I've played this game al lot back then, liked it a lot. It seems that the only "getting started strategy" posted here is to buy preowned 20000t ship en setting up a standard route with it i.e San Francisco-Capetown. Well, here is mine:
Start in Rotterdam since the fuel there is generally the cheapest.
You start with 4million in cash if take the medium difficulty, this allows you to buy 3 of the smallest low cost ships and fill them up with fuel.
Give each ship a somewhat profitable cargo(Don't take time limit cargo with these ships!) and make sure they all have a different destination port.
Each port you enter manualy gives you 1 status point and every 5 points you get a million dollars bonus. So the point is to visit as many different harbors as possible and invest those dollars in High tec ships, because buying those also gives you status points.
Note: you only get status if you ENTER a harbor, not when you depart from it. And you only get 1 point per harbor, doing the same harbor twice is useless.
It's a nice game, though maneuvering is to easy once you get the hang of it.
The one player option is pretty pointless since the game has no ending but playing with 2 or 3 persons can be fun.
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