Scurvy Trader's UWO Log

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  • patersmith66patersmith66 Posts: 503Member Intermediate

    July 7th, Day 264

    I pick up the Supply Corps research
    thesis while in Boston. Invest in Rails and collect 1500 berries for my
    quarters.

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    Back to the Black Sea for another battle
    report. This time as in Supply Corps Job. 
    The thesis is done in 5 battles with Sinop fleet (3). Even though the
    thesis is complete, I stay in the job and work my surgery, repair and arms
    skills. One of the bad things about working surgery is that I cannot really
    work assault at the same time. I spend a lot of time meleeing the 3's and 4
    fleets. Since assault is maxed at R10, I do not use the skill. I focus on just
    taking casualties and retreating. It works oddly well. When my crew gets low, I
    retreat, repair my boat and heal my crew and let them come back at me again.
    The worst part it really the damage my ship and gear takes from getting shot up
    while in melee. I use up over 600 MCCT's repairing my ship and will have to do
    a run to Newfoundland to get white ore to make more. I lost 3 plates, 3 guns,
    the one sail i had on my ship and my boots and spear took a ton of damage as
    well.  I make Arms R6 and Maritime level 78.

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    I check the nanban merchant by the
    company offices and decide to do another EA run. Sakai is in War status and the
    alcohol backstock line is near the bottom.  
    Liner to EA (35 minutes). Activate a +30% speed boost. Sail to Sakai
    from the liner cities Pohang for my alt and Macau for me. (5 minutes) Take 1800
    raisins out of product storage convert to 3000 wine. Use two Nanban Purveyor
    Certificates and trade for 1400 saori and 1600 Japanese paintings (15 minutes).
    In a few more trips, my alt will also have Saori opened in Sakai. Sail to SF
    (22 minutes), carriage and train to Boston. Muck around in Boston for 5 minutes
    and pick up the next thesis (5 minutes). Sail to Seville (12 minutes). Total
    turnaround time for the EA trip 94 minutes. 
    The time is way under two hours and if I want I can just sell off all
    the goods and take the next liner back to EA!

    80/83/78

  • patersmith66patersmith66 Posts: 503Member Intermediate

    July 8, Day 265

    Before I start the next battle report, I
    switch to shipwright. I spend 20 minutes crashing my boat into the rocks and
    repairing it. Shipwright's Influence thesis is complete.  I switch to cannoneer and do TWO battle
    reports in the Black Sea. I make Surgery R7 and Accuracy R12. Nice!

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    Off to North America to invest in
    railroads and collect white ore this time. My maritime boat is taking a beating
    from all these battle reports and I need to make and replace all the MCCTs I
    use up every BR.

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    July 9th, Day 266

    Another BR. Today I actually fleeted
    with a pirate who asked me to join.  I am
    not sure if I have written about this before so excuse me if it is a repeat of
    a prior post. ...I still get pirated by player pirates about once per week and
    I just use a fine tribute and keep going so I normally ignore pirates. I don't
    respond after I tribute them. Most don't say much, but some like to talk smack.
    I just ignore it. My philosophy is that the game is what you make of it and
    different players consider different things "winning." A good example
    is that some of the players in my company like to socialize. They win just by
    coming on, relaxing and chatting with other company members. That's it. Others
    like to exert as much power and influence over others by playing pirates. Some
    small group of those pirates win by annoying other players as much as they can,
    by using smack talk and such. It is that group I generally ignore.  Even if they get some money from me, they do
    not win as I am not annoyed by them at all. I do consider them to be a feature
    of the game. Pay my 1M ducats and sail on. 
    The pirate whom I fleeted with I have seen in the Black sea for the last
    week doing battle reports and so I didn't really think about it too much, I
    just said sure and did about 1/3 of a BR with him. (completed the current one I
    was doing.)

  • patersmith66patersmith66 Posts: 503Member Intermediate

    July 10th, Day 267

    Another BR. Not much to talk about, was
    in cannoneer job and worked cannon skills. I will make level 79 maritime on the
    next BR.

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    Took the company liner to EA. Pulled
    1600 raisins out of product storage and made wine. I traded for 1600 Tan Rifles
    and 1300 Saori. I sailed to SF and Trained to Boston, sailed to Seville.

