After that it was bee-lining the main quest and Axelsmith, occasionally being interrupted by killing more pirates who'd kidnapped my wife, again, and again (probably the only really annoying regular game event). I built a few businesses and rented a few residential areas, but nothing sprawling, just at the start location and my hideout - some rum, cocoa, hemp and a little bit of sugar and a trickle of bricks.Īfter taking out the first few regular unnamed pirates I moved onto named marque pirates, selling them back to their nations for huge gold but shafted reps. After getting the hideout it was more a case of trading goods to buy goods for my hideout. I did some trading here and there, but mostly because it would be silly not to when stopping at ports to load up on new sailors anyway after every sea battle. I stared in the minuses until I'd taken out a couple of pirates and sold some ships, then never really looked back, my final fleet consisting of 1 Battleship (Ship of the Line) and 9 Galleys. It seems there are a whole lot of different ways to play this game, but for this game I chose to be a pirate-basher first and foremost. The only other failed missions I remember that weren't a riddle were the guy looking for the eye of the storm, where I went where he asked but there was no storm, and one of those get me X amount of goods by such and such date, nowhere does it say at what level they are fully satiated, you get the same problem with the wedding feast where it doesn't specify actual quantities and you just have to guess. A lot of them ask you to "Draw a circle around something or other then sail east" or whatever and I have absolutely no idea what it's referring to. Only managed to solve 2 riddles all game and those accounted for pretty much all my failed missions. Total hours played probably 50-60 somewhere, say average estimate 55 hours, and still left me wanting more.
Start year 1st Mar 1570, date of award 14th Aug 1573, so 3 years, 5 months, 13 days, not bad for a first complete game.
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