The cammal dragons routes is very fun when you unlock it. The mother and the princess are also good but have slightly trickier routes. For first time player the priest is the easiest to play in my opinion as he starts off with a far amount of money and can heal units. You can take this even more extreme later in the game and load up with really expesive goods at one end of the route such a Karkokum and then sell it all in Damascus for sometime triple the price. Plush Carpet One Cranbourne See all stores. Never by Elephants for combat to early as they are really expensive to heal and you want a least a hundred thousand before buying any one final tip is you are finding it really hard going to make money head to Bactra and buy lots of western goods then head up the route to Turfan only two stops away and sell your western goods (which are not avalible in this eastern city so worth a lot) use the money to buy lots of eastern goods and then head back down to Bactra and sell it and make more money keep doing this till you can afford the best good and make the most money then you can afford the best units and beast for your carvan. When i get more money i hire 4 combat troops 5 horse/Elephant units and 3 bowmen and then add support units like a summoner or healers.
I always max out my party with basic warriors in the start and take on bandits as i out number somtime 4 to 1 and can earn good rewards by defeating them, plus basic warriors are cheap and easy to replace. To get more money in the start walk the routes to find treasure and when you get it only sell half and keep the other half for emergencys. This other place will have a ! over it in a green and red cicle so head towards it. When you start the game you will be in a city one of the buliding will have a big ! over it talk to the people there and you get sent somewhere else. Moreover you also have to complete quests to open up new cities. In the start the trick is to avoid fight unless you have lots of fighters, do this by wondering the routes. The save and re-load cycle slows down the gameplay, but it can help you get maximum profit from each sale.This game is so much fun, but it can be really tricky. Keep reloading until you get the combination of the high sale price for your cargo and one or more low prices to buy new cargo at.Purchase General Merchandise just so you've got something to sell at the next port.Deadheading, which is sailing without cargo.For example, you bought Dream Dust at 6,000 gold and you keep reloading until you find a port that will buy it for 24,000 gold or higher, but the other available goods are at their high point, too. There are also occasions where you get a really good price for your cargo, but there's nothing worth buying. That's reset every time you reload the game, so the tips will only be usable when you hit a string where you hit several months in a row where you can just save your progress at each port and don't have to reload from the save point. Start your Freo adventure at these addresses. The disruption also includes the tips you hear in taverns about when prices will be good in the upcoming months. Sure, Fremantle is an easy day-trip from Perth, but a weekend (or longer) stay really is best to get a sense of the port city’s boho-cool spirit. Normally, you can watch prices rise and fall over the months, but every time you reload from a save point, it's random as to whether the prices in the next port will be on the upward or downward slope. It does have some drawbacks, though.Ĭonstantly saving and re-loading a game like this disrupts the flow of the prices. If you save your game right after you buy cargo at a very low price, you can keep re-loading it until you find a selling price that will earn a lot of profit. That went into my first save slot and I would use that over and over again as a new starting point for future games, making use of slots 2 and 3 as needed.Īnother is for maximizing profit for your cargo. The first would be a situation like I had where just a few months into a new game, I found a Brigantine for sale. Besides letting you put the game on hold so you can come back to it later, there's other reasons to save frequently. Though Tradewinds can be finished within a couple of hours, it's still prudent to save the game periodically.