To defect to the Ottoman Empire will take a whole week to prepare. Day 1 prepare equipment to do battle reports in the Black Sea. My alt Aisha is level 36/35/29 and has Ottoman correspondence. She has 90 skill in lookout which should be ok. It is going to take me 25h+ corresponding every 10 minutes. In a perfect world I would do it every 10 minutes and get 90/90 successes, taking 900 minutes or 15hours. It will more likely average every 15 minutes and succeed only 80% or so. I will be doing one battle report every day until the relations with Ottoman reaches 90 (Affection) and I am allowed to defect. At the end of the day I have completed my first battle report and made 23 correspondence; 18 success, 5 fails. I also upgraded my ship to a LeRoyal with 234 crew and 90 guns. It doesn't move fast at all, but it does not have to. I do a lot of melee and keep corresponding every 10 minutes. Made maritime level 64. For some reason i am getting +35% xp bonus instead of the 15% for 50/50(full company) Company bonus.
I only get +15% for adventure xp. I am not sure where the other 20% is coming from as I have no charms active.
Another day another battle report in the Black Sea. I am doing them as a Swordfighter, working my swordplay, assault and plunder skills. Every fight I try to end in a deck battle. I do about 4 melee thesis that gives 25 points per deck battle and only needs 250 pages to complete. It is a third level thesis and gives 2600 college credits per thesis. When I hit the 50,000 cap, I will switch to cannoneer and work my cannon skills. End of day correspondence with Ottoman, is 30success/9Fails (Amity).
I continue to collect (Famagusta) and put berries in storage (700/day) and get my aide to produce more raisins. An EA tip not printed anywhere to those who do not know... product storage is a special storage that can be taken out at any bank, even in EA. You must click on the quarters aide production every day to move the goods to "product storage" I have never read about this anywhere so, just to be clear, you can order your aide to make raisins(or other goods) and if your farm does not make berries, the aide will take them from your quarters storage if you have placed any there. This means that you can take a liner to EA empty and go to the bank and take out your raisins and with your brew secrets book, turn them into wine and/or brandy and use it to unlock and trade! There is a high initial cost for taking out goods from far away (say 2M for the first good), but it is not that bad if you take out a large quantity all at once. (2.2m for 1000 goods) While collecting berries, for 1h, I got about 3k xp for the first hour. With the 15% bonus, I make 68 Adventure.
End of day correspondence, 37 success, 10 Fails (Amity)
307 College Theses 50,482 credits.. Humm. I thought that there was a cap of 50k credits available? Well, time to work cannon skills anyhow. Odd note, I thought I was keeping good records of my correspondence success/fail. I checked after 38 successes, 10 fails and it already had me at Goodwill with the Ottoman empire(supposed to be 40 successes). Either I did not count properly, or you get a fraction of a success for a failed correspondence, maybe 0.2 or 0.25 for a failed attempt? Completed my 5th battle report in the Black sea, and ended the day with 56 Success, 10 Failures on correspondence (19 successes in a row with 92 lookout skill). With the high success rate, I wonder if your success rate increases as your relation with the target country increases, ie. I have had no failures since I achieved Trust with the Ottoman empire. I also beat off a 63 maritime pirate, who came into the Black Sea. He had an 8/8 ship with 270 sailors and wanted to melee me. He had direct hit prevention up, but I managed to shoot him right in the critical zone. The shot did not cause a critical, but it did put him in disorder right before we went into melee. I would have liked to see how his "attack strength" looked, but because of the disorder he was 100+ and i was 500+. I tried to deck battle with him, but he immediately retreated. While he stopped the disorder, I easily sailed away. At the end of the day, I sailed to Boston to invest more in railways and then down to the Caribbean to pick up jade rings at Caracas (Venice) for other company members who need it for the unlock trade 60 cap quest.
I finished my BR in the Black sea and then sailed to Hamburg/Maderia to help a company mate grind his handicraft skills. I also went up north to help another company mate complete a maritime quest. There were 10 ships all with 30-40 crew and small guns. I did not move and all 10 of the ships ended up surrounding me like legs on a starfish, trying to melee me and failing.
Seville is overloaded with SEA spice from 33-35k each.
End of day Ottoman correspondence 76 Success/12 Fails Spain, Portugal, England, Venice (On Alert) Ottoman (Trust)
I am close enough to 90 points of favor with the Ottoman empire, Grandor today?ESF Friday, should make a small ship (Gunboat) to use in the small ship ESF. I will need to do this for Court Ranks so that I can get a level 5 Quarters.Unclear how Trust decays, it does not say anywhere. After 80 success, no Affection. Thinking of delaying my defection to Ottoman. There is an ESF next weekend. It will also give me a chance to make Maritime level 69 which is a goal to be able to sail a First Class Viasseu
313 College Theses Submissions, Max credits is 60,000.
Will be doing quests for adventure fame and not credits now. I completed another battle report and got both my Reload and Penetration skill to R9.
11pm went to Boston to invest in the Railroad and to do my daily collection of berries at NA east for conversion into raisins at my quarters.
End of Day correspondence 87 successes/13 fails. Interestingly this is close to my aide's lookout skill when we started correspondence. (ie. 87/100 lookout skill = 87 success/13 fails?!?)
Lanterns are on sale in San Francisco. I could easily get another trade level if i was to do the San Fran-Sacramento-Omaha-Boston-Europe shuffle, but it is just another distraction. There is no particular reason to focus on trade levels as I am already sailing the endgame trade ship And there is a +50% skill bonus still on until March 21st. Battle skills and then probably adventure skills will be the focus once I defect. Another BR in Black Sea. Affection with the Ottoman empire after 89 Successes. It does not say what the decay rate of relations is with different countries, but I suspect that it decays at 1 point per day. If it is, my current successes would be 82. I also suspect that any time you Actually fight(shoot or melee) an Turkish Flagged fleet you get a minimum of -1 relations. This happened twice while I was ambushed by a flagged fleet and got into melee before I could use a tribute and retreat from battle. This would put me right at 80 successes for Affection. Of course I am not 100% sure, but it fits the events. I guess I could get to exactly "Sworn Friends" and see how long it would take to go back to Affection.
