官方論壇帖，《東印度公司》經濟貿易攻略

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本攻略主要針對經濟貿易的：

1. Start a Free Game as Portugal since they are closest to India. Arcade battles (fastest ships), captain experience per money changed to 2.0.

由於更靠近印度，以葡萄牙的自由遊戲模式開始。

2. DON'T click to turn starting mini-tutorial off.

不關閉教程指示

3. Do as tutorial says, start building a Schooner (strong and fast ship, perfect for trading with India), add your Cutter to a Fleet.

依教程説，開始造一艘縱帆船，因為這種船比較善於到印度貿易，將你的Cutter（武裝快艇）組成一個艦隊。

4. Go to the ledger, trade information and check prices. Send your Cutter for Gold or Diamonds depending what pays better (both goods aren't sold in tons but in carats and kilos which means Cutter can load lots of it despite tiny cargo hold). Do not automate this ship, it's your personal fleet to trade valuables and run errands, you should add more light ships (Sloops preferably) to it and later migrate it to something fast but also tough, preferably Xebecs.

將你的cutter單獨到黃金，鑽石利潤高的地方拉貨。這艘船不要自動貿易。你可以適當的添加一些輕快的船隻，如小帆船Sloops ，到後面優選小型三桅帆船Xebecs。

5. When your Schooner is ready, create another fleet with this ship in it, look for a better captain (you want Hagglers and Navigators). Send that fleet to Cochin manually.

當你的縱帆船造好了後，組隊，選個擅長砍價或航海的船長，手動控制去印度港口Cochin拉貨。

6. Keep manually trading with Africa using your Cutter until your Schooner reaches India.

一直手動控制你的cutter艦隊，直到縱帆船艦隊到達印度。

7. When your first ship hits India, you will get 50k for completing the mini-tutorial, load your Schooner with Tea and if you have enough cash left (if you traded well using your Cutter, you should) start building your second Schooner. You might be tempted to build two if you have more than 25k left but don't do it yet. This is the moment when you want to automate your India Schooner.

第一次到印度，會獲得獎勵5萬美金，然後你就滿載茶葉而歸，同時立馬開造第二艘縱帆船。要注意留點現金，不要急着造第三艘schooner。

8. When your Schooner goes back home, add second Schooner to the fleet (need to wait for the right moment if he's automated to enter your port). Send them for Spices this time, preferably Goa (not Bombay due to plague outbreak which happens there soon). This is where you will employ that extra 25k you had left from not building a Schooner, you will invest it in Spices and earn more than on Tea.

當schooner艦隊回來後，將新造好的第二艘schooner加入艦隊，並開始自動做香料生意，首選Goa。

香料的利潤很大，這回現金派上用場了。

9. Your priority before 1615 is to have four fleets of 5x Schooner going to India and bringing back all four MTIs from there. Don't stop trading with your Cutter though, Diamond and Gold runs if done manually really make a difference. Also keep looking for better captains. You are interested in four skills really, 5% cheaper buying, 5% better selling, 20% faster navigation on strategic level and better organization, 20% more goods on ships.

最好在1616年前有4個5×schooner的艦隊來回於印度做MTI生意，同時你的小Cutter也不停的運黃金之類，這個手動操作即可。同時尋找好的船長。

10. Do not approach AI companies at all. They will approach you themselves and will pay you hefty sums of cash for Pacts with them.

根本不需要接觸其他公司。因為他們會來跟你套關係。

11. Once your four fleets are all ready and trading and your captains are cool, unlock Galleon and build five of them. Load them with Marines and send them on conquest. You want to conquer ports with Spices and Tea first, Cochin and Goa are perfect for that, especially that they are next to each other so easier to defend. If you are lucky your 5 Galleons will be enough to get both with losses of one or two ships and lots of men. Send Galleons back to Europe and start upgrading Garrisons in India right away.

一旦你的艦隊到了四艘以後，將大帆船解鎖，然後造五艘西班牙大帆船，載滿士兵，去佔領香料，茶葉的港口，首選Cochin 和 Goa 。

記住升級印度港口的駐守站，這樣以後可以在那招兵。

12. In Europe, start gathering Iron Wares, you want to load 500 on your Galleons for their second trip to India (sell Marines) so you can upgrade all Forts there to level 2, all Trade Posts to level 3 and also Garrisons to level 3. You want one good level 3 shipyard in India as well.

在歐洲，開始收集鐵器，因為這是港口升級必須的。運個500噸鐵器到印度就差不多了。在印度的港口，注意升級要塞到2級，交易所到3級，駐守站到3級，還要有個好的3級船廠。

13. Unload tools, upgrade your Indian infrastructure and load Marines (can do it in ports with Garrison level 2). You can conquer more ports now, I try to own 2x Spice, 2x Tea ports and 1x Silk 1x Porcelain. If AI snatches a port you wanted, conquer some other port and go to diplomacy to exchange it for the one they hold.

多征服些印度港口，也可以征服其他港口，可以用以和其他公司交換港口。

14. Ignore conquest in Africa for now. Prices there will quickly plummet under the level of profit and the port will cost more in upkeep than earn in trade.

由於忽略了在非洲的征服，利潤會下降很快，加上港口的維護費用會趕超貿易中所掙的錢。

15. To control AIs, keep 5x Galleons in India at all time loaded with Marines and ready to interfere if something goes wrong. Don't let any single AI hold more than two ports there and even those with two ports you want to attack and give one of their ports to someone else. Optimal situation is each AI having one port in India only and the rest to be held by you.

為了控制其他公司的發展，在印度要時常保持5艘西班牙大帆船在那作戰。不讓其他公司擁有超過兩個港口。最佳的情形是，其他公司在印度各自最多擁有一個港口。其他的都是你的。

16. After that the world is yours. Migrate your India convoys from Schooners to 4x Galleon and 1x Frigate (Frigate unlocks 1630 and it's around that time already). Migrate your manual errand fleet to 5x Xebec. Migrate your Indian defensive fleet to 5x Frigate and prepare another 5x Frigate at home to conquer more ports all over the world and hunt enemy navies or Pirates down.

在那以後，這個世界就是你的了。將去印度的貿易船從schooners變成4艘西班牙大帆船加一艘護衞艦。將你的cutter變成5艘Xebec，在印度洋的戰艦也升級到護衞艦，同時家裏準備着一隻護衞艦艦隊。

17. Kill off your enemies starting with most powerful ones. Cut them off from goods in India (gift their port there to someone else right after conquering and keep your own ports extremely secure) and see them sink financially over next few years until they either are very weak or completely bankrupt.

征服你敵人中最強的一個。切斷他的印度商貿，讓他經濟衰退，直至他倒閉。

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- Start building a Schooner (there's no better ship on that list) and in the meantime (takes 4 months) send the free Cutter to Africa to buy Diamonds

- After Cutter is back and Schooner is built, send both ships for Spices (best price early on) to India on autotrade command

- Use cash from the first trip to buy another Schooner, also remember to go to battle map once attacked by Pirates and run away right away. Sacrifice Cutter if needed. :-)

- 4-6 trips (faster if you get silver in Lisbon) to unlock Galleons (many cannons, strong hull, 100 soldiers or 100t cargo, there aren't better ships out there)

- 4-6 more trips to build 3 Galleons (sell Cutter) so my main fleet is 3x Galleon and 2x Schooner.

- Get a second fleet of 5x Galleon with a Conqueror commander full of soldiers to capture ports on the way to India. Start with Cape Town or Mozambique, (don't conquer the ones that sell "generic goods").

- Establish 3xGalleon+2xSchooner/Xebec fleets to all your colonies. Deliver tools and start upgrading.