Talk:Sapphire Archipelago (Midnight)

Extinct routes
Does anyone have a list of the extinct routes in Sapphire? I'm having trouble deducing the endpoints. Thanks. --Barrister 04:43, 8 August 2005 (PDT)
 * They're ugly, yes. There is a definite direct route from Verdant to Vernal, as well as a definite Horseshoe-Iris (formed by the extra point outside Beta).  Remora-Verdant could go NE, E, E, E, NE; E, NE, E, NE, E; or maybe even NE, E, NE, E, NE, SE, which would explain the extra point northwest of Verdant), and a Horseshoe-Beta (which I think is SE, SW, SE, SE, but could be SE, SE, SW, SE).  So, I guess I don't know at all. ;-)  07:42, 8 August 2005 (PDT)

Chart at Right
Regarding moving the chart to the right, it can be easily done with this: Looks best if you do it right up at the top, under the disambiguation notice, then rename "Islands" to "Geography," since the map section goes away. The question is whether or not to do it for consistency, though. Many archipelagos are too large to float the map to the right. Is it more important to have all the archi pages look the same, or to display information as efficiently as the layout allows, case-by-case? --AtteSmythe 11:15, 9 August 2005 (PDT)
 * Partially answering my own question, it seems that all the midnight archis will fit, so perhaps it should be an ocean-by-ocean consideration. --AtteSmythe 11:18, 9 August 2005 (PDT)

Difficulty of Routes
I would like the routes to be colored the way those in most of the other archs are (instead of mostly "unknown").

After much pillaging in Sapphire, and some recent pillaging elsewhere in Midnight to get comparisons, my conclusions are as follows. Much of me testing was done using an alt with Able sea battle on navy brigand hunting missions.

Beta-Remora is easiest route in Sapphire, and likely green rather than yellow. The ships that attacked me were green of one higher difficulty (me alt that spawned sailors elsewhere spawned Mostly Harmless here) with the same number of bots aboard.

Beta-Verdant Atoll is probably yellow. The ships that attacked me were green of two higher difficulty, with the same number of bots aboard. (I have long known that I make more poe pillaging this route than Beta-Remora, but now I know why!) Most yellow routes in other archs using me testing alt I was attacked by green sailors with one extra bot aboard.

Beta-Iris and Iris-Vernal Equinox are definitely red.

Uxmal-Iris is either orange or red.

The rest of the routes are most likely orange. They are definitely harder than Beta-VA and harder than Wrasse-Guava for that matter, but nowhere near as hard as routes marked as red. I pillage Uxmal-Verdant Atoll a lot, and have recently done war brig pillages on VA-Horseshoe and Uxmal-Iris. I'm less familiar with Remora-Horseshoe.

Confirmation from others would be welcome. Thankee! -- Lordkalvan


 * I've done a lot more pillaging in Sapphire since writing the above. Iris to Vernal Eq is definitely easier than Iris to Uxmal - the last time I tried to sail Iris to Uxmal the very first brigand that attacked me was red.  VA to Horseshoe appears to be green; I've been pillaging on that a lot lately, and even when the very first spawn is imps, after 6 consecutive wins the spawn was still green imps of about the same number. --Tcarr 10:14, 26 April 2006 (PDT)

Stub no more
1) Midnight no longer exists. (Long live Cerulean.)  Ergo, this page was obsolete.

2) This page actually has *more* info than Cerulean's version!

Therefore, I have de-STUB-ified this page. --Franklincain 08:30, 25 May 2012 (PDT)