Portal:Doubloon Oceans/Intro

An ocean is the world and gaming environment in Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates. In more technical terms, an ocean is a game server. Puzzle Pirates currently has seven separate regular player servers and one testing server. A player account may have characters on each ocean; however, each ocean maintains a separate, independent, and unique environment with separate pirates, stats, inventories, and possessions. Currently, there are two different types of oceans: Subscriber oceans and Doubloon oceans. Both subscriber and doubloon oceans offer unlimited free play of the basic duty puzzles, and of carousing and crafting puzzles on specific days of the week. In order to have unlimited access to all puzzles all the time, the ability to achieve crew ranks higher than cabin person, and use better quality weapons and clothing, pirates must subscribe on the subscriber oceans, or buy appropriate badges with doubloons on the doubloon oceans. Each ocean has its own unique geography - except for Cobalt and Viridian, which are identical, and Opal and Hunter, which are also identical to each other - which encompasses islands divided into a number of different archipelagos. Each ocean has between three and eight archipelagos, and each archipelago contains anywhere from three to eighteen islands, with one of them designated as the capital island.