Almost Never get Attacked
This code is simple. Enter your name as "Black Beard"
and you almost never get attacked. Also, some of the ships will
actually just give up when you attack them!
Best Trade Routes
The best way to build up money in the whole game is trading. After
you get started you should sell then buy then sell then buy. The
key is to get a good bookkeeper, you can find 3 good ones in
these places usually. Antoine Fitch- London, Jacob Walwiek- Bordeux,
Benito- Alexandria.
You must always buy the lowest possible and sell the highest that
you can. The routes are: Hamburg to Copenhagen (buy dye and glassware),
Istanbul to Athens (buy carpet and art), then there is Cairo to
Mecca (the specials of both).
Easy Battle Experience
Go to Tunis and pick out a week pirate to prey upon, then when
he comes out bombard him and
challenge him to a duel. Make sure you are well equiped with a
B or better sword and armor, when in the duel have him at your
mercy by keeping at a 50 plus or minus ten life points but don't
kill him. Use weak one level attacks until he can survive a blow.
Keep that up for 10 attacks and the duel will end. Then challenge
him again and again until you have your desired level. note this
works best if you have a Barge ship and have sunk all other ships
around so you can duel away.
Easy Money
Deposit money into a Marco polo bank at the end of a month then
stay in the lodge until the month is over. Then return to the
bank and you will receive 3% more than you deposited. Try this
every month for easy cash. The more you have, the more you get.
Faster Battles
Hold Y on the battle field when it's not your turn for a super
fast battle.
How to Build the "Barge"
Go to Bristol and invest $50,000 in the shipyard every month for
3 to 5 months. When this is done, ask the shipyard worker for
a new ship. He will show you several new ships including frigates
and Barges.
How to Build the Full-Rig Ship
In Hamburg and Antwerp you can purchase the best battle sihp in
the game, when arranged correctly it can travel the most days
at sea also. Invest 50,000 gold into the shipyards at Antwerp
and Hamburg from 3-5 months. After 3-5 months then go to the shipyard
and go to buy new ship, on the second page of shipd you will find
the Frigate and the Full-rig ship. If you invest in both at one
time then you can build two at a time. They are better than the
Barge in battle and at sea. But the best trade ship is the Tekkhouson,
after investing the same ammount the same ammount of times in
Sakia then you can purchase a Tekkhouson. It is the best trade
ship. arrange it at first then sail back to Europe. It is the
quickest ship and it can hold the second or third most cargo in
the whole game.