>Downloadhttps://www.puzzlepirates.com/https://store.steampowered.com/app/99910/Puzzle_Pirates/>CrewWe have a crew up named Plank's Closed, ask in the thread for an invite.>Wikihttps://yppedia.puzzlepirates.com/Main_PageThe MMOdventure anons will be playing this for the next 2-3 weeks.>>2466551
>>2482799Yo!!! Rigging sucks! I suck at it! I hate it! BAKA BAKA BAKA BAKA
>>2482904That makes you a SUCKING RIGGER!
>saved up enough for my own boat after working like a SLAVE on other people's>can't even drive it unless I buy the officer badge
>>2483438We can't just let slaves do whatever they want. That's why there's so much piracy in the first place.
cool game, see you in 2 weeks
>>2483438Its pretty easy to get it, it costs like one voyage worth of money
Does anyone know what all this means? Why are there two values and what's with the archipelago distinction?
I've been spending all my pieces of eight to get dubloons, to get badges. So I have a bunch of badges I can trade. Officer, Sea Monster, Parlor games etc.
press escape to talk while doing a puzzle
If we complete a voyage while the captain of the ship is offline, when is the booty split and delivered? Is it something the captain will have to do later, or is it something anyone with an officer badge can do?
>>2483732Thats something I forgot to do yesterday, split the booty at the end.
/tmute to remove trade spam
>>2483732When a ship ports, any player ranked officer or above in the crew can divide (or "divvy") the booty by selecting the appropriate option. He or she will then view a screen with a default booty divide according to the crew's booty shares. The officer can then adjust the booty shares when appropriate (for example, players who left during battle can be given -1 to reduce their share of the booty). Once the division has been approved by the officer, it is submitted for approval by the rest of the pirates on board the ship. A notification is sent to the players, who can vote by clicking on "Vote on booty". They may then vote "yea" or "nay" and a majority is needed to enact the decision. If a ship is at sea when the server reboots, it is whisked back to its last port of call, and the booty is divided according to the crew booty shares.If all pirates abandon a ship at sea long enough for it to be auto-ported (15 minutes), all commodities and PoE in the booty are dumped into the sea and lost.After a ship ports, if the booty remains undivided for more than thirty minutes, it is automatically divided according to the crew booty shares. https://yppedia.puzzlepirates.com/Booty
What does it mean when the captain starts saying a bunch of numbers while he's in battle nav?
>>2483924Also when they say "Welcome, feel free to just chill but don't S/L" I assume they mean you dont have to do puzzles but dont just stand and AFK?
>>2483924the numbers is the list of cannon shots traded/hit, each ship has a certain max amount of shots it can take before it becomes redundant tokeep shooting them. It's why in some boarding engagements you have the gray boxes in bottom of sf screen and top of rumble screen.
>>2483929yeah it means just don't be afk during fights, you can stand around and laze outside of swordfight/rumble though
*rubs hands*
>>2484969I like the coin designs
Fucking hell what a boat
Someone showed me how to become a rabbit
Perfectly fitting all the planks into their spots so there's no overrun space in carpenting activates my autism in a good way.
The game is quite addictive but I can only play it in short bursts unlike other MMOs. So like an hour or two a day does me until the next day.
>>2484969>cha-chingDemonic game.
Shout out to all fellow riggers out there.
wtf racist boat
is there a single minigame here that doesn't eventually decide you're not efficient anymore even if you're making progress every movethe obfuscated efficiency mechanic in all of these is making me have an aneurysm
don't let your boat run out of rum lol
>>2486580So that's what it's for.
>>2486549It's not that you're not making progress, it's that the scoring rate is so inflated that you're not performing as well as people who have been playing for 20 years. I find it hard to get a good score on bilging even if you're doing well, but sailing seems pretty fair, if you do well, you get a good score.I could also suck at bilging though, desu.
>>2487107if in-ship progress or your ability to unlock the puzzle features on any of this is scaled against the leaderboard (against BOTS) i'll see you niggas in 2 weeks. who was hiding that dogshit when we were voting
>>2488114>>2487107come to think of it, this explains how all the tutorial videos seem to get their efficiency active quicker with the same or worse moves whereas me getting a 20 clear in rigging gets the sail half up and drops down in 3 secondsthe bar was literally lower back then so people could cap out with wasted turns still, huh?
>>2488020Get a portrait together
who the hell keeps puzzling my pirates
>Job with pirates who said they're doing a long voyage>Do it for only an hour>Log out to 2k>Log in to 11kHonestly seems like the best way to get money is sign up to a voyage and just log out.
>>2488114It isn't its just arbitrary really. Its for the captain to see who is and isnt doing well but they dont notice it
>>2488309what's happening is you're logging out before they divide the booty. You don't get any if you're not staying for a while
i don't really feel like there's anything to work towards. we already have ships and if it's money you want, you make infinitely more just joining big public SL pillagesand the puzzles are not really fun
>>2488505I think this would have worked better as people suggested in the thread, as a thing we do every mini game night, rather than a two week thing. Its not really a lock in for two weeks game, its a drop in, drop out game. You log in, get hooked on the gameplay loop for two or so hours, then you're satisfied/get burned out, then you log out.Its not a bad game at all, in fact it succeeds in what it's trrying to do, and what its trying to do is be a more casual, socially focused game. Which I think would work better for mini game night.
>>2488505You keep saying this and yet we haven't fucking done anything. I was able to join one small pillage with 2-3 of you guys for about 30 minutes. We haven't done any of the big content, half the posts in the thread are people complaining that they suck at puzzles, you're all dressed like hobos, you live in shacks, you aren't ranked with the navy, you aren't ranked in any of the puzzles, you aren't officers, you don't own your own boats, you don't run your own businesses (half the game's fucking puzzles are crafting btw), you have no achievements of notes, you have nothing. In other games, some of you can spend 40 hours grinding to get your arbitrary level up to 100 and unlock no new content or rewards. In this game you quit before you're even able to afford new fucking pants.