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    Tip of the day...Over to
    NA to collect berries to fill my quarters storage.  When processing goods in quarters storage (assuming
    your aide is already set to process),   you can actually have zero goods (berries) in quarters trade goods storage,  fill it up first, THEN click on quarters info,
    and your berries will get immediately processed.  If you click on quarters info first, it will
    try to process whatever you have in your quarters trade goods storage, and it
    will say due to lack of goods to process, nothing was processed. 

  • patersmith66patersmith66 Posts: 503Member Intermediate

    July 11, Day 268

    Another BR. I make maritime level
    79.  Just in time too. I have no more
    spare carronades.  It is time to switch
    to shipbuilding and adventure mode. The next short term goal is to do adventure
    quests while sailing around and making/collecting parts for my final Adventure ship,
    a Cruise High Clipper, which requires maritime level 75 to sail.

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    After the "supposed" update
    from 2-5pm, the game was still down. 
    From what I read, it was up shortly but was giving out duplicate goods
    from the new "Treasure Cove" system that is replacing the Captain's
    tickets. The game was taken down and stayed down for the rest of the day.  It did not come back online until near the
    end of the day around 11-12pm.

    80/83/79

  • patersmith66patersmith66 Posts: 503Member Intermediate

    July 12, Day 269

    A day to get organized. I reviewed my
    college skills and found that I was missing a whole pile of building #2 Trade
    theses.  I spent the afternoon completing
    those. At the end of that, I had 421 Theses complete and 51 college skills
    acquired.

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    I went to Boston , invested in
    Railroads, picked up the Ocean Explorer growth then went to NA SE coast to
    collect berries.

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    July 13, Day 270

    Retuned to Europe and dropped off a load
    of berries and started to collect geography maps. First real day of doing
    adventure quests again. I did a circuit around Europe discovering archive maps
    and made my way back to Boston. I completed the Ocean Explorer research and
    picked up the same research again. I wanted to pick up a new research, but none
    have recognition and geography which is what I am focused on.

    I take a quest going to Lima which is a
    good choice since it has recently been opened.

    HuseyinGazi posted on the forums a week
    ago and asked the population to push for the development of Ambon and Lima.
    Both were without banks and scholars. With his organizing, we were able to
    develop them enough in ten days to get the scholar and bank.  Now I can go to Ambon and farm unlock maps
    (when I make my next set of headache meds.)

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    End of day, passed 1350 discoveries.
    Made Geography R10 and Recognition R9.

  • patersmith66patersmith66 Posts: 503Member Intermediate

    July 14, Day 271

    Picked up the thesis for court gardener
    in Boston. In the morning I completed the thesis sailing around Portobelo,
    Santo Domingo and Rio de Janeiro.

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    The ESF is on and I didn't consider
    joining. I did not want to stop adventuring and build some carronades and
    armor. If the ESF was a week earlier as was scheduled on the Uncharted Waters
    Wiki "Railway Events"  I would
    have taken a break from battle reports to join in, but I am fully in adventure
    mode and don't want to break out of it.

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    In the afternoon, I did  quests from Cape going to Calicut to meet a
    company mate and help her get the spice trader job. From there I continued to
    do my adventure quests towards SEA. I picked up a new quest not on Ivyro from
    Jakarta and it ends up taking me to Siberia! 
    Since my alt has not opened the NE passage, when I sailed past Japan, I
    left him in Nagasaki to pull some raisins and trade wine for Tan Rifles. He
    sailed to SF while I went to Siberia. After completing the quest I continued on
    and landed at Boston!

    Jakarta to Boston in 90 minutes (around/over
    Russia route) with a 30% speed boost. The Jakarta to SF train to Boston route
    is probably 25 minutes.

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    I picked up the next Thesis, Treasure
    Hunter research.  Collect my berries and
    head back to Europe.

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    End of day, exactly 1370 discoveries.

  • patersmith66patersmith66 Posts: 503Member Intermediate

    July 15th, Day 272.

    A day of Art quests. I stayed in Europe
    until i completed Treasure Hunter research. Took the liner to the Caribbean and
    did more biology quests.

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    End of day, passed 1380 discoveries.

