Wow, I was talking to my brother about this style vs my having grabbed all I could very early before anyone was actually joining the PvP takeovers. I didn’t realize how much better this would have been.
Thank you so much! Makes.thenprocess so much more enjoyable and you are very informative. I made the mistake of levelling each as I went and there is really no benefit to it! tall, tall, tall!!!! 👍🏼
Harufu with the book leveled up and all trade routes brings in a lot more per hour. Its so nice. I recommend people getting to there too. Put in the grind for some time then just grab once a day or more depending on how much you want
Wish I'd have seen this vid/known this before I focused on "building wide". Only control the Red Isle right now but definitely going to be using this method moving forward and focusing on the trade routes as I push into the African Coast. Thanks for the vid!
I got another video incoming today, it’s currently uploading. Two part series on the Smugglers Pass, with pet one being an explanation, and part two being the demonstration
Thank you! This video is very helpful! Already leveling up Harufu to get it maxed out. Only I've been focusing on but will definitely do the ones near the Den and leave all the others at level 1 or 2. Glad I learned more about this before making any mistakes.
Thanks for the video I played this game for 100hrs and I've burnt-out I have everything that is in the game and honestly there is nothing more to do ... waiting for the sea monster atm. Thanks again.
Well holy shit thank you... finally a good solid video...i was already pretty self learning from my mistakes, but so glad this video exists to better explain why...
Got another one coming today about the smugglers pass, and my take on how to grind it without spending hours and hours waiting for quests to show up and stuff.
As a PvE player I thought I would hit some 'cap' to my options but after being given locations by succeeding in the legendary co-op events which I usually have to solo I've been able to acquire the entire first section you recommend. I only wish the reward for the 'no fast travel' deliveries was significant silver to close the Helm loop.
Yeah more silver would be nice, it gets so expensive to fund locations … even with max upgrades. It’s currently one of the larger complaints from the player base. It’s hard because I made this before they changed all the numbers for production so some of my video probably isn’t as accurate as it was right after launch but I hope it’s still helped!
@@ObiMookKenobi It sure did. The 'documentation' lacks until you figure it out. I don't worry about crunching the numbers but I do like to be efficient and now I finally have most on the same page per area which makes oversight much easier.
Wow... A video easy to understand, that doesn't take the long route to deliver simple explanations (pun intended with the subject of the vid) It hurts me like hell to know that i did everything wrong, but now that i understand why i get 1k Po8 when i have all the Red Isle unlocked i can do something about it instead of keeping being bored out of my mind by the helm ! Great job !
Appreciate it my friend! I’m glad it helped. Maybe some of us are too far gone this season but hey, we live and learn right? At least next season we will all have a better idea of how to do this efficiently. Even I spent way too much on stuff I shouldn’t have 😂 next season we’re all gonna be big dogs though 😏
@@ObiMookKenobi Well, to be fair i don't care that much for the leaderboard, so as long as i can make enough 8's to buy everything and get Sovereigns i won't be too far gone :D And i just started today doing it your way... Already increased the income of 8's by +600 per run. Not that big of a number, but it sure beats the dreadfull +30 increase a day i was doing previously lol
we got in when there was little comp for refineries , others might well do well taking the first book upgrades and doing some deliveries. they seem to top out at 300+ but that does also stay useful later when you have big refineries as the raw mats can be used to overclock those. and i think you should focus the last upgrade book a bit more , my harufu is sitting at 350 an hour and i only have +1 level in trade routes ima guess that nudges 500 an hour maxed.
Yeah I want to go back and edit the video and add some stuff I forgot to mention because I made this in like, the time it took to screen record my voice and screen. That tab of upgrades will definitely help if you are fighting other players for control of the location during the hostile takeover, or legendary heist. I have since maxed those pages in the upgrade book. But like I said, they help, but like, you aren’t going to see a pay out of 1500 more eights the next day, from your singular location by upgrading that tab in the book. It increases percentages, not the total, overall accumulation and storage of eights within said location. You could spend thousands there to get percentage buffs, or you could spend your eights to just upgrade to 9 or 10 and pretty much double your storage everytime. Which matters for the people who don’t play all day, and have to work or whatever the case may be. That way when they come back online the next day there’s 800 instead of 300, or 4500 instead of 3000. Just because they generate quicker doesn’t mean the storage size gets a buff. They only generate until there’s no more storage.
