soon as you start facing more or less high level enemies - they can drop Fine gear - 400-800cp, and Exceptional gear that's sold for 1k+ per item making ship expenses an obsolete issue.

For early game:
- definitely maximum exploring of every area you're in.
- you don't really need to buy food from supply stations and merchants - you can find plenty of water and fresh fruit on islands and just set them in ships rations(which I somehow missed at first), or any food you find. That saves a lot of money
- attacking various ships using different flags (you find various flags as you go, and one of the earliest flags you can get is pirate "principi" flag). It seems it doesn't affect your personal reputation, can yield good money and items, and upgrades your crew. Though you do need to figure out the naval combat minigame for that.
- bounty quests. At Nekataka you get about 4-5 relatively easy bounty quests each yields about 1-2k cp(managed to do all of them as soon as I got off the first island on Path of the Damned difficulty).

Do fresh food and water points respawn after a certain time on Islands?