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    July 16th. Day 273

    I think the NA festival will start today
    at 10pm.

    I return to Europe and spend most of the
    day just doing easy quests, mostly low level language quests.  These are the typically the annoying language
    only quests that are slotted somewhere in a quest chain that must be done before
    you can continue the chain.

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    to stack up on guns/rifles and bows for
    the land battle grind.

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    The Thanksgiving festival started at 8pm
    so I make my way to NA with a load of rifles, a couple (hand) gun and crossbow.
    I do about 300 land battles and my collections. I am close to making adventure
    level 81.

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    End of day I have 1390 discoveries.

  • patersmith66patersmith66 Posts: 503Member Intermediate

    July 17th, Day 274

    I start off with more land battles with
    handgun and rifle. I learn Trick
    Shooter, Tech #78 , and New Strange shot, tech #79
    . I sail to Boston to get
    tow permits and to visit Ben Franklin, change jobs and pick up another thesis.

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    My alt finally makes storage R15 so we
    sail back to Europe and drop some berries and go refine storage for the alt.

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    End of day I finish another 500 land
    battles and make adventure level 81.

    Gun (Rifle) finesse are 8/10/12. My
    handgun finesse are 8/10/17. 

    81/83/79

  • patersmith66patersmith66 Posts: 503Member Intermediate

    July 18th, Day 275.

    I figured out a quirk in the game
    mechanics and will be trade Level 84 today. I also did an astounding 40 thesis
    in Boston +30k credits (maxed at 60k again). 
    I do not want to give out the blueprint for these two, but if you have
    followed along, there are a few clues in previous writings on how to be able to
    do this without killing your fingers and mouse buttons.

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    After 40 theses, I take a train to NA SE
    coast to work my finesse and hopefully to pick up a new tech. I am using bows
    and Crossbows.

    81/84/79

  • patersmith66patersmith66 Posts: 503Member Intermediate

    July 19th, Day 276

    I continue working my trade xp, theses
    in Boston.  In the afternoon I work on
    more land battles hoping to pick up all of the second level techs. Messed up
    and found out I need snipe R3 to get the level 2 crossbow techs, so I go to SF
    scholar and remove north American Language and equip Snipe, currently at
    R4.  I do many fights and on several, I
    get 13 in a chain and have both of my toons get 230 finesse points for a single
    fight, 12th hit is 230 (max).

    Obtained new jump arrow strike (Tech #80), Trick Bolt (Tech #81) Triple arrow
    strike (Tech #82)

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    End of day, I finish another 300 land
    battles. My bow finesse is 10/7/9. My crossbow finesse is 5/8/10. At 110 Boston
    Thesis. I make trade level 85.

    81/85/79

  • patersmith66patersmith66 Posts: 503Member Intermediate

    July 20th, Day 277

    Thanksgiving Festival is over in North
    America. It is time to do adventure quests again.

    I have a busy day irl so I plan to just
    do low level and language quests in Europe and take advantage of the restocked
    tow permits from the NA festival.

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    Not much to report as even though I
    probably did 10+ quests, there were no discoveries

    for the filler language quests.

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    July 21, Day 278

    I helped a company mate make 10 master
    carronade 18's then switched back to adventure quests. Was busy most of the day
    again so I ended the day in NA collecting berries for quarters and investing in
    Rails. Not much to report.

  • patersmith66patersmith66 Posts: 503Member Intermediate

    July 22nd, Day 279

    More adventure quests.

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    Took a break from adventures to show a
    company member how to take a liner and open up EA. We did a trade and took the
    Japan->SF-> Boston->Lisbon route back.

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    Made a fishing discovery of "Gibberfishes" at
    12120:4030
    just North East of Vera Cruz. Ended
    making R11 Art and passed 1400 discoveries.

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    July 23rd, Day 280

    Collected berries, invested in Railroads,
    then sailed back to Europe to put berries in quarters.  Started again on adventure quests. Autosailed
    most of the day. Nothing of note.

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    End of day passed 1410 discoveries.

