So flute on piracy gets way more gold than any ship-of-war even 1st rate. The only think I know for sure is that cargo has highest (if not only) impact on your average income per week. It is absurd that upgraded clippers and steam corvettes sink as quickly as caravels or flutes and make less money. of the ship does not seem to matter when calculating profits and survival chance. What stinke is, that the quality/size/armament/speed etc. Originally posted by AlienObserver:Thats the thing isn't it.

It cant be too difficult to show some hints how upgrades influence the ships survivability when sending it out.

Let's say that ship that brings me on average 200 per week on piracy and is called back to port after earning 1500 can usually survive at least 3 cycles. I send smaller captured ships for piracy (up to galleon size) - they normally bring more money than I would get from selling them. And I regularly call them back (I was told that it influence their survival - I haven't checked it) Whenever I checked their life-cycle, they tended to pay for themselves. I send only ships that has enough cargo (this seems to be only feature that has impact on income value) and low crew requirements, so the 'income - wages' is high enough. Not a viable economic model-the cost exceeds any value. I have sent more than 60 ships on the safe adventure only to have them sunk at a rate of 100% in three months game time. Originally posted by lincolnfamily:The problem with the swashbuckling adventures is even when employing the safe adventures, the ships are usually sunk before they even pay for their upgrades.

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