Legostone

@Professor Thaum After a couple weeks at sea, Captain Barney Wolf had decided that a stop had to be made before reaching the planned destination. After an evening of planning in the grande cabin including a dart game with their map, it was decided that stopping in Pontelli would be a good idea. Having to spend a night in the town anyways, Dr Thaum had decided to explore the town hoping to maybe get some more information. His name had spread to here - in the street, a scientist approached him. “Doctor” he says, “You are a man of science?” “Yes?” “Excellent. I have been experimenting with flight, via balloons filled with hot aires.” “But I have found problems in my designs. Perhaps you could help a fellow scientist out, and we could work towards building something that really flies!” Option 1: I don't care: Show the crew of the Andromeda navigating away from Pontelli towards wherever you are sailing... Option 2: Help the Scientist develop a better hot air balloon, but risk angering the gods… Option 3: sabotage the scientist, and gain the blessing of the gods, but the wrath of Pontelli... One build required to progress, but more are encouraged. Are you too busy to take the opportunities on your way?

Yeah, Gregory Decker for sure enjoyed that one :D Paying over license value on an unmocced ship :P

POPPED CORN! POPPED CORN!

We had decided on it a couple months back. Rule Update here.

I have already sent those back, but the transaction parts just seems to be broken.

Yes, and one of them still counts, while the other one barely doesn't () 11/7/2017 21:58:28 Dukesc Oleon Nerdy Mermaid 750 11/7/2017 21:58:43 Oleon Oleon Hades' Trumpet 423 11/7/2017 21:59:39 Oleon Oleon Wolf II 402 (anyone noticing the error in the google sheet: Forget to change the timezone earlier. It is correct now, even if these bids show up as an hour late) This gives us the following auction result (without my messup this time) Flying Colt 3 Bloody Bill Silentwolf 200 0 250 SilentWolf Corrington Hades' Trumpet 5 Gregory Decker Sea Rats 420 0 423 Oleon Oleon HRS Ardent 7 Bloody Bill Oleon 700 0 875 Oleon Oleon HRS Tonnant 8 Bloody Bill Oleon 900 0 1125 Oleon Oleon Nerdy Mermaid 3 Bloody Bill Pombe 200 0 750 Dukesc Oleon Supreme 3 Gregory Decker ETTC 200 0 250 ETTC Corrington The Aspiration 6 Bloody Bill Phred 560 0 700 Phred Oleon Wolf II 4 Gregory Decker Sea Rats 300 0 402 Oleon Oleon (green has already paid, and I'm sitting here wondering how an unmocced class 5 gets more expensive than its value) @Capt Wolf Arr! I hate sendin' back gold! Would've kept it hadn't these crazy paperguys been glued to my neck all night! -Gregory

...wait, I'm stupid, wrong day.

Arr! Tha auction has come to an end! The following vessels were bought back: Flying Colt - 250 DB, already paid. Silentwolf HRS Ardent - 875 DB, already paid, Oleon HRS Tonnant - 1125 DB, already paid, Oleon Supreme - 250 DB, already paid, ETTC The Aspiration - 700 DB, not paid yet, @Phred - please transfer 700 DB to Bloody Bill The following vessels have been won in auction: Nerdy Mermaid - 180 DB, not paid yet, @Umbra-Manis - please transfer 180 DB to Bloody Bill Hades' Trumpet - 301 DB, not paid yet, @Legostone - please transfer 301 DB to Gregory Decker Wolf II - 400 DB, not paid yet, @Capt Wolf - please transfer 400 DB to Gregory Decker Wrong day, sorry.

(well, I would have gone a bit further on both of them actually. Just wanted to wait another day or two :P) Arr! Two giant chests of golden Doubloonies? Can't say no to that. Send' em over, and you may get your vessels back! (Bloody handprint)(transfer 1125 + 875 (you may do the math yourself or believe me that it's 2000 DBs total) DBs to Bloody Bill)

Sadly there is, at least currently, no way to prevent the "rich" from bidding on these ships. Maybe we can do something different next time... Currently Bloody Bill and other NPC pirates are on nobodies side, but maybe someone from the SR could try finding him to negotiate better terms for the next auctions, given that you are also pirates? I'm not going to guarantee anything here, but maybe something like that could work... The final sentence had nothing to do with leaving out the SR discount - my original plan had it planned in, but I got convinced to leave it out. It was nothing but a (not really fitting I guess) hint that the SR don't show mercy either... We are still working stuff out, so stuff may change. But as these auctions go, this is mostly how it'll be.

@Lord Buckethead, @MKJoshA, @Maxim I, @Faladrin, @Sebeus I, @Puvel, @Sir Stig, MAESTRO, RNTC and Oleon (and various Co-Adventurers who may be reminded by the Adventure leader): If you want to continue your adventure in the upcoming MRCA, finish your MOCs and post them before the deadline on the 15th

You may transfer 700 DBs to Bloody Bill to purchase the vessel back. @SilentWolf Arr! Your letter has been received, and we'll be releasin' your vessel together with the little that's left of your crew once you've sent us the box of gold. GOLD! (Bloody handprint) (transfer 250 DB to Bloody Bill) __________________________ Comin' here to negotiate, huh? Send me 250 shiny golden doubloons and your vessel will be yours again, I'm not changing my mind on that one! (transfer 250 DB to Gregory Decker) Edit: Note: I've filled a bid in the names of ETTC and you just to have a submission in the auction doc. Don't worry about it - the current values won't change again. Also placed another bid on "Hades' Trumpet"

The next turn starts at the same time the regular MRCA continues, November 15th.

