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>dont need to build anything,
Oh wow you need to build the same shit you need any way, how impactful.
the only change is the additional 10 timber and 8 steel, the latter of which can be bought from archie
If you go for the bare minimum you only need an additional 16 timber for a market, 3 houses, lumber jack and a sawmill. Come back at a later time when you have the steel for 2 breweries and build up the farms, maybe a fishery and that's it.
Incase you want to go ham and build everything at one you only need 8 steel and 68 timber.
Either let your flagship do the first few runs or pay up for schooner, which you'll have to do for soap runs too. Or hell just make a charter route if you don't want to pay for a shipyard.
>can build instantly without being distracted?
The fuck kind of distracted, what are you on about?
Plop down a marketplace, lumberjack and sawmill, a few houses, a warehouse, 13 houses and 3 hop farms. That takes a minute at most.
Might just be (You) problem

And that's of course excluding the option to just pick an island with hops from the start.
Pic related is me on lowest income with 2 average ai and bente
I have yet to produce canned food, go to the new world, produce rum or fur coats nor do I have an actor in a town hall to provide the first two.
I never traded soap, nor am I doing pocket watches trade to enbessa, thus far ai haven't managed to get there either.
And I nabbed 4 of the most worthwhile islands before the ai could by aggressively spending