I am getting over 550 Pieces of Eight an hour at the moment and I'm just beginning. What is your production rate currently at? Also, you can access the helm before KingPin rank, BUT you can't control any manufactories until you reach KingPin rank. I hope this clears things up :)
Wtf. No, not even close. The whole gta series is a masterpiece. That thing is bs. Sorry. Years ago i had hope. But i dont know what that thing here is.
I have a question, do I HAVE to attack the other people trying to capture the point? Because my ship was messing folks up and they weren’t firing back so I stopped and l still won a point. If that was anyone here sorry lol.
Thanks for the update! Are you sure the others are rewarded with it too? Because only the player that reaches 100% on the progress bar should be rewarded with the manufactory. The times I wasn’t 100% I got nothing??
I just want to know if when you unlock another area like the coast of africa if their is an option to automate the collection process a little bit. been doing exactly this and have a lvl6 factory just to see what storage is like because I dont like the idea of spending so much of my time collecting rather than farming
I haven’t bought access to Africa or East Indies yet so I can’t say for sure, I have been levelling my red isles manufactories to level 7 instead. But I also hope there is something to make the process easier for the African side as that is a lot of ground to cover on each collection run. Hopefully someone else in the comments section can answer you :)
You’re welcome :) there is a lot involved and looks like a lot of time will go into it, but so far it’s very fun and rewarding! I can’t wait to buy my first end game weapon
I remember my goal at firat was to save up as fast as possible to 5k pieces of eight. But soon realized that the I'd be 10x happier if just invest into my smuggling empire. I can make 5K soooo fast now.
Are you talking about the PVE event with the French convoy? Once it’s all over you should get a notification telling you which manufactory you got and then just spend some silver to get it running
I really recommend the barque and increasing its healing abilities. It’s the 2nd fastest ship, stamina drains much slower then the brigantine and the passive heal means you don’t use anywhere near as many repair kits. I have a good barque build on my channel :)
@@gusomajic OK I’ll get right to it. Thanks for the info again, I really appreciate it. And thanks for the fast response too. Can't wait for the next video. Since i stumbled on your channel i check every video that you post so thx again and grts 👍😉
Can’t wait to start getting the black market stuff. Is it worth investing pieces of eight unlocking the other 2 areas that are 5k? Bit concerned incase we have to pay that again with season 1
Me too, I really want that Sambuk ship! I recommend upgrading your red isle manufactories first, that way you can continue picking up the pieces of 8 easier than having to sailing to the east indies or Africa too. Manufactories at max level will hold way more pieces of 8 before being full. You can do way less trips
@@gusomajic ooh yeah that ship looks cool with the fire damage weapons, ah right sweet thanks, finally managed to get all the factories in red isle and started upgrading them, nearly all at level 4 now, the 8s are rolling in and starting to get some sovereigns too, thanks for the help!!!
I’m fairly certain it was given to me after the last main mission in the East Indies. I don’t want to spoil the mission for you, unless you have finished the main story too?
Is that from your totally hourly production from all your manufactories or just a single one? Because totally hourly production can go down depending if some manufactories are full or not currently funded, as they won’t be producing anymore until they are collected or funded. But the only reasons I can think that a single manufactory would drop in production is if when you last funded it, you selected a cheaper rum to fund it, which lowers or increases its production rate dependent on the ingredient you chose. It could have also decreased if another manufactory that is connected via a trade route is full or not funded. Because the trade route link between active manufactories gives a big production boost. If the connected manufactory is inactive then you lose this production boost. I hope this helps :)
Actually in the PVP event you don't have to destroy anything just outlast the timer I actually did like three takeovers i stayed all the way in a corner behind like some rocks and this outlasted the timer with no problem didn't even fire one shot but of course not not all layouts I like that but at least you know you don't have to actually fight or destroy anything just outlast the timer
Yeah that definitely still works! Just have to watch out because if another player is in the event they may be going crazy sinking ships and the game mode gives them bonus points towards the 100%!
Yeah you will definitely needs lots of silver. I found I can make a lot by doing a lot of plundering and only selling items to in demand customers. I have 180,000 silver now
Ship wrecks give insane amount of silver ... sometimes there 6 close to each other each 300-500 silver .... no brainer. Only sell commodities on 1-2 up arrows and only buy un 1-2 down arrows ... easy game.....
The higher you upgrade them the less silver they need. On lvl 7 it costs 4k but they also working for around 8 Hours. ^^ also there the Upgrades from the Table come in Handy to reduce the Working Prices and increase the amount of Po8 you get.
Have you reached kingpin rank and followed the in game prompts to unlock your first one? Also are you checking your “helm” map and not your standard map?
It can be tough starting out, I’d definitely recommend doing the PVE events first as it’s a much easier way to get the manufactories. Also what ship and level is it that you’re using for the PvP?
@@gusomajic i figured it out in the meantime, i just did the hostile takeovers where no other player went, was 100 times easier. I got a lvl 10 Brigantine atm but i generally prefer my Vanguard
@@gusomajic and ngl the Snow looks so much better than the Brigantine. Btw since I‘m getting to buy the black market stuff now are the enhanced culverin any good? The strongest one is a black market item and i don‘t wanna waste the coins atm
i took my first opium quest and the location is not showing up on the map and the spawning in ships constantly is starting to get extremely annoying. any ideas how i can get rid of this quest so i can fast travel again?
