This can take as little as 30 minutes to buy an entire island, defense and all as long as you have the money to spare. With the right attainments, you can perform a council buyout of any island if the target player is at the patrician level or better which requires you to first buy 3 council seats. Invading enemy islands may be easy by that stage but still has the underlying problem of taking many hours to perform (even with the best units) as each market building or storehouse has to be captured individually at the cost of at least 10 minutes (usually 30 with multiple or oriental soldiers). Do not expect to see his ships too often though as he has the longest cool-down and lowest ship number when trade fleet is maxed.Īs the game progresses, you will probably find yourself having far more gold than you can spend due to passive sales and taxes. His favorite goods are finished products, especially expensive ones and his ships have the largest buying power of all the neutral players capable of easily doing deals with a value over 30,000 coins. He buys absolutely everything you can offer and sells everything you could ever need in huge quantities.
