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.
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Shanghai Use
Shanghais may be "spent" to rename ships and crews. To do so, an Ocean Master must be petitioned, and the crew's captain must either be present or must have given permission to another crew member to spend the points. If a crew has no captain, they must name a person who has authorization to use the shanghai points in their private statement.
Trading and Selling Shanghais
Shanghais can be traded or sold by crews, however the shanghai points cannot actually be transferred to another crew. The exception to this is in the case of a crew merge, which combines the Shanghais of both crews. Instead, the captain of the crew that has sold the shanghais must be present when the receiving crew uses them and the OM 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.
Ship Renames
| Ship Class | Standard | Custom |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
The number of shanghais needed for a standard rename or a custom rename for each ship are shown in the table to the right.
Standard Renames
- The 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 Renames
- All other renames will be custom.
- Allowed names may have up to three words in them, all of which must be real words in English as defined on dictionary.com.
- However, proper nouns without another common definition may be denied.
- The previous limitation against renames that included words which were also the name of a pirate no longer applies. Even so, possessive names such as Bow's Ship will not be allowed.
- Also, 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 offensive by an Ocean Master will be denied.
- Should a rename be found to be offensive after the change, it will be renamed again to another name of the same cost.
- No renames may start with an article ("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.
Renaming Procedure
- 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, only used for renames.
- Shanghai points can only come from up to two crews.
- Captains may grant permission by posting in their private crew statement The name of the player who has permission to use the shanghai points and the specific number allowed.
- 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 rename
- Current 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.
- 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
Crews can also be renamed. Crew names must be between 2 and 24 characters long. Prices are as follows:
- 2 shanghais - a new name (e.g. "Generic Pillagers" to "Extraordinary Leaders")
- 1 shanghai - a small change in the current name (e.g. "Serve no Porpoise" to "Serve every Porpoise")
Historical Notes
Shanghais were introduced with release 2004-02-09.
Crew renames were added to shanghai usage on March 3, 2004.
See Also
External/Other Links
- Commonly discussed ideas from Game Design
- Cleaver's Shanghai Announcement Post
- Current Shanghai rules
- Viridian Ocean Shanghai market
- Sage Ocean Shanghai market
- Midnight Ocean Shanghai market
- Hunter Ocean Shanghai market
- Cobalt Ocean Shanghai market
- List of known ship name adjectives
- List of known ship name fish names
- Paste the following link to Add Fishbase.org as a Search Provider in IE7 http://www.fishbase.org/ComNames/CommonNameSearchList.php?crit1_fieldname=COMNAMES.ComName&crit1_fieldtype=CHAR&crit1_operator=CONTAINS&CommonName=TEST
