Port upgrades

[dc1962]

How does the new port upgrades work? I'm trying to craft better ships and don' know how to build/access these upgrades.

 

Thanks

 

[Raekur]

What you are looking for is the last icon on the far right - Port Management.
This will open a window with 4 areas to chose from - Investments / Port Features / Shipbuilding / Defense.

I believe you are looking for the third option. Under that you will find the following bonuses that can be applied to a ship crafted at that port. These bonuses are Gunnery, Sailing, Hull, Mast and Rig, and lastly Crew.

There are 4 levels to each of these categories and all will require a specified amount of Combat Marks, Victory Marks, and Doubloons. Each of these will use up a certain amounts of points that the port has. Some ports have up to 55 points while others have considerably less. These points (i think) are used up with each improvement that is purchased for a port from any of the 4 main investment areas. The shipbuilding at maximum in all areas would use up 20 points alone. So spend wisely, I do now know if there is any other way to remove the investments other than losing the port (at which case all investments are removed (i think).