  • patersmith66patersmith66 Posts: 503Member Intermediate

    July 24th, Day 281

    Since I have invested over 900m in the
    West Central Railroad (increases gold nugget appraisal value) and the find a
    gold vein event is on in North America. I started off by trying out some gold
    mining.  My alt who has invested 500M in
    the same railroad did not do nearly as well. In 20 minutes of mining my main
    had gold fever status 3 times while my alt had 0.  When I pulled my first large nugget, I sailed
    back to SF to have it appraised. 12,000g. 
    The top end trade items were not very good (just western wear style
    clothing) I decided not to continue. I collected berries in NA East coast and
    sailed back to Europe.

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    After filling my quarters, I did a few
    cooking theses with my alt to get him the item improvement techniques college
    skill. Then shifted to buying leather and collecting vegetable oil. Boot making
    in the afternoon.

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    After more adventure quests I end up
    taking a quest from Lima going to EA, so I put my alt on a company liner and
    meet up in Nagasaki. We run into pirates leaving EA with a load of goods. Once
    back in Europe, I decided to do a few dungeons. 
    I need to make some Fine tribute (large) for players, since I am low and
    need to replenish my stock. My plan is to get some PO 2's and 3's ahead of the
    next EA goods appearing in SF and to hopefully get some gold. I picked up
    "New Trick Draw" Tech #83, while
    running Bordeaux dungeon.

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    End of day, passed 1420 Discoveries and
    410 Ruin Exploration Rate.

  • patersmith66patersmith66 Posts: 503Member Intermediate

    July 25th, Day 282

     

    Did a few more dungeon runs in Bordeaux.

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    There was an update today.  The most significant thing is a note that on
    August 1st. The game will now allow pirating with the 1h restriction
    removed.  This means that a trader can be
    pirated multiple times if staying in a zone. (I assume the 5 minute green flag
    will still exist)

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    With the pirate restriction dropping
    from 24h to 1h last month, and now going to 5 min in August, I make sure I did
    a few quest going to the Caribbean then NA so I could collect white ore and
    logs. I turn the white ore into diamonds and logs into lumber. With some gold
    from the shops in Seville, I keep restocking my fine tribute for large ships
    (player tribute.)   I believe that these
    items will go way up in value in 1 week.

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    End of day 1430 Discoveries

  • patersmith66patersmith66 Posts: 503Member Intermediate

    July 26th, Day 283

    More adventure quests. I did the Green
    Egg quest again that needed the Scholar in Lima to complete.

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    More collecting White ore in
    Newfoundland while I am in the Americas. 
    I make 10 more fine tribute for large ships.

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    July 27th. Day 284

    I am out most of the day so spend a lot
    of my time collecting vegetable oil.  I
    spend some time boot making. I make 3 pairs of boots for sale 70-80d boots.

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    I do a few more discoveries.

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    I end the day back in NA collecting
    berries. Discoveries is at 1440.

  • patersmith66patersmith66 Posts: 503Member Intermediate

    July 28th, Day 285.

    More berries in NA, Double investing in
    railroads.  Now I finally understand what
    the

    Japanese Wiki Page on investing in
    Railroads means.

    http://gvo.gamedb.info/wiki/?TranscontinentalRailroad

    I always found it confusing what  "Main",  "Sub 1", "Sub 2" meant
    and "released from the main as a starting point with benefit 2, benefit 4,
    benefit 6 etc.

    First you have to know that each
    railroad has 3 benefits, a Main, a Sub1 and Sub 2.

    What it means is that when you invest in
    a railroad, the "Main" benefit is given to you when you hit the
    investment amount given for each benefit level ie. Main benefit #1 for
    investment amount #1; the Main benefit #2 for investment amount #2.

    The Sub1 benefit #1, is given when you are
    also given the Main #2 benefit, and Sub1 benefit #2 is given when you reach the
    Main #4 benefit.

    ie. I invested 1B in West Central
    Railroad and unlocked Main benefit #8 (larger gold nugget appraisal) and Sub1
    #4 benefit (open North America SE coast as a train destination) at the same
    time.

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    Back to NA to make more boots to sell.

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    I get my alt to gear up and do crafts
    trading, while I spend some time running Bordeaux to collect more PO's .
    Although I am not working on it, I made Gunfire R5. What I am doing really, is
    preparing for the Nanban Goods to appear in San Francisco two days from now. Discovered Tech #84 New Charge Bullet.

