1. Pick Ali
2. Istanbul-Carpet + Athens-Art == $$$$ x alot. Never pay max price though, always only offer 1 gold. Buy Tax Permits.
3. Use your immense wealth to max out the Athens market and Shipyard.
4. Slowly deck yourself out with a fleet of top of the line Venitian Lassys, continue to use them to trade.
5. Rule the world.
If you're anyone else, replace Istanbul with Beirut, but it's basically the same deal.
There are better ships, there's a good one in the British port that's not London, and in one of the Japanese ports, (I think it's Nagasaki). However, Lassys are pretty damn formidable, and you'll easily be able to sink even the hardest pirates.
The weapons shops reopen at 2am. Go to Timbucktu to get the best armour, (I think it's called Crusaders armour). There's three or four maximum weapons too, each the best for the different attack types. I think there's one in Italy somewhere, one in India, one in China, and I'm pretty sure there's another one too, (a duplicate of one of the types), but I can't remember it off the top of my head.
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