King's Port Advertiser and Ship List (Vol 2, Issue 4) October 617

[Bregir]

3 hours ago, Capt Wolf said:

Not microships, but vignettes similar to the builds required for increasing ship limits. Although now that you mention it ... @Bregir, can you address the question of a microship for a sistershipping required build?

4 hours ago, Bodi said:

Thak you Capt Wolf, and great writing, I forgot to mention that.

By "administrative", I guess you mean building some microships and microscenes?

I can and I will

The sistershipping build simply needs to bring into the lore that the ship is sistershipped. So the only official requirement is that it (clearly) tells the story of you sistershipping a vessel. Thus, it can be a micro, a vignette, part of a larger story build, a property, etc.

5 hours ago, Capt Wolf said:

NPC ships don't have nations assigned automatically, so feel free to pick whatever works for your story. Next time, if you're going after specific NPC nations, PM me at the deadline and I'll work it into the interpretation of the results. (Or PM me now and I can make an executive decision about NPC identities for this month as more info comes into the KPA editorial offices.)

@Kwatchi I would add that you should not define non-existing wars. So if you are being attacked, pick a nation (or independent pirates) for your story that would make sense. In short: Don't "misuse" it to incriminate someone, accusing them of attacking you. :) As CW says, in the future, these things will be defined. It's a learning process for us still. :)

[Tezclatipoca]

Wow, what a chaoctic month !

And The Raenette is still alive after this ! Yeay ! A ship that made every MRCA except one ! This ship has a strong long life ! Hope it will continue...

[Capt Wolf]

10 hours ago, Mesabi said:

Well, that's going to need some spoiler tags. 

I'm trying. It keeps crashing on me when I try to move anything to spoilers.

Edit: Finally got it to work!

[Flavius Gratian]

Noooooo! Complete disaster! Worst possible outcome! Damn you accursed sea rat filth! Pirates the lot of you!

Well, it seems like I have to build some character development after this, Lawliet's view on Sea rats pirates will not have improved!

Great work on the writing!

[Capt Wolf]

12 hours ago, Mesabi said:

I know my ships engaged pirates, but I don't know much else.

The KPA editors reached out to our sources in the eastern seas and can add that the pirates had two ships, a brig (class 4) and a three-masted ship that was well armed (class 5). It seems that the eastern islands, having been so recently settled, appear to be easy pickings for some enterprising sailors disillusioned with their trade luck of late. Our source reports that the merchant captain was recently deposed by the crew and has just found his way back west. It would appear that the WTC may have some upstart mutinous pirates in their backyard.

[Capt Wolf]

On ‎10‎/‎25‎/‎2017 at 5:25 PM, SilentWolf said:

Were the bonuses from Challenge 5 already calculated in? If not of the ships I put forms in for: Alexander in started and stopped in Marderian ports, and the HMS Alice started in King's Port which is also a Marderian city per the map.

To confirm: The Alexander received the challenge 5 bonus. HMS Alice did not, as it is based only on final destination, but I have gone back and added it since that requirement was not made clear. So, HMS Alice profit adjusted to 56, and @blackdeathgr's Crete profit is adjusted to 91.

For the next Trade MRCA, note that Terraversa is no longer a Mardierian city, and that to receive the Challenge 5 bonuses, a ship most end its trade run in the relevant port.

[SilentWolf]

34 minutes ago, Capt Wolf said:

To confirm: The Alexander received the challenge 5 bonus. HMS Alice did not, as it is based only on final destination, but I have gone back and added it since that requirement was not made clear. So, HMS Alice profit adjusted to 56, and @blackdeathgr's Crete profit is adjusted to 91.

For the next Trade MRCA, note that Terraversa is no longer a Mardierian city, and that to receive the Challenge 5 bonuses, a ship most end its trade run in the relevant port.

Thank you for the clarification of the rules going forward. 

Has the news sources heard any rumors of the dastardly pirates putting captured merchant vessels up for ransom auction?

[Capt Wolf]

23 minutes ago, SilentWolf said:

Has the news sources heard any rumors of the dastardly pirates putting captured merchant vessels up for ransom auction?

Our editorial offices have indeed heard that preparations are being made for auctioning off ill-gotten booty. We hope to know more from our sources in the Sea of Thieves after this weekend.

[blackdeathgr]

On 10/26/2017 at 5:50 PM, Flavius Gratian said:

Damn you accursed sea rat filth! Pirates the lot of you!