I actually think its better this way - you can now guess if you could get your ship below the buyback value or not, looking at the current bids. I wouldn‘t be surprised if some vessels exceed ~1.5 times the license value this auction. Well, again - these guys are pirates, and they want the maximum income they can get. And well, if you had owned one of these vessels you now have a choice, unlike some who have lost their vessels to the sea floor - and neither way is stopping you from sistershipping. Well, some vessels might still remain affordable to most people. And well, besides the last 2 auctions in the earlier MRCA, ships were never really cheap... And again, we are talking about pirates who want to make money, the buyback is just a convenience thing we are offering. Did the SR offer me to buy the vessels they captured off me at license value? Haha, I‘m hopeful for that one too :D

3rd November, 16:02 GMT Hades' Trumpet is indeed unmocced. Name Class Range Maneuver Firepower Crew Cargo Hull Flying Colt 3 3 2 2 1 4 3 Hades' Trumpet 5 4 4 4 4 1 4 HRS Ardent 7 6 3 8 4 0 6 HRS Tonnant 8 6 3 9 5 0 7 Nerdy Mermaid 3 4 4 0 2 3 2 Supreme 3 3 3 2 1 5 1 The Aspiration 6 4 4 2 2 9 3 Wolf II 4 4 2 4 4 1 3 Also placed a couple of bids...

Well, the MOCs are auctioned off with the license attached. The license doesn't need to be paid again. Alternatively they could always sistership... We had a discussion about this in court, and decided that, given that once a ship is licensed, it is to be treated like any other vessel. Full price for everyone who wants to buy back their ships at starting price. Well, its a gamble on the original owners not buying their ship out. The main goal is getting the ships back into the game

I also placed a couple bids for myself. Not sure if waiting for the last minute is such a great idea...

And we have bigger bribes

With the Seas swarmed by pirates this month, we have now received a message that they are offering to sell off their captured vessels. We have also heard they are offering to sell the vessels back to the original owners (at 125% license value) - but only for the first 3 days of the auction. The following vessels have been captured and are, starting now, up for auction: Shipname Class Current Owner Previous owner Value Flying Colt 3 Bloody Bill @SilentWolf 200 Hades' Trumpet 5 Gregory Decker Sea Rats 420 HRS Ardent 7 Bloody Bill Oleon 700 HRS Tonnant 8 Bloody Bill Oleon 900 Nerdy Mermaid 3 Bloody Bill @pombe 200 Supreme 3 Gregory Decker ETTC 200 The Aspiration 6 Bloody Bill @Phred 560 Wolf II 4 Gregory Decker Sea Rats 300 Name Class Range Maneuver Firepower Crew Cargo Hull Flying Colt 3 3 2 2 1 4 3 Hades' Trumpet 5 4 4 4 4 1 4 HRS Ardent 7 6 3 8 4 0 6 HRS Tonnant 8 6 3 9 5 0 7 Nerdy Mermaid 3 4 4 0 2 3 2 Supreme 3 3 3 2 1 5 1 The Aspiration 6 4 4 2 2 9 3 Wolf II 4 4 2 4 4 1 3 Well, cool, there is an auction, but what do I do now? View the current bids here, and place your bid using this form (I'm sorry, but this is the easiest solution to not spam the forum too much...) Auction ends at the 7th day of November 617, at 10 pm GMT If you placed bids, I would appreciate you mention it here, but you don't have to. If you want to buy back your vessel just post here. If you want to put another vessel up for sale, just tell me and I'll set it up.

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 ;)

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

Click that button select the resulution (using the pic above - excuse the few options and german language, but it should be similar) and copy the URL (CTRL+C) Paste it here (CTRL+V) Optionally: delete the extra text.

You can also go through "share picture" -> "BBCode" with your preferred size and just paste that here. It automatically converts everything:D

That name sounds like single digits :D

@Mesabi Thanks for doing this! I wanted to do something similar (I might bring 1 more aspect to the table later), but didn’t get around doing it just yet. A small note - my total profit (practically) is even higher than that, because the class 4 in my fleet is upkeep free as I had won it in CH4B. Class 5+7+2+4 is 18, not 29 - not sure where you are getting that 29 from. Given that we’ll be rebalancing everything anyways, I think I can publicly mention that I had calculated the harbour saturation for Eslandolan towns together with the cargo levels of our own fleet to get optimum profits for each port (and I think I succeeded there looking at Eslandolan profits compared to our average vessel size...) and well, the optimum level is there where the maximum profit sits - not where you have very low upkeep - I think I was very close to that, I think I could probably get another class 4 at some point...