With potential dangers lurking around every corner, newer players might find themselves wondering how to get started and avoid running aground. These beginner tips will come in handy during their adventures and may very well save them from a shipwreck or two during their time at sea.
8 Pick Characters With Helpful Attributes
There are four main characters for the player to choose from, with each one being set up for a different playstyle. If players are looking to explore, Andrew is their best bet, whereas Abdullah is more geared for a combat-style approach. Meanwhile, Yun Mu is a scholar aiming to expand her knowledge of the world.
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Each character has their own traits that support their playstyles, such as Abdullah earning extra EXP from battles, and Yun Mu being able to interpret books more easily. Players should select their character carefully in order to get the most beneficial traits possible.
7 Recruit Sailors
Simply owning a vessel isn’t enough for players to take to the seas. They’ll also need a crew to sail, maintain, and defend their ships. Each boat has a minimum sailor requirement, and keeping these seafarers well-supplied and in good health is essential to a successful voyage.
Specialist sailors can also provide unique bonuses. Captains take the helm of additional vessels in a player’s fleet. Surveyors help map out the surrounding waters, and Lookouts can reveal treasure or interesting locales. These specialist characters are like companions, and can be leveled up alongside the main character.
6 Manage Stockrooms
Players will need to keep a close eye on their supply levels as they traverse across the oceans. They can only be seaborne for a limited time before running out of food to feed their hard-working crews.
This is even more important when players consider that the hold must share carrying capacity with trade goods that can be purchased and sold at any of the nearby ports. Players need to balance their supplies to avoid running out in the middle of a journey, while at the same time retaining enough trade goods to make a worthwhile profit.
5 Use Taverns To Your Advantage
The inns, taverns, tearooms, and restaurants that players can visit at ports across the map have some important uses after all. Players level up their characters by talking to the server, so making periodical visits to the nearby tavern is vital to progressing through the game and gaining better ships and abilities.
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These drinking holes can also be used to raise the morale of a player’s crew by spending a small fortune to buy them a round, and to pick up some interesting rumors of treasure from the locals. As such, it’s usually beneficial to maintain a good relationship with the server.
4 Buy Low, Sell High
This is a trick that all budding traders must learn: buy trade goods in one port at a low price, and sell them in another port for a high price. Players can rack up some big profit margins doing this. Conveniently, shops will even tell the player how each item compares to the average price. The item will be colored in green if it is cheaper, making it a lot easier to identify which goods are the most profitable to turn over.
As a general rule, it’s usually worthwhile to buy goods that are 80% or less of market price and sell them at 120% or more market price. It’s also worth noting that towns with festivals running will buy goods at a much higher value.
3 Be Prepared For Battle
Combat isn’t a vitally important aspect of the game, but to win battles, players will need to maintain high crew morale to defeat their enemies. Leveling up characters for combat can help a lot, so if players are struggling to survive a pirate onslaught, they could focus on the Firearm and Brawling skills to pack an extra punch.
Each character has different preferences in combat, such as firing on the enemy ship with cannons or closing in to board the vessel. As always, it’s best to play to the character’s strengths.
2 Expand The Fleet
Once players have established themselves and collected a sizable amount of money, they’ll be able to purchase some additional ships to supplement their fleet (or seize defeated ships if playing as Abdullah). Each ship needs to be led by a separate captain, but they provide some useful benefits for the player.
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Most important is the extra hold space. More capacity for trade goods equals higher profit margins equals more ships to add to the fleet, which starts the entire cycle over. A larger fleet can also assist in combat and make pirates think twice about taking the player on.
1 Complete Side Missions
Side missions that are found in ports can often be a useful way to earn a little extra on the side. Town halls sometimes have pirate bounties that can be collected for players more inclined to the combat playstyle, whereas commerce guilds offer contracts to procure or deliver goods.
Players should also complete chronicles by discovering various ports and selling certain items. These unlock unique rewards for ships, such as blueprints for new rooms and badges for sails.
Sailing Era is available on Windows.
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