Puzzle Pirates

quantus · Post by **quantus** » Tue Aug 05, 2003 6:39 pm

Dwindlehop wrote:Anyhow, how do you get better at swordfighting? I read the thingy about the different kinds of swords and their patterns, but it doesn't make any sense.

The colors on the sword determine the colors in the pattern. Each sword of the same type has the same pattern. Mine sucks because both colors are green.

You get better at it by doing it like anything else. Click on people and look at their info. That'll give you a good idea of the different levels of experience. I'm not sure if you get some sort of bonus for having more experience in a skill or not, but I think that's the case because I get bigger puzzles for carpentry and sailing now. I don't notice a difference in bilging, but I suck at bilging. Maybe you get more special things in bilging?

quantus · Post by **quantus** » Tue Aug 05, 2003 6:43 pm

Peijen wrote:
Dwindlehop wrote:Anyhow, how do you get better at swordfighting? I read the thingy about the different kinds of swords and their patterns, but it doesn't make any sense.
yeah, i haven't figure this out yet. but different sword has different drop pattern, if you move your mouse over to your foil you would see a 4x8 block, this represent the drop pattern, but I haven't figure out the correlation yet.

You are suppose to use your and opponent's pattern to maximize your effiency, Joe might understand this better. Beside that just play alot, you don't have to bet to challenge people so just fight anyone you come across.

Think of the 4x8 pattern as going across the bottom of your screen. If you had an empty board and something dumped filled up that area, that's what it would look like. Now repeat that pattern on top of what was dropped for the next drop and so on. If you had one row across the bottom already, it would just leave that row off and continue the drop pattern as if it wasn't there.

quantus · Post by **quantus** » Tue Aug 05, 2003 6:49 pm

here's a 2x2 example... Say I have a pattern of (b=blue r=red g=green y=yellow):
bb
yy

the drop on an empty board would look like board1.
If I had a row of junk already, then it would look like board2.

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 ....      ....
  bb        bb
  yy        yy
  bb        bb
  yy        yy
  bb        bb
  yy        gg
----bottom----
board1    board2

quantus · Post by **quantus** » Tue Aug 05, 2003 6:50 pm

if you had a checkered pattern, you'd be really hard to beat.

Post by **Jonathan** » Tue Aug 05, 2003 7:09 pm

so, the pattern on my sword is what is dropped onto my opponent's board. did i get all the pronouns and antecedents correct?

Post by **Jonathan** » Tue Aug 05, 2003 7:11 pm

which means that i ought to figure out who is on me in a melee and stack my blocks according to their sword pattern, thus enabling me to utilize their strikes against them. that, and i ought to buy a better sword, since the foil is like burning.

Post by **Jonathan** » Tue Aug 05, 2003 8:39 pm

http://www.puzzlepirates.com/docs/refinery_labor.html

Take a job, earn money while you're not playing.

http://www.puzzlepirates.com/docs/colonisation.html

In the end game, crews or flags can colonize new islands.

Post by **Jonathan** » Tue Aug 05, 2003 8:49 pm

So why I gotta be Narrow, huh? You should just accept me as part of your crew right now! Arr.

Post by **Jonathan** » Tue Aug 05, 2003 8:50 pm

I will play a little bit around 9 pm PDT. Uh, 7 pm central?

Peijen · Post by **Peijen** » Tue Aug 05, 2003 8:52 pm

Dwindlehop wrote:I will play a little bit around 9 pm PDT. Uh, 7 pm central?

I think that would be 11pm central, unless my earth rotated the wrong way ...

Post by **Jonathan** » Tue Aug 05, 2003 9:00 pm

Maybe where I live, the earth *does* rotate the wrong way. Yeah, okay, you're right. Blah.

Post by **Jonathan** » Tue Aug 05, 2003 9:01 pm

well, i can tell you i won't be playing at 6 pm central, that's for sure. tonight i think we're going shopping or something like that, probably not before 11 pm central, either. at least not tonight.

quantus · Post by **quantus** » Tue Aug 05, 2003 9:52 pm

Dwindlehop wrote:well, i can tell you i won't be playing at 6 pm central, that's for sure. tonight i think we're going shopping or something like that, probably not before 11 pm central, either. at least not tonight.

I'll probably be playing around then, so maybe I can get you invited... what the heck is your pirates name?

quantus · Post by **quantus** » Tue Aug 05, 2003 9:53 pm

Dwindlehop wrote:so, the pattern on my sword is what is dropped onto my opponent's board. did i get all the pronouns and antecedents correct?

yes

quantus · Post by **quantus** » Tue Aug 05, 2003 9:54 pm

Dwindlehop wrote:http://www.puzzlepirates.com/docs/refinery_labor.html

Take a job, earn money while you're not playing.

Note: The Crafting Puzzles are not presently implemented

Post by **Jonathan** » Tue Aug 05, 2003 11:01 pm

quantus wrote:
Dwindlehop wrote:well, i can tell you i won't be playing at 6 pm central, that's for sure. tonight i think we're going shopping or something like that, probably not before 11 pm central, either. at least not tonight.
I'll probably be playing around then, so maybe I can get you invited... what the heck is your pirates name?

I dunno... probably something weird... totally unexpected... completley original... how about... Dwindlehop.

quantus · Post by **quantus** » Wed Aug 06, 2003 12:01 am

Have any of you looked through how the political hierarchy works. It's kinda interesting and yet simplistic. Anyways, I wanna be a captain already!!!

Post by **Jonathan** » Wed Aug 06, 2003 12:31 am

Ha! I'm now Narrow in sailing and respected throughout my archipeaglo.

quantus · Post by **quantus** » Wed Aug 06, 2003 12:34 am

I'm Wide in all three core duties.

Post by **Jonathan** » Wed Aug 06, 2003 2:10 am

Well, blah. Spacemonkey can't navigate or sea battle worth crap!

So you don't consider swordfighting to be core? Or bilging?