A treasure trove of Reales are the foundation for a successful career as a pirate in Assassin’s Creed 4 Black Flag Resynced, and you will need plenty of it on your high seas adventures. Fortune will favor you, as there are several methods, both active and passive, to earn a steady cashflow.
This Assassin’s Creed 4 Black Flag Resynced guide has everything you need to know in order to grind out those Reales, whether hands-off or through hard work.
Farming Frigates
You can take advantage of open-world dynamics where NPC Spanish and English Frigates battle each other south of Great Inagua, allowing you to pick off the survivors for easy loot. Since Frigates are a worthy opponent, they also offer up worthy spoils, which in this case is a Captain’s Lockbox filled with both Reales and valuable trade goods. Frigates are medium-class as far as naval opponents go, and you should have a fairly easy time shredding them in their weakened state.
Once you are done, simply travel back and forth in the general vicinity of this area, and the group will spawn over and over for your grinding benefit.
Naval Contracting And Convoys
In the early game, when your ship is still relatively weak, begin by accepting every Naval Contract you can find. This will take you around the map, allowing you to simultaneously complete the other initial step, of unlocking every Tavern. Do this by chatting up the tavern keeper and completing the task.
Talk to the keeper again to buy tips for a hundred Reales each, which are about naval convoys of merchant vessels, thus marking their location on the map. Then use the nearest Harbour or Viewpoint to Fast Travel practically right on top of them, and make quick work of the light escort vessels by sinking them outright. Spare the lead flagship however, as it has the loot you need. Successfully board it to acquire the Captain’s Lockbox and its supplies.
You can make a case-by-case determination of the value of keeping some of the escort ships alive long enough to board them for their goods, but only if you think you can avoid being mobbed by the entire convoy.
The Naval Contracts you have been accepting will inevitably be cleared while farming these convoys, so you can turn them in as well for a nice bonus, before buying even more tracking tips from the Taverns.
Trinkets
The ship models that you collect as loot after successfully boarding ships eventually end up on display at your Manor. In combination with art collected through side quests, this will at some point net you the Rare Trinket ‘Found Coin’ which gives you a bonus to Reales every time you loot some.
The ‘Lodestone’ Rare Trinket can be used in conjunction with that to smoothen the entire looting experience, since it loots Corpses and Curios automatically. Get it by upgrading the General Store and then purchasing it for the sum of 7,000 Reales.
Hideout Passive Profit
The Hideout can be upgraded over time, and the Manor itself can build a Facade upgrade. Constructing it will unlock the Money Box inside the Manor, where Protection Money will be automatically deposited for you to collect from time to time.
Be sure to upgrade the Fisherman’s Wharf and the Treasure Dealer, in order to boost that passive income from your Hideout. While the investment of 5,000 Reales for each is significant, you will definitely see it pay dividends over time.
While this is technically passive, you do have the mechanical inconvenience of having to visit the Money Box manually every single time in order to collect that amassed Protection Money. Additionally, it has a cap on how much it can hold, after which it will just stop filling. You can mitigate that at least, by raising the cap for an outlay of Reales towards building the Tower and Garden, as well as the Guesthouse upgrades at the Manor.
All in all, once you have sunk a significant investment in infrastructure, the returns will eventually pay them off and then some, in the long run.
Those are some of the best ways to both actively and passively profit in the thousands of Reales quickly and efficiently in Assassin’s Creed 4 Black Flag Resynced.
