Plantations

[sXs]

Honestly I was so tempted to start a plantation but decided instead to wait. Really glad I did that, as from the sound of it, it seems like plantations are similar to goldsmiths and banks. Astronomical costs, and will take ages to pay for itself if it ever does.

Well good luck on starting one later. many ports are out of available acres already.

Hopefully CJ will implement the additional acreage.

[Cutpurse]

i would not worry if port has no acres left, that wont stop anyone from starting a plantation. fertile lands give healthy amount of acres for 30 days to get started. and after 3 weeks or so, first acres will once again be able for bidding. that would be good thing, as it shouldnt be nearly free to hoard masses of land for mega plantations
personally im waiting to give few acres away from here and there aswell and perhaps adding land elsewhere. will be interesting to see how high will price per acre go on most popular ports, as some voluntarily offered hefty sums even when land was guaranteed for 10 coins per acre

[Meliva]

Im not too worried honestly. Let others figure things out and all the bugs be worked out, then when I have funds to spare maybe try to start a small one somewhere. Or I may simply never start a plantation. Goldsmith and bank are already huge investments I need to work on, so goodness knows I won't have the funds for a plantation anytime soon

[sXs]

i would not worry if port has no acres left, that wont stop anyone from starting a plantation. fertile lands give healthy amount of acres for 30 days to get started. and after 3 weeks or so, first acres will once again be able for bidding. that would be good thing, as it shouldnt be nearly free to hoard masses of land for mega plantations
personally im waiting to give few acres away from here and there aswell and perhaps adding land elsewhere. will be interesting to see how high will price per acre go on most popular ports, as some voluntarily offered hefty sums even when land was guaranteed for 10 coins per acre

I am not sure prices will go really high. She is right. Plantations are a HUGE expense.

I can see the profit once you have acreage and workers set. but just the Gold Bar investment is huge for improvements.

I have 3 plantations now that have 0 workers atm just waiting for fleets to free up from other ports to start transporting in.

I will also probably be letting some acres go in a few ports and adding in others. I am not sure if the initial 30 days is enough time to figure out which ports i want to let go and which I want to add into yet. Over a week into this already and still not sure.

Some will depend on what additions and changes, if any, CJ makes once the beta period is over.