>>2488769none of that sounds fun or achievable in two weeks. Gee whiz i have an epic coat that will degrade in 30 days damn that's fucking epic
>>2488779An epic coat that provides no stats, nothing. Just for looksmaxxing and is flavor more than necessity. Only real things that matter are swords and fist weapons for rumble but that's really for pvp. Drinking mug is completely optional for that mini game if any decide to dabble in it. Content wise: unless you can spend more than a few months in the game straight up grinding the only end game available after two weeks is cursed isle or seamonster hunt runs and possibly NPC flotilla raids but the real end game is war dec and blockading an island and achieving that in a two weeks without dropping half a grand irl dosh is nearly impossible unless one of you manage to get really lucky. Definitely better as a game night event than playing long term for two weeks straight. There isn't really a dedicated story line behind the game.
>>2488779It literally is fun to do puzzles with you idiots. But not if you give up three days in before you get any fucking good at the puzzles.>but you can just tag along on other players' pillages! you dont need us!The point is to do it with /mmod/. If I'm not going to play with you guys, I might as well just go play whatever MMO I want. God, it's no wonder video games all have you on a massive treadmill with RPG mechanics. You guys are hardcore MMO gamers and you can't handle one slightly more open game with no levels or main storyline to grind through.
>>2488824Like look at this fucking guy. He sounds exactly like every one of the other MMO regulars we've met. "Oh my MMO takes WAY more skill and time investment than yours. You'll NEVER get to endgame, you might as well just play during game nights."Every fucking game we play there's one of these guys and every game our dedicated autists prove them wrong by getting to the level cap and doing the endgame and getting the gear. But this game you guys are giving up because you aren't willing to get good at fucking Puyo Puyo.
I wont lie Im kind of done with puzzle pirates frens too. theres not really much to do or work towards in the game besides earning more gold but we already have ships and shit unless someone sets up a goal for us to work towards. game would have been better if clothing had stats and those stats better improved the rate at how good you preformed at puzzles instead of it being entirely skill based. I cant be bothered to learn S tier puzzle strats when the game will be dropped in another week anyway once the 2 week anniversary game is decided>>2488878does this game actually have endgame? all of it consists so far is getting better at puzzles and earning more gold which as that anon put is useless because clothing is only for looks
It's been bad timing for me this week but starting Friday evening ill grind hard. I will tetris effect myself.
>>2488769>grind away at puzzles so you can be able to afford a badge to wageslave and earn more gold to buy more useless shitultimate goyim game
>>2488505>>2488687>>2488769I think looking back, as nice as it was, we probably shouldn't have accepted the free boats as we have a lot now. It would have been more fun to work towards getting it on week one by going on public voyages and learning the ropes, then doing our own voyages week two. Because I also feel the first two days were chaotic with nobody knowing how to navigate etc.
>>2489008I've been grinding for dubloons which has turned out to be really easy. When I saw there was an game cash for cash shop currency exchange I was expecting a horrific grind because it usually was. Like on Wakfu for example, the exchange rate on there was insane it was like one million to one. But the grind for dubloons isnt that bad. Around 3500 for one. Thats around a an hour voyage on a strong ship. Then you'll usually get three trinkets out of that, so you exchange those at the trade post for 8000 pieces of eight. So thats around 11,000 in an hour. That'll give you three dubloons. The Parlor badge is only four dubloons. So I've been buying the content unlock badges and giving them away.
>>2488855>do puzzles with you>with youi don't know what game you're playing, but i haven't gotten to spectate anyone's game after i get knocked in a swordfightthis is a 1 person lobby game with a chatroom.>>2488824>>2488779THE CLOTHES DECAY TOO???i thought it was acceptable for weapons since a doubloon is similar to how much you had to pay for energy in the other grey havens game we played, but why are the skins on a decay timer?the more i look at this game the more it looks like a treadmill to nowhere. i fought the vampires so far and the only difference with them is their loot and a more annoying sprinkle in a swordfight
you retards should hunt the kraken or go to the cursed isles or open a shoppe or do a vampire lair or something, you're just all standing on the dock doing nothing then complaining there's nothing to do
>>2489007Basically from what I'm gathering from doing the public voyages is that the brigands and barbarians drop "charts" if you go to the navigation wheel and select chart a voyage or whatever, you get to see your known map and the ocean map is HUGE. When I looked at it, I have a bunch of islands unlocked but I was nothing more than a tiny dot that I had to zoom in on.So you gotta collect these charts which unlock more places to voyage to, and sometimes they drop charts to dungeons and special places. The named Brigands and Vampire ships also drop the charts to special areas more. Then you go to these special places and you basically run a puzzle dungeon or reap the rewards depending what it is. Like I have a chart to some Atlantis settlement unlocked. But from what I know thats basically the endgame place its on the other side of the ocean.But yeah I agree, as nice of a gesture as it was for anons to buy us ships so we could do our own voyage, it would have probably been better to work towards that. Because in a way, thats kind of like power levelling which I believe isnt allowed in /mmod/ everyone has to start at level 1 even if they already play that game. We've essentially been given "high level" stuff in a way.
>>2489081but what is the purpose if the only goal is to loot more money? the puzzles become annoying and repetitive after just a few hours. does the kraken puzzle differ from any of the others or is it like the vampire puzzle which is just reskinned swordfigthing
>>2489016Most MMOs are grinds for worthless shit
puzzle pirates is lacking the number go up mechanic that makes most mmos fun to grindthere is no number to make go up and im not 45 years old so sitting around in a virtual parlor playing poker with a super epic gold trimmed degradable coat isn't doing it for me, and honestly puzzle pirates anon is so high and mighty and acting like the biggest faggot ever
>>2489111You are not wrong but the grinds in other mmos make your character do more damage or anything, theres nothing like that in puzzle pirates. better clothing doesnt do anything but change your looks and all of it deteriorates. I just cant be bothered this is like one of those facebook social mmos you would play in 2010 but hardly anything special for /mmod/ especially for 2 weeks. I mean realistically how many of us are already burnt out from doing the same puzzles over and over and over again only after 3 days, what about another 4 days? then we have a whole other week left to go after that doing the same shit
>>2489128and unlike some younger anons I cant be bothered to get "good" at a game we're all going to drop once the 2 weeks over anyways. if that is the purpose of playing this id rather go play some esports game in the meantime to get good at a game that actually matters, sorry
I like battle nav quite a bit, but that's about it and I get burnt out after 3 or so battles
>>2489125and most of the best players with all the best gear anyways run bots nobody who has that much shit I seriously have doubts is playing this game legitimately
>>2489128Like I said in the /mmod/ thread and told you all, this would have been suited for mini game night where we all visit it like once a month to do a half an hour voyage, rather than a 2 week thing.
