Brethren of the Brick Seas (BoBS) Introduction and Starting Thread

[Tomsche]

So Ska, seems your back *opens a bottle of champagne*

 

So let me put you to work in one go and bugger you for asking what my mine prospect (posted may 27th) on Cocovia has struck.

[Elostirion]

@SkaForHire Could we please get the detailed maps for the claimed islands (as an Eslandolan 8 and 13 in particular)? Thank you.

[TitusV]

Woohoo, he's back! But maybe we should not all start complaining and overloading him with work...

[SkaForHire]

12 hours ago, Tomsche said:

So Ska, seems your back *opens a bottle of champagne*

 

So let me put you to work in one go and bugger you for asking what my mine prospect (posted may 27th) on Cocovia has struck.

I am like positive I rolled that. But the reroll is quarry.

11 hours ago, Elostirion said:

@SkaForHire Could we please get the detailed maps for the claimed islands (as an Eslandolan 8 and 13 in particular)? Thank you.

Yes, I will try to get out all the claimed ones this week, do you want blanks or do you want me to add terrain?

[Tezclatipoca]

Please, Can someone can transfer every income I have in the EGS to MAESTRO Eslandola. I am giving them all property on all my builds properties and on all my ships. I am leaving the EGS system definitively. Thank you.

This game is not going in the way I think it should go. I will stay around to have a look, but I am not participating to the EGS. Thanks,

That was a good time to build piratey MOCs on this game.

Goodbye.

Faladrin.

[Scarst]

1 hour ago, Faladrin said:

Please, Can someone can transfer every income I have in the EGS to MAESTRO Eslandola. I am giving them all property on all my builds properties and on all my ships. I am leaving the EGS system definitively. Thank you.

This game is not going in the way I think it should go. I will stay around to have a look, but I am not participating to the EGS. Thanks,

That was a good time to build piratey MOCs on this game.

Goodbye.

Faladrin.

Could you give us a reason why before you hang up the bricks? We've been busy trying to fix the EGS to make it simplier along with new aspects of building after the new MRCA comes out. Sorry it's taking so long we have been busy with real life so the development has been slowed.

[Capt Wolf]

18 minutes ago, Scarst said:

We've been busy trying to fix the EGS to make it simpler along with new aspects of building after the new MRCA comes out. Sorry it's taking so long we have been busy with real life so the development has been slowed.

The EGS seems to work fine; it's just the MRCA that needs work. Some occasional news now and then of the direction the new MRCA rules will take us would be welcomed! Or just some updated MRCA maps and trade values to use in the interim to keep the game evolving. It's much easier to be patient when we can see signs of progress.

[Scarst]

18 minutes ago, Capt Wolf said:

The EGS seems to work fine; it's just the MRCA that needs work. Some occasional news now and then of the direction the new MRCA rules will take us would be welcomed! Or just some updated MRCA maps and trade values to use in the interim to keep the game evolving. It's much easier to be patient when we can see signs of progress.

The thing about adjusting trade values before hand is it detracts from trying to accurately re-balance in the new set up. I understand the frustration as this was meant to be fixed more near august. The new MRCA system will work on the premise of certain trade routes being safe and guarded. This means that convoys wont need as heavy escorts as in the past, while this is the case it also means they will be less profitable than the "Unsafe" routes that risk takers will be using. Safe routes however may become subject of plot making them a bit interesting and fluctuating. I'm not sure if you've already heard this or not but I feel I can say that much in good faith that you understand why the current MRCA isn't evolving, the system will be streamlined to allow other leadership to hopefully run parts of the MRCA and make results quicker for those involved. As i said I hope this at least quells a bit of curiosity as it's hard to say more until everything is solid, finished products are easier to pitch than a half finished concept.

[Capt Wolf]

22 minutes ago, Scarst said:

The thing about adjusting trade values before hand is it detracts from trying to accurately re-balance in the new set up. I understand the frustration as this was meant to be fixed more near august. The new MRCA system will work on the premise of certain trade routes being safe and guarded. This means that convoys wont need as heavy escorts as in the past, while this is the case it also means they will be less profitable than the "Unsafe" routes that risk takers will be using. Safe routes however may become subject of plot making them a bit interesting and fluctuating. I'm not sure if you've already heard this or not but I feel I can say that much in good faith that you understand why the current MRCA isn't evolving, the system will be streamlined to allow other leadership to hopefully run parts of the MRCA and make results quicker for those involved. As i said I hope this at least quells a bit of curiosity as it's hard to say more until everything is solid, finished products are easier to pitch than a half finished concept.

This was very helpful! Thank you!

[Mike S]

Updated map with current faction ownership and names. Waiting to hear the finalized names for the Eslandola and Sea Rat islands....

[Tomsche]

Love the map Mike, great work!