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    Fishing on my way to NA I discovered Scombrops Boops (marine life)at
    13680:2995

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    I get my alt's Craft Trade to R7 and
    Seasoning Trade to R9.

    End of Day Ruin Exploration rate is 440.

  • patersmith66patersmith66 Posts: 503Member Intermediate

    July 29th. Day 286.

    I am ready for tomorrow's EA goods in
    SF.

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    One prediction for tomorrow.  The goods that appear in SF are ones that are
    unlocked by cultural points in each area. ie. Wuxu porcelain, Korean Black
    Raspberries, Paper lanterns etc. So I checked my spreadsheets for all of these
    types of goods and came up with  6 PO#1
    goods 2 PO#2 goods, 5 PO#3 goods and 0 PO #4 goods. There are a few goods that
    can appear that I will not do well with. PO #3 Art, and PO #1 Medicine (of
    which I have no skill)  My guess is one
    of the Taiwan goods since Taiwan has not appeared yet.

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    Did one Battle report with a fleet of 5
    with company mates.  They used a lot of
    AOS instead to work Arms skill, so we fought a lot of large fleets.

    Spent the rest of the day doing Bordeaux
    dungeons collecting PO's

    End of day Ruin Exploration rate is 460.

  • patersmith66patersmith66 Posts: 503Member Intermediate

    July 30, Day 287.

    Good guess. The EA good is Water
    Caltrop, one of the two Taiwan goods. Since it is mostly  valuable in EA for trading in the other three
    EA zones or Africa West Coast, I will not be setting up any bazaars.  I sail to Newfoundland and collect white ore
    for diamonds.

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    Post Edit, I have a funny comment on if Soft
    Rush ever shows up. There is a shortcut combo, if you have invested 400M in the
    Central River railroad to unlock NA SE coast, and Soft Rush shows up. You can
    buy lots of it and take a railroad to NA SE and sail a very short distance maybe
    3-4 minutes to Havana, Santiago (Caribbean) and sell the goods for full price
    +40k each.  This would be an amazing
    shortcut to a fortune.

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    I work on metal Trade but don't get too
    far. Cities only have 1 metal, but can get 2 if you invest and the city is
    already developed enough. Havana is not developed so it only has silver. I buy
    lots of gold dust and turn it into gold at Havana so I can make more Tribute. I
    switch to mineral trade and wares trading.  I also have lots of PO 2's and 3's that I did
    not use for the EA goods in SF.

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    Starting tomorrow the green flag after
    being pirated will drop to 5 minutes if you use a tribute, 1 minute if you
    escape, 10 minutes if you are actually defeated (hostile waters.)  I do not plan to spend much time in lawless
    waters, but will try to

    1) stay in obscure areas and do
    adventure quests

    2) stay in Europe and work trade and
    alchemy

    3) work on techs.

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    End of day I make R13 wares trade, R15
    mineral trade, refine it and get it back to R7.

  • patersmith66patersmith66 Posts: 503Member Intermediate

    July 31, 
    Day 288

    Out most of the day again.  I spend a few hours grinding my Wares and
    Mineral trade.

    I refined my mineral trade and get back
    to R7+2 refined and get my wares trade up to R13.

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    There are CA games on today with Bingo
    and an auction of several decent ships.

     I
    do a few adventure quests and pick up white ore for more diamonds.

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    End of day i have 100+ Fine Tribute for
    large ships (player). I am ready for 3 weeks of random pirates.  EA is safe waters, I may be spending lots of
    time there doing adventure quests.

  • patersmith66patersmith66 Posts: 503Member Intermediate

    August 1, Day 289

    I was in Boston at the start of the day
    12:00.. for railroad investment but found out that there is no investment
    allowed due to the current Train event... free trains. As I left 5 minutes
    later, I was hit by a pirate. Nice!

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    In the morning, I was out. When I got
    back the update was underay 2:30-6:30. The new chapter, "Order of the
    Prince" is being installed. Unrestricted PvP and unlimited shipbuilding. I
    talked about the PvP before, but not the shipbuilding. From what I can read,
    you can build any ship with Skill rank R1 and you can now modify a ship with
    more improvements than normally possible. Also 22 more quest and 3 more archive
    maps were added.  I will have to look
    into this new shipbuilding, as I have still to make my endgame adventure ship
    and endgame maritime ship.