>>2489137But that can be said of any /mmod/ game though. We're all dropping them in 2 weeks.
>>2489111Your contempt for the genre is no reason to be a sewage merchant yourself, anon. Why don't you say things you can look someone in the eye with?
>>2489189Same. I quite like the game and going on big voyages but I can't play for more than 2 hours unlike other mmod games. Its more that I keep wanting to go back to it, it has an addictive nature, but once I get my "fix" I'm done for the day. Just an hour of gameplay burns me out and it starts getting old, until the next day where I'm up for playing again.I think its the same for a lot of anons since we do seem to still be having a lot of people coming on but only for an hour or two at a time.This is a game designed for short bursts.
>>2488878Completely misinterpreting what I said and forming it to your own perceived take. I never said it takes way more skill. It definitely takes more time investment than most of the other games /mmod/ has played. If you take a step back away to view the game for what it is some of the content is locked behind having several million poe on hand. Not saying to not play but assuming you're >>2488769 >big contentthe biggest content a smallish new group could get into in two weeks was as stated previously: seamonster hunting, cursed isles, war brig/frig pillage, and flotilla attacks which are fun in their own right but requires at least 3-4 hours of dedicated time to be worth it>dressed like hobossome of the best ranked players in this game are dressed like hobos>live in shacksThe housing in this game contributes to nothing but vanity status>aren't ranked with the navyyou just get some colored clothing in a scheme to that of the navy you jobbed with and in the end like 4-5k poe in total for time put in>ranked in any of the puzzlesthe rankings reset on a nightly basis, learn the puzzles, achieve ultimate and possibly rank in two weeks this is actually possible>aren't officersofficer status doesn't matter much unless running a long term crew with a proper hierarchy>own your own boatsat a certain point this is also just vanity as there isn't enough players in the ocean to fill 10 pillages at once unless it's all sloops and you only need one boat to pillage with a smallish group>don't run your own businessmost businesses are ran by players using alts to provide labor and unless you want to play more than two weeks it takes a lot more than just getting a stall, stalls require taxes and resource input (stuff doesn't magically appear out of thin air)>>2489022Zero to hero crew would've been the way to go and collectively acquiring funds for a sloop>war brig>war frig? and attempting various events with them as a group would've been interesting.
>>2489272>Zero to hero crew would've been the way to go and collectively acquiring funds for a sloop>war brig>war frig? and attempting various events with them as a group would've been interesting.I think that was the way to go. Not trying to be unappreciative for all the boat gifts it just was against the spirit of the project in terms of starting from scratch. I know we all wanted our own ship to do journeys with anons but it turns out we suck and are mostly doing public voyages anyways. Again it was like power levelling. So we kinda started at the top rather than work our way up, learn the puzzles with veterans navigating and stuff, get the boat, then end the two weeks on a big voyage.
An under rated part of the game is island exploring, especially since they're player owned. I like going on a voyage and just being dropped off wherever it's ported, then exploring. Some stuffs been there since like 2006.
>>2489314A big part of the appeal of the game as a kid was the transition from jobbing to being part of an actual crew and getting a larger split of the booty. It's sort of baked into the system that you're supposed to make shit wages jobbing and only really make money when you get your own ship and crew together. But jobbers are treated really well right now by most crews and we got the ships from the start so there was never that feeling of aocial elevation.I wanted to warn people but it's always awkward when longtime players of these games offer to essentially skip parts of the game for us.
I hated bilging at first now its the one im best at. tetris I thought I would love but the sword mechanic cutting through is so fucking dumb even when Im playing slow and checking my dots I get swords cutting through my board. swordfighting is ASS and entirely rng based bullshit
>>2489324Yeah there seems to be a lot of enthusiastic long time players of the game, I mean a lot of people were pushing it in the mmod thread for months after all, and that enthusiasm is great but we did skip the beginning essentially. So the first two days felt like bumbling on our ship and getting our asses whooped a lot. So its like we busted our nut early with our own voyages from hour one.
>>2489325I like carpentry the best because I like it when I slot all the planks in perfectly.
>>2488769Do you have anything against hobos?
>>2489347that one is fun too worst one is sailing. I cant think ahead too much and sailing seems to want you to build combos to raise the sails, fuckt hat shit
My masterpiece.
>>2489380I just suck at the brawling. I dunno why, but when you get bombarded with balls you seriously get bombarded.
>>2489272>>2489314>>2489324You guys aren't being super fair to the boat guy. It's the kind of game where new players often join established crews and participate in big voyages right from the get-go. You're supposed to be able to skip a certain amount of progression, just like a lot of sandbox games let you do. The game isn't designed to end in one week once you graduate from jobbing to owning your own sloop. There is still content after that.
im just going afk on a big ship and playing hellgate on the side. might as well
>>2489430Sometimes you just need to stall. This goes for swordfighting, too. If you have more than a bot or two on you just chill and let the auto timer play it out.>>2489447I think the assessment is more than fair when anon decided to be a dick over some of the anons assessing whether this game would be better as a game night ordeal than a two week stint.That being said, I'm still going to play for the two weeks for nostalgia factor.What color pallet are we going for clothes wise? Should we do a theme or all just do whichever color combo we like and take a big screenshot at the end?
>>2489272The two problems with zero to hero on puzzle pirates is that you need to grind out experience to be able to make a crew and own a ship. The experience is something like 10-15 hours of playtime and earning a sloop would mean playing with other players on public voyages anyway, so it ends up being the same thing. If we didn't have a crew, it would be impossible to communicate because there's no group chats or parties.Not to mention the problem with if we only had a sloop, the first 7 people to show up get to play and the rest don't, which makes a difference on day 1 when the most people are trying out the game.If the public voyages weren't filled with 50 bots that did everything or if we made a lot more money running our own voyages, that would be way cooler though.
