Whats the fastest way to get money?

shipwreck voyages with an emissary is a universally productive way of making consistent gold

mid risk/ not time consuming, not a high level skill requirement, solo friendly

is it the fastest way possible? no

is it a very consistent way to make good gold without risking sinks that kill off efficiency? yes

efficiency and consistency over risk/high reward for most players

if someone were to have a skilled crew this changes but in general it's tough to beat a focused shipwreck voyage while picking up decent loot along the way.

gold rush hour happens twice a day, you can work that in as well but I wouldn't stress about it if it doesn't fit the schedule

I would recommend finding someone to play with. While you loot, the other can stay on guard and if they see a ship on the horizon sailing towards you, you run with whatever you grabbed until they give up chasing you. Know your ship's strengths.

Are you a sloop and brig is chasing you? Sail against the wind, sooner or later the brig will stop chasing you as sloops are fastest against wind. Have a rowboat on your boat and when you go behind an island, stuff the loot on the rowboat and detach then hide in the island. The enemy ship will keep chasing your ship, while you row away to the nearest outpost with the loot or just wait until the enemy ship sinks you. No loot lost, since you saved it.

Or have your friend board the ship, anchor them and set their top deck on fire while disrupting them for as long as they can. In the meantime you just sail away.

When you feel like you are outnumbered or outgunned, think strategically and use your surroudings, strong-suit to save the loot. Sloops are best at sabotaging due to their high agility and small hit size.

@kozakderg said in Whats the fastest way to get money?:

I would recommend finding someone to play with. While you loot, the other can stay on guard and if they see a ship on the horizon sailing towards you, you run with whatever you grabbed until they give up chasing you. Know your ship's strengths.

Are you a sloop and brig is chasing you? Sail against the wind, sooner or later the brig will stop chasing you as sloops are fastest against wind. Have a rowboat on your boat and when you go behind an island, stuff the loot on the rowboat and detach then hide in the island. The enemy ship will keep chasing your ship, while you row away to the nearest outpost with the loot or just wait until the enemy ship sinks you. No loot lost, since you saved it.

Or have your friend board the ship, anchor them and set their top deck on fire while disrupting them for as long as they can. In the meantime you just sail away.

When you feel like you are outnumbered or outgunned, think strategically and use your surroudings, strong-suit to save the loot. Sloops are best at sabotaging due to their high agility and small hit size.

Creative and crafty plays to get loot sold can be efficient but the long running/chasing thing that often happens very much is not

Long term some lost loot now is less wasteful than spending a couple of hours running around when that time can be used to bring in one or two hauls on a different server.

Farm with the mind not emotion

the mind will lead someone to their goals
emotions in these scenarios lead to ego and decisions that ignore the overall goals

Using resources entirely for a look out is often a waste of resources. People get bored, they miss things, they get distracted, a waste of a pirate

efficiency is speed, efficiency is success

put everyone to work, move quickly then move on
keep moving

the goal is to get sold before anyone shows up
once someone shows up things immediately begin to become inefficient

produce, sell, produce, sell
no time to waste
no resources to waste

Don't live in fear, trust in efficiency
losses happen
consistency and constant dedication to adapting for success cannot be stopped

People will slow themselves down with worry
worry changes nothing other than towards the negative
let the worry go and stay focused, nothing to worry about
everyone will get to where they are going, if not today, tomorrow

@wolfmanbush said in Whats the fastest way to get money?:

Using resources entirely for a look out is often a waste of resources. People get bored, they miss things, they get distracted, a waste of a pirate

Not entirely for look-out but what me and my 2 friends often do is that between islands we leave one person on look-out and we switch it up everytime so we all get to do some things. On a Brig this is easily manageable for 3 people as 2 people on the island can get things done pretty quick then move on.

Only time we all leave the boat is if we do a vault and before-hand we check the horizon quickly to make sure no one is around. Then once the vault is emptied of all the chest, one starts loading them chests or positioning them while the other two stay in the vault to collect the gold piles until drowning.