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While working on Melee skills, I decided to try the Cremian Pirates. They are sailing in 3 Heavy Galeasses. 1101 maritime XP if you end with a deck battle 722xp if you end with normal melee. My main concern is that they can sink me while I am in melee. I have 61 armor, but since they have 166+ crew each, it takes me a while to wear them down and I constantly get shot. I get 100+ points of Assault skill for one battle. I am only about 30% vs them but i get very good skills even if I lose.
End of day, Spain Distrust; England, Portugal, Venice, On Alert, Ottoman Affection.
Started on my small gunboat for this weekend's ESF. You must be English or have defected to England to make this ship as it can only be made in London or Portsmouth. It is much cheaper to mod since the 1st Mod only costs 1,1,2,3,4 SSIP's for the first 5 mods. I will probably put FIVE mods on this guy to pimp him out and see if I can hold my own in the weekend festivities. (I don't even know if the word "mod" as used by ship builders is correct here. maybe these are supposed to be called "upgrades"... not sure)
Another BR in the Black Sea. Made Plunder R8. End of day correspondence with Ottoman empire is Sworn Friends. It took 105 successful correspondence; Spain and England is Distrust; Portugal and Venice are On Alert.
Working on making ship parts for my small gunboat. Lots of running around to Santo Domingo and Calicut to make different ropes. After I get this ship finished, I will have to set up to make a pair of boots for a company mate.
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March 8th, Day 142.
Made Garuda(figurehads) for sale and the ESF. Spain is the only country in Industrial Revolution and of course the ONLY city of the five nations that I have gone thru and NOT invested in is Bilabo, Spain's Industrial city.I wanted to make 18 carronades today, but ended up buying them. I end the day in the Caribbean (Safe waters) doing a quick Battle Report in my new light gunboat.It is speedy and agile. Nice!
ESF Day. Although the ESF is actually 3 days long Friday's ESF is in the evening which is the easiest for me to do.Tomorrow it is in the afternoon and I will try to do it, but no guarantee.Sunday's ESF (small ships) is at 6am so that is definitely out.
Today I take the time to re-organize my gear and items. I need to fill up on lifesavers, calming flags, retreat bells,fire buckets etc.
Luckily I have +50K college credits. I am going to keep Great Success 4 and, Item improvement techniques (both 10,000 credit skills). The other three I swap to General Check (repairs sails and rudder when doing regular repairs), and Gunnery Aid 3 and 4. I am in Cannoneer job for the ESF.
My skills for ESF including items and college are:
Swordplay 10+1
Plunder 8+1
Assault 9+3
Gunnery 10+3
Accuracy 10+4
Reloading 9+2
Penetration 9+2
Repair 15+1
Tactics 5
Surgery 6+1
I took the ESF quest from the minister in Spain, but I tried the Port Official first and it did not work. According to the notes on the ESF page, it should have. Luckily there is a liner from Amsterdam to Jakarta, so getting out to Ternate (the target city) is easy.
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My old company mates that built ships for the ESF, for some reason could not get on and so I joined a random fleet of 4. Virtually everyone is sailing a small gunboat with similar stats.My fleet was lead by WaffleBarbarian. The other fleet members were Driftwood, Rashia, and Nukeshaw.In 1 hour I (we) obtained 22 victories and 43 merits of war. Of the 22 victories, I think 20 were vs. NPC fleets and 2 were vs. other player fleets.We also suffered one loss vs another player fleet. I only participated in the light round as I did not have a standard ship, nor a decent Heavy ship.
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In the evening I stayed in the area and did land battles at Brunei. I fought the Brunei bandit level 38 toget Hornet call, my first level 3 trap tech. One of the things not mentioned in the notes is that, just like you, the NPC has to do enough damage so that his tech bar increases to level 3 so that he can use the level 3 tech on you. Only after he uses it do you try to kill him quickly and acquire the tech.
Day 2 of ESF.I found out that I had to travel back to Seville to report the quest and pick up the same quest for round 2.I sailed with another group lead by Corbeau and some of his friends. One of our fleet was an alt sailing around with us to get some points. We were not as successful as we engaged in many more pvp battles and several were just a mess of several fleets. Our success rate in those was about 40%. I (we) had 16 victories and 23 merits of war.
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The rest of the day will be re-organizing my gear. I will drop all of the armor and guns and collect archive maps. I have swapped out and sent my best aide to the aide fleet.
A good day to defect to the Ottoman Empire. I have prepared for my exile by collecting 30 archive maps in the Middle East, East Asia, and South America. I have to bring my alt just to hold half of them. My status is: affection with the Ottoman, Warring with France, and Hostile with the other 5 European empires.I expect it will take at least 10 days of sailing to get back to a normal status with the 6 European countries. I will come back sooner than that, but not until I get back to at least "On Alert".
All day doing quests, archives and charting. Since I am Turk, I can take the camel/caravan from Suez to Basra.It is a good idea to do lots of quests from Istanbul and Alexandria that need to go to Basra. The evening is spent doing quests From India to East Asia. I have lots of archive maps, so this is going very quickly and my adventure XP is going up nicely. The EA maps that I collected up are all concentrated very tightly so it is easy to make discoveries and complete quests. Over 700 discoveries, and made level 69 Adventure.
Thanksgiving festival is back on in NA. All day questing in East Asia. I have Chinese and Japanese as languages and my alt has Korean. Every time I sail into any of the 4 capitals, I search the archives. Passed 730 discoveries.Even after defecting and losing 70k fame in each category, my Adventure fame is 118k. Made Biology base R9.
Ottoman Trust; French Hostile; the rest are Enmity.
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March 14th, Day 148
More maps and quests in EA. Charted 2 more sea zones. I made Geography base R9.
My last quest took me to Hawaii, so I kept going east and passed through San Francisco and took a train to North America West and ended the day doing land battles. Passed 750 Discoveries and have 200/289 areas charted.
All 6 of the European nations are no longer "Hostile" but are at "Enmity" status with me so I think I am ok and sailed back to Europe. Made two quick sets of 60d boots and a couple halberds. NA festival has ended. The message showed up at 1:30 pst. Seems odd but I thought it would end either at the end of day yesterday or tonight. In any case, I estimate that I did another 800 or so land battles during the festival. After re-Equipping for dungeons on the weekend, I sailed to Dublin to do some unlock maps that I had stored while collecting my EA maps.
