LarryTyphoid
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Just started playing the DOS version of Uncharted Waters 1. How intense is this game gonna be on the trading aspect? I've been recording market prices on a spreadsheet.
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Uncharted Waters (1990)
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Just started playing the DOS version of Uncharted Waters 1. How intense is this game gonna be on the trading aspect? I've been recording market prices on a spreadsheet.
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It's an awesome game.
LarryTyphoid
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I've built my way up to a Carrack with 40 cannons and room for 200 crewmen. How should I be approaching combat? Should I be amassing a larger fleet, or focus on strengthening my flagship? The one time I was attacked by pirates I had two dinky trading ships and almost immediately died, but I don't know how my current ship would stand up.
Getting money doesn't really seem like a problem in this game. There's some fairly lucrative trading routes surrounding the starting port of Lisbon, and I haven't had to go far, though I've been making notes of the coordinates of other ports mentioned in bars and by other sailors. I assume there are some longer, riskier, and more profitable routes that I'll eventually want to take in the pursuit of making investments. I have noticed that trading the same item slowly becomes less profitable as you trade, but I think that it goes back to normal with time.
This game looks really good, by the way.
Is this that PC-98/MSX aesthetic?
Getting money doesn't really seem like a problem in this game. There's some fairly lucrative trading routes surrounding the starting port of Lisbon, and I haven't had to go far, though I've been making notes of the coordinates of other ports mentioned in bars and by other sailors. I assume there are some longer, riskier, and more profitable routes that I'll eventually want to take in the pursuit of making investments. I have noticed that trading the same item slowly becomes less profitable as you trade, but I think that it goes back to normal with time.
This game looks really good, by the way.
Is this that PC-98/MSX aesthetic?
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