Hi all:

I got the game a week ago, but just started playing yesterday. After some 6 hours of play and very little improvement I have some questions:

Being addicted to Cutthroats and quite good in Age f Sail 2, I didnt expect naval combat to be so ... tedious. I have been sailing around a ship which had 6 people left for 10 mins, shooting grape continuously and didnt manage to kill them.
Whats wrong?

How boarding works? How do you know if you boarded the ship succesfully or not?

How do you get your ships back moving after boarding?

About money.

Just sailing around the caribbean with your single ship trying to build an economic empire is sad.

The increase in wealth that I experimented so far is really small (I started the game with 7000, and now I have 7890, after almost a year) I know you have to pay the crew and captains and repair the ship, but it isnt really funny this way.
Is there any way to get in business faster?

Why would you build at all not-much-profiable businesses?

Can you attack towns?

Thanks for all the help.