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After switching to adventure mode, I sailed thru Panama and completedtwo quests from SF;a Hawaii quest and one going to Japan. After that, I dropped my alt in Pohang to collect ore and I sailed on to India to get the unlock Fort San Domingo quest.After unlocking it, I ranit twice and got the item I needed to unlock the mid level quest for FSD. I also charted the Tamsui River West area while I was there.
I sent my alt back to Europe to pick up lots of Aide food and to check on the Contribution item. Reinvestment booklets is an easy item to contribute. I spent the day doing land battles in NA, until my Equipment almost broke. Tomorrow I will go back to Europe and make boots and weapons for a weekend dungeon run.
As I am doing quests in EA, I am also doing two other things at the same time. I am working on College theses for trade goods. They require many (3600 or 4800) pages to complete. Since I have opened all of the ports in EA, I can now sail around and do a
trade at every city that I visit. When I visit, I trade 75 iron at any Korean or Taiwan port.I trade 50-75 Korean Raspberry S.China. I trade wine in Japan. I made a list of every good in each of the four areas and trade for 1 (or a couple) new EA good to fill up my memorial album. Every quest is 2-3 more goods and the album is filling quickly.
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Notes on trading in EA. As I said before, my alt collects Iron ore in West Pohang. The Korean Raspberries I can get for trading bulk iron in Pohang. The wine I get from my "produced goods storage" from my quarters at any bank in EA. This means I can sail to EA empty on a liner, go to the bank and take out 1500 raisins in Japan and make +2000 wine to trade instantly. I have over 4500 raisins stored up there currently.
The formula to take out goods (in Japan, and may vary depending on distance) is 2,451,310 + 208 per good removed. 1 raisin costs 2,451,518 ducats, 100 cost 2,472,100, 1000 raisins costs 2,659,310 ducats to take out.
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Finished memorial album "Goods Traded in the East #2, #7, #8, made Art R8. Discovered "Whirlpool" right outside of Sakai. My alt who is recognition R4 although fleeted was not able to discover the whirlpool. "You have discovered a mysterious phenomenon. However your skill rank is not high enough to discover it." Passed 770 discoveries.
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On a side note, our company and another company had a party at the company house for St. Pat's day and a company draw for submitting an aide this last week. I was still relegated to EA. but I should be able to get back to Europe very soon.
After collecting in NA SE coast, I work my way from Portobelo thru South Africa and to India, discovering all of the archive maps that I have for each area. I make Search R10.
In the next three days, while the skills boost is still on, my goals are
1) Search R11 to get the college skill "Hide completed maps/quests"
2) Wares Trading R9 to R11.
3) Alchemy From R5 to R8 hopefully
The side goals are to make and sell things in player bazaars and company shops to replenish my low cash reserves.
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My relations are high enough so the countries that don't like me won't attack, but when I try to use correspondence to improve my relations, the success is only around 50%. I discovered a mysterious phenomenon, Moon Pillar in the Black Sea North West landing area while collecting hemp to make paper ->western books (in Venice)->rare books (needed in a lot of alchemy recipes.)
I am officially back in the Med. Spain, Venice, France are Enmity.Portugal, Dutch, English are "On Alert." The stock of hemp that I collected in the Black Sea I converted into Rare books and put into a Bazaar for later use when I am ready to grind Alchemy. Today I will get more books, copper, sulfur and lumber. With all of the gold I am going to make, I will convert a lot of it into tribute for brigands.
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Collected berries and white ore in NA to make MCCT and Salted Fish nuts. Then back to Athens, and Beruit to collect materials to make Reinvestment Booklets for my alt's company contribution items. This works well, because I am in a mineral trader job and am working my Wares trade buying Parchments/Safflower/ and Wax for RIBs; Paper for Western Books and Lumber (much later for Tribute for brigands) and Steel.
I got wares trade to R11 and Alchemy to R7, then had to take a break to do Bordeaux Dungeon as I had run out of PO 2's (used to buy paper, sulfur and copper ore->gold).
After running Bordeaux 40 times, I went back to making gold until I hit Alchemy R8.
Now with my hat and emerald tablet, +2, I can make R10 Test kilns.That will be another long term goal, to prepare for when there is another +skill event going on. I will have to switch my farm from Ascension to one that makes clay.
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After making several hundred normal tribute for NPC, I decided to make some fine tribute for Player Pirates.I had lots of white ore from Bordeaux ( white ore book -> diamonds) and way too much gold from the alchemy recipe. It was easier than I thought. I finished the day in North America collecting more white ore and logs for more tribute. I didn't have time to get my search up to R11.That will have to wait until after I rebuild my cash reserves. I wish I could sell these fine tributes for more than 1M each, but that is the cap for consumable items and they are worth much more than that.
It is clear that I will not be able to make Search R11 today. I am at South Nantes collecting dull longswords, estocs and folding fans. Finding one of them gives me 4 points in search. I started today at R10 and 1200/10,000 xp in search. I only collect about 25 items per hour = 100 points of search per hour. The only good thing is that I can do real life chores while my toon searches.I do not know if other items give much more than 4xp per find but I picked this place because I can give every item to my aide and she destroys the one she is currently carrying. This eliminated the need for me to move away from the search location and drop +5 items.. go back and search again. I am sure many of you have been irritated by finding something another player has dropped. (toon stops searching after finding another players dropped item)
collected 100 ESBT's doing levels in Bordeaux dungeon. Made Throw R10. I also refilled my PO 2's and 3's.Today I will be doing Archeology and Theology in the Middle East. It is safe waters and I have the advantage of being Ottoman and taking the carriage/camel from Suez to Basra.I ended the day collecting white ore in Newfoundland to turn into diamonds for more fine tribute for player pirates.
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Note, that before I started my adventure xp and skill grind here, I have Spanish/Arabic/North American Languages/Chinese on my main.
French/Egyptian/Persian/Greek on my 2nd Aide.
Dutch/Nordic/Portuguese/Italian/Korean/Mayan/Japanese on my Alt.
English/Celtic on my Alts 1st Aide. and Latin on my Alt's 2nd aide.
Missing a language when doing a quest was always a pain in the neck when I first started on OGP.That is not a problem now.
At any city with a scholar I also browse the books for the skill I am working on.
There is a gold rush on in North America West coast. It is an ideal time for my alt to unlock San Francisco. I will split my time between here and the Red Sea doing quests.
