Set Sail!

It's called Uncharted Waters Online, but I knew it as Daikoukai Jidai from my teenage years. None of the previous (non-online) versions of this game was ever translated to Engslish and I played the IV in Chinese Traditional (the Taiwanese release of this game). It is still my favourite game of all time but I can't play it on my current computer because of both system and language encoding issues. (it doesn't even support Windows XP being released around 1998). The online version has been around since 2003 in Japan (2006 in Mainland China which I have briefly played) but only just arrived in the English world late last year. Of course I am gonna jump onto it as soon as I get a fast and reliable internet like now.

I loved the world map in the game was real world and all the ports were at exact places where they should be, although they are sometimes called a different name than we call them now because the time was set around the Renaissance, where every European country struggles to get out of Europe and explore the world. Every player is obviously one of them.

I have been playing as a Venetian adventurer (chosen over trader and maritime), fisherman to be exact. I have been enjoying it from the start. The sailing school was a bit too much to read but useful afterwards, I am still struggling to finish the advanced adventurer school at the moment since I need to get any one of 'archaeology', 'geography' or 'biology' skills to rank 4, which is not that easy.

There are a few things that I found interesting although it is reasonable to do so in game to make it fair. Cattle disappears after you milked it and chickens disappear after you collected eggs are amongst them. And you could actually make profit by simply taking eggs from chicken or ducks then hatch them to get more chicken or ducks. Another interesting thing is that eggs that you get from chicken might hatch into ducklings. And when you are bored just kill all the chicken and ducks and process them into meats and sell at 10 times the price of your original cost.

I actually think this game is quite amazing :) I just got eligible to get aides and I got one, will need to figure out what they do though...