I had the same problem happen for me too. I couldn’t find how to cancel it but the location eventually showed up. If you zoom out on the map and switch to helm map does it show you? Or on your compass at top of your screen?
@gusomajic doesn't show on either the map or compass as the other green octopus markers do. i have not taken the first rogue shipment interception quest yet and is it possible that it is connected to that by any chance? plus i also had the blacksmith quest for hitting wrecked ships for the salvage crates bug out saying i had 2/3 crates and a medium pirate ship still to crowbar and i had 23 or more crates to give him 🤷 i really hope that the quests will be able to be finished or will have to wait for a f'ing patch 🤦
@@TyCampbell666 damn that sounds like a game bug :/ Have you tried posting it on reddit or a Facebook group? Hopefully someone might be able to help more :)
I unlocked every manufacture, that I could unlock without spending 5000. I did the collection twice. I'm not sure if I will do more, it's just annoying. The Endgame is drive from A to B... The pirates that spawn are just there to annoy you. When you are about to collect some coins, they spawn, and you can't interact with the manufacture and if you stand beside the manufacture and fire a with a mortal, you aggro them too. I totally can see myself rage-quit during a collection run and abandon this game.
That’s a shame you aren’t enjoying the end game content. If you upgrade the manufactory a lot it will hold much more pieces of 8 so you only do a few bigger trips instead of all the small ones. Have you tried the opium and rum supply runs? They are another good way to get pieces of 8
I liked this game right up until end game. For some reason I can't get into it. I probably have no clue what I am doing either. I am constantly finding myself not able to fast travel.. Some of the things they want me to do is run 16k km to I can't remember what the cargo was but it wouldn't allow fast travel. It seems to be a constant annoyance and the fact the wind is blowing in my face the whole ride is getting seriously annoying. I know there is a bug with fast travel and some order quests but that isn't the case. It is something in my cargo that won't let me fast travel. I did 2 massive 16k runs, one there and one back with something that wouldn't let me fast travel and I just gave up lol. I don't find that to be much fun with the high sea combat, wind in the face combat. The run back I barely made it.. The waves were so high they were destroying my ship while i was under constant threat from rogue ships like every 30 seconds.
The way it restricts fast travel can be confusing and really annoying! I have only found 2 reasons why it restricts fast travel, either you have pieces of 8 on you (if so you need to sail to Sainte-Anne or Telok Penjarah, so it will bank it, then you’re free to fast travel again). Or you accepted a smuggling run contract from the helm, which also doesn’t let you fast travel until the smuggling order is complete. The easiest way to check which one it is, is to firstly check your cargo for pieces of 8. If no pieces of 8 then open your map, then your journal and scroll on the left to see if you have any green icons saying “standard order”, if you have one of these you must complete it before you can fast travel again. I think you should also be able to cancel it. I hope this helps :)
@jicThat makes sense now. The recent issue yesterday was doing those pve/pvp events to take over the manufacturing sites. I did 3 of them, never died and for some reason I wasn't able to take over any of the manufacturing sites.. I did join the events as well.. Not sure what I was doing wrong because I did do 2 already and captured them..
I don't think it worth investing too much in the upgrades from the table since season 0 stops in 11 days. I got a feeling that Season 1 will start then and continue for the time that is on the map which seems to be 94 days at moment.
Yeah I don’t think the table upgrades are worth the short turn around either, the individual manufactory upgrades are definitely worth while though as they remain for the full 90 something days :)
@@gusomajic but if you want all the weapons you have to upgrade the table to a specific level cause with it you get new Recipes for your Rum and Opium Crafting Station. And you need that golden Rum for Scurlocks long Nine.....or you be Lucky and get couple of these in Legendary Chests like i did.......AFTER ive upgraded the Tsble -.-
Didn't realize there is pve ones too. Been doing the pvp ones. Does the whole party gain the place or only the person to take the item back. With the pvp one, whoever gets the percentage to 100 wins it.
@@gusomajic tbh i really hope they gonna change the quest. I already had 2 pve Quests with AFK Player who did absolute nothing except chilling in Saint Anne. They should change it in when you leave the specific quest area your quest getting canceled after a while.
I think they should add option to claim it automatically as it is getting boring to do the route to pick them up. I know that then it would be pointless to have that PvP action when you can double it as others tries to hunt you down but that could remain as optional. That game is avarage at best with lot of stuff to grind... I mean how long you guys want to do this stuff for? I bet after a week most of people will give up on this game because there are better games worth of our times that picking up Pieces of Eight.