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After talking with the gold nugget appraiser in San Fran and buying some pickaxes, we headed to the west coast to do some mining.
I did not know this, but gold nuggets cannot be traded between players. My large gold nugget was 5800g and my alt's was 11,200g. From my investment in the railroad, I received a better rate for the regular nuggets I turned in. We only broke even on the small nuggets, but we traded the large nuggets for some beef steak and a large square sail.
More adventure quests. I am focused on my search skill. I need to make around 100 more discoveries to get to R11.While doing quests, I found that the French refuse to let you take the carriage from Paris to Calais (2 tow permits) if you have "on alert" status with them. The message is that your relations are not good enough with the country to take the carriage.
End of day. 209/289 areas charted, 840 discoveries,Search is still R10 4000/10,000
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March 25th. Day 159
I would like to stay in the Red sea as it is safe waters, but I have done all of the quests that require search. There are only Recognition and Ecological research quests left. I moved to Portobeloto do quests and ended up in the Baltic sea completing the quest Jaguar's eyes.I will stay in the Med and do search quests and archive maps. Made appraisal R9. Passed 850 discoveries.
My relations with Portugal and Amsterdam are now "distrust" the other 4 are still "on alert" (My aide has correspondence with Amsterdam and Portugal so I have been working on the poor relations whenever I see a Portuguese or Dutch fleet.I helped another company member work on their casting skills, by setting up an aide bazaar for him with 8000 minerals and 2000 coal. It only takes me 15 PO 2's to fill up the bazaar and I will do an hour in the Bordeaux dungeon to get them back.
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I just found out that I was one of 20 winners of a Lucky Draw for participating in the recent ESF.I only found out because some player sent me a message and wanted to buy the part, which is a Special Ship Materials Purchase Order. NICE!
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The rest of the day I sailed around the Med and Atlantic doing more search skill quests. Made unlock R8.
End of day.211/289 areas Charted: Over 880 Discoveries: search 7000/10,000.
In North America Newfoundland collecting white ore to make crystals/glassware. We are at 23k/25k needed for the EA company liner.I found the Ultimate sword training technique book for sale in a bazaar in Seville and immediately bought it. Now I can make 100a Yatagan and Flamberge. Did some dungeons in Bordeaux to test out my new Flamberge and Yatagan. My college skills were not set up to make a 100att items so I settled on 60 and 70att. I ran Bordeaux until my Yatagan forte maxed out at 1000pts.
Did a few more quests and made level 72 Adventure.
I had a lot of work to do today, so I did not get much done.
More Adventure quests.While doing quests, I found some 20/28 -1 sails in London on sale for 4m each.I think this is crazy as these sails used to sell for 25-30m last age.I think they may be much more common as they show up in some tickets now.
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Passed 900 discoveries.Search is at R10, 8800/10,000 to R11.
Off to Rio, Portobelo and Lima to do more adventure quests.
After I hit search R11, I checked the development in Jaffa, and then picked up the parts to make +3 Equipment Furniture; Saws from Beruit outskirts (Byblos stacked boulders), Turkish rugs and lumber from Kaffa. I have the R16 Handicraft and R8+2 (10) fabric trading needed to make them by myself.
Passed 910 discoveries and Made Search R11, Theology R9.
I set up to collect Saws and Hammers to make +3 Furniture. It is easy for me being Turk and getting Turkish carpets and lumber from Kaffa. While my toons were searching for Saws, I made a list of things I am close to and the things that I want to complete in the long term.
Short Term
-Removing Food Trade from my main character R8. (My alt has R9) and replacing it with firearms trade. Making ship parts +3 furniture requires R16Handicraft and R10 firearms trade. I thought about putting firearms trade on my alt, but he is Portuguese and the only really decent place to level firearms trade is either Barcelona and/or Seville.
-Complete all quests from Aden before i defect to the Dutch.
Medium Term
-Working Sundries Trade skill on my alt. To make +3 document furniture requires R17Handicrafts and, R8 Sundries.
-Grinding to Maritime level 76 or 79 and building my end game Maritime ship, either a SolRoyal at 76, or Victory at 79.There are lots of better cash ships or there may be other new ships in the game, but this is from my review of ships in the current ivyro pages.
-Unlock and complete every dungeon
Long Term
-complete every college thesis and get every college skill.
-obtain all level 3 techs for swords and throwing daggers and at least ONE level 4 tech.
-Obtain Every job, ending with salvager and Astronomer. These two jobs require at least one permanent skill slot. They will replace two of my language skill slots, so I am trying to save that for last.
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Mace/Nutmeg are 31-35k in Seville, Saori 65k and Brushes 70k, Tan Rifles and other EA goods vary from 55-65k each.
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End of Day, my relations with the Dutch are back to normal. Portuguese is distrust, the rest are On Alert.
While working my Portuguese relations back to normal, I got the message "Your relations with other nations will not improve due to your relations with Ottoman Turkey."I checked to see that my Portuguese relations are now at normal status and I guess you can't get any better than normal with any of the European nations while Ottoman.
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Discovered Sun Dogs (natural phenomenon) at the Newfoundland North Coast landing area.
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India just became safe waters, so I am going there to work more adventure quests.
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Feb 27, Day 133
To defect to the Ottoman Empire will
take a whole week to prepare. Day 1 prepare equipment to do battle reports in
the Black Sea. My alt Aisha is level 36/35/29 and has Ottoman correspondence.
She has 90 skill in lookout which should be ok. It is going to take me 25h+
corresponding every 10 minutes. In a perfect world I would do it every 10
minutes and get 90/90 successes, taking 900 minutes or 15hours. It will more
likely average every 15 minutes and succeed only 80% or so. I will be doing one battle report every day
until the relations with Ottoman reaches 90 (Affection) and I am allowed to
defect. At the end of the day I have
completed my first battle report and made 23 correspondence; 18 success, 5
fails. I also upgraded my ship to a LeRoyal with 234 crew and 90 guns. It
doesn't move fast at all, but it does not have to. I do a lot of melee and keep
corresponding every 10 minutes. Made
maritime level 64. For some reason i am getting +35% xp bonus instead of the
15% for 50/50(full company) Company bonus.
I only get +15% for adventure xp. I am
not sure where the other 20% is coming from as I have no charms active.
