My game is getting better after a VERY rough start. Im playing François L’Olannais and im trying to be a pirate/merchant with him, which means i will be mostly trading, but raid the ocasional convoy if oportunity arises. now the..start. oh boy the start, i dont know if the level of dificulty had anything to do it but damn, it was rough.
I started with a pity coast sailing boat ( i believe the name was) with a max crew of 12 and no guns. and being hated by everyone didnt make thing easy thats for sure. i sneaked into french towns, performed various services (that wouldnt require a boat aside from transport) for the money lander and the shipyard master. the pay was miserable for both. i think it was a pitiful 2k poe’s, so i told myself that it was not worth it. i needed to find a way to gain at least a quick 20k poe’s. and i did, at the french town of tortuga. In a laaarge dungeon underneath the city. which apparently, was also a smuggler secret passageway that leads to the nearby beach where my boat is moored. i will definetly use it in the future so this find was very beneficial. but anyway, as i was saying, i found in this dungeon the money to get me going. by killing those foul creatures, and getting their loot over and over again, leveled me up and gave me the quick buck i needed. after getting the money, i headed back to bermuda, and bought a cheap ship for around 12k, the Ketch.
and thats where i am now, ready to set sail with my new ship. i have about 800 of cargo space. its too tight to make any decent profit for trading with the realistic prices and weight turned on. im open to suggestions.
