Help! Any beginners guide here?

[nick73]

Hello all! I just purchased this today and making my way through the tutorial but I'm noticing that the posts here are from members waaay ahead of that and wondered if somebody had made up a guide of sorts. I'm loving it so far but I just feel like I'm drowning instead of sailing the high seas!!! Is it a case of trial and error or am I missing something?? Any help would be much appreciated!

[johndramey]

Hey there nick73, welcome to the TB forums!

Sadly, AoP is still a relatively new game so no one has really sat down and written out a guide yet. If you have particular questions we might be able to help you, and if you have ideas on what might make a good guide (or want to write your own you are more than welcome to post them here.

As for me, well I tend to play the merchant game in AoP. I don't really know much about combat so I can't really help you there, but if you have more general questions I'd be happy to help you out

[contributor]

Hey Nick, you're probably not missing anything, you've probably just never played Star Traders like most of the other people on this forum who are playing AoP. If you've played that it will help a lot getting going with AoP. What are some of the specific questions you have? What are you dying from, or are you running out of money, unable to make a profit? The big picture is that you're choosing you character type and then navigating a world full of nations, trading companies and supernatural beings. So you've got to stay on the right people's good sides, get permits, letters of marque and possibly rank. The "World" screen will give you a picture of what your reputation with the various powers is. Once you've got friends (and enemies) that will determine where you can safely spend time and carryout out your livelyhood. You won't want to get too far into enemy territory.

You also have to decide how you're going to make money, trading, taking commissions, pillaging and burning, treasure hunting? Raise up your skills accordingly, try to keep building up your bank account to pay for repairs. Get your ship upgraded and/or get a new ship and you'll be ready to be more aggressive. That's actually a common error, starting out too aggressive before you've got a good feel for the mechanics will probably keep your games pretty short. For combat you'll want to decide if your strategy is to avoid it or surrender when necessary (good for merchants), be great with the cannons (by the way, firing Chainshot will help to immobilize ships rather than sink them, so that you can plunder them), or be ready to charge with your crew across the gangplanks and subjugate your opponent with your sword. All of those take slightly different skills and different ships/upgrades.

Hope that helps a little, with more specific questions somebody might be able to give you better answers. Since it's a new game, you will be creating topics on the forums that other newbies will be looking at for months to come.

[fallen]

Aug 3, 2013 17:42:39 GMT -5 nick73 said:

Hello all! I just purchased this today and making my way through the tutorial but I'm noticing that the posts here are from members waaay ahead of that and wondered if somebody had made up a guide of sorts. I'm loving it so far but I just feel like I'm drowning instead of sailing the high seas!!! Is it a case of trial and error or am I missing something?? Any help would be much appreciated!

nick73 - welcome to the forum and thank you for supporting us with your Elite purchase! We are continuing to work on an update rules section and a second story that will give a pirate-captain focused tutorial!

[Shava]

I have a question as pertains to Commissions. Whenever i try to go from the West area to the East where my commission says the passengers need to go I end up not being able to travel there. Is there a trick here I am missing or a particular place I need to go first to manage the transfer? When I try to find the best place I usually end up attacked or going around in circles unable to make the trip and lose the commission.

[grävling]

You cannot sail to East Acadas? If so, you have a bug. If you can get to East Acadas, what happens when you press the captains hat, select Commissions, and plot course to get you to your commission? Do you still go around in circles?

[johndramey]

If you are not in the sector that the commission wants you to be in, you can't really plot the course. Are you in the West Acadas area currently? If so you'll want to head west to the edge of your map, that will take you to the West Acadas map. It can seem a little confusing at first but you get used to it.

If you are in the East Acadas area and can't actually get the map to transition, well then you have found a bug and sorry!

[grävling]

Aug 20, 2013 16:44:07 GMT -5 johndramey said:

If you are not in the sector that the commission wants you to be in, you can't really plot the course. Are you in the West Acadas area currently? If so you'll want to head west to the edge of your map, that will take you to the West Acadas map. It can seem a little confusing at first but you get used to it.

If you are in the East Acadas area and can't actually get the map to transition, well then you have found a bug and sorry!

No. His commissions are in East Acadas, so he needs to travel to the east most part of the map of West Acadas, where he is, in order to get the transition to East Acadas.

East is 'towards the right side of your cell phone'. West is 'towards the left side of your cell phone.' And if you are in West Acadas [1,1]
you cannot travel any further west. You are at the edge of the world, matey.

[johndramey]

Ah, yes, thanks for the correction! My mistake, listen to grävling.

[Deleted]

Thanks! That did it!

[grävling]

Great! Have fun!