I agree that we should be able to invest in an upgrade so we can recruit other ships to automatically do the collection runs for us. It would free us up for the fun boss battles and monster fights etc. the new season will be here really soon so hopefully they address it by then :)
I’ve got all the factories and making 679/hr but I’m struggling deciding to upgrade them or unlock. Because right now it feels like all I’m doing is making po8 runs over and over with something in between. I can’t imagine unlocking one of the other zones. That really would be all I’m doing lol. Any tips
I recommend firstly upgrading manufactories that are closest to Saint-Anne that are in the same territory. Next I would upgrade the ones that are on the same trade route. This way it’ll maximise your pieces of eight generation and you don’t have to do as many trips. Unlocking another zone does look like a lot of sail involved 😂
Yeah this is what I do to speed the process up. Fast travel to a point near a group of them, then sail around picking up maybe 4 at a time and then sail straight to Saint-Anne. But just remember this can spawn in a lot of pirates that try to sink you
Good beginners guide, and I’m currently making in the 500s. I got a couple of notes: 1) each time you collect Po8 from a factory, 1-2 rogues spawn (enemy npcs), once you kill them no others will spawn unless you collect po8 from another factory. 2) The pve heist event happens at the same frequency (and time) as the pvp factory events. The only issue is only 1 of them spawn along with up to 5 pvp events. I saw up to 5 because if you already own the factory at which a pvp event is happening, it won’t appear on your screen . 3) Finally, be extremely careful at the pve event. Once you sink the French ship and pickup the loot, rogues will continuously spawn and chase you. Most of them are level 10-12 and one volley of their cannons will wreck you. I find the brigantine the best as its speed allows you to outrun them as long as you have stamina.
Thanks for the tips and I 100% agree! Except yesterday a PVP event spawned in and I checked and it said I already owned the manufactory, so I’m not sure if that was a glitch?? Big groups of those rogues are so hard to fight off, the Brigantine is definitely best to out run them!
Sorry but I disagree w the pve event frequency. I have never done any but the introductory one and I’ve been waiting hours and hours and hours to see another but seen tons of pvp events
The only times I haven’t seen pve events spawn with the pvp events is when the factory they are tied to I already have. I am on Xbox btw. I own every factory in red isle now and I’m never notified of any pvp/pve event spawning
@@skroogemcduk8941 yeah I’m In the same boat…. No pun intended haha Now I’ll have to invest in the other regions to unlock all of those manufactories. I bet it’s a good time to unlock them as less people will be able to challenge you
Hi Dcully! Thank you :) I would definitely recommend the game! The combat is really satisfying and there seems to be a lot to do. The end game is really in depth and I can’t wait to play more
@@gusomajic you’re also far less credible than many other people on this platform, what gives you the right to say that. How about I come back to this comment in 3 weeks and see if yourself still posting content for this game shill
when does the “Empire” page unlock for u. i’m in the indian ocean right now. but somehow it’s page opened for me and i claimed the red isle to open it. but now it will never open for me again. also how do u view the smuggler pass? a lil off topic but i don’t see it at all.
So just bring up your map like normal and tab to the right once and that will be your smuggling empire map. For me on PS5 I press R1 once to scroll across to it from the main menu map. Let me know if you still can’t find it. And I don’t think we can view the smugglers pass yet because the season isn’t live, I’m sure we will hear more from Ubisoft on when they will make it go live :)
Ship rank 5 now, Still confuse like hell in this game 🙂 I unlock Smuggling, And can start deliver rom. So i better do that i imaging ? It is all so time to think about what rank 5 ship to go for. Brigantine Vs Padewakang for Smuggling and "normal" stuff. I am thinking of starting whit the Brigantine for more cargo and speed. But so many post out there, Keep saying Padewakang . So any input before starting looking for the where to get the blue print and Materials. And do you have a all around good ship and load out to share for starting out in one of them rank 5 ships, And what to aim for ? What that sail patten and color ? Look super nice, And I am a big fan of Black &Yellow :-) Thanks kindly.
Hey Sgt! :) There is a lot of information to take in but I’ll help you get through it. Yeah if you start smuggling rum it’ll help you build up your silver, which you’ll need to find your manufactories once you hit king pin rank. So if you’re doing heists and pieces of 8 runs back and fourth from Saint-Anne I highly recommend the brigantine. Its speed is just too good, most of the time you can outrun the rogue pirates that hunt you down. Plus it is nimble in the river areas, which the rogues are slow in. Padewakang is a great ship though, I find it best for long distance fighting with flame bombards equipped, as it has damage multipliers for it. The all round good ship depends on your favourite playstyle, but generally speaking I think the brigantine will be very helpful just from its speed alone. It’s unmatched in that area and will help you escape a lot of dangerous situations. In general I think brigantine is most helpful for majority of activities. Padewakang is great for long distance weapons, especially the flame bombards and leopold mortar. The Snow tank ship is great for plundering and hostile takeovers because it can brace and deflect most incoming damage. So it would do best with close range weapons. The sails pattern and colour is the navigators set, it is free in the Ubisoft store so you can go and grab it now :) i really like the colour scheme too. It pops nicely! Thank you! If you have anymore questions I’m happy to help :)
I found the easiest way to get silver is to plunder settlements whenever you have the opportunity and doing the take over events for the manufactories. You’ll end up with so much extra silver this way. Also if you continually collect commodities like cacao, spices, ornate pistols etc, then zoom out on the map and hover over regions of the map it will tell you which items are in most demand. Then if you have these in demand items make sure you sell it to them as it will give you the most money for them. I hope this makes sense? :)
@@tonykeally1039you can do deliveries and refine products, you just can’t do legendary heists, hostile takeovers or helm wagers until reaching Kingpin and progressing the helm quest line.
