How to grind Frugality Skill

Frugality is not a mandatory skill, like body language and sail handling, but it is a powerful skill if used for long sea voyages.

Skills Required 

• Frugality

Recommended Jobs 

• Ocean Explorer
• Interpreter
• Merchant Mentor (Expert)
• Accountant
• Trade Merchant
• Foods Dealer
• Tea Merchant
• Master Alchemist
• Pharmacist

Grinding How to

You get proficiency while the skill is in use.

In another words, you can't hit the skill button, cancel and hit the skill button again. You won't gain any proficiency this way.

The good news is that you do not need to be sailing for you to gain proficiency points.

So all you have to do is sit outside any port with lots of food and activate the frugality skill.

Advice 1: You need to be in one of the recommended jobs above for your grind to be faster.
Advice 2: Sit on a sea region that you charted so you get random bonus like fatigue reduction, vigour refill  etc every 50 days or so.
Advice 3: Set one of your aides to the storekeeper duty and the other one to the surgeon duty. This allows you to be 100% afk.
Advice 4: Use the paymaster, galley and food storage ship skills, if possible to improve your supplies efficiency. I don't recommend firing all your sailors as you may end up without sailors should anything happen while you are afk.

How long should I be afk?

First remember your skill must be activated, so if you run out of vigour, well you know, you won't get any proficiency points.

So you should check how long it takes for you to run out of vigour. That's how long you can stay afk and then return to feed your toons.

You also shouldn't overstay on the seas as the fatigue increases faster the more days at sea you are.

150 days at sea should be max but 100 days is a fair time to go back to port and restock on food and reset the days at sea number.

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