The island called Lautssenberg, which is the hub of the system, has been marked with a black circle on the map. What are the best ships for trades, is a military ship good for trading, what are charters for, How to set up trades with the new worlds. Oil routes are essentially a type of trade route, they use your own ships, can service multiple islands and include multiple ships. You can also make use of export/import and take advantage of the Harbour Activity Items. 3.The next thing you want to do is add a free ship to the route (+ symbol in the top left). At the top of the menu you can switch between what kind of list of ships you want to choose from: available ships, all ships, idle ships, or ships in the current region. One of the things which took me a while to figure out when I started was how to trade/move resources between islands. Oil routes can include only oil tankers as it is the only type of ships that is capable of storing and transporting oil. Routes can be grouped together to make it easier to find and track routes which have something in common. Beyond always using 3 of them, charter routes might be a better option in some specific situations such as: The menu which shows after clicking on coffee in the trading post of one of the islands. When it is crucial to have constant speed and reliable travel times, it is recommended to use steamships. Wait for goods and wait to unload options make ships wait at trading posts and piers, which means that using those options require paying careful attention to how many ships can load/unload goods at the island at the same time. For example, islands A and B produce fried plantains which are needed on islands C and D. A circle route would connect all those islands in a circle: A->B->C->D, loading fried plantains at islands A and B, unloading them at islands C and D. Exact order of islands should depend on their placement in the world, they should be connected in such a way that the overall distance of the route is as short as possible. Clicking on the far right part of the route's record in the general overview opens a dropdown menu which contains options allowing to put the route into a new group or move it to an existing group. The system may become problematic when many routes involve both the same islands and the same goods. First, it is worth to mention that routes in the routes menu are divided into two sections: charter routes at the top and trade routes below them. 5. Click on the name of the island in order to move your ships to the trading post of the island.