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Winds Of Trade

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A strategy game about managing an ocean trading company, its ships and trade in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

WindowsSerV10 .wotsave layout with the supported company and first-ship fields

Where to find your save

Locate the .wotsave named for the company you want to edit. Select the main file, not its separate .wotsave.metadata companion.

File
<company name>.wotsave

What you can edit

Save Editor Online

Partial Windows .wotsave editing for the supported SerV10 layout. Changes are limited to company/date, first-ship fields and saved type definitions. Cargo, the rest of the fleet, towns, contracts, loans and the remaining world graph are preserved.

Editable values and their limits
Company and calendarCompany funds, name, colour and the current in-game date.

Replacement text must keep its original UTF-8 byte length.

First shipThe first saved ship's name, HP and cannon values.

Other ships, cargo, captain development and later ship fields are outside this guide.

Saved ship-type rulesExisting ship-type hold capacity, HP, speed, maintenance cost, maximum cannons and purchase availability.

These are saved type definitions, not the cargo or upgrades owned by a particular ship.

Saved resource and perk rulesResource base prices, consumption and economic-state factors, illegality ratings, and existing perk values and prices.

These definitions do not represent inventory quantities or purchased upgrades.

Notes

  • The separate .wotsave.metadata file remains unchanged. Records cannot be added or removed, and replacement text must keep its stored byte length.
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