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Reforging & Augmenting

Sat, 18 Aug 2012 18:50:33 +0000

Have a bunch of rare of unique items in your bank? Well fret no more! You can now break them for other items! "What is this you speak of Black? Madness!"

Reforging, The process of destroying an equipment to extract its Soul essence. Being it an Armor or a Weapon Soul. These Souls are used to Augment your equipment, make them stronger.

To do this you will have to speak to the Reforger in Sochi island.

Ok so, the way augmenting works, is that you get to a maximum of +10. It can apply to all equipment. If you succeed in upgrading, you go up a tier and acquire new stats. If you fail to succeed, the item immediately breaks, and has a % chance to degrade, going down a tier. Breaking an item will not destroy it but it will render it useless until repaired.

How do we augment? That's the easy part, You just drag and drop the appropriated Soul into the equipment you wish to augment.

New Item mall items to aid this process.

Item Mall

Soul Solvent:Reduces chances of an item degrading when it breaks by 20%

Protection Scroll:Prevents an item from breaking during its next augment.

Other Changes. Allocating states into Def will increase Health by 10 per point.Allocating in Will increases Endurance by 10 per point.
Restat monkey will be in Sochi until next month.

Jolly Rogers! Crew Rating and Killing Spree!

Sun, 03 Jun 2012 02:25:07 +0000

Few more updates! (Smaller ones go on the game's forum) Stay updated!
Jolly Rogers!
New jolly roger system allows pirates to create their own jolly rogers! with options provided ingame, that allow them to mix and match into their own original creation.
Quick how to:
Step:1 Make sure your the captain of your crew! Buy yourself one of these from the item mall "Jolly Roger Paint Kit"

Step:2 Controls Click an option then click your feature to recolor and apply all very simple.(Shout out to zane for the background thank you buddy!)

Step:3 Play around! There are many options and you are able to combine them stack eyes to create your own unique eyes go wild, let your inner Picasso run free!

Step:4 Press finish once you are ready!

Step:5 Let other's mouse over you and fear your emblem!

New features!
Crew Rating
New crew rating system influenes a PVP aspect, the crew/Fleet with the highest rating will become the leader of its faction and gain 10% damage for the entire crew and Other titles. When a player is killed by another player it will alarm his crew of his location and his killer. How do you increase your rating? Well;
marines Capture killers, defeat pirates, make arrests.

Pirates; Slay loot and escape!

Muderer!(Killing Spree)
Killing spree system! This ones slightly simple! Kill non pirate players and your killing spree will incrase! get over 10 kills and your name will be announced to the world! Becareful this will allow marines to hunt you down for crewrating. Being defeated while a killer will disable your ability to attack or enter safe zone for minutes = your kills x2!

Other News!
Thanks to the subscriptions accumulated, I've been able to hire a Pixel Artist to remake the games art! Though they are but one person, this will take much time to finish so please be patient everyone. I also appreciate the hard work players have put in for finding and reporting bugs, keep up the good work, because with each one found we steadily improve this game to new heights!

Spoiler.

Update: Crafting Professions & More

Sun, 06 May 2012 19:21:33 +0000

The trainers are back on the map! Hundreds of crafting skills and possibilities.

After you learn the profession speak to the trainer again to buy a crafting scroll!

These scrolls will give you the skills you need to progress in your profession.

Though there are a limited amount of scrolls your teacher is able to sell you, mobs your level are able to drop scrolls your trainer is not able to teach. The level of the mob will also decide the level of the scroll it drops.

Though the guide teaches you how to craft doesn't hurt to revisit the process.
Your P key will open your profession window, clicking on the profession will display it's skills and information.
Clicking on the skill will display its information and the items it requires to be crafted.

Clicking on the material needed will give you more information about it.

With all the necesary items in your inventory press craft and you will begin to make the item!!

(How to level your profession up)
Make things!!!! Item's closer to your professions level have a greater chance to level it up,so make those.

(How to quit a profession) shift clicking the profession will open a window allowing you to quit the profession

New Text!
New strength based text, Earth

Wind status (In progress pixel art needed)

Changes
Swift trait skill has been tweaked, Walls will no longer be usable.
CTC map change
10 new hair styles
New clothes in the store!

New Item mall items
Farmer scroll: Mobs will not give you exp for 30 minutes
Gold God's text: Allows you to choose your text power.

Rise of the Pirates:Bounty Hunting

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 12:35:33 +0000

System changes
- Defeat in Pvp will no longer automatically send you to your spawn. Instead it will Knock you out. Rendering you unconscious for 60 seconds.
- D Button function. Pressing the D button while in front of someone you have knocked out will open up a set of options. Though the picture explains a lot, I have to clarify to actually jail and collect a player's bounty you must have 5000 bounty hunting rep.

Bounty Hunting
As I said above, You require at least 5k Rep to bounty hunt. How do you get this? There are two new Npc's that will help you with this.

Hunter Fett and Hunter Boba don't mind Officer Kaio for the moment.

