Player FAQ

On the registration page, choose a username, company name, email address and password. You will then receive an activation email.

The activation link confirms that the address belongs to you. Only an active and verified account may log in and found a shipping company.

The account must be active and confirmed by email. Once these conditions are met, you can sign in with your credentials.

If no home port has been selected yet, the game guides you to an available founding city. You then receive your starting base.

The home port remains the permanent founding city in your company history. Other ports are opened later through port rights and local offices.

Under Settings, you can manage your password, an additional email address and optional two-factor protection.

It adds another confirmation to your password when signing in. You can enable it under Settings or switch it off again later.

They help you regain access when the additional login confirmation is temporarily unavailable. Store them safely outside the game.

The additional protection is removed. To use it again later, you must set it up again from the beginning.

It is another confirmed contact option for your account. It replaces neither your password nor the additional login protection.

A new company currently starts with £100,000. This money is needed for goods, rights, offices, repairs, upgrades, ships and other investments.

You receive permanent port access to your home port, a level-one office, permission for small ships and the “Company Steamer No. 1”.

The company steamer is a small coastal steamer with 25 tonnes of cargo capacity, a base speed of 12 knots and 100 percent condition.

The starting office has 25 tonnes of storage, matching the first ship’s hold. Every office founded later also begins at level one with 25 tonnes of storage.

The active port is the location whose market, administration, office, shipyard, tavern and route planner you are currently using. Home port and active port are identical at first, but not necessarily later.

A shipping company needs liquidity. A full cargo hold is of little use if no money remains for repairs, rights or the next voyage.

The active port is shown in the game header and side area. Check it especially before purchases, sales, repairs and loading a ship.

The world map shows cities, port positions, your ships, active voyages and their time-based positions. Visible city names can be clicked like the city markers.

A visible port is not automatically accessible. Regular access requires the relevant port right; storing and trading also require a local office.

Map layers let you show or hide port and city names, active routes, your ships, navigation markers, the coordinate grid and the globe independently. The world map remembers your view.

Customs offices mark control stations at important rivers and navigation entrances. Click the icon or its label to open the information. A fee of 12 pounds is currently displayed there; charging passing routes will be extended together with route processing.

Yes. You can place, move, centre and delete several personal markers with notes. They remain available to you.

Suitable active rumours may appear as markers on the world map and show the related clues.

Yes. The map can retain its zoom level and centre. You can also use map coordinates and a coordinate grid for orientation.

No. Clouds move continuously across the shared game world and have different ranges and possible effects depending on their type. Their positions are calculated from the same world time for every player.

Depending on cloud type and chance, arrival may be delayed, ship condition may fall or the encounter may have no effect. Any applied effect is recorded in the logbook.

No. A particular cloud can count only once per ship and route. It may become relevant again on a later, separate voyage.

The settings area manages the user account, time zone and time format, audio, display and security. The time zone changes presentation, not the progress of the shared world.

No. A ship can be loaded, repaired or sent on a new voyage only when it is at the active port and available.

A port right allows your company to enter a foreign port and use its local areas. It does not replace your own office.

In the Administration area of the relevant city. It shows available rights, requirements and the current price.

No. The right provides access. Normal buying, selling and storage also require an office in that city.

An office is your local branch with its own warehouse. It permanently connects your company to the city market and acts as an origin or destination store for trade routes.

A new office currently costs £25,000. The exact price is shown in Administration before purchase.

Every additional office begins at level one with 25 tonnes of storage. All newly founded level-one offices therefore have the same initial capacity.

An existing office cannot currently be sold or abandoned. Purchase new locations only when they have a clear economic purpose.

They determine which markets you can serve directly, where you can store goods and from which locations you can start new routes.

Goods are produced and consumed locally. Stock, target stock, supply and player trading influence the current price and the city’s economic situation.

Market goods are initially shown with the highest market stock first. Click a column heading to sort by good, price, supply, market stock, daily balance or your own stock in either direction.

The Harbour Trade Log button opens a separate window with the ten newest purchases and sales in the active port. Older entries are not shown there.

Ports have different economic roles. Export, import and neutral goods are therefore not offered or demanded equally everywhere.

Open the active port market, choose a good and the desired amount in whole tonnes. You need enough money, available stock and free warehouse space.

A normal market purchase is stored in the office at the active port. From there, it can be sold or loaded onto a ship located in that port.

The possible amount is limited by funds, free office space, market stock and access rights. The smallest limit determines the result.

Normal goods in the office can be sold on the active port’s market. Contract-bound cargo in the special warehouse is excluded.

The displayed market price applies when buying. When selling, the port currently pays 90 percent of that price. Immediate resale is therefore not profitable.

Purchases reduce stock and may raise prices. Sales increase supply and may lower prices. Production, consumption and other players also change the market.

Yes. Delivering scarce goods improves supply. Aggressive buying can worsen a shortage and contribute to an emergency.

The office shows capacity, used and free space and normal goods. A separate Special Warehouse tab contains only contract-bound cargo.

