Pirates Of The Caribbean

GCTales · #2 06-29-2009, 09:07 PM

**BOUNTIES AND FIGHTING**

BOUNTIES:
You can claim the bounties you set. For most higher level pirates this is standard practice. This is done usually in an effort to gain more keels and make the Infamous List, or because you've upset them and they want you dead! Most pirates don't mind this. Some do.

You can also collect bounties on crew. Some pirates prefer that crew collect an un-friendly bounty that is placed on them - *someone* is going to collect it, and those pirates prefer that the gold stay in the crew. Other pirates will be offended if you collect a bounty on a crew member. Best to figure out who is which before collecting the bounty set on a crew mate!

BOUNTY LISTS:
There are approximately 20 bounty boards; there is no way of knowing if you have a bounty on your head unless a crewmate sees it and tells you or it is posted on the bounty board you can see. You will only appear on your own bounty board if the person who placed it is on the same server as you.

WHY CAN'T I PLACE A BOUNTY ?
The pirate you are trying to bounty is either dead, or already on the bounty list. If a pirate logs off with zero health, or is keeled after logging out of Facebook, they will be "dead" until they log back on.

WHY BOUNTY ME AND CLAIM IT YOURSELF
Most pirates will do this for various reasons, you attacked them, you sword dueled them or smacked their pet (usually gets you more than one keel) , you set a bounty on them, you posted a new ' ADD ME ' thread just for you instead of using the Official add me thread, or they are trying to get on the Infamous list for most keelhauls/most deadly/ best fighter

RULES ON COLLECTING BOUNTIES:
There are none! Some players prefer to collect their own bounties, and will retaliate if you "steal" it from them. Some players are offended if crew collects, other prefer it. In addition, if you are trying to collect on a higher level player, you will show in their newsfeed and should expect a keel from them!

GETTING HIT BY HIGHER PLAYERS:
Yes this is possible - and extremely likely if you make yourself known to them by doing things such as hitting them on bounty lists, attacking them in a sword duel or attacking their pet. If you get hit by a higher level pirate, the best course of action is to remain calm and lay low (without retaliating) until they get bored. If you are a vengeful pirate (and what pirate isn't), bookmark their page and come back at them when you are stronger than they are.

SWORD DUEL
A sword duel is a waste of a strength point, neither you nor the victim get experience points (XP) and it does not count in your wins/loss stats. It also irritates the victim to the point that many now keel all duelers that show up in their feed up to 10 times per poke with sword.

HOW TO KEEL:
When you attack, the damage on both sides is between 0 and 25. If your opponent's health is between 20 and 25, and you inflict greater damage than their health, they're keelhauled. If your opponent's health goes below 20, but doesn't hit 0, you can no longer attack, and you will get the message that they are dead/too weak to fight. To properly finish the job and get the keelhaul you have to set a bounty on that person and attack from the bounty board to get the keelhaul. It's called finishing what you start.

I WON THE FIGHT BUT GOT KEELHAULED, WHY?
You need to pay close attention to your own health level during all fights. This is easier, now, with the meter on the fight page, but if you didn’t, this can still occur. It happens when you manage to hit the other pirate hard enough to knock them down to zero, but as a result of the final fight the damage you sustained was sufficient to put you down to zero as well.

PIRATE WITH NO ATTACK OPTION ON PAGE
The pirate whose page you are checking is a member of your crew, you only have the sword duel and bounty options on your own crew (but you shouldn’t use them).

ABOUT FIGHTS:
You can be attacked until dead (0 health) / too weak to fight (under 25 health, but not bountied). If you are giving out gold the attacker may leave you alone and come back to hit you again for more gold. You can be keelhauled only once after you log out and after you are keelhauled no one can attack or keel you again until you log back in to Facebook. You can and will show up on the fight list any time of day, logged in or not.

FIGHT LISTS:
Until level 70, fight lists are level specific, with the range of levels expanding above and below you within a few levels. When you reach level 70 (commonly referred to as ”open waters”), you are visible to all pirates above that level. If you show up on a higher level players newsfeed or fight list before (or after) you hit level 70, expect to be hit. If you whine about it, expect to be hit even more.