>>2489599I wasn't here for day one so I don't know how many anons were on at the start but these boats in pic could function more than enough for a reasonable amount of frens to sail on.
what a lovely and pleasant surprise to see you all play a game i have played for over 15 years. this is a very fun game if you know what you are doing. sadly i cannot participate myself at this time, but i wish you all a wonderful gaming experience. by the way personally i enjoyed hunting skeleton/zombie/werewolf hordes on special dark weathered islands which you will see and are very rewarding. teleportation bottles are cheaply available from apocatharies. there is also tons of cheap old clothing from tailors you can buy from used clothing racks. gamba is done at banks and trading outposts which can also give rare injuries like eyepatches hookhands peglegs and even rare familiars like skelly parrotsblockades and sea monster hunts (atlantis and cursed islands), and the new vampire lairs, are also top tier content. but to be honest most big money is just poker, this is actually a very fittingly gamba focused game. play tournaments as well to learn puzzles. remember for swordfighting to stack breakers after making fast 2x2 blocks, do this enough and you can instakill your enemies with one big mega sword. rumble is similar concept, make stacks of charged balls but pad it first before popping. Boothook has a great guideSailing puzzle is the best. very simple. stack and drop big combos for a golden sail and just chill until the sail dies down. it is a slow and steady puzzle not a frantic arcade game like say, treasure haul or foraging, fun, but you have to be a bit faster paced in those. well foraging rewards more on efficiency but stillwatch out for monkey boats if having high fruit or have no rum those are fun. oh yes graveyard seas are also fun. ah the memories. this game is so precious. there is nothing else like it. days and nights where entire island chains at war all player owned. anyways you guys should pool together funds to make a habbo hotel crew hall. take group portraits.fair seas to ye from an old salt
>>2489447Yeah tbf to boat guy we didnt know how many would initially play, sometimes only 20 people show up sometimes more than 40 like in iris online case and nobody really wants to play alone for the most part >>2489566the stalling is the worst part because every puzzle up till that point rewards speed and efficency but not when it comes to fighting its like >dont do too good or you will get fuckedits super lame imo because if i could go all out on tetris those npc nerds would never beat me
>>2489447Oh yeah not to look a gift horse in the mouth it was super generous and is appreciate.. Its more just an in hindsight thing I'm musing about.
Btw for picture night, shall we all pitch in for a group portrait?
>>2489634There was quite a few at the start, as is usually the case on a day one. We got gifted a small boat and a big boat, so the big was used day one and the smaller one has been used most of the time though sometimes we use a medium one.
>>2489682i keep forgetting as well since it still kinda new to me but there are these extra golden pillage (basically a raid of sorts) called Greedys where you get trinket items to redeem or sell to other players. very profitable and easy money for entry. might be up your alleylastly a lot of players afk in the port docks of Admiral Island. some of the most experienced, powerful people hang out there. that is the social place. and the Inn at Admiral's too.
>Not to mention the problem with if we only had a sloop, the first 7 people to show up get to play and the rest don't, which makes a difference on day 1 when the most people are trying out the game.We had that the other day, we had like ten on and we were at max.>>2489599>we made a lot more money running our own voyages, that would be way cooler though.Thats why I stopped doing the voyages on our boat, we make way more money hopping on other's voyages.
>>2489703The biggest painting is 7 pirates unfortunately. It also costs 105k and 140 dubloons so pretty expensive. The paintings are definitely cool but I have no idea how we'd pick and choose who got to be in it even if people pooled their money together for it.
listen if any one of you ever has money problems just gamba poker which is free on Sundays. buy all the ships and swags you want, mega mansions and such. poker is this game's endgame so find your best poker player to fund each others ventures. pillage pays is ass you wont get far enough in the time frame
>>2489723Yeah true. Getting dubloons is easy but maybe not that.>>2489730We should do Saturday night parlor game night too.
>>2489703>>2489723shift+s+window or f12 is free portrait and can fit dozens of anons in one photo
by the way this not 4chan's first time in a coordinated puzzle pirates crew. long ago there was a crew by the name of the McJaps of the Seven Seas. there was even a brief puzzle pirates /ypp/ general. good times
It was a poker game all along
>>2489767If people let me know what time pictures are, I'll run a swordfight tournament with prizes an hour before it.
>>2489793>pirate based mmo>look inside>its just boomer gamba (poker)huh well how about that
>>2489775Really? I thought it was a free single portrait.
>>2489814thats only for personal portraits and that one is very limited you cannot even change the backgroumd. that is meant to be a default base photo of yourself
we have big boats whats stopping us from doing some sea monster hunts or really hard voyages instead of smalltime pirating
>>2489814>>2489821you get a free duo portrait with the abominable snowman yeti btw if you find him during a yeti pillage
>>2489834puzzle mastery and people. you would just sink if you dont know what you are doing. although, if you have truly expendable ships, cursed isles is fun, spooky, voodoo island theme, and doesnt require much people, just expertise. the map is laden by deadly ganja smoke and zombie thralls i.e. dude weeds and potheads. rewards are literally dank though, witch doctor swagcursed islands, look it up. tons of guides. otherwise there's vampire lairs and you can blehmaxx
>>2489834Badges and the charts. I do have some sea hunting badges btw if anyone wants them.
around what time do you guys mostly play at so we can pillage together
>>2490223I play in short bursts during the day.
>>2490223I play occasionally throughout the day as well
Holy fuck I can't believe how bullshit swordfighting is. Literal cock & ball torture. I'm only brawling or afk'ing. Fuck this shit.
>>2490445i learned to never hit space so you wont ever get targeted by the enemies. its slow but better than swords going through your screen (and yes its complete bullshit)
>>2490445>>2490466swordfighting is NOT a direct tetris clone in this game. it's not a race to clear your screen, but is a tug and pull where if you make a 2x2 block, you can use a "breaker" which is the colored sword symbols to "pop" themidea is that each block is equivalent to a sword to the opponent's board. so a 2x2 vertical block is a small sword. combos multiply the size of the sword, so if you do a double, triple, bingo, vegas for example on a 2x2, it can be a massive instakill sword for someoneuse space (drops em fast) strategically. there's going to be little dots next to your icon that shows if you are being "teamed", and btw you should be "teaming" against the enemy too, that way everyone's sword is concentrated on the same person and they die fastereach sword btw has a "pattern" which is how the color of the silver sword translates to colored blocks, so a "stick" sword for example is the shittiest since it's just the same color for the other guy, giving them fuel rather than a complex sword like a falchion (meta sword) that is variedif you guys are still up i can teach you all a bit and spar. SF is super satisfying once you get the hang of it, you guys got thisseriously if someone can consistently make the basic 2x2 block and combo on top of it, you are already 90% better than most SFers who foolishly try to do otherwise
>>2490711Yeah, I understand how the game works. It doesn't make it any less cock & ball torture bullshit.
