Show me the money
The name of the game in Sea of Thieves (apart from 'Sea of Thieves')
is piracy. And what do pirates want, apart from adequate vitamin C to
ward off scurvy? That's right: gold! Filthy lucre! Vast hordes of riches
with which to buy fancy lookin' coats and suchlike. Here are a few tips
to getting rich quick, or at least quicker than you would without them,
in Rare's new piratical PvP adventure.
Always check for extra treasure chests
Never leave an island as soon as you've got what your voyage demands
from it. The bigger an island is the more likely it is to have bonus
chests tucked away somewhere, additional to the animals or treasure or
skeletons you've been sent to steal/capture/kill. If you've got the time
and there are no rival sails cresting the waves on the horizon, spend a
few minutes having a quick scooch around. Check caves and high spots
and tucked away places, but don't underestimate the possibility of there
being quite a high value chest just… out in the open. Like it's no big
deal.
Always check for stuff that isn't treasure chests
When you first start playing the game you might not be told that you
can sell a bunch of stuff to the Merchants Alliance rep in the outposts,
over and above doing the voyages they commission you for. When you're
out and about adventuring, keep a sharp eye out for barrels of
gunpowder, or crates of silks, spices, sugar and tea. Like extra
treasure, you can often find them in caves, around jetties, or abandoned
or ruined houses on the larger islands. Depending on your rep with the
Merchants and the rarity of what you've found, you can get a couple of
hundred to a few hundred gold for packaged goods.
Capture animals
Similar to above, it's worth bringing in an animal every now and then
to supplement your regular income. A lot of the time you can find an
empty pig cage or a chicken crate abandoned on islands you're exploring,
and it's good to have some on hand so you can do a bit of ad hoc animal
capture. Animals have rarity, just like chests, and there's not much
point in transporting and selling a pink piggy or a white hen, but a
golden or red speckled chicken, or a black or striped pig will both
supplement your income from an island for just a little extra effort.
Both animals and packaged goods are worth far less when you sell them on
the fly versus when they're a requirement of a voyage from the
Alliance, but it's still worth hoovering them up if you have spare
crew.
Look out for circling birds
The sea be a dangerous mistress, says I, and many an unlucky cove has
lost their ship to the watery depths. But their loss is your gain!
While you're off on a voyage, keep a look out with your trusty spyglass
for gulls circling over the open ocean. They mark a shipwreck, which you
can swim through and collect, usually, an
astonishing amount
of booty for very minimal effort. You should definitely leave someone on
board your ship to keep an eye out for other ships, though, because
shipwrecks are such easy money that they can attract a bunch of other
pirates and become, in effect, difficult money. The key with looting
shipwrecks is to be very,
very fast.
Do a fort
Assaults on forts are tough, but if you've got the manpower you can
make literally thousands. You know those giant skull clouds floating in
the sky that you can see for miles around in every direction? That marks
a fort you can raid. You'll need a fully stocked galleon and four crew
(though three can probably manage it, in a pinch). Once you take out the
cannon towers on the side of the island you approach, leave at least
one crew member on the fort at all times to keep the ship afloat,
provide covering fire, and one eye out for other pirates approaching the
fort. The rest of the crew have to survive waves and waves of
increasingly powerful skeletons and a final boss who'll drop a key for
the fort's treasure room. Which will have loads and loads of treasure.
Seriously, loads. So much. You'll be rich. I spaffed all mine on a
golden cutlass.
Run voyages alone if you don't have loads of time
You don't (currently) make any more or less gold for a voyage you
conduct alone versus with a crew, but your gold to time ratio does go up
if you run fast and dirty in a sloop by yourself or with a two person
crew. There's way less faffing around, so you can just throw down a
voyage, hightail it to an island and then scuttle back to the outpost to
make some quick cash. This is especially good if you've not got a lot
of time to play. Chances are that if you're on a tight timescale, with a
full crew there'll be so much arsing about that you'll have to leave
before the treasure gets turned in.
Join a Galleon crew half-way through their game when they've already
got an unbelievable amount of loot on board, thus reaping the profits
whilst doing very little work
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