67/78/64
Feb 28, Day 134
Another day another battle report in the
Black Sea. I am doing them as a Swordfighter, working my swordplay, assault and
plunder skills. Every fight I try to end in a deck battle. I do about 4 melee
thesis that gives 25 points per deck battle and only needs 250 pages to
complete. It is a third level thesis and gives 2600 college credits per
thesis. When I hit the 50,000 cap, I
will switch to cannoneer and work my cannon skills. End of day correspondence with Ottoman, is
30success/9Fails (Amity).
67/78/65
March 1st Day 135
I continue to collect (Famagusta) and put
berries in storage (700/day) and get my aide to produce more raisins. An EA tip not printed anywhere to those
who do not know... product storage is a
special storage that can be taken out at any bank, even in EA. You must click on the quarters aide
production every day to move the goods to "product storage" I have
never read about this anywhere so, just to be clear, you can order your aide to
make raisins(or other goods) and if your farm does not make berries, the aide
will take them from your quarters storage if you have placed any there. This
means that you can take a liner to EA empty and go to the bank and take out
your raisins and with your brew secrets book, turn them into wine and/or brandy
and use it to unlock and trade! There is a high initial cost for taking out
goods from far away (say 2M for the first good), but it is not that bad if you
take out a large quantity all at once. (2.2m for 1000 goods) While collecting
berries, for 1h, I got about 3k xp for the first hour. With the 15% bonus, I
make 68 Adventure.
End of day correspondence, 37 success,
10 Fails (Amity)
68/78/65
March 2nd, Day 136
307 College Theses 50,482 credits.. Humm.
I thought that there was a cap of 50k credits available? Well, time to work
cannon skills anyhow. Odd note, I thought I was keeping good records of my
correspondence success/fail. I checked after 38 successes, 10 fails and it
already had me at Goodwill with the Ottoman empire(supposed to be 40 successes).
Either I did not count properly, or you get a fraction of a success for a
failed correspondence, maybe 0.2 or 0.25 for a failed attempt? Completed my 5th battle report in the Black
sea, and ended the day with 56 Success, 10 Failures on correspondence (19
successes in a row with 92 lookout skill). With the high success rate, I wonder
if your success rate increases as your relation with the target country
increases, ie. I have had no failures since I achieved Trust with the Ottoman
empire. I also beat off a 63 maritime pirate,
who came into the Black Sea. He had an 8/8 ship with 270 sailors and wanted to
melee me. He had direct hit prevention
up, but I managed to shoot him right in the critical zone. The shot did not cause a critical, but it did
put him in disorder right before we went into melee. I would have liked to see
how his "attack strength" looked, but because of the disorder he was
100+ and i was 500+. I tried to deck battle with him, but he immediately
retreated. While he stopped the
disorder, I easily sailed away. At the
end of the day, I sailed to Boston to invest more in railways and then down to
the Caribbean to pick up jade rings at Caracas (Venice) for other company
members who need it for the unlock trade 60 cap quest.
68/78/66
March 3rd, day 137
I finished my BR in the Black sea and
then sailed to Hamburg/Maderia to help a company mate grind his handicraft
skills. I also went up north to help another company mate complete a maritime
quest. There were 10 ships all with 30-40 crew and small guns. I did not move and all 10 of the ships ended
up surrounding me like legs on a starfish, trying to melee me and failing.
Seville is overloaded with SEA spice
from 33-35k each.
End of day Ottoman correspondence 76
Success/12 Fails Spain, Portugal, England, Venice (On Alert) Ottoman (Trust)
68/78/67
March 4th day 138.
I am close enough to 90 points of favor
with the Ottoman empire, Grandor today?ESF Friday, should make a small ship
(Gunboat) to use in the small ship ESF. I will need to do this for Court Ranks
so that I can get a level 5 Quarters.Unclear how Trust decays, it does not say
anywhere. After 80 success, no
Affection. Thinking of delaying my
defection to Ottoman. There is an ESF next weekend. It will also give me a
chance to make Maritime level 69 which is a goal to be able to sail a First
Class Viasseu
313 College Theses Submissions, Max
credits is 60,000.
Will be doing quests for adventure fame
and not credits now. I completed another battle report and got both my Reload and Penetration skill to R9.
11pm went to Boston to invest in the
Railroad and to do my daily collection of berries at NA east for conversion
into raisins at my quarters.
End of Day correspondence 87
successes/13 fails. Interestingly this is close to my aide's lookout skill when
we started correspondence. (ie. 87/100 lookout skill = 87 success/13 fails?!?)
March 5th, Day 139.
Lanterns are on sale in San Francisco. I
could easily get another trade level if i was to do the San Fran-Sacramento-Omaha-Boston-Europe
shuffle, but it is just another distraction. There is no particular reason to
focus on trade levels as I am already sailing the endgame trade ship And there
is a +50% skill bonus still on until March 21st. Battle skills and then
probably adventure skills will be the focus once I defect. Another BR in Black Sea. Affection with the
Ottoman empire after 89 Successes. It does not say what the decay rate of
relations is with different countries, but I suspect that it decays at 1 point
per day. If it is, my current successes
would be 82. I also suspect that any time you Actually fight(shoot or melee) an
Turkish Flagged fleet you get a minimum of -1 relations. This happened twice while I was ambushed by a
flagged fleet and got into melee before I could use a tribute and retreat from
battle. This would put me right at 80 successes for Affection. Of course I am not 100% sure, but it fits the
events. I guess I could get to exactly "Sworn Friends" and see how
long it would take to go back to Affection.
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While working on Melee skills, I decided
to try the Cremian Pirates. They are
sailing in 3 Heavy Galeasses. 1101 maritime XP if you end with a deck battle
722xp if you end with normal melee. My
main concern is that they can sink me while I am in melee. I have 61 armor, but
since they have 166+ crew each, it takes me a while to wear them down and I
constantly get shot. I get 100+ points of Assault skill for one battle. I am only about 30% vs them but i get very
good skills even if I lose.
End of day, Spain Distrust; England,
Portugal, Venice, On Alert, Ottoman Affection.