That’s just the way to get Po8 quickly. Once you upgrade your manufactories to level 10 you only need to go collect once every 2 days. So it gives you way more time for more fun pirate stuff 🏴☠️
its pretty repetitive to be honest. It would be much better if I could hire ships to ship my pieces of eigth around. I have 8 manufacutres and it gets boring to ship them all by myself the whole time... I mean this is more like a chore not fun at all. I would love to fight the bosses, like the monster croc and ghost ship but because of the constant grind for pieces of eight I cannot leave it really. I have pretty few time every day to play around 4 hours and I won't waste 2 hours only to ship some tokens around..... This game would be fun if they ever let me to the fun part. I could ignore pieces of eight if they weren't important tokens to upgrade my ship... but as of now its boring and a chore
Yeah I have all manufactories on the red isles and I spend a lot of timing sailing back and fourth. A helm table upgrade where we could invest pieces of 8 to recruit other ships to do it automatically would be a massive improvement. Hopefully it’s something Ubisoft see and add in the near future :)
@@gusomajic yeah it would make also much more sense since we are a Kingpin right ? What King of Pirates need to keep on doing all the shipping himself :)
I don't know how many people know this but these manufacturers will reset in 91 days, which means all that work you put in capturing them will be gone. Worst game mechanic!!!!
Yeah I heard that, except I have hope because season 2 brings something called “Fleet management” and it is rumoured that maybe this function will allow us to control a fleet that may be able to sail around and collect our pieces of 8 etc for us, so we can concentrate on more pirate mayhem. I really hope this is the case
@@gusomajic I hope that is the case, it was quite annoying to read it while I was playing the game. It just doesn't make sense to reset then with some replacement feature that doesn't make us feel like regressing. Especially in an mmo type game which is fundamentally based on time spent progressing your character.
@@NKal yeah I agree :) heaps of people have posted with the same view so hopefully Ubisoft listen and the fleet management set up works well. We won’t know for sure until the new season begins
I am getting over 550 Pieces of Eight an hour at the moment and I'm just beginning. What is your production rate currently at?
Also, you can access the helm before KingPin rank, BUT you can't control any manufactories until you reach KingPin rank. I hope this clears things up :)
1400😊 i realy love this game
Kinda the same value. Do you have recommendation in which upgrades should I get first?
@@MrVictor1227 The ones with closed loop trade routes, and the ones closes to the main town
@@KenseiOtakunot like you can actually pick which to get first, as they pop random as events.
@@shepard77 I have all of the Red Isle. Except Fort Du Lys,it never appears to be taken
This is like if gta and piracy had a baby and i actually like it
Haha I agree! I’m really enjoying it
How much does ubisoft pay? How was the application and interview process?
Wtf. No, not even close. The whole gta series is a masterpiece. That thing is bs. Sorry. Years ago i had hope. But i dont know what that thing here is.
@@sethael1741 did you try the open beta or the game? It has surprised a lot of people (me included) and I’m legitimately enjoying it
@@shrim1481 I wish Ubisoft would pay me 😂
damn. this was one of the best "How to" I have seen in a loooong time. thx for the info. helped me out ALOT
Thanks for letting me know! I’m happy to help :)
This was exactly the video I was looking for that explained everything I needed to know about growing my empire. Thank you!
You’re welcome :) good luck growing your empire!
Great explanation and straight forward. Definitely earned the sub.
Thank you for your support :)
Love the straight forward explanation great video left a like.
Thanks heaps for your support!
I am very pleased with the PvP Hostile takeovers everyone ive run into is friendly and we all get the rewards.
I have a question, do I HAVE to attack the other people trying to capture the point? Because my ship was messing folks up and they weren’t firing back so I stopped and l still won a point. If that was anyone here sorry lol.
You do not have to and if you dont everyone involved gets the rewards
@@AIRBORNEOEFTF73 cool. Thanks
I wish I had some friendly players in my server. Everytime I try to deliver po8 they just fast travel around the map and take my stuff lol
Thanks for the update!
Are you sure the others are rewarded with it too? Because only the player that reaches 100% on the progress bar should be rewarded with the manufactory. The times I wasn’t 100% I got nothing??
Currently have all level 5 + the ship. Saving to unlock Africa!
You bought the Sambuk ship?? How is it??
I just want to know if when you unlock another area like the coast of africa if their is an option to automate the collection process a little bit. been doing exactly this and have a lvl6 factory just to see what storage is like because I dont like the idea of spending so much of my time collecting rather than farming
I haven’t bought access to Africa or East Indies yet so I can’t say for sure, I have been levelling my red isles manufactories to level 7 instead. But I also hope there is something to make the process easier for the African side as that is a lot of ground to cover on each collection run. Hopefully someone else in the comments section can answer you :)
Thank you for the video, I was a bit overwhelmed with the smuggling empire stuff. This definitely makes it easier for me now :)
You’re welcome :) there is a lot involved and looks like a lot of time will go into it, but so far it’s very fun and rewarding! I can’t wait to buy my first end game weapon
I remember my goal at firat was to save up as fast as possible to 5k pieces of eight. But soon realized that the I'd be 10x happier if just invest into my smuggling empire. I can make 5K soooo fast now.
I was thinking the same originally, but soon decided re investing the pieces of eight was much better too!
Have you got any to level 7 yet?
How does attack the French ship net you a factory I did this and looted it but never got a option to nab a new factory when I got back to port
Are you talking about the PVE event with the French convoy? Once it’s all over you should get a notification telling you which manufactory you got and then just spend some silver to get it running
Thx for the info man grts...
