Tezclatipoca

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  2. Posted

    On 1/18/2024 at 10:13 PM, Maxim I said:

    *thud* (falls out the sky).

    Wow, shame on me that it has been so long since I visited the forum.

    Wow ! Nice to see I'm not alone to be back ! Good to see you here my friend !

    I totally agree with you on the quality MOC idea ! I Would recommand to separate Brickbuilt MOCs from Digital ones though in order to avoid some unfairness... So there could be a prize for the best Brickbuilt MOC and another prize for the Digital MOC of the quarter or of the season, whatever the regularity the Court would choose...

  3. Posted

    2 hours ago, Capt Wolf said:

    Alas, I think that was the biggest mistake in early BoBS: deciding that the Sea Rats weren't all pirates. It should be the pirate faction, IMO.  Hopefully Era III will fix that in some fashion.

    Yes it was a mistake IMO. I agree with you.

    I hope the new rules could help players to play some real bad guys by helping them in doing some acts of piracy and real ship attacks without risking to loose too much. I always found too risky to attack by myself the ships passing at my vessel range... 

    As it is actually, I find the rules too gentle for the trading actions and too hard for the piracy actions.

  4. Posted

    8 hours ago, Ross Fisher said:

    I like that. It would be great if we all doubled-down on our identities; Oleon would become a Cult, Corrington would become a Sophocracy, Eslandola would become a Megacorporation, and the Sea Rats would become a movement of freedom fighters. 

    Hey great idea ! I like it !

    It would be very RP to accentuate those identities to represent the fact that Factions evolved. You should suggest this in the "looking for help for new Era" or something like that... dedicated thread.

  6. Posted

    On 12/23/2023 at 10:15 PM, Professor Thaum said:

     

    The return of Faladrin...

    Maybe ... yes ...

    On 12/23/2023 at 11:42 PM, Garmadon said:

    I think you will like it :pir-wink:  That's just along the lines of what we've been looking at in court - can't wait til we get to start sharing some more of it with y'all! :pir-huzzah2:

    I hope so ! I'll look forward to read what you've prepared for us all !

    A sure thing : I will not be involved as I was by the past.

    It will be, as a humble player, a post of this; and a post of that... from time to time.

    @Jeff of Clubs : I could clarify my thoughts yes of course : The game lost me with the Terraversa war against Mardier... the lore was too complex finally and not really cohesive some times. As I said, I was an "old" player and I had been involved in Terraversa before this event. It bothered me to see what this little island had become after that. I thought I wasn't at my place anymore. so I stopped playing. That's it !

  7. Posted

    This is excellent news ! 

    I would (re) join the game for a new character and probably within the Sea Rats.

    I enjoyed playing Felipe de la Manzana in Eslandola during the first shot of the game but got bored in Era II because of many complications. 

    I would suggest less rules. Less complexity. Less virtual builds. And please ! no more NPC factions. It was too heavy to follow...

    Please, consider less is more for a better Era in the future.

    That was my 2 cents and it's been a while...

     

  8. Posted

    On 7/30/2021 at 9:15 AM, Jack Sassy said:

    Just here to promote Pirates Mafia IV sign up. So far there are four players ready but at least seven are needed, are you game?

     

    Hopefully I won't have my head cut off by guillotine for promoting the game here. (although, guillotine sounds French, I love French, did you know they invented mayonnaise?)

     

    (That comment of getting my head cut off was simply because I'm still fairly new member here (only 2 years) and I'm yet to try all features, therefore I hope this is allowed. :pir-grin:)

    Guillotine ? Guillotine ?? ... Erh ... Which Guillotine ?

    No ! Of Course ! (first because you love French, and I am French, and second, Because you love Mayonnaise, I could send some to you but it would probably spoils before it reaches your door... never mind... a silly idea...)

    A game with Pirates is always welcome ! Of course!

  11. Posted

    On 7/29/2021 at 2:13 PM, TheBeeze said:

    Anyone else wanna weigh in here on the schedule? Waiting to hear from you guys so I can make the best call for everyone. 

     

    Gonna need forms for the next part either way. @Faladrin and @ParmBrick get your forms in when you have them.

    I am just in time... Attack posted !

    Lots of IRL stuff got my time but I'm on holidays now and I am preparing something huge for the few next days...

  12. Posted

    Attack - J15

    The port of Novozibrisk

     

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    It was a normal day on a normal quay at the port of Novozibrisk this morning.

    Though the town was falling under the iron boots of Communism, still, the port stayed away from these tumultuous events.

    The only thing that changed was the presence of this annoying armed guard

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    - What is all that trash ? ...

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    - Move this away ! ...

    And other "joyful" yellings were the only things we could get from him...

    Until the liberators came from the water...

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    Like in the city center they were more than welcome !

    They removed the annoying guard of his fonctions.

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    It seemed some could have heard a wisper of relief from the dockers...

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    Now all the city was liberated from the Tyranny and embrassed freely the KLR Ideology.

    The plan is developping well ! The Admiral will be happy to have a port to his reach !

     

  13. Posted

    Nice work. :thumbup:

    For the pictures try to make links to the pictures instead of charging the picture itself. Don't hesitate to use an external image hoster like FLickR or ImgUR and just post the link in your post (you can see how to do in our tuto). For now I took the liberty to add a full view of your ship to your topic.