>>2490718my bad, i'm sorry. just reread your post and you said>brawlingyeah those guys are using bots, especially when you wager. i'd stay away from those, especially the rated ones. unrated tends to be more chill but no experience
example of a sword combo, what breakers here, visually
>>2490817It sure is impossible to build something like this in a real fight.
>>2491049that pic is more an illustration. in reality, pic related is more practical, a quick 2x2, juiced up, and then amped with combos. think of dynamite and the explosion trigger rope. note how to the "trigger" is the green block, which sets off the blue block, then yellow, then red, then yellow again. pic related translated would look like something on the other pic, especially if other sword strikes are done in rapid succession
>>2491078Does it make sense to build stuff like this in PvE too? Seems too complicated when you can get fucked by 3 enemies at any moment. I usually struggle with breaking even just one 2x2 block .
>>2491108it depends. if you are teamed on, better to stall and play defensive. if you are not being teamed on, you are ideally supposed to do the teaming yourself and build combos to kill enemies>I usually struggle with breaking even just one 2x2 block .and that's perfectly okay and normal. if you are starting out, i would focus on just getting the mechanics down, and being ablle to consistently create 2x2's by rotating and manipulating blocks (remember you can use the keyboard to rotate them and space to speed up). if you can create 2x2s, you can then create cascading breaker blocks to "pop" them. that is a combo. that is the core and fundamental of "striking" in swordfightif you are stil not sure we can spar in-game i am going to try and be online as much as i can since you guys have such little time and i want you all to experience the real good shit content like the kraken, voodoo witch doctor island, vampire castle lairs, zombies, ghosts, skeletons, like there's so much more to the game than just tutorial grind which are basicsthink about it this way, this game has so much to offer, it is like planning a trip to New York City but stopping at the airport and telling people you have "seen" NYC i mean it is like nothing, i want to at least show you guys the statue of liberty which is totally doable in a week with careful guidance
>>2491177What I got from this is that if I'm about to break a big blue combo (aka bbc) I should target a blue monster first.
>>2491203yes anon that's exactly right. cream them good
I got my own ship. From what I understand, you have to carry some resources in its coffers while you sail, such as cannonballs and rum. What would be a healthy amount of these?
>>2491328it depends on your ship, how often you intend to shoot cannonballs during a battle, and how long the pillage is. big ship needs tons of cannonballs, and lots of rum especially if you're pillaging for hours at a time. but small ship i would assume a sloop like most people you can go 30 fine rum 50 cballs although i like to magdump so i go 75-100 cballs (if you ever do battle navigation, there's no penalty for overshooting, you only lose rank/rating if you get hit)btw if you do pillages with no rum, there's a fun side effect see pic related
>>2483534so that is the game's experience and local rank system. left side (where it says solid) is pure time spent in a puzzle, that never goes down. right side is how you stand compared to your peers in your local group, thats the archipelago bit>wtf is a local group and archthe way to understand this is some history. the server and map system you see now is actually a combined mega server since back in the day, there were more people, more oceans, all with different islands and such. these have now all been mergedyour spawn in the game (which you change any time btw by gaining citizenship in a diff island, it's pretty strategic since you get free teleports if you tele home) determines your local group archipelago. so the idea is that if you encounter say, an Ultimate rank from a hot populated arch, it's meant to be a bigger deal than an Ultimate from some guy in bumfuck nowhere>why is it so complicatedbecause the devs wanted to limit numeric references in the game for vibes basically. regular MMO RPGs would say your Global Experience is at Level 5 with a Local Rank of 3 (made these figures up) and that is not very pirate like
Someone left my lil boat in Ix Chel and I can't find a chart to get there anywhere. Anyone know where to buy one?
>>2491615Theres not a system to fetch your own boat? You think there would be
>>2491852Oh I was on that boat yesterday its a cool design>>2491615Kek whos been sailing your boat? I have one to Pukru and Quetzal but not Ix Chel looks like an entirely different Archipelago.
>>2490722brawling actually gets easier the more you understand it. just build up groups of 3 of the same colored balls, then the 3rd one charge up the shot, then continue building lines, but leave space open to the top one so it breaks all the lines and pops all the charges, its really great strategically after learning how to play it. sprinkling can work but you will get teamed up on like in swordfighting and get fucked by thousands of balls coming at you too fast for you to react puzzle pirate anon are we able to have our own island by the end of the 2 weeks or is that not possible? if so that should be the goal everyone works towards that way people who are lost have a set goal
I don't know who decided to put a pond on this ship, but I've spent 3 naval combats on counting frogs now.It's not honest work, but it's a lot of frogs.
>>2491994bilge the pond
>>2491615think you need to buy it from a player/get it from pillaging.
Is there any reason to do puzzles in battle when the gauges are empty?
>>2491852>>2491907how do you get bunnies or any kind of pet?
the wiki is hosted on a pc from 1995 or something it constantly timeouts and takes forever to load
>Captain asking someone to do the gunsNOPE
oh wait ships can actually SINK and you lose them forever?
>>2492442were you under the impression that you could keep things in this game?
>>2492427those bnuys are player transforms from Thricehermes' shipthere's a rabbithole and a bunny altar you can use
>>2492442In blockades, sea monsters and pvp yeah.