But one of us most usually has guard duty assigned to make sure we keep being vigilant. I think we only got sunk once with loot on-board.

@kozakderg said in Whats the fastest way to get money?:

@wolfmanbush said in Whats the fastest way to get money?:

Using resources entirely for a look out is often a waste of resources. People get bored, they miss things, they get distracted, a waste of a pirate

Not entirely for look-out but what me and my 2 friends often do is that between islands we leave one person on look-out and we switch it up everytime so we all get to do some things. On a Brig this is easily manageable for 3 people as 2 people on the island can get things done pretty quick then move on.

Only time we all leave the boat is if we do a vault and before-hand we check the horizon quickly to make sure no one is around. Then once the vault is emptied of all the chest, one starts loading them chests or positioning them while the other two stay in the vault to collect the gold piles until drowning.

But one of us most usually has guard duty assigned to make sure we keep being vigilant. I think we only got sunk once with loot on-board.

2 experienced friends is chemistry, it's a history of communication, it's familiar, coordinated

this doesn't come with random people crewing up often

a random crew that is trying to pull it together needs produce and move, people don't get tested as a random crew, they get destroyed

long term reps are needed to trust in the performance of the crew for results

if someone is just trying to get some gold with random players through open crew or another resource the only thing they can control is moving as quickly as reasonable possible and selling the loot, the randomness of the risk and interaction is uncontrollable, if gold is the priority they need to do what their best bet is as a random crew without reps.

@wolfmanbush said in Whats the fastest way to get money?:

@kozakderg said in Whats the fastest way to get money?:

@wolfmanbush said in Whats the fastest way to get money?:

Using resources entirely for a look out is often a waste of resources. People get bored, they miss things, they get distracted, a waste of a pirate

Not entirely for look-out but what me and my 2 friends often do is that between islands we leave one person on look-out and we switch it up everytime so we all get to do some things. On a Brig this is easily manageable for 3 people as 2 people on the island can get things done pretty quick then move on.

Only time we all leave the boat is if we do a vault and before-hand we check the horizon quickly to make sure no one is around. Then once the vault is emptied of all the chest, one starts loading them chests or positioning them while the other two stay in the vault to collect the gold piles until drowning.

But one of us most usually has guard duty assigned to make sure we keep being vigilant. I think we only got sunk once with loot on-board.

2 experienced friends is chemistry, it's a history of communication, it's familiar, coordinated

this doesn't come with random people crewing up often

a random crew that is trying to pull it together needs produce and move, people don't get tested as a random crew, they get destroyed

long term reps are needed to trust in the performance of the crew for results

if someone is just trying to get some gold with random players through open crew or another resource the only thing they can control is moving as quickly as reasonable possible and selling the loot, the randomness of the risk and interaction is uncontrollable, if gold is the priority they need to do what their best bet is as a random crew without reps.

Hence why I suggested he gets a friend or forms a gaming partnership with someone in the game as a means of moving forward to better efficiency, more gold/hr.

Cutting it as a solo player or open crew player in this game is very difficult, with more friends, the difficulty is gradually lowered, unless you are on a Galleon. Galleon requires so much teamwork that even a semi decent slooper will be able to sink you if you are not careful.

@kozakderg said in Whats the fastest way to get money?:

Hence why I suggested he gets a friend or forms a gaming partnership with someone in the game as a means of moving forward to better efficiency, more gold/hr.

Cutting it as a solo player or open crew player in this game is very difficult, with more friends, the difficulty is gradually lowered, unless you are on a Galleon. Galleon requires so much teamwork that even a semi decent slooper will be able to sink you if you are not careful.

Easier said than done, incredibly difficult for people to form and hold together a crew in this game

it's time consuming, schedules differ, interests differ, compatibility in combat and conflict are often issues, the new milestones only complicates that more

people have what they have when it comes to crew, some luck out, MANY do not.

the main struggle with retention is people not being able to maintain a regular crew.

