Auction! Bloody Bill's Booty for Sale!

[Kai NRG]

To all those who sail the Brick Seas - Gather round!

As several of you know to your cost, Bloody Bill got some booty this time around!

But what would a pirate do with a trading vessel?

Bloody Bill will have nothing to do with the peaceful occupation of merchant! All he wants is to get his grubby fingers on a few shiny doubloons. So, he's offering his captured trade vessels for auction.

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La Raenette, original owner Faladrin, Class 2 F

Heart of Eslandia, original owner MCTC, Class 5 T

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In response to previous feed-back, we're doing this a little differently. PM me (@Kai NRG) with your highest bid. The highest bidder wins and will have to pay 5 DBs above the second highest bid (or his original bid, if that's less than 5 DBs over second). Once you have bid, drop a note in this thread stating the fact (but, of course, not the quantity).

(Failure to comply with either of those two requirements will result in disqualification.)

• Auction ends April 12th, 12:00 noon, my time zone (GMT -3).
  
• You will not have to pay any further licensing fees, unless the ship would put you over the three ship bar.
  
• In case of a tie, first bidder wins.
  
• Be sure you will have the DBs available before the end of the month.
  

Let the bidding begin!

[Capt Wolf]

I have placed a bid to get my sniveling coward of a captain and his ship, the Heart of Eslandia, back, although I don't know if I want a captain that hands over his cargo at the mere sight of a black hanky being waved by a guy with a colorful nickname...

Edited April 5, 2016 by Capt Wolf

[SkaForHire]

Caveat here, if you are over three ships you would have to pay additional licensing fees!

[Kai NRG]

Caveat here, if you are over three ships you would have to pay additional licensing fees!

Thanks for reminding me about that!

[Mike S]

Coyle Shipping Company placed a bid for La Raenette.

[CelesAurivern]

Single bid only? And it's secret?

[Legostone]

Jerome Monezterrel has placed a bid on La Raenette.

Btw, what happened to Captain Zublius Van Wrecks captures, the Fallen Angel(okay, thats a Warship, so I guess that is different) and the Wringe I?

Edited April 6, 2016 by Legostone

[Maxim I]

I bid on the Heart of Eslandia.

[Sir Stig]

I have submitted a bid for the HoE.

[Garmadon]

The ETWC has placed a bid on La Raenette

[Tomsche]

The Junkyard fleet of Quinnsville has entered bids on both of the vessels

[Kai NRG]

Single bid only? And it's secret?

Yes.

Jerome Monezterrel has placed a bid on La Raenette.

Btw, what happened to Captain Zublius Van Wrecks captures, the Fallen Angel(okay, thats a Warship, so I guess that is different) and the Wringe I?

Pirates keep captured warships. I know nothing about the Wringe I. Was that last month? Was Capt. Zublius an NPC pirate? Then technically the Wringe should probably have been auctioned. IDK.

[Maxim I]

Yes.

Pirates keep captured warships. I know nothing about the Wringe I. Was that last month? Was Capt. Zublius an NPC pirate? Then technically the Wringe should probably have been auctioned. IDK.

He is indeed a pirate who captured the Wring in february :)

[Tezclatipoca]

So if I wan't My ship back I have to bid on her ? I thought I had to negociate privately with the pirate and make some builds to show what happened. I had even some good ideas how to do...

Bah, nevertheless, I will not build the MRCA I thought to build. Another time perhaps.

Edited April 6, 2016 by Faladrin

[Mike S]

So if I wan't My ship back I have to bid on her ? I thought I had to negociate privately with the pirate and make some builds to show what happened. I had even some good ideas how to do...

Bah, nevertheless, I will not build the MRCA I thought to build. Another time perhaps.

Yeah this just doesn't seem right the more I think about it... I'm withdrawing my bid.

[Bregir]

I believe this is the way leadership have chosen to handle NPC captures of tradeships, based on recent discussions.

This thus only includes vessels from the last MRCA, which makes perfect sense and excludes earlier captures.

So if I wan't My ship back I have to bid on her ? I thought I had to negociate privately with the pirate and make some builds to show what happened. I had even some good ideas how to do...

Bah, nevertheless, I will not build the MRCA I thought to build. Another time perhaps.