 

To the venerable leadership.  maybe (one of the) next challenge(s) should involve a new continent a bit to the southeastern side of the map, with a landgrab or something?  Closes in the islands a bit nicely (pure visual, as it hasn`t got any practical use so far how far something is located from anywhere :-) )

[Mike S]

5 minutes ago, Tomsche said:

Love the map Mike, great work!

 

To the venerable leadership.  maybe (one of the) next challenge(s) should involve a new continent a bit to the southeastern side of the map, with a landgrab or something?  Closes in the islands a bit nicely (pure visual, as it hasn`t got any practical use so far how far something is located from anywhere :-) )

From what I understand, the world map is already made. We are just discovering it one tiny section at a time. There is a continent somewhere to the east, but who knows it might just be the western coast of our mainland.   However, Corrington scientists have determined that the world is actually quite large, so according to their geographical calculations, they expect to find an undiscovered continent to the east. The only question is whether our ships can stay at sea long enough to reach it.

[SkaForHire]

1 hour ago, Tomsche said:

Love the map Mike, great work!

 

To the venerable leadership.  maybe (one of the) next challenge(s) should involve a new continent a bit to the southeastern side of the map, with a landgrab or something?  Closes in the islands a bit nicely (pure visual, as it hasn`t got any practical use so far how far something is located from anywhere :-) )

You will be able to mount an expedition yourself for that fabled continent in a few months (by you, I mean any player with enough PIPs)  The map will expand soon.

[Maxim I]

16 hours ago, SkaForHire said:

I am like positive I rolled that. But the reroll is quarry.

Yes, I will try to get out all the claimed ones this week, do you want blanks or do you want me to add terrain?

For island 13, it may be blank I think  

[Elostirion]

16 hours ago, SkaForHire said:

Yes, I will try to get out all the claimed ones this week, do you want blanks or do you want me to add terrain?

That would be great. I think best would be to hvae both, but the more information the better (and most of us can just remove terrain if neccessary), so in case we have to decide: Definitely with terrain from my point of view. Please let me / us know if there is any way to help.

[Tezclatipoca]

Here is my new build for BOBs after I left the EGS :

Brethren of The Brick Seas Brief Stories 01

I hope you'll like what I am doing out of the EGS for this great Game !

[Capt Wolf]

11 hours ago, Mike S said:

Updated map with current faction ownership and names. Waiting to hear the finalized names for the Eslandola and Sea Rat islands....

Mike, island 8 is Otoño and island 13 is La Sombra

[Mike S]

6 minutes ago, Capt Wolf said:

Mike, island 8 is Otoño and island 13 is La Sombra

Thanks! I thought so but I had never seen the names confirmed in the Eslandola thread. So now just waiting on the Sea Rats now. I'm curious how they decide on names when they use darts to decide on which islands to pick....

[Capt Wolf]

10 minutes ago, Mike S said:

Thanks! I thought so but I had never seen the names confirmed in the Eslandola thread. So now just waiting on the Sea Rats now. I'm curious how they decide on names when they use darts to decide on which islands to pick....

The Sea Rats announced that the darts hit #2 and #12, but no names yet.

[Kwatchi]

On 2016-10-01 at 4:27 PM, SkaForHire said:

Volcanic Glass (or he can do stone quarry as it came up on the dice.  Same value, cooler story!)

Thanks. (Sorry for the late reply)

One question:  Since a Salt Mine has the same cost/yield as a Rock Quarry, would it be possible to switch?  It would make it easier to create a story behind it.

[SkaForHire]

I don't see a problem with that, we never really put in the resource system that was originally planned, so really no biggie here!

[Garmadon]

Eslandola has issued a Letter of Marque against Mardier and its cohorts - sign up either in the afore-linked thread or by PMing Kai or myself! 

 

(May I be the first to say that I love privateers and letters of marque?    It's awesome to see the wheels turning in the world of the Brick Seas!)

[Legostone]

If one were to transfer the 4th ship he bought (1.5x price), and for the player recieving the ship it would also be the 4th ship, would the recieving player have to pay extra to use said ship?

[dr_spock]

22 minutes ago, Legostone said:

If one were to transfer the 4th ship he bought (1.5x price), and for the player recieving the ship it would also be the 4th ship, would the recieving player have to pay extra to use said ship?

Ships bought from another player are subject to the cost multiplier.   http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?/forums/topic/118542-by-sea-ships-and-the-monthly-raiding-and-commerce-action-in-the-egs/

It would be like selling it to him/her for $0 or he captured the ship from you.  He/she may be charged the cost multiplier if that ship bring his/her ship total above 3.  For the 4th ship, it is 50% of the ship's class license fee.

 

[Maxim I]

On 10-10-2016 at 5:51 AM, Mike S said:

Updated map with current faction ownership and names. Waiting to hear the finalized names for the Eslandola and Sea Rat islands....

Some remarks:

An Toli has vanished from the map (the island is visible, the name is gone). It is that small island to the left of An Holli.

And if interested, Stedor is located on the most Southern point of Eslandola (Old Continent). :)