The warehouse shows goods with the highest tonnage first by default. Use the arrows in the column headings to sort by good, stock, market price or warehouse share and switch direction.

No. Contract cargo is bound to a specific contract ID, cannot be bought or sold on the market and may only move through the special warehouse, a ship and contract delivery.

Select an available ship in the active port in the route planner and transfer goods from the normal or special warehouse. Stock, free profile-adjusted capacity and required ship capabilities are checked immediately for every loading action.

The transport profile describes which cargo types a ship was designed to carry. It distinguishes agricultural bulk, industrial bulk, general cargo, heavy and oversized cargo, refrigerated cargo, and oil or liquid cargo.

Nominal capacity applies only at 100 percent profile efficiency. At 75 percent, for example, an empty ship with 160 tonnes of nominal capacity can carry no more than 120 tonnes of that cargo type. Unsuitable cargo therefore consumes proportionally more hold capacity.

Specialised freighters have at least one cargo group matching their design at 100 percent efficiency, and some have two. Deliberately versatile mixed-cargo ships may handle several groups well without reaching 100 percent in every group.

Some goods require suitable equipment. This includes refrigeration, liquid tanks, hazardous-cargo approval, dry-bulk capability and heavy-lift equipment. If a mandatory capability is missing, loading is blocked completely.

Each loaded good occupies hold capacity according to its own profile factor. The possible amount of another good is therefore recalculated from the remaining weighted capacity.

Immediately during loading. The route view shows profile efficiency and the maximum tonnes for every good. This value includes cargo already aboard; an excessive or prohibited loading request is rejected.

Yes. An empty voyage can reposition a ship or prepare a new trade line.

Choose an available ship, an accessible destination and the desired cargo action at arrival. Distance and estimated travel time are shown before departure.

The destination must be reachable through the sea network and accessible to your company. Without the required right or unlock, a regular route cannot start.

Distance and ship speed determine travel time. Short routes are completed faster than long overseas voyages.

The ship leaves port and is at sea. During the voyage, it cannot be reloaded or sent on another journey.

Depending on the plan, goods are sold automatically, stored in an existing destination office or kept aboard the ship.

Cargo is sold on arrival at the port’s then-current purchase price. This is convenient but does not guarantee the profit calculated earlier.

Yes. The ship does not teleport back; it begins a calculated return voyage to the origin port.

Yes. The ship continues its voyage and performs the selected destination action on arrival.

It lists your ships with location, route, arrival, cargo, speed, capacity and condition. New builds and ships under repair have their own status and progress views and do not belong to the operational active fleet during that time. Only available ships at the relevant port can be controlled.

76 to 100 percent is very good, 51 to 75 good, 26 to 50 moderate and 1 to 25 very poor. Condition can be restored at a shipyard.

A ship currently loses one condition percentage point per 900 nautical miles travelled. Effects that are not yet fully implemented may change during balancing.

Yes. Markets are updated regularly and ships continue their voyages. The world does not wait for an individual player to be online.

Cities produce and consume goods, so stocks rise or fall without direct player action.

Population influences consumption and a city’s economic development. Supply, prosperity and crises interact over time.

No. A normal shortage alone is not a severe emergency. Supply must also have been significantly worsened by player activity.

Yes, especially with scarce stock or large quantities. Purchases, sales and missing key deliveries can noticeably affect a city.

No. Consider the difference between buying and selling prices, quantity, storage, cargo capacity, travel time and possible price changes before arrival.

Many areas are already playable but are still being expanded and adjusted. Bugs, text changes and revised values therefore remain possible.

A port offers daily assignments from a curated catalogue. After acceptance, fictional contract cargo is placed in your special warehouse at the origin port.

You have at most three daily slots. Open contracts may carry into the next Berlin game day and continue occupying a slot until completed, cancelled or expired.

The deadline begins on acceptance: small contracts allow one hour, medium contracts six hours and large contracts twelve hours.

It separates contract-bound cargo from normal trading goods. Cargo can be loaded onto a ship and unloaded into the special warehouse at the destination.

The complete quantity must be in the special warehouse of the correct destination. Only then can the contract be submitted; partial quantities are insufficient.

After the complete delivery, you receive the stated payment and company reputation.

Emergency contracts use real economic goods. You deliver them from your normal office stock to a city in a severe supply crisis and stabilise its market at the same time.

Yes, but not with the full emergency bonus. The greater your own contribution to the crisis, the more the bonus is reduced. The normal value of the goods remains included.

Repairs and renaming are immediately available. Equipment, the ship catalogue, the used market and selling unlock successively through reputation titles and require a shipyard licence in each port.

Yes. The new-build catalogue shows classes, images, capacity, speed, price, transport profile and construction time. The price is charged immediately; the ship appears as “Under construction” in the fleet and becomes available in the construction port when its build time has elapsed.

Listings show seller, condition, specifications, upgrades and price. The actual purchase of another player’s listing is not yet enabled.

You can list an available ship at the active port for a freely chosen price and later withdraw the listing. Your own listing must not be shown as a foreign purchase.

