Release 2009-02-04

If A Homunculus Sees His Shadow, Does That Mean Six More Weeks of Cursed Fog?

Portraits and New Items

 * New limited edition portrait backgrounds: Damayi's Cupid's Party, Damayi's Pirate o' Love, Happyharlot's Valentine's Day, Roseash's Lakeside Snow, Merethif's Winter Cabin
 * Returning seasonal portrait backgrounds: Valentine's Day Heart, Valentine's Day Swan
 * Limited edition white elephants are available in the Palace Shoppe
 * Seasonal Valentine's Day trinkets are available in the Palace Shoppe
 * New seasonal valentine furniture available in the Palace Shoppe: Rose wreath
 * Flower trinkets may now be held in portraits
 * Mugs may now be held in portraits
 * Solid or greater experience in drinking allows foam in the held mug
 * New clothing available for tailors to manufacture: plain knickers for ladies
 * New starter clothing, also available from tailors: patchy pants and solid shirts for both genders

New Player Experience

 * New tutorial mission for first-time pirates
 * Make navy gunnery mission only require Apprentice instead of Narrow in the 3 basic duty puzzles
 * Make navy vessels better understand their available duty stations
 * Tweaks to the pirate creation interface
 * Allow pirate creation during initial game download when launching from the web page

Cursed Isles

 * New sounds on the Cursed Isle
 * Cultists and Enlightened Ones now wield weapons of their own making
 * New Cursed Islanders have been spotted in frays: Vargas and Homunculi
 * Adjust bot AI for rumbling
 * New Cursed Isle loot is available for plundering

Miscellaneous Tweaks

 * Decreased the number of dragoons boarding from sea monsters
 * New titles assignable to crew members
 * Scale blacksmithing scoring with difficulty level
 * Restrict what html is usable in trinket inscriptions/wrapped present text
 * Warp to portal arrows if necessary instead of complaining that they are unreachable
 * Use antialiased text throughout the game
 * Flotillas now only blockade an island after at least two weeks of existence, versus one before
 * Always show the 'To home' button, even when at home (and tell users as much if they try to use it there)
 * Don't require officerhood to see vessel lock status from the docks
 * Adjustments to mugs in drinking:
 * Fix skull mug to properly only penalize by 40 pts on PLAYING the special, not drinking it
 * Stein - Make it +15/-10 instead of +15/-5
 * Horn - On playing specials, lose 10 points

Bug Fixes

 * Fix bug with foraging scores in puzzle competitions
 * Fix bug with inconsistently aged bandanas from item tutorial mission
 * Fix bug with vessels sunk between the time they pull into the CI cove and the end of the turn
 * Fix bug in ship placement coming out of cursed isle gauntlet - previously never placed to upper right of primary exit point.
 * Fix bug with the notice board's inn button when the inn is your home
 * Show "Board" instead of "Apply" on the jobbing board when a pirate is already jobbed into that crew
 * Add missing layers for dreadlocks & long-straight hair in portraits
 * Fix misaligned buccaneer jacket sleeves in portraits
 * Fix timing issues with some messages relating to scoring and drunkenness; this includes timing issues causing incorrect scores to be displayed game-end involving tankards