USING ITEMS WHEN FIGHTING:
The amount of items/abilities you can use in a fight is limited to the amount of people in your Crew. You can only use 1 offensive, 1 defensive, and 1 Ship ability per Crew member. Until you reach the maximum crew requirement at 501 crew members. There is no limit to the number of crew you can have, but you can only fight with 501 of your crew. Adding crew after 501 is valuable, if you want to obtain more 18/18 items or islands (the weekly specialty items).

HOW DOES FIGHTING WORK?:
There are three factors that determine who wins a fight: Crew size, weaponry (attack weapons when attacking, defense weapons when defending), and personal Attack/Defense stats that you've allocated with your skill points.
LM posted the following:-if the system applies my offense and defense stats to each of my crew as a base stat, then does a total based on:

##total offense = (my offense stat + offense for offense item + offense for defense item + offense for movement item) * number of crew
##total defense = (my defense stat + offense for defense item + defense for defense item + defense for movement item) * number of crew
The game will automatically choose which items are used.

Other players have speculated that the total value for the items used it added together and that value multiplied by your stats and number of crew is the fight value. Other players have also speculated that your personal attack and defense stats are added together and the total value is your personal "strength." All these arguments seem to have merit, but no one outside of Zynga knows exactly how it works - and they're not telling!

DAMAGE:
Is random between 1-25 (not including the new Captain and Commander damage "bonus" effect)
Winner appears to get the lesser and the loser gets the higher damage, but in some cases the winner of a fight has taken more damage than the loser and still won (like when pet take a hit for ye).

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**LAND:**

LOTS:
Lots are the first revenue generation items that can be purchase. When purchased, the cost to purchase a Lot does not increase. Your "lots" (captured islands, bays, hidden coves and secret caves) are CONSUMED when you upgrade them to "operations" which have a higher income. This is like buying a plot of land and then building something on it - the building is now what you own and the land is gone. You don't ever get the "lots" back even if you sell operations.

You start off with a few Lots being available for purchase. As you progress through the game, more Lot types become available, with a higher cost to purchase, yielding more revenue.

OPERATIONS:
You start off with several basic Operations that can earn you revenue. As you progress in levels, more operations become available.

Unlike Lots, when you purchase an operation, the cost to purchase the next of that type of operation increases. Thus, it may be better (if you have the money) to purchase multiple operations at one time (getting a volume savings).

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SPECIAL ITEMS AND SPECIAL LAND LOTS:
These two items change on a regular basis. They require you to add 1 more crew members to buy one and each time you buy one, the crew requirement for both items will jump by 1. You can buy one special item or one special land lot each time you add a crew member.

It appears that, even if you add multiple crew members, your requirement for the special items / lots still increments by 1.

GCTales · #3 06-29-2009, 09:08 PM

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MISSING TREASURE / UPKEEP:
Most items require upkeep. That means that it costs money to get them and to keep them. You need to make sure that your income (from islands) is more than your upkeep. If your finances are in the negative you are losing Gold every hour. The game can take your upkeep out of your Buried Treasure.

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BONUS LOOT AND DAVEY JONES POINTS:
You can get bonus loot and other items on the Davey Jones page by using favor points.

Favor points can be bought with real world cash, or you can get them for giving up personal information and completing offers from the "Davey Jones" page. In addition, you are awarded one favor point for each odd number level you reach.

Players can "Loot" from other players. What this means is when you are fighting, you can "steal" loot (handcuffs, snake eyes dice, skull pendants, etc.) from other pirates.

The other pirate, however, does not actually seem to lose this loot.

Some of these looted items are very desirable as they have the highest attack or defense values, but can only be obtained through fighting or plundering and con *not* be bought in the armory....so go FIGHT!

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501 CREW:
The game says you can ' fight ' with 501 crew, but you can have many more than 501 crew on your pirates friends list, this enables you to keep buying special items and islands.

UNABLE TO SEE ENTIRE CREW
This issue is specific to using Internet Explorer and can be solved by downloading a different browser (like Firefox)
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PETS:
Your pet’s energy and happiness are decreased when other’s fight it. Pets can get you extra gold from plunders, can boost your hourly income, and can take damage for you in fights; ONLY if their health and happiness are above 50%.