68/78/68
March 6th, Day 140
Started on my small gunboat for this
weekend's ESF. You must be English or
have defected to England to make this ship as it can only be made in London or
Portsmouth. It is much cheaper to mod since the 1st Mod only costs 1,1,2,3,4
SSIP's for the first 5 mods. I will probably put FIVE mods on this guy to pimp
him out and see if I can hold my own in the weekend festivities. (I don't even
know if the word "mod" as used by ship builders is correct here.
maybe these are supposed to be called "upgrades"... not sure)
Another BR in the Black Sea. Made Plunder R8. End of day correspondence
with Ottoman empire is Sworn Friends.
It took 105 successful correspondence; Spain and England is Distrust; Portugal
and Venice are On Alert.
March 7th, Day 141
Working on making ship parts for my
small gunboat. Lots of running around to Santo Domingo and Calicut to make
different ropes. After I get this ship finished, I will have to set up to make
a pair of boots for a company mate.
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March 8th, Day 142.
Made Garuda(figurehads) for sale and the
ESF. Spain is the only country in Industrial Revolution and of course the ONLY
city of the five nations that I have gone thru and NOT invested in is Bilabo,
Spain's Industrial city. I wanted to
make 18 carronades today, but ended up buying them. I end the day in the
Caribbean (Safe waters) doing a quick Battle Report in my new light gunboat. It is speedy and agile. Nice!
68/78/69
March 9th, Day 143
ESF Day. Although the ESF is actually 3
days long Friday's ESF is in the evening which is the easiest for me to do. Tomorrow it is in the afternoon and I will
try to do it, but no guarantee. Sunday's
ESF (small ships) is at 6am so that is definitely out.
Today I take the time to re-organize my
gear and items. I need to fill up on lifesavers, calming flags, retreat
bells, fire buckets etc.
Luckily I have +50K college credits. I
am going to keep Great Success 4 and, Item improvement techniques (both 10,000
credit skills). The other three I swap to General Check (repairs sails and
rudder when doing regular repairs), and Gunnery Aid 3 and 4. I am in Cannoneer
job for the ESF.
My skills for ESF including items and
college are:
Swordplay 10+1
Plunder 8+1
Assault 9+3
Gunnery 10+3
Accuracy 10+4
Reloading 9+2
Penetration 9+2
Repair 15+1
Tactics 5
Surgery 6+1
I took the ESF quest from the minister
in Spain, but I tried the Port Official first and it did not work. According to
the notes on the ESF page, it should have. Luckily there is a liner from
Amsterdam to Jakarta, so getting out to Ternate (the target city) is easy.
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My old company mates that built ships
for the ESF, for some reason could not get on and so I joined a random fleet of
4. Virtually everyone is sailing a small gunboat with similar stats. My fleet was lead by WaffleBarbarian. The
other fleet members were Driftwood, Rashia, and Nukeshaw. In 1 hour I (we) obtained 22 victories and 43
merits of war. Of the 22 victories, I think 20 were vs. NPC fleets and 2 were
vs. other player fleets. We also
suffered one loss vs another player fleet.
I only participated in the light round as I did not have a standard
ship, nor a decent Heavy ship.
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In the evening I stayed in the area and
did land battles at Brunei. I fought the
Brunei bandit level 38 to get Hornet
call, my first level 3 trap tech. One of the things not mentioned in the
notes is that, just like you, the NPC has to do enough damage so that his tech
bar increases to level 3 so that he can use the level 3 tech on you. Only after
he uses it do you try to kill him quickly and acquire the tech.
March 10th, Day 144.
Day 2 of ESF. I found out that I had to travel back to
Seville to report the quest and pick up the same quest for round 2. I sailed with another group lead by Corbeau
and some of his friends. One of our fleet was an alt sailing around with us to
get some points. We were not as
successful as we engaged in many more pvp battles and several were just a mess
of several fleets. Our success rate in those was about 40%. I (we) had 16
victories and 23 merits of war.
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The rest of the day will be
re-organizing my gear. I will drop all of the armor and guns and collect
archive maps. I have swapped out and sent my best aide to the aide fleet.
March 11, Day 145.
A good day to defect to the Ottoman
Empire. I have prepared for my exile by collecting 30 archive maps in the
Middle East, East Asia, and South America. I have to bring my alt just to hold
half of them. My status is: affection with the Ottoman, Warring with France, and Hostile with the other
5 European empires. I expect it will
take at least 10 days of sailing to get back to a normal status with the 6
European countries. I will come back sooner than that, but not until I get back
to at least "On Alert".
Warring->Hostile->Enmity->On
Alert->Distrust->Normal->Amity->Goodwill->Trust->
Affection->Sworn Friends.
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Post Edit note. 40 days later and 4 of
the 6 countries are still at distrust.
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I turned on a fame/skill and xp booster
for the next 30 days to help with adventure.
By the end of day, I had charted 4 more
land areas and passed 670 discoveries.
68/78/69
March 12, Day 146
All day doing quests, archives and
charting. Since I am Turk, I can take the camel/caravan from Suez to
Basra. It is a good idea to do lots of
quests from Istanbul and Alexandria that need to go to Basra. The evening is
spent doing quests From India to East Asia. I have lots of archive maps, so
this is going very quickly and my adventure XP is going up nicely. The EA maps
that I collected up are all concentrated very tightly so it is easy to make
discoveries and complete quests. Over 700 discoveries, and made level 69
Adventure.
69/78/69
March 13, Day 147
Thanksgiving festival is back on in NA. All day questing in East Asia. I have Chinese
and Japanese as languages and my alt has Korean. Every time I sail into any of
the 4 capitals, I search the archives. Passed 730 discoveries. Even after defecting and losing 70k fame in
each category, my Adventure fame is 118k.
Made Biology base R9.
Ottoman Trust; French Hostile; the rest
are Enmity.
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March 14th, Day 148
More maps and quests in EA. Charted 2
more sea zones. I made Geography base R9.
My last quest took me to Hawaii, so I
kept going east and passed through San Francisco and took a train to North
America West and ended the day doing land battles. Passed 750 Discoveries and have
200/289 areas charted.
Friday March 16th, Day 150.
All 6 of the European nations are no
longer "Hostile" but are at "Enmity" status with me so I think
I am ok and sailed back to Europe. Made two quick sets of 60d boots and a
couple halberds. NA festival has ended. The message showed up at 1:30 pst.
Seems odd but I thought it would end either at the end of day yesterday or
tonight. In any case, I estimate that I did another 800 or so land battles
during the festival. After re-Equipping for dungeons on the weekend, I sailed
to Dublin to do some unlock maps that I had stored while collecting my EA maps.
