Puzzle Pirates 3

quantus · Post by **quantus** » Fri Aug 29, 2003 9:52 pm

We now have a ship. Unfortunately, with the last update they no longer allow you to start a crew until you have some navigation experience. The captain I was with promoted me to officer so I could gain that experience and we'll probably sail with him for a while. I'll try to get everyone who wants to join onto that crew for now.

Also, I don't think we get to name the ship

Or at least I haven't figured out how to do it.

Post by **Jonathan** » Tue Sep 02, 2003 7:00 pm

Need a time for when 2+ pirates will be online so I can play with you. Figure it out amongst yourselves.

Post by **Jonathan** » Tue Sep 02, 2003 9:17 pm

http://www.talklikeapirate.com/

quantus · Post by **quantus** » Tue Sep 02, 2003 9:22 pm

Well, get PJ to stop playing the other game for a while and I'll work on getting you guys onto the crew.

quantus · Post by **quantus** » Sat Sep 06, 2003 2:50 am

So yeah, I'm sailing around the ocean blue in me very own ship. I guess no one else wants to be a pirate. Come on, you know you want to play too. We should play tomorrow in fact. Like noon'ish EST. What say ye?!

quantus · Post by **quantus** » Sat Sep 13, 2003 5:42 am

There's a massive gala going on for 24 hours... it's a bit confusing to navigate your way to and from events though. Anyone playing puzzle pirates still should check it out.

http://www.puzzlepirates.com/community/ ... php?t=2390

http://www.puzzlepirates.com/community/ ... php?t=2137

quantus · Post by **quantus** » Sat Sep 27, 2003 2:27 am

The Flag I'm in just won a bid for an island of our own. Just in case you're wondering, a Flag is a group of crews who come together to do big things, like buy an island. The crew I'm in will run one of the shops on the island as will the 3 other major crews each get a shop. I'm not sure how the remaining shops will be decided.

Here's a link to my flag's bboard in case any of you want to start playing puzzle pirates more often. I'm in the crew Midnight Pirates as an officer.

The Infidels

Post by **Jonathan** » Tue Sep 30, 2003 11:47 pm

Well, alright. I'll log on weeknights sometimes, cause that's best for me.

quantus · Post by **quantus** » Fri Oct 03, 2003 9:16 pm

Dwindlehop wrote:Well, alright. I'll log on weeknights sometimes, cause that's best for me.

Define a range of times that you'd be most likely to log in? I'll try to be online then if I'm not already. Currently, I'm hoarding poe to go in with a couple of other pirates on owning a shoppe of our own in addition to the crew shop.

Post by **Jonathan** » Fri Oct 03, 2003 9:46 pm

Uh, Tuesday/Thursday 7:30 PM EST to 10 PM EST or so. Occasionally Wednesdays or Mondays. I've been fixing some things up around the house and haven't been playing much of anything recently. Once I get the linux-wlan-ng drivers installed on my Gentoo box, I'll be much happier.

Post by **Jonathan** » Mon Oct 06, 2003 3:13 pm

Woo! I'm a Midnight Pirate. (I really want to change that to Midnight Ass Pirate.) Where are the rest of you scurvy dogs, anyhow?

quantus · Post by **quantus** » Tue Oct 07, 2003 4:05 am

well, unfortunately, the game developer would REALLY dislike that change. There's even a profanity filter. Some examples are:

shit = barnacle
bullshit = bullcannon
ass = booty

An amusing side note is that in an early release, this was messing up and changing the target words into their curses. Like, "<some pirate> is dividing the booty" became "<some pirate> is dividing the ass"

Alan · Post by **Alan** » Tue Oct 07, 2003 4:19 pm

Midnight Ass Pirates are all about dividing the ass.

Post by **Jonathan** » Thu Oct 09, 2003 8:54 pm

click the link: http://www.puzzlepirates.com/

register an account

job with us tonight

Post by **Jonathan** » Thu Oct 09, 2003 8:55 pm

Mondays are a good day for me, as are Tuesdays. Thursdays when I can spare them, and once in a while, Sunday. Pretty much always nights.

quantus · Post by **quantus** » Fri Oct 10, 2003 2:43 am

If you scroll up, you might remember a post about a flag bboard. You might want to check it occassionally. It doesn't get a lot of traffic

quantus · Post by **quantus** » Sun Oct 12, 2003 8:28 am

Wow, someone's nick on Y!PP is spanktaculous. I thought dave started playing or something for a couple of seconds after seeing that.

Alan · Post by **Alan** » Sun Oct 12, 2003 8:37 pm

No if it were Dave it would be spnkatbuacoleos

quantus · Post by **quantus** » Mon Oct 13, 2003 6:19 pm

True, I forgot dave's tendency toward somewhat randomized spelling. I think I may have to take a bunch of spelling samples (say 200) and associate some score (like the number of letters out of place, maybe also scale by the number of letters in the word) and see what kind of random distribution it is. If I were to guess beforehand though, I would think that the Central Limit Theorem would kick in and we'll see a Normal Distribution. Another way to look at might be, if each letter has a certain probability of being out of place (p), then the score is just the number of letters in the word (n) multiplied by p or the average of a binomial process (np). Dividing by n to get the scaled score gets rid of the variation caused by words having different length and in a sense averages all words to 1 letter long. Since the pool of 200 scaled scores is a pool of averages, it will by definition approximate a Normal Distribution.

Since I'm lazy, I probably never will do it. The only chance would be if I have to do some experiment for my stats class I'm taking.

Alan · Post by **Alan** » Mon Oct 13, 2003 6:41 pm

Or you could perform a regression analysis and then we could predict how badly Dave misspells a word depending on how long the word is. Too bad we can't strap Dave into a chair and make him type a bunch of words for us so we can eliminate environmental variability.

Mohtalim

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