I totally feel you! But seeing how Sea Rats fared during Era I, this MRCA result is more on par with their capabilities. Strike fear me hearties on the hearts of your enemies (and wait for our glorious Navy to crush you all!! Muhahahaha!  )

[Mesabi]

If anyone wants to see my analysis of the data, check here.

 

[Bregir]

Note to all. We will be making adjustments to the tMRCA so the results for this month may differ significantly from following months.

[MKJoshA]

kaiju's King Archibald is missing from the list as is the Sea Rat Faction ship Corporal Milton. They were on the same run with my Darting Frog.

[Capt Wolf]

Just now, MKJoshA said:

kaiju's King Archibald is missing from the list as is the Sea Rat Faction ship Corporal Milton. They were on the same run with my Darting Frog.

What port were they headed to, and what is their cargo capacity? They came up with an error message in our data output that we thought meant they were licensed but not entered in the Trade MRCA.

[MKJoshA]

Just now, Capt Wolf said:

What port were they headed to, and what is their cargo capacity? They came up with an error message in our data output that we thought meant they were licensed but not entered in the Trade MRCA.

They sailed: 8 [Arlinsport-209] to 38 [Bastion-163] (8, 10, 12, 11, 38). Admittedly, this was the first run I was entering so I may have made a mistake. But I thought I had them in right. The other 3 in that trade run had results.

[Capt Wolf]

Just now, MKJoshA said:

They sailed: 8 [Arlinsport-209] to 38 [Bastion-163] (8, 10, 12, 11, 38). Admittedly, this was the first run I was entering so I may have made a mistake. But I thought I had them in right. The other 3 in that trade run had results.

What were the other three in the group? Cardinal and Misfortune's Revenge (along with the Darting Frog)?

[MKJoshA]

Darting Frog, Cardinal, and Misfortune's Revenge

[Bregir]

I think there were some typos in their names in the form, which have to be picked up manually. At least I seem to remember finding this in my later experiments with the form responses.

So take care to check your spelling :)

[Legostone]

Just now, Bregir said:

I think there were some typos in their names in the form, which have to be picked up manually. At least I seem to remember finding this in my later experiments with the form responses.

So take care to check your spelling :)

Maybe we should include a tag for signed up in the monthly summary if thats possible within reason @Phred

[Capt Wolf]

Just now, MKJoshA said:

Darting Frog, Cardinal, and Misfortune's Revenge

 

Just now, Bregir said:

I think there were some typos in their names in the form

So Cardinal and Misfortune's Revenge made it to Bastion. What is their cargo capacity? (I can't find the ship stats right now.) Or are they just armed escorts?

[Bregir]

Just now, Legostone said:

Maybe we should include a tag for signed up in the monthly summary if thats possible within reason @Phred

How would this work? If they are not spelled correctly in the form, how should we id them?

[Legostone]

Just now, Bregir said:

How would this work? If they are not spelled correctly in the form, how should we id them?

Well, its more about confirming that you didn‘t have a typo in your submission as in checking if the forms for TMRCA/AMRCA contain a ships name at some point. Could be a cool thing, but probably something we shouldn‘t be discussing here ;)

[MKJoshA]

42 minutes ago, Capt Wolf said:

 

So Cardinal and Misfortune's Revenge made it to Bastion. What is their cargo capacity? (I can't find the ship stats right now.) Or are they just armed escorts?

Cardinal and Misfortune's Revenge already have results. Cardinal made nothing and MR made 21DBs. It's King Archibald (don't know the cargo, maybe @kaiju can tell you) and Corporal Milton (1 Cargo space) that we need to know.

[Capt Wolf]

2 hours ago, MKJoshA said:

Cardinal and Misfortune's Revenge already have results. Cardinal made nothing and MR made 21DBs. It's King Archibald (don't know the cargo, maybe @kaiju can tell you) and Corporal Milton (1 Cargo space) that we need to know.

Sorry, that's what I meant, King Archibald and Corporal Milton. They made it to Bastion, and I'll figure out what the payout should be.

[kaiju]

7 hours ago, MKJoshA said:

Cardinal and Misfortune's Revenge already have results. Cardinal made nothing and MR made 21DBs. It's King Archibald (don't know the cargo, maybe @kaiju can tell you) and Corporal Milton (1 Cargo space) that we need to know.

 

4 hours ago, Capt Wolf said:

Sorry, that's what I meant, King Archibald and Corporal Milton. They made it to Bastion, and I'll figure out what the payout should be.

King Archibald is Cargo 3.

[Capt Wolf]

@MKJoshA and @kaiju, King Archibald earned 55 DBs and Corporal Milton earned 25 DBs.