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After switching to adventure mode, I
sailed thru Panama and completed two
quests from SF;a Hawaii quest and one going to Japan. After that, I dropped my
alt in Pohang to collect ore and I sailed on to India to get the unlock Fort
San Domingo quest. After unlocking it, I
ran it twice and got the item I needed
to unlock the mid level quest for FSD. I also charted the Tamsui River West
area while I was there.
March 15th, The Ides of March. Day 149.
I sent my alt back to Europe to pick up
lots of Aide food and to check on the Contribution item. Reinvestment booklets
is an easy item to contribute. I spent the day doing land battles in NA, until
my Equipment almost broke. Tomorrow I will go back to Europe and make boots and
weapons for a weekend dungeon run.
March 17th, Day 151.
As I am doing quests in EA, I am also
doing two other things at the same time. I am working on College theses for
trade goods. They require many (3600 or 4800) pages to complete. Since I have
opened all of the ports in EA, I can now sail around and do a
trade at every city that I visit. When I
visit, I trade 75 iron at any Korean or Taiwan port. I trade 50-75 Korean Raspberry S.China. I
trade wine in Japan. I made a list of
every good in each of the four areas and trade for 1 (or a couple) new EA good
to fill up my memorial album. Every quest is 2-3 more goods and the album is
filling quickly.
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Notes on trading in EA. As I said
before, my alt collects Iron ore in West Pohang. The Korean Raspberries I can
get for trading bulk iron in Pohang. The wine I get from my "produced
goods storage" from my quarters at any bank in EA. This means I can sail to EA empty on a liner, go to the bank and take
out 1500 raisins in Japan and make +2000 wine to trade instantly. I have
over 4500 raisins stored up there currently.
The formula to take out goods (in Japan,
and may vary depending on distance) is 2,451,310 + 208 per good removed. 1
raisin costs 2,451,518 ducats, 100 cost 2,472,100, 1000 raisins costs 2,659,310
ducats to take out.
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Finished memorial album "Goods
Traded in the East #2, #7, #8, made Art R8. Discovered "Whirlpool"
right outside of Sakai. My alt who is recognition R4 although fleeted was not
able to discover the whirlpool. "You have discovered a mysterious
phenomenon. However your skill rank is not high enough to discover it."
Passed 770 discoveries.
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On a side note, our company and another
company had a party at the company house for St. Pat's day and a company draw
for submitting an aide this last week. I was still relegated to EA. but I
should be able to get back to Europe very soon.
March 18th, Day 152.
After collecting in NA SE coast, I work
my way from Portobelo thru South Africa and to India, discovering all of the
archive maps that I have for each area. I make Search R10.
In the next three days, while the skills
boost is still on, my goals are
1) Search R11 to get the college skill
"Hide completed maps/quests"
2) Wares Trading R9 to R11.
3) Alchemy From R5 to R8 hopefully
The side goals are to make and sell
things in player bazaars and company shops to replenish my low cash reserves.
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My relations are high enough so the
countries that don't like me won't attack, but when I try to use correspondence
to improve my relations, the success is only around 50%. I discovered a mysterious phenomenon, Moon Pillar in the Black Sea North
West landing area while collecting hemp to make paper ->western books
(in Venice)->rare books (needed in a lot of alchemy recipes.)
March 19th, Day 153
I am officially back in the Med. Spain,
Venice, France are Enmity. Portugal,
Dutch, English are "On Alert."
The stock of hemp that I collected in the Black Sea I converted into
Rare books and put into a Bazaar for later use when I am ready to grind
Alchemy. Today I will get more books, copper, sulfur and lumber. With all of
the gold I am going to make, I will convert a lot of it into tribute for
brigands.
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Collected berries and white ore in NA to
make MCCT and Salted Fish nuts. Then back to Athens, and Beruit to collect
materials to make Reinvestment Booklets for my alt's company contribution
items. This works well, because I am in a mineral trader job and am working my
Wares trade buying Parchments/Safflower/ and Wax for RIBs; Paper for Western
Books and Lumber (much later for Tribute for brigands) and Steel.
March 20, Day 154
I got wares trade to R11 and Alchemy to
R7, then had to take a break to do Bordeaux Dungeon as I had run out of PO 2's
(used to buy paper, sulfur and copper ore->gold).
After running Bordeaux 40 times, I went
back to making gold until I hit Alchemy
R8.
Now with my hat and emerald tablet, +2,
I can make R10 Test kilns. That will be
another long term goal, to prepare for when there is another +skill event going
on. I will have to switch my farm from Ascension to one that makes clay.
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After making several hundred normal
tribute for NPC, I decided to make some fine tribute for Player Pirates. I had lots of white ore from Bordeaux (
white ore book -> diamonds) and way too much gold from the alchemy recipe.
It was easier than I thought. I finished the day in North America collecting
more white ore and logs for more tribute.
I didn't have time to get my search up to R11. That will have to wait until after I rebuild
my cash reserves. I wish I could sell these fine tributes for more than 1M
each, but that is the cap for consumable items and they are worth much more
than that.
71/79/69
March 21, Day 155
It is clear that I will not be able to
make Search R11 today. I am at South Nantes collecting dull longswords, estocs
and folding fans. Finding one of them gives me 4 points in search. I started
today at R10 and 1200/10,000 xp in search. I only collect about 25 items per
hour = 100 points of search per hour.
The only good thing is that I can do real life chores while my toon
searches. I do not know if other items
give much more than 4xp per find but I picked this place because I can give
every item to my aide and she destroys the one she is currently carrying. This
eliminated the need for me to move away from the search location and drop +5
items.. go back and search again. I am sure many of you have been irritated by
finding something another player has dropped. (toon stops searching after
finding another players dropped item)
March 22, Day 156
collected 100 ESBT's doing levels in
Bordeaux dungeon. Made Throw R10. I also
refilled my PO 2's and 3's. Today I will
be doing Archeology and Theology in the Middle East. It is safe waters and I
have the advantage of being Ottoman and taking the carriage/camel from Suez to
Basra. I ended the day collecting white
ore in Newfoundland to turn into diamonds for more fine tribute for player
pirates.
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Note, that before I started my adventure
xp and skill grind here, I have Spanish/Arabic/North American Languages/Chinese
on my main.
