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Piastres are the backbone of the Windrose economy — spent with faction vendors, merchant contractors, and NPC workers across the world. The fastest sources are boarding chest ships (transport vessels marked with a golden chest icon above the nameplate) and selling faction trade commodities to the correct buyer: Contraband sells for 150 Piastres at the Smugglers, Luxuries for 250, Munitions for 100 at the Rogue Buccaneers. Gold Coins are entirely separate — earned only through faction side quests — and spent on the Farming Contractor (10 Gold Coins at the Tortuga Recruitment Vendor) and other locked progression items that Piastres can’t touch.
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Currency |
Primary Use |
Best Farming Source |
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Piastres |
Vendors, workers, faction contracts, ship blueprints |
Chest ship boarding, faction commodity selling |
|
Gold Coins |
Farming Contractor, locked progression items |
Faction side quests only |
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Piastres are the primary trade currency used across most of the game’s economy — spent with faction vendors, NPC workers, and merchant contractors for blueprints, ship upgrades, and supplies. Gold Coins are a separate rare currency earned exclusively through faction side quests, not through trading or boarding. They cannot be purchased with Piastres directly and have no overlap in their sources. Gold Coins are specifically required for the Farming Contractor hire (10 Gold Coins at the Tortuga Recruitment Vendor) and certain locked progression items that fall outside the Piastre economy entirely.
The Farming Contractor automates bulk crop production at your base farming bench while you’re offline — each job runs for roughly 8 real-time hours, returns all 50 seeds invested alongside a full crop yield, and runs parallel to your manual Seedbeds without interfering. For players who log in once per session, the Contractor effectively eliminates the most time-consuming manual loop in the mid-to-late game. The 10 Gold Coin hire cost is the only gate, and since Gold Coins don’t drop from combat or trading, getting them without a dedicated faction quest run takes significantly longer than most players expect.
Not particularly. The highest-yield Piastre source — boarding chest ships — requires a capable vessel and a loadout built for boarding rather than sinking. Sinking a ship yields minimal rewards since cargo goes down with the hull. The approach that works is crippling the target to low HP, boarding, clearing the crew, and claiming the full cargo for faction selling. Players running an early Ketch or an underupgraded ship consistently lose boarding attempts to enemy reinforcements, making the service most valuable for players who want currency now rather than after completing ship progression first.