You’re welcome :)
What ship do you recommend and build?
Right now i'm using the brigantine
I really recommend the barque and increasing its healing abilities. It’s the 2nd fastest ship, stamina drains much slower then the brigantine and the passive heal means you don’t use anywhere near as many repair kits. I have a good barque build on my channel :)
@@gusomajic OK I’ll get right to it. Thanks for the info again, I really appreciate it. And thanks for the fast response too.
Can't wait for the next video.
Since i stumbled on your channel i check every video that you post so thx again and grts 👍😉
@@BennyboyA2b im always happy to help! And thank you for all of your support! :)
@@gusomajic thx.
The barque is it also good for solo players because i don't know any1 who plays s&b.
Sorry for all the questions by the way...
Good guide. What I don't understand is how I can take resources to the points to speed up production. I likely won't do that, but just wondering.
Just put the items it needs in your inventory take it down there and Interact with the location. You’ll have an option to speed up the production
@@ExcessOxygen Strange I tried that. Maybe I missed it. Thanks
It gives it a big boost!
🎉good vid
Thank you Superior :)
Can’t wait to start getting the black market stuff. Is it worth investing pieces of eight unlocking the other 2 areas that are 5k? Bit concerned incase we have to pay that again with season 1
Me too, I really want that Sambuk ship!
I recommend upgrading your red isle manufactories first, that way you can continue picking up the pieces of 8 easier than having to sailing to the east indies or Africa too.
Manufactories at max level will hold way more pieces of 8 before being full. You can do way less trips
@@gusomajic ooh yeah that ship looks cool with the fire damage weapons, ah right sweet thanks, finally managed to get all the factories in red isle and started upgrading them, nearly all at level 4 now, the 8s are rolling in and starting to get some sovereigns too, thanks for the help!!!
@@drobzd214 you’re welcome! :)
Yeah I can’t wait to unlock the Sambuk and put together a fun flame build with it
Excuse me, mate. Can you tell me how you got that coat in your character? Because I got the outfit for my crew in a mission, but not for my character
I’m fairly certain it was given to me after the last main mission in the East Indies. I don’t want to spoil the mission for you, unless you have finished the main story too?
@gusomajic Just got the mission, mate. Thanks, though
@@andrebastos8932 you’re welcome, enjoy!
This might be a silly question however my manufactory was at 24 a hour now only 11 a hour how come it changed?
Is that from your totally hourly production from all your manufactories or just a single one?
Because totally hourly production can go down depending if some manufactories are full or not currently funded, as they won’t be producing anymore until they are collected or funded.
But the only reasons I can think that a single manufactory would drop in production is if when you last funded it, you selected a cheaper rum to fund it, which lowers or increases its production rate dependent on the ingredient you chose.
It could have also decreased if another manufactory that is connected via a trade route is full or not funded. Because the trade route link between active manufactories gives a big production boost. If the connected manufactory is inactive then you lose this production boost. I hope this helps :)
@@gusomajic it’s from all of them I only have 7 at the moment, just when I started they where 25/24 an hour now all of them are saying 10/11 per hour
Just logged back on they have gone back up, thanks for the help and keep up the good work bud good videos
@@bodderz9691 thanks! I’m happy to help anytime :)
Actually in the PVP event you don't have to destroy anything just outlast the timer I actually did like three takeovers i stayed all the way in a corner behind like some rocks and this outlasted the timer with no problem didn't even fire one shot but of course not not all layouts I like that but at least you know you don't have to actually fight or destroy anything just outlast the timer
Yeah that definitely still works!
Just have to watch out because if another player is in the event they may be going crazy sinking ships and the game mode gives them bonus points towards the 100%!
The bottom neck is silver, you simply run out of silver very quick, to make your factories work. Legend maps are very important.
Yeah you will definitely needs lots of silver. I found I can make a lot by doing a lot of plundering and only selling items to in demand customers. I have 180,000 silver now
Ship wrecks give insane amount of silver ... sometimes there 6 close to each other each 300-500 silver .... no brainer. Only sell commodities on 1-2 up arrows and only buy un 1-2 down arrows ... easy game.....
@@Shywer good game plan! I sometimes forget about how many good resources are in the wrecks too
The higher you upgrade them the less silver they need. On lvl 7 it costs 4k but they also working for around 8 Hours. ^^ also there the Upgrades from the Table come in Handy to reduce the Working Prices and increase the amount of Po8 you get.
@@DantoriusD thanks for the tips! There is a fair bit involved for newer players
I’m confused about the “manufacturer idle “ icon. Do you have to supply every single “node” with sugar cane,poopy seed etc?
No, that’s to speed it up. You must fund each location with silver. This can all be done on your helm map
Thanks again for helping out in the comments! :)
hmm i dont have the pieces of eight factories on my map any ideas?
Have you reached kingpin rank and followed the in game prompts to unlock your first one? Also are you checking your “helm” map and not your standard map?
I can‘t really get the manufactories because the other players always beat me in the events. Does anyone have any tips?
It can be tough starting out, I’d definitely recommend doing the PVE events first as it’s a much easier way to get the manufactories.
Also what ship and level is it that you’re using for the PvP?
