Old salt

Old salts are non-player-pirates that can be found inside any inn. Old salts provide information on specific player or merchant ships sailing to the current island.

Old salt information can be obtained from one NPP in each inn, and costs 10 PoE per use. By clicking on a the NPP and selecting "Buy this old salt a drink," a public message is sent to the entire scene.

Old salts can give information more than once, but if the same player buys the same old salt a drink more than once without logging out and back in again, the old salt sends the information in /tell form.

Player ships
Messages about player ships are in one of the following formats:
 * "I've heard wind that the   of the  is headed here from   with a goodly cargo. Tis rumoured to be a   and the crew be known as  ."


 * "There's been tell of a goodly cargo aboard the   the   and the   be sailin' it this way from  . They be ranked as  ."


 * "Word on the streets is that the   be sailin' the     wi' a crew o'   this way from   with a load o' booty."


 * "Me sources on   tell me that the     be sailin' toward this very port under control of the     with a fair bit o' booty."


 * "I heard a squawkin' parrot say something about the fine     sailin' off towards   by the     with a mighty fine bit o' booty aboard."


 * "Don't spread it around, but the   just set the   to sail toward   with booty enough to raise a few eyebrows. I believe the vessel be a   and the crew be known as   in skill."

Old salts determine their information based on the current course of a player ship, so trading crews often chart past the island where they plan on porting.

No ships
If no ships are sailing nearby, the old salt will send one of the following messages:


 * There ain't a scurvy dog at sea in the waters around this island worth wastin' breath upon. But thanks fer the drink anyway matey. Arr!


 * A sailor was just here saying his ship was attacked by , who took all the aboard and left in search of more.
 * I hear tales of  sailing about these waters, searching for .
 * I've heard  is hoarding as many as possible. I wonder why in the seven seas that would be...
 * Have ye ever met ? I've never seen anyone eat so many in me life.

Note: with the last four messages,  may be replaced with any one of the Brigand Kings, and   may be replaced for the particular fruit which that King is said to be hunting. As of January 2014, the significance of a particular fruit being related to a particular Brigand King is not known. However, it has been observed the fruit for each Brigand King changes over time. These messages date from the time before expeditions existed, when it was still possible to find Brigand King ships sailing on the ocean. As of, Brigand Kings may only be encountered through expeditions.

Historical notes

 * With, old salts no longer gave information about Brigand Kings, as the encounters at sea were reworked to use the expedition framework.
 * In, old salts began /telling players their information if used more than once. Previously, all information was spoken aloud, so all players in a scene would hear it.
 * In, old salt information was expanded to include ship class, crew name, and crew PvP rank, as well as adding merchant vessel information.
 * In, the cost to buy an old salt a drink was decreased from 50 poe to 10 poe.

The old salts were introduced in.