Danik wrote:I found Treasure Hunting to be a total waste of time, effort and turns : the odds work against you and givne the arrival of banks, too few still bury their stash so there is less to be found anyway, save for whatever was buried by inactives pre-banks and thats a diminishing amount.
A far better use of the turns with a more reliable return rate is farming NPC's...
I agree that Treasure Hunting is this way now, but it used to be much more profitable. I used to be able to make at least 1 mil/week in treasure hunting NPCs before the use of banks. I think that treasure hunting uses the total amount of gold buried in the port for NPC chances, and that has plummeted since banks have been invented. It was a major nerf, and now I don't use any turns on treasure hunting.
Slindur