@@gusomajic i figured it out in the meantime, i just did the hostile takeovers where no other player went, was 100 times easier.
I got a lvl 10 Brigantine atm but i generally prefer my Vanguard
@@Yannick-lr6kn nice!
Yeah I mainly use the snow for the PvP events as it can survive way more hits
@@gusomajic and ngl the Snow looks so much better than the Brigantine
@@gusomajic and ngl the Snow looks so much better than the Brigantine.
Btw since I‘m getting to buy the black market stuff now are the enhanced culverin any good? The strongest one is a black market item and i don‘t wanna waste the coins atm
i took my first opium quest and the location is not showing up on the map and the spawning in ships constantly is starting to get extremely annoying. any ideas how i can get rid of this quest so i can fast travel again?
I had the same problem happen for me too. I couldn’t find how to cancel it but the location eventually showed up. If you zoom out on the map and switch to helm map does it show you? Or on your compass at top of your screen?
@gusomajic doesn't show on either the map or compass as the other green octopus markers do. i have not taken the first rogue shipment interception quest yet and is it possible that it is connected to that by any chance? plus i also had the blacksmith quest for hitting wrecked ships for the salvage crates bug out saying i had 2/3 crates and a medium pirate ship still to crowbar and i had 23 or more crates to give him 🤷 i really hope that the quests will be able to be finished or will have to wait for a f'ing patch 🤦
@@TyCampbell666 damn that sounds like a game bug :/
Have you tried posting it on reddit or a Facebook group? Hopefully someone might be able to help more :)
@gusomajic nah i have not, may have to tho. thanks for the help 👍
@@TyCampbell666 you’re welcome, sorry I couldn’t help more
Thanks for this bro
You’re welcome :)
I unlocked every manufacture, that I could unlock without spending 5000.
I did the collection twice. I'm not sure if I will do more, it's just annoying.
The Endgame is drive from A to B... The pirates that spawn are just there to annoy you.
When you are about to collect some coins, they spawn, and you can't interact with the manufacture and if you stand beside the manufacture and fire a with a mortal, you aggro them too.
I totally can see myself rage-quit during a collection run and abandon this game.
That’s a shame you aren’t enjoying the end game content. If you upgrade the manufactory a lot it will hold much more pieces of 8 so you only do a few bigger trips instead of all the small ones.
Have you tried the opium and rum supply runs? They are another good way to get pieces of 8
I liked this game right up until end game. For some reason I can't get into it. I probably have no clue what I am doing either. I am constantly finding myself not able to fast travel.. Some of the things they want me to do is run 16k km to I can't remember what the cargo was but it wouldn't allow fast travel. It seems to be a constant annoyance and the fact the wind is blowing in my face the whole ride is getting seriously annoying. I know there is a bug with fast travel and some order quests but that isn't the case. It is something in my cargo that won't let me fast travel. I did 2 massive 16k runs, one there and one back with something that wouldn't let me fast travel and I just gave up lol. I don't find that to be much fun with the high sea combat, wind in the face combat. The run back I barely made it.. The waves were so high they were destroying my ship while i was under constant threat from rogue ships like every 30 seconds.
The way it restricts fast travel can be confusing and really annoying! I have only found 2 reasons why it restricts fast travel, either you have pieces of 8 on you (if so you need to sail to Sainte-Anne or Telok Penjarah, so it will bank it, then you’re free to fast travel again). Or you accepted a smuggling run contract from the helm, which also doesn’t let you fast travel until the smuggling order is complete. The easiest way to check which one it is, is to firstly check your cargo for pieces of 8. If no pieces of 8 then open your map, then your journal and scroll on the left to see if you have any green icons saying “standard order”, if you have one of these you must complete it before you can fast travel again. I think you should also be able to cancel it.
I hope this helps :)
@jicThat makes sense now.
The recent issue yesterday was doing those pve/pvp events to take over the manufacturing sites. I did 3 of them, never died and for some reason I wasn't able to take over any of the manufacturing sites.. I did join the events as well.. Not sure what I was doing wrong because I did do 2 already and captured them..
@@tjl8884 that sounds very odd. Did you try investing the silver to get them operational?
I don't think it worth investing too much in the upgrades from the table since season 0 stops in 11 days. I got a feeling that Season 1 will start then and continue for the time that is on the map which seems to be 94 days at moment.
Yeah I don’t think the table upgrades are worth the short turn around either, the individual manufactory upgrades are definitely worth while though as they remain for the full 90 something days :)
@@gusomajic but if you want all the weapons you have to upgrade the table to a specific level cause with it you get new Recipes for your Rum and Opium Crafting Station. And you need that golden Rum for Scurlocks long Nine.....or you be Lucky and get couple of these in Legendary Chests like i did.......AFTER ive upgraded the Tsble -.-
@@DantoriusD that’s true, I’ll definitely upgrade the table once I get my main manufactories to max level
I can't refine suger cane in distillery
There’s 2 distillerys. Sainte Anne is sugar cane. Telok penjarah is poppies
Exactly what they said ^^ make sure you’re at the correct distillery :)
Didn't realize there is pve ones too. Been doing the pvp ones. Does the whole party gain the place or only the person to take the item back. With the pvp one, whoever gets the percentage to 100 wins it.