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     I
    am very low on funds and decide to start making and selling boots. For a time,
    I will have to focus on making money instead of skills. I need to have 1b or
    more to make the upgrades that I want to make on my new ships. At the same time
    I will slowly start collecting parts for the ships.

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    Made 3 sets of boots for sale and put
    them up in an aide bazaar.

  • patersmith66patersmith66 Posts: 503Member Intermediate

    August 2, Day 290

    I took some time to think about the
    effects of unlimited modifications to a ship. I posted a question to the
    general forums for clarification on unlimited mods regarding increased level
    requirements for sailing ships with modifications over the normal limit. I will
    post here if I get an answer.

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     Did
    a few quests and got my alt to grind his cooking to R15. He is ready to be a
    Grand meister of chickens on August 10th or so.

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    End of day passed 1450 discoveries.

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    August 3rd, Day 291

    Helped a company mate grind storage in
    NA.  Then worked on adventure quests from
    India, SEA, EA then brought a load of EA goods (Japanese Books) thru San
    Francisco. I set up an aide bazaar in Seville again and then started making
    boots again. I am slowly working up the bank account.

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    End of day passed 1460 discoveries.

  • patersmith66patersmith66 Posts: 503Member Intermediate

    August 4th, Day 292

    My aide bazaars sold all of the Japanese
    books that I put up for sale, so I am off to EA again. I hop on a liner to EA.
    I leave from Lisbon and end up in Macau. My alt leaves from Seville and ends up
    in Pohang. The liner to Pohang is more useful as it is more centrally located
    and has the option of being a good iron ore collection city and an excellent
    place to set up your aide bazaar to store goods to unlock all of EA.

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    While checking out if there was any
    liner to SEA or India (which would be my preference) where I could take an
    adventure quest that goes to EA where I want to go anyways I found that there
    is a new city added to the game.  The
    city is Sagres and there are liners from every capital going there.

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    After returning from EA, I set up my
    aide bazaars again with Japanese Paintings then went back to NA to collect 1500
    berries for tomorrow's raisin production.

    After returning and filling my quarters
    with berries, I started doing adventure quests again.

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    End of day I passed 1470 discoveries.

  • patersmith66patersmith66 Posts: 503Member Intermediate

    Aug 5th Day 293

    Picked up a few quests going to cape,
    then from India to EA. While passing Gia Dihn, I discovered  Naga Fireball (natural phenomenon) at
    4925:4390. From EA, I picked up another load of goods (Tan Rifles) and sailed
    to SF.  I did a few more discoveries.

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    End of day I passed 1480 discoveries.
    1.2B

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    August 6th, Day 294.

    I found out that one of our company
    Shipbuilders has a mayorship and was discussing grading a ship to G5 or G6.
    Even though I can make the ship and grade, the bonus for mayor makes it worth
    while for me to get this person to work on grading the ship. The approximate
    cost for the grading will be 3-5B, depending on a bit of luck.  I told her that I would be making money for
    the next 3 weeks or so and should have close to that amount by Aug 27th which
    would give her 3 days to grade the ship.

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    Refilled my quarters with berries then
    took the company liner out to EA to do another run.  3500 tan Rifles from Japan this time.

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    Back in Europe, I made 4 pairs of boots
    for sale then went back to doing more adventure quests.

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    End of day 1490 discoveries, and made
    R10 Fabric trading, R12+2 refined textile trading. 1.4B Ducats saved up.

  • patersmith66patersmith66 Posts: 503Member Intermediate

    August 7th, Day 295

    Refill my berries in my quarters, then
    start again on more adventure quests. I go for a world tour again stopping in
    Lisbon, Seville, Naples, Istanbul, Cairo, Calicut, Manilla, Macau and Sakai. I
    pick up a load of Copper from Manilla and trade it in Macau, and continue my
    tour from Sakai to SF, Boston then back to Seville.

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    End of day I pass 1500 Discoveries and
    am getting close to level 82 adventure. A few more days and I will be there.