Great video very informative I have subbed to your channel bro. Question I have do I have to bring supplies to the manufactories or do they draw supplies from my warehouse?
Thanks! I appreciate you stopping by 😁 Right now, I believe the only way to supply a manufactory for the bonus percentage is to bring whatever raw material they need right to the location. As far as I know, it does not pull direct from your warehouse. The raw materials in your warehouse are yours for refining inside the helm offices in Telok and St Anne’s. Your locations around the map that produce pieces of eight obtain their own raw materials, and only ask that you fund them with silver. If you want the bonus production speed, you bring whatever raw material to whatever location you want to boost. The devs may change this though, they mentioned being able to sell stuff straight from your warehouse. Idk how far they will take that when it comes to Helm Operations and supplying refineries, but right now what I said above seems to be how it works currently.
@@25mmapdst yeah the game doesn’t actually tell you anything 😂 it kinda just drops you into the pan and turns up the heat and forces us all to just figure it out. I’m glad I could be of assistance! 👍🏻
Great strats man, thanks for the tips. I myself have been feeling a little burned out but still enjoy the grind. The one thing I really want to understand better is tips on when we get the option to double up and how to best avoid the pvp sharks lol
Right now, the only tip is literally ‘strength in numbers’. Unfortunately PvP events like helm wager is kinda broken right now and there’s no way around it until the devs fix the fast travel and being able to come in and out of the event to avoid damage and heal and then rejoin once your back to full hp. It’s too cheesy right now for me to make a video, once they fix I will definitely make a video on how to move around the map while being a high value target.
But like, if you’ve got five guys protecting you, you’ll probably be okay. But that means you need five people do be down for that or five friend online and that’s difficult for some people to arrange
If you are short on Silver you can do the supply exploit where you kill the ships every hour and get more poppy sugar cane and berries you can ever dream of then make some dope or rum and bam. You have maxed out silver
Ultimately, it’s up to you. Upgrading settlements increases the total amount of po8 storage, meaning there will be more inside of it when you log on the next day. You will see an increase in profits literally the next day you log on. Purchasing access to the coast of Africa is also good because it allows you to start connecting the trade routes to get bonus percentage of profits. But this is good for ‘over time’ bonuses and stuff. If you want to see eights quickly, upgrade settlements and buy into Africa once you have all the red isle, and some of the red isle upgraded past lv 6
Did the same mistake before getting this tip and info. Now trying to repair the damage and focus on one, doing the same mistake again because I'm not sure which of the hotspot I wanted to dump into 😂 Now repairing the damage again and really focus on 1 spot finally deciding haha. Season 2 with reset will be a fresh start for sure not having to instantly grab everything and instead focus on upgrading and grabbing the ones close and spend more time helm gathering and delivering than claiming new spots I think.
Exactly because if we are gonna be doing this every season, might as well start to figure out some ways to do it efficiently lol. Yeah those are all good ideas I think, I’ll be doing the same things 😂
Sooo i‘ve been doing the upgrading wide thing till now and i have like half of red isle to 7 and the other half to 8. should i stop doing that or does it even matter at this point
The empire upgrades definitely help over time, but if you want to see more eights quicker I’d upgrade the locations first. But you can do whatever you feel is best, play it however you want. The empire upgrades get expensive fast
At level 20 in the quartermaster tier of the snuggler pass, there’s a schematic you can get that shows the weakpoints on the magical plague ships that makes them much easier to kill. Maybe that will help a little!
What I do is sails around and a never ending ooop when I get enough for an upgrade I do so I make the closest loop to st ann and upgrade those to 4s once you get 4s money really rolls in
I believe I got access by upgrading the second set of pages in the Helm upgrade book. But I’m not entirely sure, I’m looking into it but I believe it’s the Helm book upgrades. They are fun missions. It’s exactly what it says it is, a privateer hunt but with a bonus reward of Eights! Return the heads to Yanita or Houma, that’s who gives you the quests.
