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Originally Posted by Dread Roberts
I do alot of sailing outside padres, but it can get tricky there. You just have to sail around the ocean and find a area that best suites your needs. I posted the strategy that i use in another thread, the one a bout leveling up quickly, check that out, it might help.
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That did sound like a good strategy. With some of my earlier characters, which are all deleted now, I used to attack with both cannons and broadsides. The strategy wasn't as refined as the one you described, though. But I found it a bit too hectic for me to run back and forth on the ship. Also, I've wanted so far only to level up sailing, because previous characters of mine have been in a situation where every other skill is between levels 10 and 14 (even cannon) and sailing has been somewhere around level 6 or 7. And I wanted to have the chance to buy the war ships, when I have the money.
So your strategy sounds very good, and recommend it to people. But I am fond of my own sea battle system, which basicly is: Look for a lone ship or a ship that is going away from a group of ships. Then use, if needed, ramming speed, full sail and come about to get behind the enemy ship and stay there hammering it with broadsides - sloops are very good for this strategy and the type of the enemy ship really doesn't matter that much in my experience. Usually this leaves my ship undamaged or at most with just a few scratches. Spawning ships are something to look out for though, fighting two Phantoms with a sloop is not twice as hard as fighting one Phantom, but several times harder and usually results in fleeing in panic with a burning ship (and sometimes sinking, got to give credit to those shipwrights who pull your sunken ship somehow from the bottom of the sea and repair it with very little cost - imagine if you had to buy a new ship everytime your ship sunk, would make people a lot more careful at sea
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As for the cannon, it is a skill I don't see myself using much. I'm thinking of leveling it up once I have money for the war frigate (that will take time, but there is no rush). I imagine Simon parking his ship at a nice location, sinking a ship with cannons, possibly with some help from broadsides, then sitting back, sipping some rum (perhaps adding mint, lime, sugar, soda water and crushed ice making it a refreshing mojito; the last two ingredients should be available using voodoo by that time, I think) and waiting for a new ship to appear.
Anyway, I think I don't have much sailing left in me now, so I will turn to cutlass and pistol training and weapon unlocking; the remaining quests should have me sinking ships in order to master sailing eventually. I just want one more level to have faster broadside cooldown, that should take about two trips to the high seas (about 30 minutes).
Wow, this was a long post, hope people have stopped reading this before I've bored them totally...
Simon
The pirate with the apparent inability to express himself with just a few words...