With the PVE event it awards it to the whole team, no matter who returned the loot. So it’s a win win. Great option to play with friends
@@gusomajic tbh i really hope they gonna change the quest. I already had 2 pve Quests with AFK Player who did absolute nothing except chilling in Saint Anne. They should change it in when you leave the specific quest area your quest getting canceled after a while.
@@DantoriusD yeah I agree, they shouldn’t be rewarded for not even participating. Also it stops other players from being able to get involved
Where'd you get that outfit?
It’s a DMC outfit, I got it from a late game story mission :)
@@gusomajic One of the main missions?
@@andrebastos8932 I’m Fairly certain it was the last main mission. The coat is called “Officer Vestments”.
I think they should add option to claim it automatically as it is getting boring to do the route to pick them up. I know that then it would be pointless to have that PvP action when you can double it as others tries to hunt you down but that could remain as optional. That game is avarage at best with lot of stuff to grind... I mean how long you guys want to do this stuff for? I bet after a week most of people will give up on this game because there are better games worth of our times that picking up Pieces of Eight.
I agree that we should be able to invest in an upgrade so we can recruit other ships to automatically do the collection runs for us. It would free us up for the fun boss battles and monster fights etc.
the new season will be here really soon so hopefully they address it by then :)
I’ve got all the factories and making 679/hr but I’m struggling deciding to upgrade them or unlock. Because right now it feels like all I’m doing is making po8 runs over and over with something in between. I can’t imagine unlocking one of the other zones. That really would be all I’m doing lol. Any tips
I recommend firstly upgrading manufactories that are closest to Saint-Anne that are in the same territory. Next I would upgrade the ones that are on the same trade route. This way it’ll maximise your pieces of eight generation and you don’t have to do as many trips.
Unlocking another zone does look like a lot of sail involved 😂
lol thank man.
I got almost of red isle. Is there a way to get your pieces of eight without sailing around to every place. It takes forever
Wait till theyre full then use fast travel to start the collection of half a dozen in south end then bank, rinse repeat for north end etc
Yeah this is what I do to speed the process up. Fast travel to a point near a group of them, then sail around picking up maybe 4 at a time and then sail straight to Saint-Anne. But just remember this can spawn in a lot of pirates that try to sink you
@@gusomajic that’s what I’m doing already. Just thought maybe we’d be able to have a fleet pick them up for us.
Could be the case in season 2, on the roadmap it says "Fleet Management" in one of the boxes @@xvexso2446
@@xvexso2446that would be a nice add on, potentially it could be an upgrade they could add in?
Good beginners guide, and I’m currently making in the 500s. I got a couple of notes:
1) each time you collect Po8 from a factory, 1-2 rogues spawn (enemy npcs), once you kill them no others will spawn unless you collect po8 from another factory.
2) The pve heist event happens at the same frequency (and time) as the pvp factory events. The only issue is only 1 of them spawn along with up to 5 pvp events. I saw up to 5 because if you already own the factory at which a pvp event is happening, it won’t appear on your screen .
3) Finally, be extremely careful at the pve event. Once you sink the French ship and pickup the loot, rogues will continuously spawn and chase you. Most of them are level 10-12 and one volley of their cannons will wreck you. I find the brigantine the best as its speed allows you to outrun them as long as you have stamina.
Thanks for the tips and I 100% agree!
Except yesterday a PVP event spawned in and I checked and it said I already owned the manufactory, so I’m not sure if that was a glitch??
Big groups of those rogues are so hard to fight off, the Brigantine is definitely best to out run them!
Sorry but I disagree w the pve event frequency. I have never done any but the introductory one and I’ve been waiting hours and hours and hours to see another but seen tons of pvp events
@@tonykeally1039 yeah PVE is much less frequent, I hope Ubisoft can see this and increases the frequency for us
The only times I haven’t seen pve events spawn with the pvp events is when the factory they are tied to I already have. I am on Xbox btw. I own every factory in red isle now and I’m never notified of any pvp/pve event spawning
@@skroogemcduk8941 yeah I’m
In the same boat…. No pun intended haha
Now I’ll have to invest in the other regions to unlock all of those manufactories. I bet it’s a good time to unlock them as less people will be able to challenge you
Nice video, do you recommend the game? Is there much to do?
Hi Dcully! Thank you :)
I would definitely recommend the game! The combat is really satisfying and there seems to be a lot to do. The end game is really in depth and I can’t wait to play more
Any search on UA-cam would say otherwise. Don’t listen to this guy search for yourself and see what others are saying
@@Zeal846 people love to hate this game, probably without even giving it a try
@@gusomajic you’re also far less credible than many other people on this platform, what gives you the right to say that. How about I come back to this comment in 3 weeks and see if yourself still posting content for this game shill
@@Zeal846 season 1 starts in about 2 weeks I think so that should be good timing
when does the “Empire” page unlock for u. i’m in the indian ocean right now. but somehow it’s page opened for me and i claimed the red isle to open it. but now it will never open for me again. also how do u view the smuggler pass? a lil off topic but i don’t see it at all.
So just bring up your map like normal and tab to the right once and that will be your smuggling empire map. For me on PS5 I press R1 once to scroll across to it from the main menu map.
Let me know if you still can’t find it.