The game gives you options if you want to kill your own fun just to grind to the top of the leader board then you can. Like how dark souls games allows you to beat the entire game with just a lance and heavy shields it’s boring but it literally puts the game on easy mode.
No offence here buddy, but I don’t think I need to be taking advice from a negative Nancy such as yourself. I quite literally made this video for people who requested it on Reddit, and discord. And I am known by different handles on each platform. Which is why I did that. It was also the first ever video I made with commentary. Slow your roll and take your negativity somewhere else please and thanks
This is the best po8 guide i’ve seen thus far compared to other creators keep it up you’ll go far
Thanks man I appreciate it! I’ve got some more stuff in the works coming soon to help with the general knowledge of the game 👍🏻
Wow, I was talking to my brother about this style vs my having grabbed all I could very early before anyone was actually joining the PvP takeovers. I didn’t realize how much better this would have been.
Thank you so much! Makes.thenprocess so much more enjoyable and you are very informative.
I made the mistake of levelling each as I went and there is really no benefit to it!
tall, tall, tall!!!! 👍🏼
was thinking of getting that one part in the red isle to a high level thanks man
Best video for new entry players
Thank you very much. You save my time
Harufu with the book leveled up and all trade routes brings in a lot more per hour. Its so nice. I recommend people getting to there too. Put in the grind for some time then just grab once a day or more depending on how much you want
Wish I'd have seen this vid/known this before I focused on "building wide". Only control the Red Isle right now but definitely going to be using this method moving forward and focusing on the trade routes as I push into the African Coast. Thanks for the vid!
Great video! Straight to the point 👍🏼
Thanks!
Omg thank you! I get so bored cuz it takes so long to collect all of them
Excellent Strategy, I’m sticking with you man on every one of these S&B vids… 30th Subscriber!
I got another video incoming today, it’s currently uploading. Two part series on the Smugglers Pass, with pet one being an explanation, and part two being the demonstration
Thank you! This video is very helpful! Already leveling up Harufu to get it maxed out. Only I've been focusing on but will definitely do the ones near the Den and leave all the others at level 1 or 2. Glad I learned more about this before making any mistakes.
The game tells you pretty much nothing so I’m glad it helped lol
@@ObiMookKenobi much appreciated!
Thanks for the informative guide! I’d really be interested in your guides for the rest of the empire.
Excellent video man! I learned something new from this and I can’t wait to try your advice! Thank you for taking the time to make this video.
I’m glad it helped you out! No worries at all. Thanks for popping by!
Thanks for the video I played this game for 100hrs and I've burnt-out I have everything that is in the game and honestly there is nothing more to do ... waiting for the sea monster atm. Thanks again.
Well holy shit thank you... finally a good solid video...i was already pretty self learning from my mistakes, but so glad this video exists to better explain why...
Got another one coming today about the smugglers pass, and my take on how to grind it without spending hours and hours waiting for quests to show up and stuff.
Great content. Very helpful and straightforward 😎👍🏴☠️🥃
As a PvE player I thought I would hit some 'cap' to my options but after being given locations by succeeding in the legendary co-op events which I usually have to solo I've been able to acquire the entire first section you recommend. I only wish the reward for the 'no fast travel' deliveries was significant silver to close the Helm loop.
Yeah more silver would be nice, it gets so expensive to fund locations … even with max upgrades. It’s currently one of the larger complaints from the player base.
It’s hard because I made this before they changed all the numbers for production so some of my video probably isn’t as accurate as it was right after launch but I hope it’s still helped!
@@ObiMookKenobi It sure did. The 'documentation' lacks until you figure it out. I don't worry about crunching the numbers but I do like to be efficient and now I finally have most on the same page per area which makes oversight much easier.
Nice video my man. Easy to understand. Thanks.
Wow... A video easy to understand, that doesn't take the long route to deliver simple explanations (pun intended with the subject of the vid)
It hurts me like hell to know that i did everything wrong, but now that i understand why i get 1k Po8 when i have all the Red Isle unlocked i can do something about it instead of keeping being bored out of my mind by the helm !
Great job !
