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[oldtimegamer]

Awesome game.

I remember getting addicted to this when I was like 9. D/led it the other day and been playing it virtually since. A real hoot. I swear those treasures are hard as hell to find sometimes but otherwise the game is pretty easy. Just remember to save often.

I remember from a long process of elimination that the French are the best nation to be because Bordeaux (hometown) guarentees you a good liquor/arms run to St Petersburg or even Glasgow. They tend to often be enemies of a lot of other nations though, so be ready to fight.

Best ships are the Fourth Rate and the East Indiaman (of course). East Ind. has 700 tons cargo but Fourth Rate is faster, has better cannons and still has a decent 600 ton cargo hold. Always pick the diplomats up if feasable - they pay nicely, dont weigh anything and score you lots of loyalty.

Unless youre looking for treasure or nobility points there is no real need to venture outside Europe. I usually do the following run:

Stockholm (buy opium)
Amsterdam (buy opium)
London (buy opium)
Bordeaux (buy opium)
Bilbao (buy opium)
Marseilles (sell opium, buy arms)
Canary Islands (sell arms)
REPEAT - makes a good 25k a run with a Fourth Rate.


Recommend the download. Sure, it gets repetitive at times and the combat blows, but everything else is in top order. Plus its aged pretty well IMO.


<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Osk @ May 3 2006, 12:37 AM) [snapback]228016[/snapback]</div>

loyalty is practically only gained by the fellow countrymen, either on a mission or needing escape, I believe, though im not sure about the last. Sometimes you get attacked when you exit a port with such one aboard. Notice that honor drops if you engage those in combat

Honour is in about every traveler you take with you, though those asking for free passage give more honor points.

Nobility is regulated a lot by visiting previously unknown harbors and by taking the non paying passengers, not sure about that last though
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Loyalty also comes from trading with ports of your nation. My regular trade routes involve both Marseilles and Bordeaux (I play as French) so my points usually reach about 80 by the time to level up.

Funnily enough, I dont think you lose many loyalty points for attacking your own nation. I remember my first mate once got me out of autopilot and straight into a French Merchant causing him to attack me. I killed him (naturally :P) and suddenly I had French ships attacking me wherever I went. I must have sunk 50 French ships and I think I lost about 5 loyalty points.

how can i play highseas trader in windows xp???

[The Fifth Horseman]

With DosBox.

this game is pretty easy to finish and retire well, to find ships you just sail around near enemy harbours manually and you see them in the distance from time to time.

Recently downloaded this game and got seriously addicted! Some very useful tips in this thread, thanks guys! Given peaceful times, my favourite businesses are selling arms from North America (New York/Boston) to the Caribbean (Guadeloupe/Santo Domingo) and carrying back spices, sugar and other stuff to Boston, as well as selling Chinese oppium (Fu-chao/Shanghai) to Goa in India and carrying back arms from the indian ports. Of course, wars complicate matters.

There are some reasonably profitable roots in Europe and the Mediterranean to start you off, but I think you got to get to the high seas for some real profits.

I have a frigate - I find it a good choice overall. It's quick enough to help me avoid many battles and carries enough crew to help me win those that I can't avoid or want to fight. It can also hold a decent amount of cargo. I'm thinking of trying a fourth rate at some point, for some part-time privateering/pirate hunting.

It seems to me the most useful nationality is english. The great market of Boston is always open to you and you have all these trading posts in India. Singapore is also very very useful to stop over, repair and buy food should anything nasty happen to you on the way to/from China. Portuguese is good, especially beacause of the oppium prices in Goa, as well as all the other trading ports in East Africa and India. The Dutch have Capetown which greatly helps trips to the Far East from Europe or the Americas. As a spanish you have access to quantities of relatively cheap sugar and spices in the Caribbean, but you need to be friends with the english to sell them at best prices without crossing the Atlantic in every single route. I think as a french the game can be more challenging, especially if France is frequently at war with all others.

I'm playing as a portuguese now. I'm inclined to try the others afterwards!

High Seas Trader: How save a game?!!!

I can't save this game! Plz HELP-ME!!!

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(The Xtreme @ Jan 1 2005, 04:47 PM) [snapback]44496[/snapback]</div>

Hi i played this game on the first pc i had and loved everymin of it, i recently had sid mires pirates but my pc complains that directx 9.c is not detected after instaling it just b4, i have a system optimizer that says directx 9.c is installed [so my gfx card cat do it basicly]

i wanted to play this again but i have 2 pcs both on ntfs formatting, and cant get the game to work throgh dos box or anything, any help ?

i might try reformatting one of the pcs to the old formatting and run it.

[oprating system xp / onboard sis gfx]

thx

Xtreme

Xtreme Network 2005 / www.xn.fnhq.net/
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I got this game to work again under Windows XP! The only problem I have is the sound. I had to try all the sound cards to find one that worked and didn't just shut the game off and boot me back to windows. The music plays but no sound effects. so the game does work in XP, just keep playing with the sound card options. It should work.

[The Fifth Horseman]

Just use VDMSound. You can download it from our programs page.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Andrew @ Oct 19 2004, 07:01 PM) [snapback]18467[/snapback]</div>

...You also need to buy treasure - dealers selling these can be found all over the world. I think there are 6 items in total costing up to 25,000 each (er....or is it exactly 25,000 each?)...
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There are actually 18 different treasures (check the text/notebook files that are in the HST directory. It gives you the list and script for each treasure. It also lists the price of each as "XXXXX gold". I thought I read somewhere a few years ago that you could change this to "0 gold" and get them for free, but I didn't do it), but you only get to buy six of them, since that is all the room you have to show them off in the large estate. I visited every port at least three times with loads of gold in my pockets and was never offered any after I had six treasures.
Gary

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Havell @ Sep 9 2004, 07:00 PM) [snapback]13059[/snapback]</div>

I mean can you get your ship to follow waypoints, or do you have to always steer it yourself.
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Press "first mate" when you have set the waypoints.