by TheImp17
mjacobsca wrote:
With fewer players you get more turns per harvest. So the food requirements are higher for less players.
Yea, you've got it.
I am new too, but from looking at the cards, in round 3 a 5 player game will require everyone to have 3 food, so a ship giving you one food is 33% of the total.
In round 3 of a solo game, you require 15 food, and the ship gives 5 so 33%v again. Looks like the machanic scales so ships have a standard usefulness.
Also one thing I didn't pick up on for a couple rounds is that you sell your goods at the Shipping Line building, and the ships helps add additional opportunities to sell goods.