News

News and issues are notices important enough to be seen by all crew and flag members. Crew news can be created by pirates ranked officer and above, while flag news can only be created by royals & monarchs. News can also be created by certain in-game events. In a democratic crew, pirates may create and vote on issues.

Viewing an issue

Upon logging in, if any new items have been created since that pirate last logged out, they will see a notice on their ahoy panel. This message will remain until it is cleared with the x icon, even after the items have been viewed. Pirates can also view items by selecting the "Issues" button from the crew panel.

Creating a new issue

At the bottom of the crew info page, there is a button marked "Post News". Clicking this takes players to a page where they can specify a title and text for the issue. Clicking OK will post the news issue, marked with the creator's name and the time of creation. It is impossible to edit issues once they have been posted.

Issues may also be created by certain in-game events. The creator will be marked as the monarch of the flag creating the item, or if there is no monarch, the creator will be marked as the name of the flag. These include:

• Crew news
  • Invitations to join a flag.
  • Rank changes of pirates in crew.
  • Expulsion of pirates in crew.
• Flag news
  • An alliance or war proposal from another flag.
  • An alliance or war proposal withdrawal.
  • An alliance or war declaration.
  • An alliance or war termination.
  • Alliance and war declarations and terminations involving flags' allies.
  • Disbanding of flags allied to, or at war with.

Using tags in news

Basic HTML is enabled in News as well as Shoppe News and Officer Bulletin Boards, this includes bold, italic, underline, font colours, sizes and faces and other HTML effects.

Below is a list of all the HTML tags that are currently available for use in the news. The areas in bold need to be replaced as appropriate.

Syntax	Effect	Appearance
<b>text</b>	bolds text	Sample text
<i>text</i>	italicizes text	Sample text
<u>text</u>	underlines text	Sample text
<font color="blue">text</font>	changes text color	Sample text
<font bgcolor="red">text</font>	highlights text	Sample text
<font face="Lucida Console">text</font>	changes font face	Sample text
<font size="4">text</font>	changes size of text	Sample text
<p>text</p>	puts text in paragraph form	Sample text sample text sample text sample text sample text sample text sample text sample text
<br>	creates a line break	Sample text
<hr>	creates a horizontal line (and includes two line breaks)	Sample text sample text
Supported color and bgcolor names are the 16 basic colors, which are: aqua, black, blue, fuchsia, gray, green, lime, maroon, navy, olive, purple, red, silver, teal, white, and yellow. Players may also use an RGB value in hexadecimal, e.g. "#FF00FF" produces magenta. Attributes for the <font> tag may be combined to save space if multiple attributes are needed. For example, to change the font color and size, the code would be: <font color="black" size="4">text</font> Please note that hypertext links must be short in length or they will not appear properly. To work around this, use a URL shortening service and use the shortened URLs as the links. As of July 2nd 2014, hypertext links do not appear to be enabled for use on officer bulletin boards, nor for building news. It is still possible to use them when posting crew and flag news. Note: it was once possible to add hyperlinks to crew/flag news. It's unclear when this was removed, but it is no longer possible.

Voting on an issue

Depending on the crew politics, and the rank of the pirate viewing them, some news and issues may require a vote to be acted upon. Two buttons, marked "Aye" and "Nay" will appear to the right of the item being voted on. A simple majority (50% plus one) of all eligible voters is needed for an issue to be accepted or denied. If the issue does not have a majority vote in three days and a majority of the crew has not voted at all, it is simply discarded. If a majority of the crew has voted, the issue is approved if a majority of the crew members who voted approved it, otherwise it is denied. A senior officer in a crew can promote up to fleet officer without the need to vote.