  • patersmith66patersmith66 Posts: 503Member Intermediate
    Happy 1 Year anniversary Papaya.
    (my posts are 70 days behind real time)
  • patersmith66patersmith66 Posts: 503Member Intermediate

    August 8th, Day 296

    I set up and help a friend grind casting
    from Hamburg.

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    After that, I do more adventure quests,
    ending up in North America SE coast to make a discovery.  I stay and collect 1500 berries and then sail
    to Boston and invest in Railroads. There is an update going on right now for 2h
    so I am here writing up this today's log.  After the update, I sail back to Europe to
    restock my quarters and do more adventure quests.

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    I take quest that take me thru
    Suez/India/Jakarta/Korea. I pick up a load of EA goods and sail back to Europe
    via SF/Boston. I am still on a steady pace of around 10 quests per day. Now and
    then I have to do a few more filler "non discovery" quests, but the
    pace is ok and I don't get too bored.

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    End of day I am up to 1.7B ducats, 1510
    discoveries.

  • patersmith66patersmith66 Posts: 503Member Intermediate

    August 9th, Day 297

    for the new update " blessing of
    Sargas" there is a huge bonus for new and low level/skill players.  I will be working on any of my skills that are
    below R8.

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    I seem to have found a fairly efficient
    cycle for one day.  From NA, Invest in
    Railroads, Collect berries, stock quarters, update farms, do adventure quests
    going from Lisbon to Istanbul, thru Suez, Aden,Calicut, Jakarta, (pick up
    copper in SEA, with refined mineral trade) EA, Trade for goods and or take
    raisins from quarters to make/trade wine, SF-train-Boston, back to Europe, set
    up aide bazaars with EA goods, quest going back to Caribbean/North
    Americal.  This of course is a non event
    day and gets disrupted by any events that are going on like the low level,
    player and skills boost.  So in today's
    cycle, I stopped in the Caribbean at the end and did some metal trading and got
    my alt's metal trade to R6.

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    End of day 1520 discoveries, Made Adventure level 82!

    82/85/79

  • patersmith66patersmith66 Posts: 503Member Intermediate

    August 10th, Day 298

    Out most of the day. I started with
    investing in Boston and berry collection in NA East Coast. I managed to return,
    load up the quarters with berries.

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    then the Maris server went down for 3h
    or so.

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    When it came back on, I did a standard
    world tour doing adventure quests and bring a load of EA goods back.  I did about 5 instead of 10 quest today with
    the server down time.

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    ESF is also off due to "glitches in
    the Matrix." It will be postponed until next weekend.

    I wonder if the NA festival will also be
    delayed.

  • patersmith66patersmith66 Posts: 503Member Intermediate

    August 11, Day 299

    The server went down again. I do not
    know for how long as I went to sleep and it was still off.

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    Back on and took a quest that needed me
    to talk with a character who gave bonus' for reporting ports, so I used a
    booster, changed jobs and reported 130 ports. I made sociability R7.

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    NA to collect berries. Back to Europe,
    loaded my quarters with berries, then did my usual tour around the world and
    quest along the way. Same deal, Loaded up with Copper ore with my refined
    mineral trade in Brunei. Then traded in Taiwan, and sailed to SF. I found out
    that the NA Thanksgiving Festival has started !

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    I have to go to Seville to put all my
    goods in an Aide Bazaar and sell them for cheap. Next I pick up some bows in
    Marseilles, and Rifles in Naples, chickens, and a full load of aide food in
    Lisbon and sail back to Boston.

    I (my alt) is ready for a full day of
    "Master of Chickens!!" and I (my main) is ready for land battles.

  • patersmith66patersmith66 Posts: 503Member Intermediate

    August 12th, Day 300

    Started with production in Boston
    College. I made eggs and chickens until my 4th aide made level 44 trade and so
    he can sail a TLG. All his stats are 100's now too. While that was going on, I
    helped a few other new company members set up to collect in NA. My alt's
    personal message is "Master of Chickens", Mine is "GranMeister
    of Eggs" (hint)

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    While my alt continued to process in
    Boston, I took a train to NA SE and started my land battles.  I picked up Tech #85 New Charge & Release (bow R2 power tech.)

    At the end of the day I did about 200
    land battles. My alt ended up at trade level 78.

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