>>2492436i hated guns then it became one of my fav puzzles
>>2491615>>2491737people already touched on it but you have to get it. there are players who have the whole world map memorized, you can hire them to chart on your map a path, and then you can have bots or a small crew to escort your ship somewhere more sensible. you might see on the Notice Board people doing the "Forage" puzzle, great puzzle btw, very fun, i can tell you all the trick to thatbut anyway those are ships stationed at remote islands for loot. usually the person hosting or managing that has a good sense of Duty Navigation (as opposed to Battle Navigation) and good duty navigation teaches your pirate to memorize league points so you can chart paths without maps i.e. get yourself out or go to remote islands to farm fruit loot via puzzles. they also often hire players for protectiom as having high fruit in your boat attracts monkey pirates. not racist i mean literaly monkeys that are pirates>>2491852>>2491907>>2492427there are various, time limited rare ships over the decades this game has been out. That is the Easter themed spring class or verdant class sloop or some shit, has a little green icon. Shipyards are able to make these while availahle but some are now forever limited hence why very expensive. you see these offers all thentime in trade chat. some ships let you turn into zombies, skeletons, ghosts too, many have themes
>>2491879yes you got it, you have the right idea for rumble.>puzzle pirate anon are we able to have our own island by the end of the 2 weeks or is that not possible?technically possible but it depends how comitted you guys are. so each island with exceptions like player mod dev islands for newbies, pretty much all islands are player run, and become up for grabs during weekend events known as "Blockades" think of the sea battle puzzle, but everyone is on the same board, like a battlefield ground war mode. winner who captures the most areas like domination "wins" the blockade and takes the island. some are sinky blockades too, making big island blockades typically rich man elite games of whoever has the most money to buy ships buy officers and buy players to zerg rush or strategically defend islandsbig islands = big deals, which is why a blockade on Admiral Island the games capital is a server wide eventsmall islands with like one or two buildings those are hit or miss. if we have good poker players and coordinate with the ingame existing powers, we can maybe take one yes. but the game's politics and macro is like EVE Online so full of personalities, drama, negotiation, and betrayals for dominance and poweryou can write whole books just like EVE Onlinr's politics of the big flags of legends and epic blockades and such but uhh to answer your question, maybe if the stars align and again, we have poker stars for capital by pooling in funds for them and enough diplomats to convince some big wig somewhere to throw a bone, usually by talking to them in discord and literally larping like pirate kangsa more sensible goal for us is to just goof off and try to do as much Sea Monster Hunts as much as possible Vampire Lairs too, Cursed Isles and such. That is more mid high tier content than endgame elite where you enter into island negotiations autism
>>2492899I still hate it I get annoyed when the wrong thing goes in
>>2493049you can control the speed through the toggle in the interface. the trick to gunnery btw is by having a clear and clean loop via board spawn, which is why you might see elite gunners repeatedly enter and exit the puzzle to restart it for good spawnsonce a good board is established, you can structure and position such that you just tweak one tile to enter and exit compontents in and out of the barrel. this is what top tier gunners do especially with trigger happy captains that magdump, very funbut yes for starting out go very slow, just practice form and structure. this basic principle applies to all puzzles: master the fundamentals and then naturally scale up in difficulty. the first step to learning chess is just getting a basic idea of what each piece does, how it works, and then basic strategy and openings for example rather than endgame checkmate autism
This ship has holes with lava, how does that work?
>>2493194purely decorative, it is essentially just a decoration tile. i am pretty sure as well that is one of the rare Middle-Eastern style ships from Azarbard the Great, a turban sultan pirate brigand lord and boss you can fight in either a Flotilla or as a special event during a pillage. he's pretty cool, his followers all have special scimitar swords and there's a special background and special loot dropsthere are various pirate brigand king npc bosses, like the voodoo witch doctor boss, french fish boss, spider queen boss, chinese jade empress boss, viking girl boss, all very thematic
My ship's maiden voyage.
>>2493207This one is the craziest ship I've seen. There is a statue inside that transforms you into a bunny.
>>2493199nvm that doesn't look like a middle eastern style ship, but it is out t here if you ever get the chance to visit a Dhow or Xebec. oh and the Chinese Junk ships are in-game too, very cool to explore. same with Viking Longships>>2493215ah yes the Fanchuan, or Fanch ship. classic Eastern ship, shoots large cballs! but only one shot. some people like that, but some also like how the longship or warbrig can double shoot smaller rounds instead of pure hit. each ship has a lot of personality and tradeoffs>>2493223oh yeah that is the verdent bunny class ship, very cool. lol there's one limited edition ship that actually has a whole maze inside it, i think, the April Fools or Mirage class sloop or something. some other ships also turn you into zombies and skeletons and vampires, tons of ship varieties out there
fun fact: each island, while player run, are carefully curated to be thematically consistent in its naming scheme for its buildings. for example, if you go to Admiral Island, it is full of Hollywood and Film, and you see a lot of movie references baked into the names of each building you can see in the mini map menu. each island has their own themes in this way, built up over decades of hands changingcheck it out! some are genuinely funny memes and puns, a big part of the in-game culture.>tfw the island governer will never approve a Jag Sbarro for me though, too obscure
Does this game still delete accounts that haven't been signed into in like 6 months?
>>2493405not automatically but the game reserves the right to delete completely free to play accounts for inactivity. you should be fine, i was able to access old free accounts that were years inactive, otherwise support has to try and fish it out. 6 months you should be good, come join the fun!also any and all accounts that have ever purchased anything with real money for any amount even the $5 package will never be deleted though
>>2493405Nope for this project I used my free to play account from years ago, and its never not been free to play.
>>2493271can we pool our money together and buy an island
>>2493461we can pool our money to the best poker player to multiply 100k poe for example to 10m-30m and buy a fleet for us to take an island. we cannot just buy an island outright, the islands are occupied and are only contested in special blockade periods you can see in the "Blockade" tabi have absolutely no idea if even 10-30m is enough, this is ultra endgame stuff with player politics. bribing a current occupant to just give it up could be several tens of millions alone. epstein island is very expensive for us to take anonbut us having a pirate mansion is very doable that officers can mutually decorate and such, a pirate hangout for us
>>2493461yeah i have like 500 poe
>>2493510a mansion might be good if its on a nice place. can it be named anything? might need another poll if we do the mansion
>>2491907the unholy trinitypoor assgr third wheeling
>>2493628i would say we purchase the lot at the capital island, Admiral Island, that way it is accessible and close to everything. it is a bit expensive if you want something fairly sized. be assured, if i get a chance to be in the same time as the captain, i wish to talk to them in how we can achieve this sooner as a gift, since i do not see it as fundamentally realistic to be able to buy literal real estate in a 2 week period without outside assistancethe mansion cannot be directly named per se, but there are lots of custom text options. this will make more sense in-game, we can even throw parties and put ascii in the mansion text fieldthe ships though, can be entirely renamed. it is one of the things i wish to discuss with the captain, since if they should wish to receive it, i want to welcome and give gifts such as a rare ship to be the crew's flagship, alongside rename tokens to truly claim it as ours. to me this is such a joyous time and to receive this gift from me is very important. it is not going to spoil anything; this ship could not be obtained by any other meansthe ship is banana themed btw for memes
>>2482799LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Daily reminder that shops with racks let you buy premade items without doubloons, for player-set prices. Some are locked or overpriced, but there are some shops that sell things for next to nothing. Rare clothing too.You can preview all the items on your character by dragging them on the Buy Item slot.