Faladrin, this was never decided only discussed. And if it had been captured by a player, this would have been the case. (Although the moc'ing part would not, to the best of my knowledge, be required, anymore than any other MRCA result is.)

However, in this case there is noone to negotiate with. Thus, it would be impossible to negotiate at arms-length principles, and it seems the decision has been that an auction is a solution for this.

BTW. Kai, will the achieved prices(not bids, obviously) be announced publicly? That seems fairest.

Edited April 6, 2016 by Bregir

[dr_spock]

So if I wan't My ship back I have to bid on her ? I thought I had to negociate privately with the pirate and make some builds to show what happened. I had even some good ideas how to do...

Bah, nevertheless, I will not build the MRCA I thought to build. Another time perhaps.

Is that class 2F your only ship?

[Kai NRG]

Bregir is correct. As there is no one to negotiate with in this case, it just makes sense to have an auction.

Final pricing will certainly be announced publicly.

@Faladrin - it wouldn't make sense for you to just have to do some builds to get it back. Loosing your ship is a DB loss.

[Tezclatipoca]

Is that class 2F your only ship?

No, but my other boat is a class0. So no possibility of a new free license until I lost or sell it.

I understand the way to distribue the lost ships back, but the Raenette was my free license and I thought loosing a ship was enough trouble for a player but it seemed worst for me to see the Raenette in auction.

Not having Dbs entry is already hard to handle by loosing a ship you build, this is a heartbreak to see her sold by those NPCS pirates. Kai, You should perhaps asked me before, I could even let you do if I were knowing you wanted to put my ship in auction.

I saw some players getting back their free license just by escaping in a MRCA MOC, I am thinking in Pombe, or at Dr Spock, for examples. So I stupidly thought the Raenette lost and I could get my free license back to have a kind of sistership without re building another ship. But it seems I missed something...

But if you don't want, that's fine for me.

I will stupidly sell of my class 0 , get back my free license back, sistership back the Raenette II and stay with my free class 2 F ship available. But I think it's not encouraging building and I don't find that really RP. Not encouraging for a RP building game...

Just my opinion, ofc, I am not objective seing my situation but I don't envy the players who will be in the same position as I am.

Edited April 6, 2016 by Faladrin

[Kai NRG]

@Faladrin - I don't know what was up with previously captured ships or what-all or how that worked (certainly I didn't realize that there was some protocol that would suggest that you would be able to get your ship back by building a MRCA MOC). I just wanted to see if there was a way to get the HoE back so the policy for ships captured by NPC pirates was hammered out - auction. That being the policy it didn't make any sense to apply it to HoE and not to your ship. Since sisterships are always possible provided the DBs are available, you will always have the option to license a sistership of your La Raenette (at least in MRCA v.1).

But I certainly don't want to make you feel discouraged or like we're just rolling right over you here. If you could PM me with any suggestions/questions I'm all for trying to talk this out and making sure everyone's happy.

[Bregir]

I have hereby placed a bid on the Heart of Eslandia.

Your servant

Ibn al'Sayeed

[TitusV]

I have hereby placed a bid on the Heart of Eslandia.

Your servant

Ibn al'Sayeed

Yup. We can give up. Bregir placed a bid.

[Kai NRG]

Yup. We can give up. Bregir placed a bid.

[Bregir]

Yup. We can give up. Bregir placed a bid.

There is a saying in Bellson. When someone suggests the outlay of large amount of funds, people will often respond: "Don't be ridiculous! Do you think I am a Montoya?"

[Tezclatipoca]

@Faladrin - I don't know what was up with previously captured ships or what-all or how that worked (certainly I didn't realize that there was some protocol that would suggest that you would be able to get your ship back by building a MRCA MOC). I just wanted to see if there was a way to get the HoE back so the policy for ships captured by NPC pirates was hammered out - auction. That being the policy it didn't make any sense to apply it to HoE and not to your ship. Since sisterships are always possible provided the DBs are available, you will always have the option to license a sistership of your La Raenette (at least in MRCA v.1).

But I certainly don't want to make you feel discouraged or like we're just rolling right over you here. If you could PM me with any suggestions/questions I'm all for trying to talk this out and making sure everyone's happy.

Thank you for helping me to solve my problems !

I am licensing a sistership of the Raenette : the Raenette II ; so the Raenette first of the name can be sold by this odious Billy.

I hope she will find a good new owner and will have more luck in the future.