French/Egyptian/Persian/Greek on my 2nd
Aide.
Dutch/Nordic/Portuguese/Italian/Korean/Mayan/Japanese
on my Alt.
English/Celtic on my Alts 1st Aide. and
Latin on my Alt's 2nd aide.
Missing a language when doing a quest
was always a pain in the neck when I first started on OGP. That is not a problem now.
At any city with a scholar I also browse the books for the skill I am working
on.
March 23, Day 157
There is a gold rush on in North America
West coast. It is an ideal time for my alt to unlock San Francisco. I will
split my time between here and the Red Sea doing quests.
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After talking with the gold nugget appraiser
in San Fran and buying some pickaxes, we headed to the west coast to do some
mining.
I did not know this, but gold nuggets
cannot be traded between players. My large gold nugget was 5800g and my alt's
was 11,200g. From my investment in the railroad, I received a better rate for
the regular nuggets I turned in. We only broke even on the small nuggets, but
we traded the large nuggets for some beef steak and a large square sail.
End of day 820 discoveries.
March 24, Day 158
More adventure quests. I am focused on
my search skill. I need to make around 100 more discoveries to get to R11. While doing quests, I found that the French
refuse to let you take the carriage from Paris to Calais (2 tow permits) if you
have "on alert" status with them.
The message is that your relations are not good enough with the country
to take the carriage.
End of day. 209/289 areas charted, 840
discoveries, Search is still R10
4000/10,000
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March 25th. Day 159
I would like to stay in the Red sea as
it is safe waters, but I have done all of the quests that require search. There
are only Recognition and Ecological research quests left. I moved to
Portobelo to do quests and ended up in
the Baltic sea completing the quest Jaguar's eyes. I will stay in the Med and do search quests
and archive maps. Made appraisal R9.
Passed 850 discoveries.
March 26th, Day 160.
My relations with Portugal and Amsterdam
are now "distrust" the other 4 are still "on alert" (My
aide has correspondence with Amsterdam and Portugal so I have been working on
the poor relations whenever I see a Portuguese or Dutch fleet. I helped another company member work on their
casting skills, by setting up an aide bazaar for him with 8000 minerals and
2000 coal. It only takes me 15 PO 2's to fill up the bazaar and I will do an
hour in the Bordeaux dungeon to get them back.
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I just found out that I
was one of 20 winners of a Lucky Draw for participating in the recent ESF. I only found out because some player sent me
a message and wanted to buy the part, which is a Special Ship Materials
Purchase Order. NICE!
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The rest of the day I sailed around the
Med and Atlantic doing more search skill quests. Made unlock R8.
End of day. 211/289 areas Charted: Over 880 Discoveries: search 7000/10,000.
March 27th, Day 161.
In North America Newfoundland collecting
white ore to make crystals/glassware. We are at 23k/25k needed for the EA
company liner. I found the Ultimate sword training technique book
for sale in a bazaar in Seville and immediately
bought it. Now I can make 100a Yatagan and Flamberge. Did some dungeons in
Bordeaux to test out my new Flamberge and Yatagan. My college skills were not
set up to make a 100att items so I settled on 60 and 70att. I ran Bordeaux
until my Yatagan forte maxed out at 1000pts.
Did a few more quests and made level 72
Adventure.
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72/79/69
March 28th, Day 162
I had a lot of work to do today, so I
did not get much done.
More Adventure quests. While doing quests, I found some 20/28 -1
sails in London on sale for 4m each. I
think this is crazy as these sails used to sell for 25-30m last age. I think they may be much more common as they
show up in some tickets now.
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Passed 900 discoveries. Search is at R10, 8800/10,000 to R11.
March 29th, Day 163
Off to Rio, Portobelo and Lima to do
more adventure quests.
After I hit search R11, I checked the
development in Jaffa, and then picked up the parts to make +3 Equipment Furniture;
Saws from Beruit outskirts (Byblos stacked boulders), Turkish rugs and lumber
from Kaffa. I have the R16 Handicraft and R8+2 (10) fabric trading needed to
make them by myself.
Passed 910 discoveries and Made Search
R11, Theology R9.
March 30th. Good Friday. Day 164
A time to think of long term goals
again.
I set up to collect Saws and Hammers to
make +3 Furniture. It is easy for me being Turk and getting Turkish carpets and
lumber from Kaffa. While my toons were searching for Saws, I made a list of things I am close to
and the things that I want to complete in the long term.
Short Term
-Removing Food Trade from my main
character R8. (My alt has R9) and replacing it with firearms trade. Making ship
parts +3 furniture requires R16Handicraft and R10 firearms trade. I
thought about putting firearms trade on my alt, but he is Portuguese and the
only really decent place to level firearms trade is either Barcelona and/or
Seville.
-Complete all quests from Aden before i
defect to the Dutch.
Medium Term
-Working Sundries Trade skill on my alt.
To make +3 document furniture requires R17Handicrafts and, R8 Sundries.
-Grinding to Maritime level 76 or 79 and
building my end game Maritime ship, either a SolRoyal at 76, or Victory at
79. There are lots of better cash ships
or there may be other new ships in the game, but this is from my review of
ships in the current ivyro pages.
-Unlock and complete every dungeon
Long Term
-complete every college thesis and get
every college skill.
-obtain all level 3 techs for swords and
throwing daggers and at least ONE level 4 tech.
-Obtain Every job, ending with salvager
and Astronomer. These two jobs require at least one permanent skill slot. They
will replace two of my language skill slots, so I am trying to save that for
last.
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Mace/Nutmeg are 31-35k in Seville, Saori
65k and Brushes 70k, Tan Rifles and other EA goods vary from 55-65k each.
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End of Day, my relations with the Dutch
are back to normal. Portuguese is distrust, the rest are On Alert.
March 31, Day 165
More adventure quests. Working the Art skill.
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While working my Portuguese relations
back to normal, I got the message "Your relations with other nations will
not improve due to your relations with Ottoman Turkey." I checked to see that my Portuguese relations
are now at normal status and I guess you can't get any better than normal with
any of the European nations while Ottoman.
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Discovered Sun Dogs (natural phenomenon)
at the Newfoundland North Coast landing area.
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India just became safe waters, so I am
going there to work more adventure quests.
End of day 920 discoveries. Made Biology
R10.