From 1520 to 1560, French privateers were alone in their fight against the Crown of Spain and the vast commerce of the Spanish Empire in the New World, but were later joined by the English and Dutch. This officially sanctioned piracy was known as privateering. Piracy was sometimes given legal status by the colonial powers, especially France under King Francis I (r.1515–1547), in the hope of weakening Spain and Portugal's mare clausum trade monopolies in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. No, a merry Life and a short one shall be my Motto.
In an honest Service, there is thin Commons, low Wages, and hard Labour in this, Plenty and Satiety, Pleasure and Ease, Liberty and Power and who would not balance Creditor on this Side, when all the Hazard that is run for it, at worst, is only a sower Look or two at choaking. The following quote by an 18th-century Welsh captain shows the motivations for piracy: In the 16th century, pirate captains recruited seamen to loot European merchant ships, especially the Spanish treasure fleets sailing from the Caribbean to Europe.
Pirates were often former sailors experienced in naval warfare. Main trade routes prey to 16th-century piracy: Spanish treasure fleets linking the Caribbean to Seville, Manila galleons (after 1568) (white) and Portuguese India Armadas (after 1498) (blue) ( January 2014) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this section. You had to earn it in the first one.This section needs additional citations for verification. In about 10 minutes you can have all you ships upgraded to the max and continue. You can easily upgrade and buy new ships right at the start by simply buying cannonballs for 1$ in the first smugglers port and selling them for 2$ in Tortuga and repeat. PD: another example of the game doing this, although it's probably just broken and is gonna get fixed: Probaby gonna download the other one again. I'm pssed off because I liked the first one and got hyped. What game in the world does this? Anyway, I got bored to death and uninstalled it. In this one, once you upgrade a little more the first ship, you have a fast and big ship already! It's like playing a game with cheats on. Like this, a lot of the interesting and exciting things from the first one where simply taken away.įor example, in the first game, there where times where you could decide between a big and slow ship or a smaller and faster one (I remember loving my Corvette) depending on your playstyle and mood. I know its not THE BEST ship, but come on, even half the upgrades where already bought! Why are they even there then? Whats the point?
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