I'm posting this because I just took a look at my fleet income and wondered why it was so low! Just a few weeks ago, I had half the number of fleets I have now and I was making a better profit off of them than I am now. Seeing that the price of Tools from Tortuga went down to making a small fraction of what I used to, I was wondering if anyone knew the most effective trade route to leave my trade fleets on. I could do this by myself but I am too lazy to go port to port and compare prices, so I thought the forum could help.

Best way to make gold is to store warehouses, between tobacco, rum, and food ports. This is the sure way to make gold consistently without changing trade routes. I'd recommend you build up your warehouse as high as you can with what you have to get the most out of your cards, Also keep your gold high because storing goods in ports will lower your gold.

Have you bought a small warehouse in each port?

Once you have done this you will be able to see all the prices
all the time on your active ports list....

Grapefruit wrote:Have you bought a small warehouse in each port?

Once you have done this you will be able to see all the prices
all the time on your active ports list....

Exactly what I was going to say.

The only way to be sure to optimize profit is to check all trade routes every third day. I can't go into details, but I'm keeping track of all prices in an excel sheet and find the best routes at every update. I can clearly see that when I'm busy and don't update my routes, my profit is cut in half. There is no "best route"which always work, only the best one right now.