>>2492974those themed ships sound coolhow do I get a Winged Pusspuss, though?
>>2495145also a daily reminder that island Notice Boards have a News and Events section for people throwing parties at their racks, usually by more active players loaded with clothes and discounts. and a free teleport to get there!
There'll probably be a few tournaments in Admiral tonight.
>>2495163there are these places called Trading Posts, certain islands have them, you can look around. 50 vampire trinkets which you can get from vampire lair hunts
>>2495163like >>2495198 said, 50 trinkets from vamp lairs or you can just ask in trade chat to buy one directly - i've seen winged cats go for like 50k sometimes depending on colour
Encountered the spooky ship
>>2496045Los Pollos Diablos
>>2496045winnable
wew
>>2496146>win most populated inn from charity raffle>place infinite clock to piss people offbased
I will never do a sea monster hunt again
>>2496582found the guy who sunk and got an eyepatch
>>2496045>mogged by chads using literal sticks>on hween of all daysKWAB
>>2496697The sea goes blood red on Halloween?
>npc bosses have their own profile page if you look them up on /who like /who Vargas the Mad>they can actually become governers if you lose a blockade island fight with them>one of them is a literal schizo with designated shitposting days>By decree of the owner of this island, Vargas the Mad, every inhabitant will perform a solemn duty corresponding to the day of the week:>Monday: Each citizen must harass all of the island's sleeping turtles.>Tuesday: Each citizen must wear a fez in one of three colors: maroon, brown or blue.>Wednesday: Each citizen must rumble at least three times with a fish.>Thursday: Each citizen must contemplate their madness till enlightened.>Friday: Each citizen must participate in a mock naval battle commemorating the victory of Vargas over Finius.>Saturday: Each citizen must juggle at least seven fruit simultaneously. Rambutan are not acceptable juggling fruit.>Sunday: Each citizen must toss a caber at least 10 yards.>Those found in dereliction of these duties will be forced to spin until they come to their senses.based schizo...?
>>2496764the brigand kings are underrated kino in this game, i wish the game did more with them
>>2496582I'll also never do it again until I decide to give it another try.
>>2496776i prefer dommy mommy
>>2496738spoopy
>>2496762>>2496775>>2496780where is this i wanna check it out
>>2496804Anon's house in the northern part of Scrimshaw Island. I don't think you can enter a house if the owner isn't inside, though.
zombie horde in lincoln island...?
are we doing photos tomorrow for saturday?
>>2496930i think so. 5 pm us eastern time. dunno where we will meet up though if everyone spawns at different islands
>>2496940notice board -> events -> go to one on admiral -> go from thereproblem solved
>>2496940>>2496949>you can use Events tab to teleport to multiple islands>other players can invite you to their houses>can join a voyage in-progress or board one of the crew's ships and when you leave the ship you're at its physical location
>>2496949>>2496958ok cool. so where are we meeting up exactly cus i am fighting the ui in the game to get anywhere
>>2496967I think it would be cool to get on a big ship with one of the local anons and sail to cool ports/islands they know.
>>2496930>>2496940>>2496813Oh shit this reminds me I should be furnishing my house for photo night
>>2496995oh shithow much money does that even cost
>>2496967Probably Admiral Island as thats where a lot of our ships are docked and its the easiest to port to.>>2496930>>2496940I was thinkin e could do photos then afterwards do a voyage to a cool island and take photos there. Then since poker is the free game tomorrow just go and use one of the poker tables at the inn, play some poker, then maybe a swordfighting tournament.
>>2496992>>2497015i think as a starting point we can meet up at the Admiral Island Palace building since everyone can tele to that island and it's a callback to day 1. hopefully if local anon is on, we can either hang out at his place or get into this crew mansion business he keeps fucking bringing up. maybe those come with a portrait system so the group photo is there like at a hard or lobby. then we sail with someone's ship or some shit
when you get to that flow state in carpentry puzzle
>>2497072carpentry, patching, swordfighting and blacksmithing are the best puzzles in this game
>>2497015>>2496995I bought a nice wardrobe for the pictures
>>2497072>>2497098have you guys tried all the puzzles? which ones suck and which ones are worth doing?i tried bilging and just got frustrated and gave up. i would clear the water or whatever but i still get fine/poor score sometimes booched if i take too long. so gaysame with that island digging game or whatever. the game would troll you with a treaure chest that impossible to drop to the bottom. like wtf game design is that how are people winning the puzzle at the end of the thing
>>2497120I haven't tried the crafting puzzles yet as I just got the labor badge. I feel the least interesting one is drinking. They could have been far more creative with that. Instead it's Connect 4 but with beer icons. My favorite is Carpentry and Patching, there's just something about that feeling when you get it perfect.
>>2497140Oh and the one I'm worst at is gunning but I can see how people like it. Drinking I was good at but its so uninteresting. It should be a speed game and instead it's tic tac toe.
>>2497098blacksmithing, huh?how would you rate distilling?