Hunter Fett will give you a repeatable quest. Not very difficult, however it will not yield a lot of reputation.

Hunter Boba will begin a quest chain, However more difficult it will yield a plenty amount of reputation.(The exp is not half bad either.)

How to Bounty Hunt
You are able to hunt either players or Npcs with a bounty. To successfully hunt an Npc you must first defeat it,
Once defeated with the D button you will begin to transport the Npc, Make your way to jail to turn them in. (Only jail is currently in Mydd desert)
Once there, You will collect Exp and Escudo equal to the Npc's bounty. (This being another alternative to grinding, Since the story line will not be introduced in the open testing phases.)

Bounty hunting player's is almost identical to bounty hunting npc. Select the capture Kill option and you are able to drag him/her to jail. Once they regain consciousness however they will be able to rebel, move, flee or fight. This making the experience more realistic and fair. Once a player's bounty is collected it drops dramatically and he/she is sent to jail.

Jail
Once in jail you have a few options. Here is where Officer Kaio becomes useful.

Option One: Speak to Officer Kaio and post bail.(Your bounty will drop) But you will be free.

Option Two: Have a friend or alt speak to Officer Kaio in skull island and Post bail for you.(Your bounty will drop.)

Option Three: Bust the bars and run through the guards and break out! (Your bounty will increase)

Other changes and updates
Range mobs!

oh and, Sochi has a new look!

Night Time!

ROTP Maintenance

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 19:02:51 +0000

The game is be down reason, Fixes/updates and solving some shell server related issues. We hope to have it back online today. Thank you for your patience.

Nostalgic Minigame!

Sun, 01 Apr 2012 01:04:32 +0000

For those who were there in pre alpha. You should feel a slight bit of nostalgia with our new minigame!

Tell me if you remember it? You can find the npc in anchor island!

How it works, Dodge the knives! The longer you last the more exp you get!

Pride Ravanok survived 21 seconds of Flying knives!
Exp++ 4200

_> Don't laugh at my score.

Well, I'll POST IN NEW BYOND!

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 19:36:07 +0000

Since Byond has changed I have been too, turned off to continue blogging. Not the usual blogger but! I was giving it a shot this time around as to not let another membership go to waste! But with the changes i have been discouraged.. I no longer see my creative production logo... I no longer see the previous post in an obvious manor.. This new outline is going to take some getting used to. Feels like one big forum and im usually not very active on those either.. What will be will be though.. I just hope others feel better about the change then i do. Then again i am a child of the interwebs and WILL NOT STAND FOR CHANGE. Looking at you obama! jokes aside O_O I hope they continue to improve on this idea..

Guide to ROTP Open testing

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:35:46 +0000

Guide to the current Open testing, May get outdated kind of quickly, Thank you Henry for the guide, Its on the forum i just chose to add it here for those who dislike registering to forums!

Guide to Rise Of The Pirates Open testing!

Basic Information

Okay so I'm sure you guys all know how to create a character so I won't bother to tell you how to do that, since it's already very straight forward.

Alright, so when you first start the game you will enter a cut scene, it introduces you to the NPC Sarah, she will give you quests to your storyline and also, make sure you read the dialog!

Your first quest is to find the doctor.

In case you guys didn't know this game has a very useful function to find NPC's. Whenever you need to find a NPC type this into the say or ooc dialog box "Where is [Insert NPCs Name]" (Without the brackets) eg. Where is blacksmith

When you try to talk to a NPC/Object you interact by pressing X.

The quest you get from the doctor is to get some mushrooms for him to do this you walk left from the hospital and find it.

To pick up these mushrooms you press X, X can be used to interact with other objects as well, like things that are needed for crafting which is used when you're in a profession.

After you finish the mushroom quest, as you would with any quest, go back to the same NPC to continue the storyline! When you finish talking, go back to Sarah.

If you ever don't know what quest you are doing you can always check back in your quest log by pressing L.

After this you now need to find the blacksmith and get your first weapon!

This is one of the times where you can use "Where is blacksmith" to easily find him. After you finish talking to the blacksmith you will find that you have gained some experience, escudo (This game's currency) and an item (not always obtainable in quests).

You will also notice that you have leveled up!

In this game levels grant you stats which are the basis of your attack's damage, defense and other factors.

To make use of these stats you have to put in stat points, you do this by going to character > invest stat points.

Then you see this, the following stats are to determine your damage, defense, dodge and also critical damage %

Strength - Melee attack (Close range)

Defense - Melee Defense, Dodge (Close range)

Spirit - Spirit attack (Long range)

Will - Spirit defense (Long range)

Agility - Critical Damage%^,Attack speed ,Attack damage (All ranges with the exception of spirit based attacks)

When you get to the blacksmith you will see a selection of 3 weapons.

Combat Gauntlets - Strength

Slingshot - Spirit

Small Katana - Agility/Strength

These will determine the class you get in the future, there are also 3 other weapons you can get but those require you to have the money to buy them, they are the hammer, crush blade and bow!