@wolfmanbush said in Whats the fastest way to get money?:

Easier said than done, incredibly difficult for people to form and hold together a crew in this game
it's time consuming, schedules differ, interests differ, compatibility in combat and conflict are often issues, the new milestones only complicates that more
people have what they have when it comes to crew, some luck out, MANY do not.
the main struggle with retention is people not being able to maintain a regular crew.

This is true. I am fortunate enough to have been brought into the game by friends so I have that going for me. Anyone who have found the game by themselves and don't have friends who would actively play with them, I have a suggestion that would most definitely pay itself off in the long run and that is learning how to solo sloop.

No matter if you start with friends, open crew or as a solo, the game has a learning curve and it is not a small one either. While the core mechanics are simplified enough, being able to stand against the odds on your own, or to be beneficial to an open crew, requires a certain knowledge and some experience in the game. Like how to harpoon turn, the power of tower trapping a ship, the boarding sabotage, hitting the distance shots and chainshots more importantly, knowing the strengths of firebombs and blunderbombs and being effective at sword duel. Knowing all of these can really help surviving on the seas and ensuring your plundering sessions will be rewarded well.

Most often what I have seen from negative reviews and experiences was that people were collecting bunch of loot when they started playing and after hours of looting they got sunk by better players. And that is sadly because they forgot that other players can attack from anywhere at anytime to steal your loot, it is an intended part of the game after all.

@bakbik8804 Buy voyages and throw up an emissary when you do it, if you reach grade 5, you get 150% bonus on all loot turned in and just go about looting. I noticed that Gold Hoarders emissary voyages (When you reach Grade 5 Emissary on Gold Hoarders, press F on the gold hoarder NPC and he will give you 4 maps) are one of the fastest ways to get gold in the game. You get 20 captain's chest, each worth about 3k if you are an emissary grade 5 too and they are fairly quick also. In a few hours you can easily get 200k+ gold. Just make sure you go into the game with the mindset that you MIGHT lose your hard-earned loot to others who attack you. You win some, you lose some.

@mintharp184509 said in Whats the fastest way to get money?:

3 step process…

1. Raise Reaper Emissary Flag

2. Acquire enough treasure to reach grade v

3. Sell, Acquire more treasure, repeat step 3

Good luck me matey!

1. Raise Reaper Emissary Flag

2. Acquire enough treasure to reach grade v

3. Fight 1 or 2 server hoppers that attack as you pull in to reapers.

4. Will probably fight 1 or 2 ships multiple times

5. Realize you would have been better off doing mid risk faction focused producing

6. Maybe sell eventually, maybe lose it all, depends on who lands on those docks and comes through those portals.

Sincerely,
dude that has done it every day for a long time

@mintharp184509 said in Whats the fastest way to get money?:

@wolfmanbush

Major assumptions and exaggeration from a man who normally speaks so elegantly. Disappointing.

The most hunted vessel is the reaper (for quick action)

there is not a lot of high risk activity on this game anymore and there are a lot of hoppers hopping either for themselves or for others, this creates consistent pvp especially if a crew takes their time/isn't efficient.

there is always a chance of an unhostile server for a while but conflict is very common organically as a reaper.

The only way it would be an efficient suggestion is if the op regularly wins fights and wins them quickly.

Reapers simply has far more risk, is slowed down far more often, and isn't actually any faster with gold for most crews compared to something like a consistent merchant run.

The reason that people so often see people they know or know of at high risk is because of how little high risk activity there is and how common hopping for those targets is.

@mintharp184509 said in Whats the fastest way to get money?:

It’s really not though it’s about equal risk unless your planning on stacking loot. But to each their own. Personally, I want 2.5x on everything not just for one company.

It is wildly inaccurate to suggest that reaper is equal risk to anything else in the current environment.

Fotd is the only thing that is comparable and that's nearly non existent organically

@mrestiercol You could buy Merchant Alliance Cargo Runs and sell the cargo you are given to the reaper's bones at the hideout while you also raise a flag for them. It does paint a target on your back, but you get more pay under their emissary also.

Generally doing any voyages as a reaper's emissary and collecting loot then selling it to them will reward you with more money, because reaper's give a bonus on every kind of loot turned in.