Shanghai

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A shanghai or shanghai point is given to a crew when one of its members subscribes or buys doubloons for the first time. Each account has only one shanghai to give; at the time of an account's first payment, the shanghai is awarded to the crew of the pirate most recently logged in on the appropriate type of ocean (subscriber or doubloon). Shanghais are used for renaming ships and crews. The number of shanghai points a crew currently has (as well as the crew's total accumulation) is visible on the crew's information page by the captain and senior officers.

1 Shanghai Use
2 Historical Notes
3 See Also
4 External/Other Links

Shanghai Use

Shanghais may be "spent" to rename ships and crews.

Ship Renames

Ship Class	Standard	Custom
	(Shanghai cost)
Sloop	2	6
Cutter	2	6
Dhow	2	6
Longship	3	9
Baghlah	4	12
Merchant brig	4	12
War brig	4	12
Xebec	5	15
Merchant galleon	6	18
War frigate	6	18
Grand frigate	8	24

Standard

The ship rename follows the "Adjective Fish" format.
The adjective must be defined as such on dictionary.com.
The fish must be a one or two word fish name found on fishbase.org.

Custom

All non-standard renames are "custom renames".
You cannot get a discount for only renaming half of the existing ship name.
Allowed names may have up to three words in them, all of which must be real words in English as defined on dictionary.com.
Proper nouns without another common definition may be denied.
Possessive names such as Bow's Ship will not be allowed.
Any rename for a famous fictional or historical ship may be allowed as a custom name such as Queen Anne's Revenge.

Exceptions

Any rename deemed to be inappropriate by an Ocean Master will be denied.
Should a rename be found to be inappropriate after the change, it will be renamed again to another name of the same cost.
No renames may start with an article (for example, "The", "A").
Vessels will not be renamed to any existing ship name.
Exceptionally difficult-to-spell names may be denied.
Numerals and Roman numerals may not be included in renames.
Only captains may use their crew's shanghai points. If the crew has no captain, please name a person who has authorization to use your shanghai Points in your crew's private statement.
Shanghai points cannot be traded between crews and may only used for renames.
Shanghai points can only come from up to two crews per rename.
Captains may grant permission by posting in their private crew statement:
- the name of the player who has permission to use the shanghai points
- the specific number of shanghais that may be used by this person
Players who have permission to use shanghai points must use them all at the same time.
Petitions for renames must have the following information:
- Proposed ship name
- Current ship name
- Size of vessel
- Location of vessel
- Source of the shanghai points if you are not a captain
Do not shop around to different Ocean Masters if your rename has been denied. A rename denial from one Ocean Master is final.
The revisions to the policy mean that some previous names that were granted are no longer valid or the cost for them may have been changed. No retroactive renames will be granted in such cases.

Crew Renames

Crew names must be between 2 and 24 characters long.

Full: 2 shanghai points
Partial (Minor change): 1 shanghai point

Trading and Selling Shanghais

Shanghais can be traded or sold by crews, however the shanghai points cannot actually be transferred to another crew. What is actually being traded is the right to use the shanghai points for a rename service - they cannot be in turn resold. The exception to this is in the case of a crew merge, which combines the Shanghais of both crews.

It's advisable to petition unless it's a "X can use shanghais as much as he likes" situation. Granting permission in the private statement works fine if it's a trusted first mate or something, to save petitioning regularly.

The Ocean Master performing the rename will deduct the number of sold shanghais from the seller's crew as well as any additional shanghais needed for the rename(s) from the purchasing crew. Remember that shanghais for renaming purposes can only come from up to two crews.