LETTERS ABOUT UW

I am intrigued by the mates of Uncharted Waters, New Horizons and would like to write a FAQ providing detailed information about them. You have some of the best information regarding these mates to be found anywhere on the net. Therefore, I am requesting permission to quote some of your data, specifically paragraph 11(you discussion on bookkeepers), part of paragraph 12 (your explanation of sailing experience), paragraph 16 (The Trouble With Roberto and Louis discussion) and paragraph 17 (Not-So-Simple-Simon)

Thyanks for all your halp man. I was trying to use the Amsterdam-Timbucktu
trade route that profits a load of gold any way. Now I'm getting about
twenty times that amount. Thanks for your help and Sail On.

Hi Brian.

The best trade route depends on how far along you are in the game.
Athens-Istanbul is a great way to make early cash. Sugar-perfume-wool is a
good trade route for stability and long-term profits, even if the margins
are low.

Here is the best trade route in the advanced stages of a game (when you are
able to do it with large, fast ships like Frigates, Tekkhousens or
Full-Rigged Ships, and you are an Earl or higher social rank, and when you
can afford a tax permit from your King) :

Go to Lubeck and buy silver. Sell it right back to them, until you stop
making a profit. You want to have about one-third of your fleet's carrying
capacity full of silver.

Go to Amsterdam. Buy as many glass beads as you can carry and still have
food for a 15-day sailing trip.

Go to SouthEast Africa. Sell the beads for cash, then sell the silver to
depress the price of gold, then buy gold really cheap. Do this in small
enough lots to manage the economy, but large enough lots to maximize your
profits. Repeat until your holds are full of gold. You can get the price
of gold down to 137 gp per lot.

Go to India. Sell the gold for pepper and cinnamon (in Ceylon). Keep a
small amount of gold to keep the price of silver cheap later on in Nagasaki.

Go to the Far East. Sell the spices and load your holds with 60% porcelain,
20% silver (from Nagasaki) and 20% silk cloth (from Sakai).

Go back to India and sell the porcelain and silk for linen. Again, by
selling small amounts of silk, you can keep the prices of linen low, and the
porcelain is just more profit for you.

Go back to East Africa and sell the linen for a profit and load up on gold,
using the silver from Nagasaki to keep the price of gold low.

Return to Lubeck with your gold. Sell it for 1650 gp per lot by using small
silver purchases to keep their buying price for gold high.

Back to Amsterdam to load up on glass, and you're off to the races. You
should earn about 15 million gp per circuit using this trading route, with a
large enough fleet. I definitely recommend getting ten well-made
Tekkhousens as soon as possible. They are as fast as Frigates, and larger.
With 10 Teks, you can carry 9500 lots of cargo easily. Another important
reason to seek out the Tekkhousen is that with five of them, with 100 guns
on each, you can beat any fleet on the sea. I once used 3 Teks to beat a
fleet of 8 Flemish Galleons.

If you use ten Tekkhousens, boats from Japan, you can do the route a few
times a year. If you want the highest profits possible, you need a tax-free
permit and you need all the cities on your route to be solidly invested-in.
So for hyper-profits, i usually leave Europe in early April or early October
and go to East Africa, making many stops along the way to sell the beads for
a profit in West Africa. Selling silver for a loss or small profit is the
key to the whole route. When you depress the prices of gold by selling
enough silver, you can make over 1500 gp profit on every lot.

A tax permit bought in Europe on April 1st will expire on October 1st. To
maximize a six-month trade route, go Europe-East Africa-Nagasaki-East
Africa-Nagasaki-etc, selling beads and silver for gold in Africa, selling
gold for silver in Nagasaki (using silver purchases to make them buy gold at
1350 gp), then back to Africa to sell the silver for more gold. Selling the
Japanese silver in Africa will only net you about 50 gp per lot, but the
profits when you bring the gold back to Nagasaki are about 1200 per lot, a
damn good trade-off.

If you leave Europe on April 1st and time it right and don't dawdle, you can
do the route from Africa to Nagasaki about four times before your tax permit
expires. You can then return to Europe to renew your permit, but now with a
load of gold worth 15 million at Lubeck (with 10 Tekkhousens full of gold),
and be ready to buy a new permit on October first.

This six-month cycle can net you over 60 million gold pieces each time, with
good luck and the right crew on the right boats. That's a billion gold
pieces every eight years, which is more money than you could ever hope to
spend, even if you had every barmaid in the world at your feet.

Hi there,

My name's Mike Groels, and I'm from the Netherlands. I'm a very big, huge
fan of Uncharted Waters - New Horizons. And I found your site about it with
oddities I have never seen or heard about before.
I've written a faq for it on GameFaqs.com, it can be found at:
http://db.gamefaqs.com/console/snes/file/new_horizons_a.txt
I'd like to add the odities of you and I'll give you credit for it.

Mike Groels

Hi, Mike...
I am happy to hear from a fellow sailor. Yes, you can use my oddities
on your page, on two conditions:
You tell me how you found out about my page at geocities, and
You place a link on your page to my New Horizons section at
http://www.oocities.org/scalylizard.geo/newhorizons/index.html
Thanks for writing, because the page has been up for three years, and i
don't know if anyone but me, Leonid and you have ever seen it!
May your sails be full and your nets be stretched,
SL

Well, I do hope more people have seen it, because I never knew about these
odds. I really thank you and I wILL provide a link to your site and your
name as well.
I didn't actually found your site.
It was a link on Leonid's site.
Again thanks!
Mike Groels

Ahhh, so Leonid did link to me at last. Thank you for letting me know that
info. You may credit my oddities to Scaly Lizard, but please do not publish my
email address.

Check my page again in a few weeks, as I have much more info that i am
trying to get into html... city data sheets, full info on mates, and other
trade routes for special purposes.