Crazycryodude
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10/14/2016
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Has anybody found new and lucrative ways of making money with the markets opened under the Zee? I haven't gone through and done a full survey of all the various prices yet, but for me at the very least Aigul spawned right off the coast of Port Carnelian so filling up on coffee for 38 echoes a piece and then sailing 45 seconds north, diving, and selling for 44 a piece seems like a good run. Anybody stumble over similar things?
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absimiliard
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10/14/2016
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So there's two things, most noticeably there is a visual effect of green-ish swirly lines that seem to move in a direction, like a slide-walk, generally they originate in swirly green "things" that I can't really describe well and end in the same swirly "things". (they're kind of like mixed up whirlpool kind of things)
If you put your zub in them you can watch the second way to find them, which is to see if you are moved when you have your engines off.
Mechanically it's clear they're adding a vector to your course. So you can speed up, or be slowed, or be skewed sideways by them. I use them to fight fairly often, finding a location where the current bends and leading monsters into it while I am beyond it past that corner -- the result is that the monster tries to swim at me but can't progress and I sit there shooting at it until it dies. It's a tricky fighting style, but when I've pulled it off it's pretty fun.
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"Because, Parabola!" -- the Curious Captain
Eating nightmares from friends -- and I'm easy to befriend.
Absimiliard: the Black Rose of Wolfstack Docks
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Mr K
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10/14/2016
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Buy a drowning pearl at Dahut ($30), trade them for two Solacefruit at Gaider's Mourn, which sell at $50 apiece. You can only do it once per visit, but it's still a decent profit.
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Scienceandponies
Posts: 247
10/17/2016
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I know the old standby of wine to coffee in Empire of Hands, and into Parabola Linen at Irem has been marginally improved. You can sell that Parabola Linen for 66 echoes in Dahut, instead of the standard 60 in London (or 63 if you wanted to trek all the way down to Adam's Way).
What ended up making me an absurd amount of money was hanging out with the old zailors in the Gant Pole and sharing zee stories. This resulted in a mountain of Extraordinary Implications. It also means a quick trip north to Irem will see you buried in more Searing Enigmas than you know what to do with. I use searing enigmas to light my cigars now.
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Chafe
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10/17/2016
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Scienceandponies wrote:
What ended up making me an absurd amount of money was hanging out with the old zailors in the Gant Pole and sharing zee stories. This resulted in a mountain of Extraordinary Implications. It also means a quick trip north to Irem will see you buried in more Searing Enigmas than you know what to do with. I use searing enigmas to light my cigars now.
edited by Scienceandponies on 10/17/2016
This! Currently sat on over 100k echoes by running stygian ivory to wither to turn into tales of terror, then to irem to trade tales for zee ztories, then to the gant pole to transform into Ex. Implicatons. The gant pole turn in also gives you back 3 ToT's to add to the routes efficiency and you can turn in the Ex. Imps while trading at Irem. Just wish there was a way to easily sell intriguing snippets now...
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absimiliard
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10/14/2016
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Optimatum wrote:
That's a really great idea! I'll have to see if I can pull it off 
It's very opportunistic. Don't go searching for a current if you have a monster, rather, if you're near a current use it. Most fights won't have the right terrain, but when you do it's quite fun. (not sure if it's "better", but I quite enjoy watching them flail and fail to close as I cut them to bits with my guns)
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Eating nightmares from friends -- and I'm easy to befriend.
Absimiliard: the Black Rose of Wolfstack Docks
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suinicide
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10/14/2016
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In the irc spacemarine9 said they hadn't seen anyone comment on the real power of the new shops. So maybe there's something.
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A gentleman seeking the liberation of knowledge, with a penchant for violence.
RIP suinicide, stuck in a well. Still has it under control.
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absimiliard
Posts: 759
10/14/2016
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I haven't worked it much, as typically I play a hunting captain, but I have the distinct impression that the profitability of a merchant-style captain has been substantially improved in zubmariner.
(I'm also obsessing over testing whether or not using underzee currents as roads can make a trip faster than travelling it via the surface, which relates to profits/time)
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"Because, Parabola!" -- the Curious Captain
Eating nightmares from friends -- and I'm easy to befriend.
Absimiliard: the Black Rose of Wolfstack Docks
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mired
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10/16/2016
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Scrimshander buys hunting trophies at $65 a pop. I think that's the best price in the game? I always have 15-20 in my hold, so it's nice to clear them out.
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