When Brigand Kings Attack
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- A new Brigand King, Azarbad the Great, has been sighted sailing the seas
- Based on observations of his fleet, two new ship types are available for manufacture: Dhows and Baghlahs
- Brigand Kings now gather their might into Flotillas on the seas
- Brigand Kings have turned their attention to islands, and will blockade and contest for islands
- Royalty of island holding flags can provoke blockades by defeating a King and scuttling his vessel
- Attacks against a King's Flotilla can reduce his force, eventually driving him away
- During Brigand King blockades and Flotilla attacks, bounties are paid:
- Pieces of eight are awarded for scoring points by influencing buoys
- Pieces of eight are awarded for damaging and sinking brigand vessels
- Brigand vessels leave treasure behind when sunk
- A new puzzle, Treasure Haul, for recovering pieces of eight from sunken vessels
- New Tournament Styles: Double Elimination, and Single Elimination with a 3rd Place Playoff
- Prizes can be awarded for 2nd, 3rd, and 4th place as appropriate
- Changes to brigand ship behavior in battle
- Changes to ship locking, there are now three states:
- Personal Use: Only the deed-holder has officer privileges
- Crew Use: All officers in the crew have officer privileges, but may not enter sinking blockades or flotillas
- Battle Ready: All officers in the crew may sail into sinking blockades and flotillas
- Miscellaneous tweaks and bugfixes:
- Hold sizes for cutters have been increased
- Merchant Brigs and Merchant Galleons require less effort to manage the bilge
- Hiring Jobbers & Auto-targetting buttons now on a single line in the vessel tab
- Sort results from /vwho
- Improve old salts' estimation of ships with valuable goods aboard
- Fix problem where sometimes /who would fail in certain archipelagos
- Remove greenie broadcasts, add automated replacement of it
- Brigand Kings can only be found on Pillaging voyages
- Slight change to display of Shanghai points on crew pages
- Brigands and Barbarians are now marked as such by an icon on their might ring
- Greeter-pillage per-league pay now paid to greenies from the system rather than from the hold
- Fixed problem where interface to reclaim furniture and pets wouldn't list homes or stalls of the same type on multiple islands
- Fixed problem where greeter pillage ships were auto-tagetting inappropriately difficult vessels
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