where to put the public moorings

[clif9710]

From the wiki I take it that the PM's income depends entirely on the attractiveness of the island and island population has nothing to do with it.

That should mean the best place to put a PM is the island you own with the highest attractiveness, and that can be one that you have hardly developed, rather than putting it on your home island.

[Lumina]

I put the Public Moorings on almost every island. The only exception is my heavy industry island, there are also the pigs and soap production.
But every public mooring makes a good profit, even on islands with only a few farmers.
Per example in one game I have settled on 6 islands in New World with a small village on every of them. But they all were in minus, just too low population to make any profit, they were pure production islands. That changed completely when they all got a Public Mooring. Then I have put some more effort into every little island, they got some ornaments, some items in trade unions or maybe a small museum. And voila, now every islands makes profit, not a single stays in minus.

[Hailstorm]

I think there was a certain attractiveness level where public moorings became profitable, not sure at what point that was. I do have a public mooring on my 'home island' but that's because I moved all the pollution (negative attractiveness) to another island :)

[kmmacman]

There are items you can place in a Harbor Master Office to attract more visitors to your island and increase attractiveness of the island. Just make sure the visitor pier is within it's area of effect.

[olympe]

Originally posted by Lumina:

I put the Public Moorings on almost every island. [...]
But every public mooring makes a good profit, even on islands with only a few farmers.

On every Old World island with an attractiveness over 112, a public mooring will generate profit. Same goes for every New World island with an attractiveness over 70. (According to the omniscient wiki.)