Monkey boat
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The Monkey boat, also known as the Petulant Kumquat, is a vessel staffed with rapacious monkeys which may replace a vessel in PvP, particularly those carrying large amounts of fruit. In particular, the monkeys like to target understaffed ships which try and engage in battle with another player vessel of the same Crew. When they appear, they take the place of the ship carrying least fruit in the sea battle. The monkeys reportedly like to rumble, using fruit as their bludgeon.
The monkey boat was implemented to help eliminate the problem of "double floating", where players would sail a cargo of fruit on an understaffed ship and have second ship sail alongside them to engage, should there be the threat of an attack by brigands, barbarians or another player ship. The monkey ship is designed to be beatable with a well staffed ship.
The individual monkeys aboard the Petulant Kumquat are named after famous historical philosophers and authors, including Charles Darwin, author of "The Origin of Species".
Historical Notes
The monkeys were implemented in release 2008-08-27