    And for photography I would suggest you to use a blank background; I was quite disturbed by your clock and window in the background.

  14. Posted

    On 7/20/2021 at 2:40 PM, zinnn said:

    Just wanted to bump this up and point out that the photos in the first post are not working anymore ;(

    Yes like Mr Phes is saying, Photos don't stay eternnally on their hosted location.

    There is no need to bump old topics to mention that. Please avoid it in the future. Thank you.

  15. Posted

    Good start.

    I have just some remarks concerning posting rules :

    1. This is a MOC (even in WIP; it's still a MOC) so I moved the Topic in the Pirate MOCs Subforum where it can find its audience.

    2. As a WIP it needs a little mention of it in the title : Like the [WIP] I added in the title: in our Pirate MOC Forum we like to see a quick index appears in front of each topic : [MOC] if it's a finish build and [WIP] if it's still in developpemnt.

    3. Be careful not to duplicate topics. 

  16. Posted

    On 7/18/2021 at 12:10 PM, Beskar Bricks said:

    The Republic of Concordia (ROC) will be joining PSIC. 

    This is specialist J. Thompson, part of the ROC's Special Forces division. Concordia has had immense technological expansion over the past 10 years. The members of ROCSF are trained to perfection, a distinct fighting machine. 

    Welcome !

    Even if you chose to serve Imperialism and capitalism...

    See you on the battlefield... :pir-grin:

  18. Posted

    [Esl - ChIV - Cat F]

    The Terraversa Crab Basket Part 6 :

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    Chief Apulo is going rogue

     

    A strange ship with a strange delivery is approaching a non less strange rocky point near Terraversa...

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    This is the Special Delivery the Chief Apulo ordered to some shady characters...

    Do you remember them ? Nah ? You've already seen them though...Remember our last Episode !

    Ah ! Of Course ! : The Terraversa Crab Basket Part 5 : Sea Delivery by @Professor Thaum

    And now it seems Chief Apulo is going rogue ! He has acquaintance with Sea Rats !

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    That's why he rushed out from the Colonial Council of Eslandola months ago from now shouting at whom would dare to listen to him he had a solution for Terraversa !

    A solution which implicates smuggling with Sea Rats... Well... Probably not a totally legal business then...

    So, let's get back to our protagonists and see what this delivery is...

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    - Alright Chief, mumbled the beardy pirate, here is your Gloubster.

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    - Glou - ster ? Ah ! Gloucester ! Like the Corrish province ! it's from there ? is it ?

    - Narrh... spit the Sea Rats... not at all ! It's GlouBster, don't skip the B in the name... It's a new species discovered or created by the Doctor Thaum and he named it Gloubster : according to him it's an hybrid (I think it's the term he used) between a Glouglou and a Lobster so a mix of the 2 animals then he logically named it Gloubster.

    - Ah allright ! Answered the Native a little bit confused. And it's tasty ? Isn't it ?

    - Probably yes ! The Glouglous and the Lobsters are 2 delicious species ! Why this one would not ? But I never had the oportunity to try it.

    - Ok ! Perfect ! This is exactly what I was expecting ! Chief Apulo enthousiastly continued. Our project is well progressing; this is a fructuous association ! The Doctor is clearly a sure associate ! Here is the first part of the payment. You'll have the end at the delivery in Silithonia. Concluded the native by giving the smuggler a certain amount of gold.

    - Thanks Chief ! Chewed the Pirate snaping up the gold in his pouch. The Doctor prepared a totally secret network to make transit goods through all the main places of Terraversa, you'll have your Gloubster ready for your little party in time ! Trust him on that ! Come on lads ! He finally yelled at the crew. Faster ! We don't have all the day !

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    The last crates and other smuggling goods were quickly prepared and the rest of the delivery was achieved in a record time.

    To be continued ...

     

  19. Posted

    I finally got one of those new monkeys and that's a nice mold.

    The design is cute but this new monkey is less playable as it hasn't moving arms. I will probably keep the old ones but I am not excluding using the new ones in some MOCs too. Diversity is always a good thing ! :monkey:

  20. Posted

    Congrats to the winners. :pir-huzzah2:

    I am still puzzled about Digital entries for contests : 3 winning builds for a same player with all 3 Digital builds in all the 3 categories ... well , at the least, it's surprising; at the worst it's... well... not fair.

    This is one of the rarest time where my personal evaluation of the builds is sooo... different from the judges' one.

    I know I have my own criterias ad I know I could be not fan of Digital entries but this time I differently see the results of the contest. (not that I was expecting to win, I admit my builds were a little bit rushed for a clear lack of time)

    It's conforting me in the idea that the Terraversa Conflict should have been resolved by the contest.

    It would have attract more players. Exausted less some others (myself being in this category) and would have found a better and more realistic resolution for such a conflict for an Age of Sail war.

    Just my two cents here, no offense. But I would consider to lower my participation in the future.

     

  25. Posted

    Lovely sloop.

    It could be easily seen in the Brethren of the Brick Seas game !

    For your photography set up : you should try to take your pics in front of a white cloth or sheet of paper instead of this opened parcel. The contrast would be better (I know sails would pop out lesser then the ship but the ship here seems very dark for now like you've photographed it)