Appreciate it my friend! I’m glad it helped. Maybe some of us are too far gone this season but hey, we live and learn right? At least next season we will all have a better idea of how to do this efficiently. Even I spent way too much on stuff I shouldn’t have 😂 next season we’re all gonna be big dogs though 😏
@@ObiMookKenobi Well, to be fair i don't care that much for the leaderboard, so as long as i can make enough 8's to buy everything and get Sovereigns i won't be too far gone :D And i just started today doing it your way... Already increased the income of 8's by +600 per run. Not that big of a number, but it sure beats the dreadfull +30 increase a day i was doing previously lol
Nice explain mate! Good job! 🎖️
we got in when there was little comp for refineries , others might well do well taking the first book upgrades and doing some deliveries. they seem to top out at 300+ but that does also stay useful later when you have big refineries as the raw mats can be used to overclock those.
and i think you should focus the last upgrade book a bit more , my harufu is sitting at 350 an hour and i only have +1 level in trade routes ima guess that nudges 500 an hour maxed.
Yeah I want to go back and edit the video and add some stuff I forgot to mention because I made this in like, the time it took to screen record my voice and screen.
That tab of upgrades will definitely help if you are fighting other players for control of the location during the hostile takeover, or legendary heist.
I have since maxed those pages in the upgrade book. But like I said, they help, but like, you aren’t going to see a pay out of 1500 more eights the next day, from your singular location by upgrading that tab in the book. It increases percentages, not the total, overall accumulation and storage of eights within said location. You could spend thousands there to get percentage buffs, or you could spend your eights to just upgrade to 9 or 10 and pretty much double your storage everytime. Which matters for the people who don’t play all day, and have to work or whatever the case may be. That way when they come back online the next day there’s 800 instead of 300, or 4500 instead of 3000. Just because they generate quicker doesn’t mean the storage size gets a buff. They only generate until there’s no more storage.
Africa and and red islands i earn 25-30k easy 1h run and prud rate is 7-8k h
Thanks so much for this info it puts out the burn of po8 collection
Glad to help
Great video very informative I have subbed to your channel bro. Question I have do I have to bring supplies to the manufactories or do they draw supplies from my warehouse?
Thanks! I appreciate you stopping by 😁
Right now, I believe the only way to supply a manufactory for the bonus percentage is to bring whatever raw material they need right to the location.
As far as I know, it does not pull direct from your warehouse. The raw materials in your warehouse are yours for refining inside the helm offices in Telok and St Anne’s.
Your locations around the map that produce pieces of eight obtain their own raw materials, and only ask that you fund them with silver. If you want the bonus production speed, you bring whatever raw material to whatever location you want to boost.
The devs may change this though, they mentioned being able to sell stuff straight from your warehouse. Idk how far they will take that when it comes to Helm Operations and supplying refineries, but right now what I said above seems to be how it works currently.
@@ObiMookKenobi ok cool bro thanks for the response. Some of this is confusing on how it all works I’m still learning. Thank you! 👍🏻
@@25mmapdst yeah the game doesn’t actually tell you anything 😂 it kinda just drops you into the pan and turns up the heat and forces us all to just figure it out.
I’m glad I could be of assistance! 👍🏻
Great strats man, thanks for the tips. I myself have been feeling a little burned out but still enjoy the grind. The one thing I really want to understand better is tips on when we get the option to double up and how to best avoid the pvp sharks lol
Right now, the only tip is literally ‘strength in numbers’. Unfortunately PvP events like helm wager is kinda broken right now and there’s no way around it until the devs fix the fast travel and being able to come in and out of the event to avoid damage and heal and then rejoin once your back to full hp. It’s too cheesy right now for me to make a video, once they fix I will definitely make a video on how to move around the map while being a high value target.
But like, if you’ve got five guys protecting you, you’ll probably be okay. But that means you need five people do be down for that or five friend online and that’s difficult for some people to arrange
really nice video. more helpful than most out there fr
Thanks!
If you are short on Silver you can do the supply exploit where you kill the ships every hour and get more poppy sugar cane and berries you can ever dream of then make some dope or rum and bam. You have maxed out silver
Is it better to immediately upgrade settlements or save the 5000 for coast of Africa. I’m currently producing 900+ per hour just in red isle
Ultimately, it’s up to you.
Upgrading settlements increases the total amount of po8 storage, meaning there will be more inside of it when you log on the next day. You will see an increase in profits literally the next day you log on.