No. Repairs remain generally available. A shipyard licence costs £1,000 per port and is required for rank-unlocked equipment, purchasing and selling departments.

Every ten repaired percentage points currently require 45 minutes. The cost formula is ship value × repaired percentage points ÷ 1,000.

Each shipyard level currently provides three repair slots. The ship must be in the active port and eligible for repair.

Engine, cargo hold and navigation each have three consecutive levels. Only the next level may be purchased.

No. Installed levels cannot be purchased again or removed. They remain permanently attached to the ship and are shown in relevant details.

Yes. An available ship you own at the active port can be renamed at the shipyard.

You meet local characters and can open their current offer. Depending on the character, you receive a story or rumour with its own price and content.

A story is narrative content and ends after purchase. A rumour remains active and may later trigger through a matching trade or a position at sea.

Per Berlin calendar day, you may buy two tavern items in total: two rumours, two stories or one of each.

The trust value shows how credible a character appears. The higher it is, the more likely a rumour is to prove true.

Trade rumours can be triggered by matching purchases or sales. Sea rumours react when a ship reaches the described area.

Yes. Truth is determined at purchase from the trust value. A false rumour may end without the expected reward even after its trigger condition is met.

Depending on the content, a true rumour may grant money, goods or another reward. Active sea rumours may also appear as markers on the world map.

The bank displays the business account, personal account number, available balance, bookings, player transfers and access to the securities portfolio.

Goods trading, new offices, repairs, tavern content, contract payments, share trading, fees and dividends appear with the related account balance.

Yes. You need the recipient account number, an amount and optionally a payment reference.

Transfers currently use whole pounds. You cannot transfer to your own account, and the amount must be covered by your balance.

The exchange represents municipal port, market, warehouse and shipyard companies. It shows price, movement, metrics, free float and available shares.

A company can be traded only after it is officially listed on the exchange. Before that, it remains in the observation phase.

Open the company details, choose quantity and buy or sell. Purchases are limited by available shares and funds; sales by your actual holding.

The quantity affects the actual purchase or sale price. A stock exchange fee of 0.5 percent, with a minimum of £1, currently also applies.

The portfolio shows quantity, average entry price, total value, price development and realised results. Purchases, sales and fees remain traceable.

Yes. The regular weekly distribution is scheduled for Saturday at 12:00 noon Berlin time. Holdings relevant to the respective distribution are used. Payments received appear in the bank and dividend overview.

Shipping reputation is a long-term measure of your company’s achievements. It is earned through intended activities such as completed contracts, trade, voyages, offices and other achievements and determines your reputation rank.

Your title depends on the reputation points you have earned. Once you reach the threshold for a higher rank, the corresponding title is applied automatically.

There are four separate boards: shipping reputation, fleet strength, trade network and reliability. Each is ordered by its own transparent metric.

The board counts the active cargo capacity of operational ships. Ships under construction, under repair, sold or listed for sale do not count toward the active fleet.

Reliability is the share of successfully completed rated contracts among all successful and failed rated contracts. Completed contracts improve it, while cancellations, expiry or failure may reduce it.

At least five rated contracts are required for a ranking position. Before that, an interim value may appear in your profile but is not treated as a qualified ranking result.

It shows public information such as company, shipowner name, title, reputation, reliability, ranking place, active ships, offices, home port and membership date. You can also maintain your own emblem, motto and profile description.

No. The ranking page is read-only. Its values are generated exclusively from stored game progress and the intended game actions.

Use it for bug reports, technical problems, display issues, account questions, general gameplay questions and suggestions. Select the most suitable category and game area.

Use a clear subject and describe what happened. For bugs, reproduction steps, the expected result, the actual result and the impact on your game are particularly helpful.

Yes. Each message may include up to three PNG, JPEG or WebP images with a maximum size of 5 MB each.

No. A player can open only their own tickets. Authorised administrators can view all tickets for handling. Internal administrative notes are not shown to the player.

Yes. As long as a ticket is not closed, you can add messages and screenshots. New replies appear in the existing conversation.

“New” has not yet been handled, “In progress” is being reviewed, “Waiting for player” needs your response, “Answered” contains a public reply and “Closed” is treated as resolved.

Yes. If the problem continues or a follow-up is required, you can reopen your own closed ticket. Create a new ticket for a different issue.

It records important purchases, sales, routes, ship movements, office events, market actions and other company events.

Yes. Events can be narrowed by categories such as trade, ships, routes, office, market and general.

Only at the beginning. The home port remains your founding city; the active port is the currently selected management location.

No. The office is fixed in one city; the cargo hold moves with the ship. Goods must be transferred deliberately between them.

It is at sea. It remains visible in the fleet and on the world map and becomes locally controllable again only after arrival or return.

Your first trade may already have changed stock and price. Production, consumption and other players also alter the market.

No. Automatic sale saves work, but storage or onward transport may be more profitable when prices fluctuate.

You build your own trading and shipping company in a continuously running historical economy. Success may mean fleet size, trade network, wealth, supply, market knowledge or specialisation.