Ben

I’d show pictures, but I’m not sure how to post pictures here yet.

When using the Visual post editor, you should see a picture button on the far right that requires the url source.  For the sake of forum speed and potential quoting/unresolved site issues (sorry, hope to resolve sometime!), I’d prefer if people didn’t post a ton of pictures with…[Read more]

Thank you for the reply I will just be sure to test them out before I go to far with them.

Feel free to post some here for feedback – it could be useful for you going forward.  A brief period of “harsh feedback” can be good to completely course-correct and overhaul things before an entire set of OP stuff is designed.

Ive also been wondering what…

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First time post here! I was hoping someone could give me advice on custom ship,crew,seamonster…stc formulas to make sure they dont get uber powerful.

Welcome aboard!  Feel free to introduce yourself with your Pirates backstory.

There aren’t official formulas on making custom ships and crew.  I actually think that would make it more boring.  I’m n…[Read more]

I’m even more convinced that the Duchesse could be very powerful, so I’ve bumped her to 20 right now.

John’s Knighthood
Type: Ship
Faction Affiliation: Pirate
Rarity: C
Point Value: 15
Number of Masts: 3
Cargo Space: 4
Base Move: S+L
Cannons: 3L-2S-3L
Ability: Schooner. Eternal. Sniping. [You may double the range of this ship’s cannons each t…[Read more]

Welcome aboard!  Thanks for joining the ship.

The rest I handed off as initial incentives to get new folks to start.

Love hearing that.

Nice to hear from someone who isn’t obsessed with Big 4 overpowered combos in all of their games.  The Corsairs are excellent and fun to use.

Also, I enjoy history and appreciate what the developers have done i…

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– 24 turns a day (one per “hour” until Barbarossa arrives. He’s expected between one and two weeks from now.)

Wow, that’s a lot!  Will be interesting to see if that affects how it goes – I’d expect some kind of resolution before Barbarossa shows up.  Should be Khalid and Defoe for the named crew.

Very interesting first day, I like your reporting style.

@Jack: That sounds awesome!  I love how you’re playing a game based on a real-life outside force.  I really love that the game hinges on an unknown – will Barbarossa arrive soon??  XD  (though of course with tracking you can get a very good idea; I think it would be interesting to not check it though)  There is a weird scenario where your game…[Read more]

I always assumed that the “2 masts on roll of a 6” ability (and others like it, ex. “double range of cannons but must hit on 6”) only hit on a natural roll of a 6. So regardless of modifiers added. Is this specified in the Code?

You could check; the Code is on the homepage of my site here.  Don’t mean to be harsh but I’m tired of looking things up…[Read more]

Cuchillo
Type: Ship
Faction Affiliation: Spanish
Rarity: C
Point Value: 6
Number of Masts: 2
Cargo Space: 1
Base Move: S+S+S
Cannons: 2S-4S
Ability: Schooner. This ship gets +1 to her d6 rolls against ships she is touching.

Flavor text: Skilled criminals crew the Knife, whose small size is overcome by speed, agility, and close combat excellence.…[Read more]

@cwarde: Welcome aboard!  Check out the Game Ideas page if you ever need inspiration, and feel free to submit your own as well!

Ben

He’ll link to the ship, and therefore not take up cargo space

He still takes up space. Glad you like them.

Duchesse
Type: Ship
Faction Affiliation: France
Rarity: R
Point Value: 18
Number of Masts: 5
Cargo Space: 4
Base Move: S+S
Cannons: 3L-2S-2S-2S-3L
Ability: If this ship hits with a 6, that hit eliminates two masts.
Link: French named crew w…[Read more]

Not sure if this would be 100% balanced, but I’m willing to try to convince my friends to try it so we can test it out.

Let us know how it goes if you can!  I think it’s an intriguing idea.

I think decreasing the cost of shipwrights to 1 point would help a bit, but I don’t like how that would retroactively mess with some past fleets.  Yet ano…[Read more]

I don’t take the masts off for this reason.

Haha, it’s totally worth it for me, to an extreme degree. They’re supposed to be taken out, that’s how the game works and is built to work.  It takes a LOT of gameplay for things to get loose.  I’ve played about 428 games and almost none of my ships have the issue.

Imagine how lame this would look: