Early game money tips.

[Rabble]

I have a ♥♥♥♥ ship, 3 crews and 0 money.
How am i supposed to survive the early game?

[TheCaptain]

i started by doing missions for governors of various islands. However you need to attack a few ships of an opposition country(Not Pirates) first to make a name for yourself( Usually its about 3 ships that you need to attack). I would suggest attacking ships that are small and on their own. Don't attack groups just yet. Also dont sink the ships after you capture them. Assign an officer to sail her back and sell it at a shipwright. You can hire more crew at local taverns

[Rabble]

Also, pushing left mouse button didn't shoot my cannon.
the control options told me it was left mouse button. what did i do wrong?

[Philippe_at_bay]

If memory serves the cannons are fired by pressing the space bar.

[russmiller4445]

Find bandits, fight the spooks in cave or dungeons, loot boxes

[JimmyT]

Raid ships. Early on, the most important part by far is getting more crew. Do some merchant missions so you can max out your ship's crew, then board enemy ships. The white bar on the ships' health is the crew you have. Make sure your white bar is equal or greater than your enemies, then board them. Don't bother with trying to damage your enemies' hulls, as early game cannons and skills makes that basically impossible. Damage their sails first, then grape shot their crew to oblivion, then board them.

I spent over 30 hours in this game before being able to figure out how to board ships confidently, and that's all because I didn't know the importance of crew. When you try to board a ship with significantly more crew than yours, all of the enemies kill you in one hit and take no damage. If you have the appropriate crew, they're on par with bandits you find in the jungle. Boarding ships is extremely easy early game as long as you pick your targets. Do it for a little bit and before you know it, you're drowning in gold.

[Scipio Africanvs]

First take a loan of 4000. Then sell all your cannons. Then go to Curacao or Maracaibo, buy mahogany and smugle it in Fort de France on Martinique island like this:

After you buy Mahogany, go to Fort de france tavern and speak to the shady character. He is a smigler. Arrange a meeting with him at the shore he will tell you and go there with your ship via fast travel, not via world map. You buy mahogany at 100 and sell at 600 each piece. Continue until rich.

[Maul]

Do missions from the store person.

[Hasbulat]

How can I see the whole craibbean map?? My map is currently focused on my ship only

[JimmyT]

Originally posted by Hasbulat:

How can I see the whole craibbean map?? My map is currently focused on my ship only

Press Tab. I recommend you slow the game speed down while doing this to look for ports since you can get wrecked by enemy ships pretty easily while not focused on your ship.

[Hasbulat]

Oh, I see. And how do I slow the game sp

eed again?

[JimmyT]

Originally posted by Hasbulat:

Oh, I see. And how do I slow the game speed again?

The plus and minus keys on the numpad.

[Hasbulat]

Just started new Game with a Ship Pack 1.2 mod. I mean have a nice ship with 100 sailors at the beginning. Cost point 12900 a week? a month?
Have no skills, no totems, no officiers and 100 gold.
To hire officers I need some money, so went outside the Wilhelmstadt and met 3 bandits running after a girl. But they are too strong for me.
Finally killed them - no loot, so, coost point - 4 poisons I have taken to survive.
Meals on board are for 26 days.
No idea how to survive yet. Any suggestions please? :)

[russmiller4445]

Board your ship, go to global map, wait for a pirate ship to attack, with the help of the fort. take & loot the ship if you can, or just pick up floating cargo. Once you get another officer, you can seize & sale the ships. You must cannibalize other ships to keep yourself alive.

[Detris]

Hi
Your best bet is to play with Peter Blood.And if you play your cards right you will end up with twoo officers, navigator and cannoner, very good early weapons medium sabre and decent pistol and most importantly around 90.000 piasters. Just remember to sell cannons seaparatly and then the frigate.And now buy yourself a schooner and you will still be left with 40k piasters or 50k depends.Thats the best early start in my opinion. Oh and i play vanila so if you play with mods it might be diffrent.Almost forgot, when you sell the frigate, first apoint an officer on frigate and buy yoursel a tartane for the time being and the sell the frigate. I hope it helps.

[Detris]

Originally posted by Hasbulat:

Just started new Game with a Ship Pack 1.2 mod. I mean have a nice ship with 100 sailors at the beginning. Cost point 12900 a week? a month?
Have no skills, no totems, no officiers and 100 gold.
To hire officers I need some money, so went outside the Wilhelmstadt and met 3 bandits running after a girl. But they are too strong for me.
Finally killed them - no loot, so, coost point - 4 poisons I have taken to survive.
Meals on board are for 26 days.
No idea how to survive yet. Any suggestions please? :)

Your best bet is to trade,gold and silver. They are not to heavy so you can bring a lot.Fighting in early game with other ships is difficult especially in early game. It depends on what difficulty are you playing.But fighting on land is realy easy no matter the difficulty.Just dont try to fight them with sabre all at once,Kill couple of them with pistol and then with sabre.Now there a lot ways you can make money. i usualy go with trade early and then when i have enough officers and decent level, then i start fighting, I would also suggest to get musket volley skil it will help a lot when boarding another ships.