Books and equipment, especially equipment you find in treasure.

^ What this person said. If you are going to get books, get them early. I'm not sure about what causes the inflation but it easily hits 100,000 per book by chapter 3.

Otherwise, go for equipment.

Try and focus your skillpoints to 1-2 skills per guy depending on the translation thing because sometimes you need like 3 people with requirements like 8 Humanities and 4 Music.

Also maybe play Trader girl last. I heard (not confirmed on my end) that completing the stories of other protagonists allows you to recruit said character. And having more characters means easier to spread your skill points

Originally posted by Nepnep:

^ What this person said. If you are going to get books, get them early. I'm not sure about what causes the inflation but it easily hits 100,000 per book by chapter 3.

Otherwise, go for equipment.

Try and focus your skillpoints to 1-2 skills per guy depending on the translation thing because sometimes you need like 3 people with requirements like 8 Humanities and 4 Music.

Also maybe play Trader girl last. I heard (not confirmed on my end) that completing the stories of other protagonists allows you to recruit said character. And having more characters means easier to spread your skill points

found that edo book store requirement is so pain

Ah, thank you. I didn't realise there were two types of book places, I see it now.

It's best to play her last? Who should I be playing first? I tried all four and she seemed the most fun since she's trade-based (Though I don't know how to get decent trading ships so my fleet is awful lol)

Originally posted by Kantall:

Ah, thank you. I didn't realise there were two types of book places, I see it now.

It's best to play her last? Who should I be playing first? I tried all four and she seemed the most fun since she's trade-based (Though I don't know how to get decent trading ships so my fleet is awful lol)

i also start with yun mu, trying to find clue for treasure base discovery, the skill gain from treasure is hugh, i got a compass with +3 for 2 skill

Any advice regarding the every character's skill specialization?
Unless the game has a cap to collecting all recruitable crew members.

Also, for the fleet captain / main character, since the person can't be moved, What will be safe skills to specialize main character with?

Leadership, Brawling, Shipbuilding, 1 of the 4 expedition/clue skills?

And what about sub-fleet captains.
For battles, will it be just brawling and leadership?

Brawling have no effect on the captain. Only for the boatswain. Captain only needs leadership. Shipbuilding, geology, biology, humanities and treasure is secondary.

Originally posted by Kantall:

Ah, thank you. I didn't realise there were two types of book places, I see it now.

It's best to play her last? Who should I be playing first? I tried all four and she seemed the most fun since she's trade-based (Though I don't know how to get decent trading ships so my fleet is awful lol)

Starting with any is fine. Your first playthrough is going to be hell anyway. I just thought put her as last because her entire skillset thing is about Translating works for expedition clues. Which means you need a huge crew, probably more so than the other 3. (Haven't tried Andrew. The other 2 is more combat based so her mediocre combat stats won't help much anyway)

15 LEVL SKILL is very suck , +1

@Nepnep: Yun Mu is best to play first in my opinion, at least for trade oriented players.
Unfortunately the description on starting screen is misleading there. Her special skill Picky Shopping (unlocked after selling any 300 goods) gives a bonus to sales price which increases as you gain goods knowledge ie. sell goods. In my current medium to late game as Yoshitaka she gives a 26% bonus to sales.
Her main story line isnt hard to complete and then you can recruit her with any other main character which makes trading much more profitable and investing in guilds easier.

Originally posted by Kantall:

I've just been playing a day or two and I'm a little confused. Is the only way to raise skills to raise a character by 15 levels? My mapping (or maybe surveying) isn't high enough to go very far with auto-sail, I don't have many characters (The trader girl start) and I'd be reluctant to pump like a hundred levels in (not that I have the xp) for auto-sail. Are there more ways/better ways?

Out of all 4 characters 3 start in a very unfavorable location in terms of amount of additional characters. But on the other hand you have a ton of amazing treasures and items that give huge boosts to skills in Asia. No to mention there is a high enough number of characters that you should not really worry about leveling up some character to 100. Why? Cause its simple, each character will only need 1 skill anyway, and exp should not be a problem since Yun Mu gets a huge boost to exp for each Discovery she makes, in fact her perk is absolutely broken, she doubles the point for each Discovery.

Originally posted by aba0525:

15 LEVL SKILL is very suck , +1

Explain why if you can. Already can tell you, that you will be unable to find a reasonable answer that will make sense with this game as each character only needs 1 skill and almost every character will have 1-2 skills at 4 and several at 2 and 3 and the max for each skill is 9, since you get 6 points from level ups you can max the skills you need or spread those points around and use books to max it out. Believe me when i say at a later point even when you have several characters which are not really well made for some roles, you will have enough new characters to level up from scratch to fill in those roles for those characters from early game that you did not level too good. In fact you can appoint such badly leveled up characters as captains of other ships since from what ive seen no skill on those captains are working, they dont even need leadership.

Originally posted by Jean Dupleix:

@Nepnep: Yun Mu is best to play first in my opinion, at least for trade oriented players.
Unfortunately the description on starting screen is misleading there. Her special skill Picky Shopping (unlocked after selling any 300 goods) gives a bonus to sales price which increases as you gain goods knowledge ie. sell goods. In my current medium to late game as Yoshitaka she gives a 26% bonus to sales.
Her main story line isnt hard to complete and then you can recruit her with any other main character which makes trading much more profitable and investing in guilds easier.

I think Yun was more aimed for exploration since her perk doubles the exp from any discovery she makes.