>>2497120I like bilging, carpentry and rumble now that ive learned them. gunnery is fun but challenging when you can do it. i hate swordfighting because it forces you to play slow and badly
>>2497072>>2497098>>2497120>>2497140>>2497152swordfight all day err day. where my swordbros at?someone gave me an old katana btw. idk how the stats work i just wanna pop shit with fast forward. a samurai has to be a top tier sword like how is it not>also why no gun dueling as another combat skill it should be like pvp carnival shoot the moving target shit or something
>>2497159distilling is fun but i am bad, i think the strat is to move all the burnt/shit ones to the right and move all the good ones to the left, obviously there's skill in it that takes time though>>2497120you can click the restart button under the map on the top right if you get a chest stuck.>>2497176>a samurai has to be a top tier sword like how is it noti got told falchions and sabers are top tier
>>2497120LOL seeing you greenies (NOOBS) being bad at puzzling warms my heart :)
>literal sack of shit award>that someone got on christmasamazing
>>2497176>>2497282apparently the thing about swords is that you either can go a bit slower and do big combos like the falcon sword or whatever. or you go fast and do small combos like with saber. these are the extremes and the various swords are in the middle. if you are a big combo guy or a small fast dude basically. STR vs DEX builds i guess
>>2497569they need to just remove the swords from the game and make it a tetris like game based on skill like every other puzzle. swordfighting is the only puzzle that punishes you for clearing as quick as possible so bullshit to have a sword cut through middle of my screen then never get any break swords so i just lose. very poorly thought out puzzle design
>>2497644t. doesn't know to rotate blocks and manage stacks to make big pops
>>2497664its not that its when half your puzzle is half filled with metal blocks you cant see the color of for 2 turns, its bullshit. its a total guessing game and based on zero skill
>>2497696if you're getting pelted with swords you're supposed to slow down and stall. otherwise post a webm of you swordifghting because how can other people be doing fine but you seem to be struggling
>there's a whole ass interactive world map if you google itneat
>>2497717they're quieter about hating this garbage.
>>2497758okay fair but i wanna help you, can you at least post a screenshot or something? because i am very curious about your thought process behind puzzle decisions
>stall for 5 years>don't have any dots for aggro>sprinkles and attacks keep coming in anyway, like manna from heaven, throughout the puzzlei'm unsure if the people giving tips on this game know how it works, because shouldn't this be the exact opposite of what they're telling me would happen?
>>2497283you didn't make yourself wide enough, it's not realistic yet
Yep, that's me. You're probably wondering how I got here.
>>2497817that just tells me you were ganged up earlier, they unleashed their swords, and then switched out. the swords are put on a queue, meaning the moment you stopped stalling, the swords are now going to pile in but no new swords after that blitz will come in, so if you survive, you will have no new swordsstalling doesn't make swords disappear, it delays it. the only way to make them disappear is if the person who attacked dies i.e. the bot or something gets KO'd before the sword registers on your screen or your own teammates "defends" you by clicking on your icon and shares some of your swords for you>what the fuck how was i supposed to know thati agree i wish the game explained all these mechanics clearer to people
>>2497822make combos on the big free area on the left side and you might get an earthquake token to shake towards a better spot
>press f to earn achievement
how it feels playing the alchemistry puzzle knowing you aren't timed
Let's take some crew photos at 9:15 pm UTC, Saturday.>Time Zone Converter: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Puzzle+Pirates+-+Group+Photos&iso=20260523T2115&p1=1440
>>2497283based and fatbeard pilled
so dont play dark seas? play the original?
>>2497906ok where/how do i play this
>>2498534yeah dark seas is kill don't bother. actual dead game dead server
some of the puns are clever af
>>2498619what island
>>2498627Sayers Rock
everyone ingame is really nice for some reason it's kinda creepy
>>2498933the middle aged guys clearly larping as women are the worst, other than that the people are pretty nice
>>2498949>middle aged guys clearly larping as womenwhat like troons? what? really?
>>2497743Yeah the world map is huge. I'm unlocked like three of those islands
how late to join am I?
>>2498933Its cause its a boomer game from the 2000s, so its like a time capsule of how internet culture was in 2006.
>>2499113Not late
Battling ghost pirate hordes
>>2499113>>2499138nonny is lying to youyou will never catch upyou will always be a latelet
surprised pets dont degrade
is there a non-steam version of this?
>>2499377>tfw your pet rabbit crumbles to dust in front of your eyes
>>2499384yeahttps://www.puzzlepirates.com/play.html
getting softlocked in treasure dig makes me really grumpy
>>2496792what a slut
>>2486549It's been a few years since I've played Puzzle Pirates but it is my memory that every non-PvP minigame looks at a sliding window of your moves and as you take more moves the score you earned on older moves falls out of the window.
>>2499113right on time mate
how much money does everyone have?
>>2499393you can't create an account through that launcher, you need to use steam for that.
>>2500014Currently 2800 with 2 dubloons. All badges unloked so I am just gonna be buying clothes and stuff now.
>>2497830>i agree i wish the game explained all these mechanics clearer to peopleor at all
>>2484969I got 6k last night from a single haul after splitwe went like 4-2 in rumbles against other ships, (felt good because I survived all 4 win rounds and was one of the last to go when we lost)
>>2498619
What a story
>>2500186sad
The community here is so nice and helpful
>>2499113there is no endgame to this besides housing. you're never late.you'll wanna post your name, though. the one guy who was crewing people at the palace in Admiral isn't always on.
2spooky
>>2500342
I'll be running a "Win A Ship" swordfighting tournament after pictures today. Sticks only, which creates big easy to break blocks, so everyone is on an equal ground sword wise and there is a lot of potential for comebacks.First place prize will be a limited edition ship donated by our generous local. Sorry for the late notice, but hopefully you were showing up for pictures either way!
>>2500390swear i saw a guy who looked just like hoboface
>>2500414Was he called Barrels? I noticed him a few times.
>>2500545wtf, i was just there lol, mcguffin island?
anyone watching this in global
Bayers Peak got the best pets
soul
>>2500726Get it on a mug
https://emerald.puzzlepirates.com/yoweb/gallery/?pirate=Oomfie
>>2500675https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0jFoMz4a7I
>>2500726
Posting screenshots, starting from this ghost hunt from earlier today.
why is he black
>>2500870Full version.
>>2500868I always see Barrels on almost every voyage. I dont think he's even one of us I just think he;'s a really active player
>>2500886I see him a lot as well. I believe you are correct, he's a really active player.
>>2500861hehniice.
>bought myself a piece of clothing>can't pick it up because apparently the market requires doubloons>money stolen
https://tiermaker.com/create/puzzle-pirates-puzzles-17306833
>>2500976Dubloon coversion is pretty ez and cheap.
Between photos, portraits and the new mansion, everyone's a bit tired.Let's have some voyages together tomorrow, at the same time:>https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Puzzle+Pirates+-+Voyage&iso=20260524T2115&p1=1440
>>2500990well the thing is I don't have enough gold to do it now
>>2500868>>2500886>>2500892hi guys i was told i was mentioned on herei'm not one of you guys but i've seen you about and assumed "plank's closed" and all the new players meant a 4chan happeningglad to see you guys enjoying yourselves!
>>2501001My doppelganger followed me here.
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