Things you should know at the start
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Fleets take extremely long amounts of time to get into, However the initial grind can be automated.
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Deckhands only require DEDICATED Loyalty NOT MAX LEVEL.
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You only need FOUR deckhands as of now to control your entire fleet. Vice commander ships do not require deckhands.
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You can find your fleet captain’s location by clicking on their ship on the fleet menu, you do not need to pile up notes in your mail to save their location.
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Ships in your fleet seem to abandon their posts if your resources are “Low”, So make sure to keep your resources above 50% to play it safe.
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Fleet level increases when you increase a task level, Task levels aren’t free to level up and the “15k galleons” is the price of the upgrade after you max the level progress not a skip purchase.
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My fleet Level is 5 as of now and My fleet size is 1000+, I have unlocked conquest (dark sea) but haven’t used it. All I will talk about is things till then.
How should I start?
Begin with growing the deckhands you will send of to command ships, Their ship boosts shouldn’t matter.
Once you have one available deckhand Send them to command a ship you have added to your fleet.
This process will select the first available ship and will assign a random task to the deckhand.
Once a task is assigned, find your deckhand once his location updates (Use sensing to find them, makes it easier) and update their task to “PLUNDER/PATROL”
You have very low supporters and you need alot more before you actually get into the tasks
Repeat this 3 more times except, Set your deckhands to “RECOVER”.
Plunder will earn you supporters and rations
Recover will earn you back strength.
keep your fleet risk on minimize for now.
you should now have 3 RECOVER ships and 1 PLUNDER/PATROL ship.
Make sure to occasionally check your fleet and repair ships
Keep adding ships to your fleet if you have space.
Once you have finished this loop let the system slowly grind itself to power level 3-5. During this time you may do other things like charts or ship hunting (or both) which will greatly aid your fleet later.
Once you have reached a desired power level, You may change your fleet risk to “Maximize Profit” and change ONE RECOVER SHIP to whichever task you want to grind first.
(Personally I think Trading and Harvesting will be more useful over others)
This loop will now allow you to slowly upgrade your tasks on the go, From my testing it doesn’t seem worth to change multiple ships to tasks cuz it becomes a risky hassle. I prefer to play it safe without risking it.
All you need to do now is change the task grinding ship back to recover whenever your resources have dropped to near 50%
Maximize risk now wouldn’t cause too much issues assuming all your primary ships are ketches / brigs.
boom, you should now safely and effectively reach “Large Fleet Commander” assuming you have spent enough time in-game and should be able to easily level up tasks while getting used to the system.
IMPORTANT NOTES AND TIPS
When adding ships to your fleet it will fill the top most un-filled spot, If you wish then you can dismiss ships that aren’t brings/ketches and replace them with stronger ships. Just don’t bother once it goes below Vice Commander ships
I Personally recommend you pause your main ship’s deckhand progress until you are able to give all four of your fleet commanders their own brigs cuz it’s difficult and annoying to change them and I’m unsure if research will let you change ships later.
If you dismiss a fleet captain with a full ship of deckhands then they will get OBILERATED to ASHES. DECKHANDS ARENT ALLOWED TO STACK THE SAME PROFESSION SO AVOID RISKS.
Feel free to pause the fleet if the percentage drops too low, It’s completely safe now and your fleet captains will still randomly change islands so you can change tasks.
Reminder that vice ship captains take orders from your fleet captains and it’s uncontrollable, You only control the fleet captains.
remember to repair your ships when you can, even if it’s a little. Keep galleons in your hand you won’t lose that much from dying.
I will personally recommend avoiding dark sea if you do unlock it mostly because I have a feeling that upgrading it wouldn’t lead to anything meaningful as you will probably be much better at looting the dark sea.
However anything past here is just my guess, I have still not tested the dark sea conquest myself so take it with a grain of salt.
Remember, charts and ship hunting. Pair that with Seafaring talent which is objectively the best PVE talent RN.
I Recommend sitting in bronze sea cuz nimbus is absurdly big RN and the travel time sucked when I tested it.
Max level power is level 8
Deckhand help:
Confirmed that desertions may happen below 50%, Make sure to stay above 50% and remember to pause fleet activities if you can’t find your fleet captains (ALL resources count for this, more resource values being under 50% will probably increase desertion chances even more, Ships whether repaired or not will always have a chance to get deserted)
(If you have your own tips then just commend them down here, I’ll add em to this list if anything helps)
