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Hi guys.
I'm just wondering, are the warehouses a way to take forward business that is bigger than my ship's load capacity. I tryed to do forward business in 2 journeys but it didn't work, if i had put my first load in a warehouse and then came back with the rest of the contract, it would have worked?

Forget about my question, I just read Shrek's post. Thanks

Originally posted by another_guest@Nov 7 2005, 02:24 PM
That's a good idea!
However, the prices do vary with time, so they should all be captured early in the game when they haven't been affected by your trading yet.
Secondly, supply volumes vary even more, and good import/export cargo in a certain port isn't always listed among the "major imports and exports".

Hi!

I know this game under the german name "Der Reeder" and really loved it. When I played it years ago, I had also an offer&demand overview of the ports. It didn't give the explicit prices (as these can vary heaviliy) but tendencies like "++", "+" for demand, "--", "-" for offer and "o" for neither. I'm sure you can find it somewhere in the web.

Information please .... what is the exact name of save game folder for OCean Trader???

Help please fast
Tnx

[another_guest]

Originally posted by max_luppo@Jan 21 2006, 04:26 PM
Information please .... what is the exact name of save game folder for OCean Trader???

Help please fast
Tnx

It's called Gamesave
The .sve files in there are the separate saved games.

Originally posted by Professor Nopants@Nov 6 2005, 02:50 AM
First time poster... right off let me say I love the site, and i think this message board set up for each game is killer, especially since there aren't (game)faq's for a lot of these older titles.

Anyway, I was wondering if anybody is making any sensible use of either the warehouses or the dock-side oil tanks in this game.

It seems the only real use for the warehouses I've had is for Forward Business, but these warehouses seem to be quite prominent in the game. Am I missing something here? Is there a way to automate routes between two warehouses or something? Or are they just basically a useless feature...?

As far as the oil tanks go, the only purpose I can see would be to have your ships auto-fill fuel at those ports, but I haven't tried using them yet.....

As far as i remember warehouses and oiltanks in ports around the world that you dont use sometimes generate income as though they were rented out for other companies.

Personally I have maxed out oiltanks in the middleeast and 4 supertankers running out of there to Europe, North and South america and Japan / Australia.

I buy all the oil in all the ports at the lowest price instead of buying "small shipments" that would over time drive the price up.

Sure it costs something to rent the rest of the oiltank space to have 1.4 mil gallons in store but it pays of in the end

I just wish I could buy my oiltankers as large as reallife ones... 350.000 cargo in the game but irl theres a 500.000 tonne one right ?

[another_guest]

Originally posted by Guest@Apr 9 2006, 02:34 PM
As far as i remember warehouses and oiltanks in ports around the world that you dont use sometimes generate income as though they were rented out for other companies.

Personally I have maxed out oiltanks in the middleeast and 4 supertankers running out of there to Europe, North and South america and Japan / Australia.

I buy all the oil in all the ports at the lowest price instead of buying "small shipments" that would over time drive the price up.

Sure it costs something to rent the rest of the oiltank space to have 1.4 mil gallons in store but it pays of in the end

I just wish I could buy my oiltankers as large as reallife ones... 350.000 cargo in the game but irl theres a 500.000 tonne one right ?

True, warehouses and oil tanks generate some income even if you don't use them actively. However, you have to see if it's worth insuring them, as the generated income is fairly low. Plus, it's investments in something that's outside your "core business" so you have to think whether there aren't better options to invest your money, like buying new ships, trading more expensive cargo, etc.

Can anyone tell what is the ballast for?
Does it decrease the chance of an accident?

Thanks in regards and sorry for bad english

I'm not sure, but it seems that my ships suffer more damage if they're not filled to the brim. In case circumstances don't allow that, you could use ballast to overcome it.

[another_guest]

Quite frankly, no idea what ballast is for, but quite likely you're right.
In any case I always fill with my ships with ballast rather than letting them sail empty. And I've even had routes where it gave me $3 per ton --> reduced costs on the trip back by 100-150 K$