Less
attacks
Enter Black Beard as
a name.
Faster
battles
Hold Y at the
battle screen when it is your opponent's turn
Black
market
Wait until 2:00 a.m. and go to the item shops at the ports. The
Crusader Sword may be found at the shop at Timbuktu.
Easy
money
Accept the Collect
Debt job in the Venice guild after starting a new game. Get the five gold ingots, deposit in
the bank, and return to Venice. According to the banker, you have failed the job and
reduce your fame, but the gold will remain in the bank.
Easy
experience
Locate the weak
pirate in Tunis and bombard him when he leaves. Challenge
him to a duel and weaken him to 50 hit points. After the duel ends, challenge
him again to another duel to gain more experience. Repeat this as needed.
New
ship types
Place $50,000 a
month for five months in the Bristol shipyard to gain additional ship types,
including a barge. Place $50,000 a month for five months in the Hamburg or Antwerp shipyards to eventually get the full-rig
ship.
Better
ships
You can find better
ships to fight with in Sakai and Nagasaki. The easiest way to get there as soon as
possible is to trade carpets and arts until you have around 10,000 gold pieces.
Then, buy glass beads in Venice and sell them at the port of Madeira. The beads will cost 2 or 3 gold and can be
sold them for about 50 gold. In Madeira, buy sugar for 12 gold and sell it at the port of Santa Cruz (1 day of sailing south of Madeira). Buy flax from Santa Cruz and sell it in Amsterdam. From there you can buy glass beads and
repeat the process. Do this until you get to 20 gold ingots. Then get some balm
in Barcelona and cruise to the far east with a small
ship (preferably with rows like a LaReale) with high velocity (such as a
Caravella Redonda). First, stop in Nagasaki and invest 50,000 gold at the shipyard. You
should do this when you reach the end of a month, as it is faster that way.
When the month changes, you should find an Atakkabunde (cheap and efficient).
Buy it and remodel it to only support 30 crew members and no cannons. If you
have mates that can pilot ships, then buy a couple to speed up things. In Nagasaki, buy silver and sell it in Changan, Zeiton
and Sakai. These ports have silk items; buy some to
sell in Nagasaki. If there is no silver, buy porcelain. You
will get fair price for porcelain in India -- the clove and pepper are cheap in India and sell for ten times higher in the Far East. Five months in a row, invest 50,000 in Sakai or Nagasaki. When they reach 1000 points in the
shipyard, you will find a new boat: Tekousen. This is the ultimate battle ship.
It is row powered, which is good when the wind dies, and can reach up to 20
knots in speed. Remodelling the Tekousen only permits you to hold 300 crewmen
and up to 100 cannons. Another trick: buy a used Tekousen. It will hold 360
crewmen and 80 cannons. It is easier to maneuver in battle, and it has more
speed than a Venitian Galeas. It also has as much cargo capacity as a
full-rigged ship or even a barge.
Errol's
Plate armor
Go to the Black
Market in Copenhagen to get Errol's Plate. That is the star
class armor, which is even better the Pull Mail Armor.
Crusader's
Armor
Go to Naples at 2:00 a.m. and purchase the Crusaders Armor. It is
also star class armor, but it is a lot better then the Errol's Plate, which is
cheaper.
Carronades
Head towards Bristol and invest in both Shipyards and Trade
Market. Keep them both invested with the same amount of money, $50,000. After
you have gotten the Barge ship, invest once more in the Shipyard and Trade
Market. Return next month and remodel your ship's guns. The message "Your
in luck, we have a new specialty today" or something similar should
appear. If this does not happen, leave the Shipyard menu and keep returning to
remodel guns. The new gun is Carronades. Its attack power is as strong as a Cannon,
and its range is as far as a Culverin. This is the most powerful guns in the
game.
Merchant
discounts
The Merchant will
always discount the price of his goods at the rate of 75.0% of the full price.
For example: If you were buying Porcelain for 108, do not pay more than 81. You
will be able to get this discount even if you do not have a good bookkeeper.
The key to getting this discount is to make sure the port is allied with your
country (and also not a neutral port). You do not have to have a Tax-Free Permit,
but it will reduce your price even more. Also, if you have a bookkeeper, they
will do all the work for you. This is a rather short list of the bookkeepers:
Esteban Ortega, Jacob Walweik, Antoine Fitch, Benito Gomez, and Tristan Seillo.
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