ATTACKING PETS:
Many pirates consider attacking another pirate's pet to be the same or worse than engaging in a sword duel (you can't suffer any damage and automatically win). They tend to keel haul you multiple times for each time you attack their pet. Surest way to start a long term fight is to attack a pet.

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Yer Island

Resources:

* The three resources are Wood, Stone, and Iron.
* The Mill, Quarry, and Mine produce them.
* To gather resources, click the hire button on one of the buildings and select a friend to work there.
* Each resource produces at different speeds for different amounts of time.

* Wood produces 1 resource every 30 minutes for 12 hours (24 pieces per "session")
* Stone produces 1 resource every hour for 20 hours (20 pieces per session)
* Iron produces 1 resource every 3 hours for 30 hours (10 pieces per session)

* When you gather resources, you need to put them in storage by clicking the button before they disappear.
* When a friend hires you, you get some resources for free, so hire your best friends and encourage them to hire you in return.

Buildings:

* To build a building, click the tab near the bottom of the page
* click build, on an available plot
* choose one of the buildings you have the resources and money to purchase
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BUILDING TYPES AND BENEFIT DERIVED

Blacksmith
Bonus: -15% off weapons cost
Resources Required:
$3,000
20 stone
10 iron

Guard Tower
Bonus: +10% Defense Skill
Resources Required:
$50,000
100 wood
40 stone

Training Grounds
Bonus: +10% Attack Skill
Resources Required:
$100,000
80 wood
25 iron

Counting House
Bonus: +5% income
Resources Required:
$2,000,000
70 stone
40 iron

Barracks
Bonus: +3 Crew Members in Fights
Resources Required:
$5,000,000
180 wood
40 iron

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PIRATE CREW AND FRIENDS LIST:
It is possible to keep people on your crew, but delete them from your facebook friends list. If you keep friends you can restrict your crew’s access to your Facebook profile.

Once a person is on yer crew/family (they actually show up on the official crew page), and you don't need them anymore as "Friends" (that isn't as bad as it sounds

- Go to the (blue) menu strip at the top of your Facebook page.
Click on "Friends" (and you should be able to also choose "Recently Added" to make it easier).
At the far right of the "Friends" name is an "x". If you click on it it will remove the person from your Facebook homepage account, but the person will still be listed as a member of your crew.

It might be a good idea to send out a stock message to everyone who wants to add you to their game, but who you don't really know - that way they know that it's not personal and they don't get offended when they stop being "friends".

USING FRIEND CATEGORIES TO LIMIT ACCESS TO YOUR PROFILE
Many of us have lots of people on our friend list that we don’t really know. Did you know that you can customize what they can and cannot see? Here’s how:

1. Make a category specifically for your “Game” friends (if you don’t know how to do this, go here: http://www.facebook.com/help.php?page=768)

2. Click on “Settings” --> “Privacy Settings” --> “Profile”
3. For each section there is a drop down that will allow you to select from several options. Choose the one that says “Customize”
4. In the box that opens, at the bottom there is an option for “Except These People” Enter the name of the friend list that you created in step 1. Then click OK.

That’s all there is to it! Just repeat for each section that you want to restrict people in that group from seeing.

To test how your changes appear to them, go back to Click on “Setting” --> “Privacy Settings” --> “Profile” and look at the top of the page. There you’ll see the text "See how a friend sees your profile" next to a search field where you can enter the name of any of your friends. Enter the name of someone from the friend list you created and you’ll be sent to a special view of your profile that will allow you to see what will be visible to them.

And don’t forget; you can add them to a list right when you send/accept the friend request!
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FACEBOOK IN PIRATE ENGLISH
Arrrr, fer all ye pirates out there wantin ter give a little extra pirate touch to Facebook. Easiest way to do this is the following:1- go back to [home]2- scroll down to the bottom3- in the bar at the bottom next to [Facebook © 2009] you will find your current language in blue with two little triangles next to it4- click on the language and a box with all languages will appear5- click on [English (pirate) - BETA] and that's it!
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