Guide How to get a very good start

Using just the Sovereign of the Seas with the Black Pearl for support, I can level any fort in the game, then go and get lots of money from the governor. Even Cartagena. Four super-ships with tri-barrels ought to be able to do the same. Which is just as well since, if you have a full fleet of four, you won't be using my other favourite money-making scheme, which is capturing enemy ships and then selling them.

The thing is, this is not exactly "getting a very good start". By the time I've played a single campaign long enough to get that sort of fleet, I'm more likely to think it's time to finish with that game and start a whole new one.

Hylie Pistof said:

You have over $500,000,000??? I heard some time ago that there was a limit on how much money one could accumulate. I sounds like there is no limit at all.

It also sounds like those loan sharks need to be looked at.

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Aye.

Well I guess I have a very strange playing style.

But that is the reason, why I love this game. You can play it in many ways. Most of you will consider my "start" as an almost finished game. In a game like the Port Royale games I would think the same. In New Horizons I can play all the quests after my "a little bit longer" start. In the PR games it gets boring at that point.

But concerning the loan sharks, I would agree. 11% of interest per month is too much. In the last game I played I do not even know how much money I have. In the original PotC I got between 3% to 5% (or 6%) per month. I think that would be well enough.

You are right, too, there is no need to have 4 Dauntless class ships. 1 is enough. The last game I also had only 2 (one for Danielle and one for me).

But I do have one tipp for a good start in the conventional meaning of the word start. If you go to Santiago on Cuba, you will get to the area of the town directly following the port, there is one of those strangly painted guys with his hut. Talk to the people walking around and check for "traders" there can be as many as two. Talk to the painted guy until the riot starts and wait for everybody to get killed. Kill all the rioters and collect the money and goods from the dead. I never got less than 5 Mio. You can do this more than ones. Go to the normal Trader, sell everything and go back again.

Captain Dixi

To each his own. Whatever floats yer boat.

I placidly sail around hauling cargo and enjoying the sea breezes, having an occasional adventure. Level 21 and $1.3 million total money.

11% interest is waay too high! 3% tops I say.

Captain Dixi said:

If you go to Santiago on Cuba, you will get to the area of the town directly following the port, there is one of those strangly painted guys with his hut. Talk to the people walking around and check for "traders" there can be as many as two. Talk to the painted guy until the riot starts and wait for everybody to get killed. Kill all the rioters and collect the money and goods from the dead. I never got less than 5 Mio. You can do this more than ones. Go to the normal Trader, sell everything and go back again.

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I haven't tried this myself but the same trick may work at Speightstown, where there are also a painted guy to start a riot, two traders for the rioters to kill, and in addition the guy (Gregor Samsa?) who probably has a lot of stuff to steal if the rioters can kill him. Since that's where you begin the "Tales of a Sea Hawk" story if you play along with Malcolm Hatcher instead of telling him to put to sea immediately and trigger the stormy start, this really would be a "good start".

Hey guys! I've finally finished my final exams, so i'm ready to test new fixes about the game if you want

Well, there seems to be problems in the Hoist the Colors storyline.

Read this thread. http://www.piratesahoy.net/threads/help-the-church.22558/

Grey Roger said:

I haven't tried this myself but the same trick may work at Speightstown, where there are also a painted guy to start a riot, two traders for the rioters to kill, and in addition the guy (Gregor Samsa?) who probably has a lot of stuff to steal if the rioters can kill him. Since that's where you begin the "Tales of a Sea Hawk" story if you play along with Malcolm Hatcher instead of telling him to put to sea immediately and trigger the stormy start, this really would be a "good start".

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The last few games I started, the traders in Speightstown had almost nothing and Gregor also had very little stuff and money. I prefer to keep Gregor alive and go back every once in a while to check what he has.

But yes, this works. It is part of the orignal tipps for a good start on page one of this thread posted by HellSailor. It is just, that the traders in Santiago carry between 4 to 6 Mio cash and stuff worth up to 1 Mio. So if you do it in Santiago, you do this twice and have 10 Mio to play with. This is plenty enough, if you play normal and not as crazzy as me. Buying Dauntless class ships at 3 Mio, adding cannons for 2.5 Mio and buying all available upgrades for them for another 8 Mio? each ship.

Viz. the quick-saving issue, I've had the same and to fix it one needs to go to the "load" screen and load the profile you want to be associated with. Then the quick-save works fine. Something that may be linked is that my name changes every so often. I have Nathaniel set to "Nathaniel Hepburn" (after the calypso singer) and often after a load his name changes to "Hepburn Hepburn", which I then have to alter manually. Weird.

Also, upon starting a game, if you don't set the difficulty first, it resets all the other changes like name, type of player, ship's name, portrait etc. Slightly annoying when it's the third or fourth option down.