And I don’t think we can view the smugglers pass yet because the season isn’t live, I’m sure we will hear more from Ubisoft on when they will make it go live :)
Ship rank 5 now, Still confuse like hell in this game 🙂
I unlock Smuggling, And can start deliver rom.
So i better do that i imaging ?
It is all so time to think about what rank 5 ship to go for.
Brigantine Vs Padewakang for Smuggling and "normal" stuff.
I am thinking of starting whit the Brigantine for more cargo and speed.
But so many post out there, Keep saying Padewakang .
So any input before starting looking for the where to get the blue print and Materials.
And do you have a all around good ship and load out to share for starting out in one of them rank 5 ships, And what to aim for ?
What that sail patten and color ?
Look super nice, And I am a big fan of Black &Yellow :-)
Thanks kindly.
Hey Sgt! :)
There is a lot of information to take in but I’ll help you get through it.
Yeah if you start smuggling rum it’ll help you build up your silver, which you’ll need to find your manufactories once you hit king pin rank.
So if you’re doing heists and pieces of 8 runs back and fourth from Saint-Anne I highly recommend the brigantine. Its speed is just too good, most of the time you can outrun the rogue pirates that hunt you down. Plus it is nimble in the river areas, which the rogues are slow in.
Padewakang is a great ship though, I find it best for long distance fighting with flame bombards equipped, as it has damage multipliers for it.
The all round good ship depends on your favourite playstyle, but generally speaking I think the brigantine will be very helpful just from its speed alone. It’s unmatched in that area and will help you escape a lot of dangerous situations.
In general I think brigantine is most helpful for majority of activities.
Padewakang is great for long distance weapons, especially the flame bombards and leopold mortar.
The Snow tank ship is great for plundering and hostile takeovers because it can brace and deflect most incoming damage. So it would do best with close range weapons.
The sails pattern and colour is the navigators set, it is free in the Ubisoft store so you can go and grab it now :) i really like the colour scheme too. It pops nicely!
Thank you! If you have anymore questions I’m happy to help :)
Good stuff how did you get so much silver
I found the easiest way to get silver is to plunder settlements whenever you have the opportunity and doing the take over events for the manufactories. You’ll end up with so much extra silver this way.
Also if you continually collect commodities like cacao, spices, ornate pistols etc, then zoom out on the map and hover over regions of the map it will tell you which items are in most demand. Then if you have these in demand items make sure you sell it to them as it will give you the most money for them. I hope this makes sense? :)
You can access helm way before kingpin rank
You can access the helm before but you can’t start controlling manufactories until you reach king pin :)
You can’t do anything w this system tho js
@@tonykeally1039you can do deliveries and refine products, you just can’t do legendary heists, hostile takeovers or helm wagers until reaching Kingpin and progressing the helm quest line.
@@tonykeally1039 what do you mean? I can help you work it out if you like? :)
So ubisoft wants us to be a postal office moving goods from point a to b. May as well play GTA online with a lot more content.
That’s just the way to get Po8 quickly. Once you upgrade your manufactories to level 10 you only need to go collect once every 2 days. So it gives you way more time for more fun pirate stuff 🏴☠️
You don't need to be a kingpin to get access to the helm... I was 2 below kingpin when I gained access.
Yeah that is true, but I was meaning you can’t access your first manufactory until you reach king pin.
its pretty repetitive to be honest. It would be much better if I could hire ships to ship my pieces of eigth around. I have 8 manufacutres and it gets boring to ship them all by myself the whole time... I mean this is more like a chore not fun at all. I would love to fight the bosses, like the monster croc and ghost ship but because of the constant grind for pieces of eight I cannot leave it really. I have pretty few time every day to play around 4 hours and I won't waste 2 hours only to ship some tokens around..... This game would be fun if they ever let me to the fun part. I could ignore pieces of eight if they weren't important tokens to upgrade my ship... but as of now its boring and a chore
Yeah I have all manufactories on the red isles and I spend a lot of timing sailing back and fourth. A helm table upgrade where we could invest pieces of 8 to recruit other ships to do it automatically would be a massive improvement.
Hopefully it’s something Ubisoft see and add in the near future :)
@@gusomajic yeah it would make also much more sense since we are a Kingpin right ? What King of Pirates need to keep on doing all the shipping himself :)
@@kamikazestryker very true! We have buccaneers for that kind of work… haha
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I don't know how many people know this but these manufacturers will reset in 91 days, which means all that work you put in capturing them will be gone. Worst game mechanic!!!!
Yeah I heard that, except I have hope because season 2 brings something called “Fleet management” and it is rumoured that maybe this function will allow us to control a fleet that may be able to sail around and collect our pieces of 8 etc for us, so we can concentrate on more pirate mayhem. I really hope this is the case
@@gusomajic I hope that is the case, it was quite annoying to read it while I was playing the game. It just doesn't make sense to reset then with some replacement feature that doesn't make us feel like regressing. Especially in an mmo type game which is fundamentally based on time spent progressing your character.
@@NKal yeah I agree :) heaps of people have posted with the same view so hopefully Ubisoft listen and the fleet management set up works well. We won’t know for sure until the new season begins
@@gusomajic would be a good video to make regarding what people think about this. I don't think anyone has covered this yet.
@@NKal good idea, I’ll put together a lot information of what people want and hopefully Ubisoft can deliver on some of it