Uncharted Waters New Horizons

You have to clear the whole map, including the oceans. Once your map display is complete and there are no black square, Mercator will confirm the map is completed.

I found you need to have at least every port and supply port discovered, also every coastline. So spend awhile criss-crossing the Pacific and Atlantic (Bermuda is in the game as a matter of fact) then try it again. Also, I've finished the game without the complete map, the real game is too find Paula'a home, which is a port in the yellow river in china. I think you have to get beyond a certain date before you start to get somewhere in the story, key thing is when Hans says he has had a lifelong dream to go to the golden country of Zipangu, which is Japan.

Hi
if your fame in adventure is only 4700 that's not enough
You have to pass 40000 to advance to final stages, for that you need around 40 discoveries a few with A or A*

Post edited by: pokusz, at: 2010/06/12 17:26

At three characters in game: Joao Franco, Pietro Conti and Ernst Von Born it is best to open all map of the world. It is long, but that costs. The problems with a plot will not arise, and the king will begin to be interested in you constantly.

Though there are some cases to a plot. For example, at Catalina Erantzo if to accept citizenship of Spain in the beginning of game, the plot will not begin to move while she again does not become the pirate.

Defecting, or being forced into Piracy, will not advance your story unless you are playing as Catalina or as Otto. If you want to only do things that raise your piracy fame and you are playing as Joao, Ernst, or Pietro then there is no need to defect to Piracy, just attack fleets.

Actually, Catalina's game will advance as long as her piracy fame increases and it can still do that even as a citizen of Spain. There are two battle events that take place early in the game in her story and if you go to Seville and try to enter the castle after those events you can defect to Spain at that point and play the entire game...to the very last event as a citizen of Spain. If you defect before those events (after leaving Seville the first time) then those events won't happen, and they should happen very soon after leaving Seville so it is only the first month that she can't be a citizen of Spain.

If you are playing as someone other than Catalina or Otto, and you want to be "Loyal to Piracy" then attack the fleets of the country that you are loyal to...just know that you may not be able to finish that story.

For example, I often have Pietro get his first rank as Loyal to Italy just to be able to enter castles. He can get that rank through ANY fame that you like, but anyway, I then defect him to Portugal and raise his piracy fame until it is higher than the other two fames. At that point I get a Letter of Marque, just because I can, and then finish the game as Loyal to Portugal. If instead you simply started attacking the fleets of Italy, then eventually Italy would reject you and you would be Loyal to Piracy.

I'm not sure, but does that answer your questions?