Purchasing access to the coast of Africa is also good because it allows you to start connecting the trade routes to get bonus percentage of profits. But this is good for ‘over time’ bonuses and stuff.
If you want to see eights quickly, upgrade settlements and buy into Africa once you have all the red isle, and some of the red isle upgraded past lv 6
Did the same mistake before getting this tip and info. Now trying to repair the damage and focus on one, doing the same mistake again because I'm not sure which of the hotspot I wanted to dump into 😂 Now repairing the damage again and really focus on 1 spot finally deciding haha. Season 2 with reset will be a fresh start for sure not having to instantly grab everything and instead focus on upgrading and grabbing the ones close and spend more time helm gathering and delivering than claiming new spots I think.
Exactly because if we are gonna be doing this every season, might as well start to figure out some ways to do it efficiently lol. Yeah those are all good ideas I think, I’ll be doing the same things 😂
I only run 2 locations in a pocket already and I'm bored with it completely. I have a few thousand Po8, but don't have the will to do it anymore.
Good stuff man, make a video on the best way to farm smuggler pass tokens.
Will do
I posted one
Two part series though, explanation and then demonstration type thing
Awesome dude I'm gonna watch it tonight
Sooo i‘ve been doing the upgrading wide thing till now and i have like half of red isle to 7 and the other half to 8. should i stop doing that or does it even matter at this point
It doesn’t really matter I don’t think, but for next season it will! you’re pretty much in the money now anyways if your locations are up to 7 and 8
Is it better to upgrade the locations first once you’ve got the ones you want or the empire upgrades first?
The empire upgrades definitely help over time, but if you want to see more eights quicker I’d upgrade the locations first. But you can do whatever you feel is best, play it however you want. The empire upgrades get expensive fast
I get it. But I play for fun, not full-time; only when I can. Getting chased by constantly-spawning magical plague ships? Killed the game for me.
At level 20 in the quartermaster tier of the snuggler pass, there’s a schematic you can get that shows the weakpoints on the magical plague ships that makes them much easier to kill. Maybe that will help a little!
Anyone know why the tab for the helm isn't showing up on my map at all?
haha same jacket snd hat 😂 we have the same taste
Glad to meet you mook they call me UPL
😂 glad to meet you too
What I do is sails around and a never ending ooop when I get enough for an upgrade I do so I make the closest loop to st ann and upgrade those to 4s once you get 4s money really rolls in
How did you get the Priviteer hunt that popped at the start of your video?
I believe I got access by upgrading the second set of pages in the Helm upgrade book. But I’m not entirely sure, I’m looking into it but I believe it’s the Helm book upgrades.
They are fun missions. It’s exactly what it says it is, a privateer hunt but with a bonus reward of Eights! Return the heads to Yanita or Houma, that’s who gives you the quests.
thank u mook!!
Wait you can control areas of the map how maybe I have to reach kingpin first huh
Yeah correct! You unlock access to the Helm Empire after you reach kingpin 👍🏻
Great video!
Glad you enjoyed it 👍🏻
This is a great video.
But holy shit, this entire portion of the game just absolutely slams the brakes on the overall fun. Wild.
The game gives you options if you want to kill your own fun just to grind to the top of the leader board then you can. Like how dark souls games allows you to beat the entire game with just a lance and heavy shields it’s boring but it literally puts the game on easy mode.
How much is the silver cost to harufu level 10?
It depends on your upgrade in the book. But harufu at lv 10 costed me like 50,000 silver to find it.
It costs 5000 pieces of eight to go from lv 9 to lv 10 though
Do you play on Xbox bro
No, ps5 and PC but I play this on console only right now.
never do that intro again no one needs to know all the 500 names your known as stick to 1
No offence here buddy, but I don’t think I need to be taking advice from a negative Nancy such as yourself.
I quite literally made this video for people who requested it on Reddit, and discord. And I am known by different handles on each platform. Which is why I did that. It was also the first ever video I made with commentary. Slow your roll and take your negativity somewhere else please and thanks
@@ObiMookKenobiit's called advice no one wants a 1 minute intro with you spouting noncince don't be such a sensitive bch