Uncharted Waters New Horizons

I'm not a fan of the character so much as I am of the scenario and it's method of completion, but Ali Vezas' scenario leaves you to find trade routes and make as much money as possible.

I love the trading in this game for some reason, making this scenario my favorite as it mostly aims to revolve around trading.
I'm a terrible combatant, so naturally, I dislike all those scenarios.

Actually, now that I think about it... I like Otto Baynes and that Jeff Goldblum lookalike (and a pig to boot), Matthew Loy. Those folks seem to have a lot of personality.

NOTE FOR READER: I play the SNES cartridge, and have the SNES ROM.

like catalina cause she defected from spain & helped bring them down; also for what she does for Pietro & Jao later.

But Pietro remains my favourite. He's avatar looks better on the dos version.
He's really not too bad off - starting with 5k cash? & a telescope wrth 8k? packed with total freedom of movement!

ali i dont like cause he's turkish... all fine till the emperor asks u to invest 50 ingots? in ports for the glory of the ottoman empire >> there i draw the line & defect to italy/france.

as for otto, i though he'd have a nice campain against the dominant spanish of south america, but in my opinion catalina does more damage against them!

Post edited by: webrv, at: 2005/10/07 08:18

vud911 wrote:

Catalina because

1) The character is a chick. 😛
2) Her story is battle orientated. :woohoo:
3) The plot of her story revolves around vengence! 👿

mmmmmm redhead chickhaha.
currently im playing Pietro Conti and I only recruit mates who are loyal to Italy. if i was Ali, i recruit only Turkish..I like 5 ships rather than 10 ships. 10 is too many.

I have a certain set of guys I will hire in the game and hire VERY early on so that all the time I am exploring and messing around, they can be training up to be super-navigators. Thats the best way to do it...at the end I probably have around 10 or 12 extra guys I can use for whatever and they're ALL good at navigation and seamanship by the time I am ready to use them. As for Gunnery, I try to get as many of my mates as possible to have this skill...so low level guys like Georg Eggel and Richard Huxley, and Cizarro Fidelity are the BEST guys to get early on because they are inexperienced, yet have good gunnery...so they're people you can really work with.

Also, other favorites, not necessairily with gunnery, are Manual Melgoza and Ambroise (something...I forgot what his last name was but he's in India along with Manual)

Well, seeing as how I cant play any of the battle oriented characters on my PC (windows XP pro doesn't support MS dos ems memory, unlike XP phome does, a discovery that ticks me off to no end) I'd have to say that I like Ali the best. Not only does he have about 100 gold ingots just handed to him by the Turkish ruler and the Venice home office of the bank, he makes money faster and easier than everyone else, plus he learns quick and can get the heads-up on just about everything. Give him cartography as soon as you can, sign a contract with the guild in Bordeaux, own bordeaux at 1000/1000 so you can build a fleet of La Reales at 30 crew and no guns with Goddess figureheads, and you're off to the races to raise skills. Nagasaki and Sakai are only 60 days away so you can upgrade to Tekks with max guns and Goddess figureheads, carronades, and about 50 ingots to start trading gold and silver between Lubeck and Maseira, and BANG, you're a multi-millionaire in a years time. And who needs full-rigged ships when you have the faster, stronger, more durable, AND cheaper Tekks? I can own every port at 1000/1000 in less than twenty years, and still have 9999gold ingots trding between lubeck and madeira. Try that with any other character and it'll take twice as long, and you don't have that much time. Only 32 years till you're too old to sail- which doesn't make much sense since that only makes you 50 ans Rocco's older than that at the start. Pretty funny if you play as Joiao. In thirty two years, rocco will be what? 98 years old? Figure that one out. Still, I always liked playing both Jiao and Catalina when I had my SNES system years ago. Never cared much for otto, always hated Pietro, and Ernst's scenario never really made much sense to me. Mapping the world sounded like fun, but then they had to go and ruin it by putting that little snot Paula in the picture so it became a matter of taking her home to china. Blah! Boring. So I have to say I like Ali. He's the most interesting by far, and you can do so much with him. Get tired of trading? Take your Tekks and go kick some pirate ass for a few years. Not like you can't afford it when you're carrying around a few hundred gold ingots all the time. And it's not like you have to go looking for them: just sit outside a port, doing nothing but waiting, and every pirate in the game will show up sooner or later, then knock the crap out of them and pull into port for repairs and crew. Nothing easier