Talk:Flotilla hunting

Needed:

 * Rest of Ship bounties and Treasure flotsam amounts.
 * More solid knowledge on whether it's possible to split bounties with other player ships that may shoot at the same ship.
 * Knowledge of what's causing the Treasure Haul to be glitchy in as such, we haul in PoE at one time, and at another time it doesn't happen.
 * Create another table when proposed nonsinking flotillas and an increase in sinking flotilla poe gets released.
 * Remove Flotilla Jobbing as soon flotilla voyage comes out.

Notes about Flotilla Pieces of Eight section:
The bounties are set amounts, appearing in chat, to the ship crew.


 * Minimum is the lowest bounty possible (rounded up to next 100).
 * Maximum is the highest bounty possible (rounded up to next 100).

Treasure flotsams PoE is based on how much PoE is hauled in, however due to it being impossible to TH uninterrupted and other ships THing, the minimum may never be an accurate representation. The maximum is, however a good judge of maximum pieces of eight from shipwreck flotsams.


 * Minimum is the lowest treasure, after the flotsam wreck is gone (rounded up to next 100).
 * Maximum is the highest treasure, after the flotsam wreck is gone (rounded up to next 100).

--Burnt Water 09:40, 14 June 2007 (PDT)

Added Longship and nonsinking longship minimum bounty

Shawnthgreta

Steveyohoho's Edits
I updated a good deal of the page with new content and fixed a number of inaccurate statements. Here is the list of things changed as well as some suggestions for additional content.

A Red Ship is not spawned immediately after one is sunk, there is a grace period before Red Spawn comes back. Also, on same vein, sinkage of one Red ship does not guarantee just one Red Ship will return. It may be two ships of lower class to replace the sunk one.

Added clues as to different BKs using different Red Ships types.

What is up with the Flotilla Hunt paragraph? I would only recommend using a sloop to recon the board and check the posted number of sinks in the flotilla.

Added additional stocking tips for War Brigs and War Frigs.

Added additional tips on Scouting.

Bounties are vastly wrong due to the missing knowledge about the effect of split player bounties and fratricide. I would propose that there is actually only ONE real bounty amount that gets paid but it is effected by split between players and fratricide. The only sure way to tell will be additional testing which I intend to do and track. But I have adjusted the max values for MBs and MGs sinking bounties to reflect newer bounties for a CLEAN sink of each of these vessels. As in, no other vessel on the board damaged these ships except my vessel. The number of sinks EXACTLY at 56960 for a MB over and over was very consistent. Same with 87040 for MG.

Another note on bounties is a possibility that different BKs pay out different bounties due to varying degress of difficulty.

I will also be tracking bounties extremely close on all future voyages to suppliment this information as the bounties have changed in the last year.

Also there is good evidence to suggest that the sunken vessel treasures Max is exactly the same as the Max bounty. As with all TH spots, they are subject to degredation, but it I have noticed that you haul about the same amount as the bounty at best.

Removed information about fixing the hold poe disappearing in non-sinking flotilla as that fix has recently been released to production. Still left the advice about grabbing the hold poe in sinking flotillas as its just good practice.

Proposed adding Aggression Mode section as below.

Red Ship Aggression Mode Normally, all Brigand King ships in a flotilla will limit their patrol and fighting area to the back third of the flotilla board. Meaning, you can usually safely sail around the front third of the board repairing or preparing to head into the back third. However, this dynamic changes if a 2nd player ship enters the board that is SMALLER in class to the current player driven ship. At least one Red Ship will break off from their defense duties to aggressively pursue the smaller player ship all over the board.

MG - TH Sinking
Ahoy! We just hauled an MG in a sinking tilla we went and THed it straight away - 76316 PoE. Hope that helps. --Lcawte 12:02, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

Sinking - New Dhow Max
Ahoy! Just sunk a dhow in a sinking tilla = 16080 PoE. --Lcawte 12:23, 24 July 2009 (UTC)