To equip your weapon or armour you double click it!

Good luck in future quests!~

Races

As of now there are only 2 available races to those who have subscribed and only 1 to those who have not

They are Lycan and Humans, the pros and cons are available at the creation screen

Other races like Giant and Fishman will be in, in the near future

Professions

All professions have counter opposites that are needed to be "one" that can be efficient, the professions can be divided into two categories, gathering and crafting. You can also open your profession tab by pressing p to view the level of skill you have and what you can make with the things you have gathered.

An example of gathering

Profession window

To be able to craft anything you must first purchase the recipe at the desired professions teacher in order to be able to craft anything.

Classes

To Gain a class one must reach a mastery of 100

Crush blades are available at the shopkeeper for 800 escudo's they are used to aid those who use STR for a base stat (You get to be a Buster Blader if you wish to master)

Slingshots are used to aid to someone who uses SPI as a base stat in ranged combat (Prankster if you wish to master in it)

Archery can be used as a range weapon for those who go agility as a base stat (Archer if you wish to master in it)

Bows are available at the shopkeeper for 1000 escudo's

Hand to hand can be used without any weapons though you may use gauntlets to assist in your damage in STR (Boxer if you wish to master in it)

Swordsmanship, using the sword as a melee weapon for those who use AGI as a base stat, STR for skills (Swordsman if you wish to master in it)

Crushers are those who use hammers as a melee weapon for those who use STR as a base stat ( Breaker if u wish to master in it)

Hammers are available at the shopkeeper for 1200 escudo's

Kicks can be used without any weapons and are for those who use STR as a base stat. (Martial Artist if you wish to master in this)

To toggle kicks do this, if you want to toggle punch back, you do the same.

Guns are not out as of yet

For further information on classes that are gained from the reading of a ancient text please see this link

http://s11.zetaboards.com/Rise_of_the_Pirates/topic/7457263/ 1/

*Secret Class [Assassin]*

Assassins receive daggers for their primary weapon from the assassin trainer which is in a hidden location. After you master the dagger you get the full benefits of being a assassin and receive skills like any other class.

How to set a shop up

Shops! This is possibly the best system in this game. So make use of it to gain Escudo's!

To open a shop do this

After the window opens, open your inventory and drag the items you wish to sell into the shop and allocate the prices

Factions

To be a marine or a pirate or any other future rank related things you have to reach a certain amount of reputation that can be viewed by pressing C then pressing Rep (Marines and Pirates are 2500 reputation if you want to achieve either of those!)

To become a marine kill pirates or do marine related quests and then go talk to the admiral in Cress Island

To become a pirate kill marines or do pirate related quests and then in your reputation window press pirate then yes

How to macro a skill

To open macro window do this

Setting a macro is very simple, you simply just drag the skills in the right macro window to any key on the left and that macro is now usable!

If you still have trouble macroing something simple like get, click and any key and do this

Shop Keeper and other NPCs

Shopkeeper

For further upgrade of your weapons you can purchase ones that are for level 30ÃÂ¢Ã¢âÂ¬Ã¢âÂ¢s or acquire ones that are for any level. You can also buy food to regenerate faster

Hammers are 1200 escudo's.

Crush Blades are 800 escudo's.

Thick Slingshots are 900 escudo's.

Katanas are 900 escudo's.

Battle Gauntlets are 900 escudo's.

Wooden Bows are 1000 escudo's.

You can now sell items to any shopkeeper by dragging and dropping the item in your inventory into the NPC's shop window!

$Bank$

To withdraw or deposit your items press ALT + Click

Party system

A party allows you to invite others to be in a group so you can all receive exp from whatever is killed by whomever in the party

To make simply do this

Then find someone to invite and you eventually have yourself a full fledged party!

To talk to someone in your party macro this to a key -> Party-Say

Item Mall

The item mall is a system where you can buy things with the currency of gold to purchase game related items that will assist you aiding you in levels,drops,movement speed (Mounts), etc

Opening the item mall is quite simple you open it from here

To purchase something from here you have to first have gold by converting your escudo's ( 250 escudo's = 1 gold)

The item mall window looks like this

Please remember that gold can ONLY be used in the item mall

How to use the Dingy

When you receive the dingy after you get out from the tutorial island many of you may wonder how you use it, so i will show you how.

In your inventory your dingy will look like this

To use it in the water you must face towards the water and only be 1 tile away from it and not IN it.

You only have to click the dingy in your inventory

once after u are facing the water.

The way to move in your dingy is by using WASD and Spacebar for movement

Traits

In the game there are 3 traits as of now, they are Beserk ,Tactical and Swift

When you reach level 20 you will be asked which trait you wish to have, think carefully as to what your future class will be prior to choosing the trait

Beserk-Allows you to gain 60% critical % and also the ability to use throw by pressing S which enables you to damage a mob via throwing it into something, throw is level based

Swift -Allows you to gain 40% attack speed and also the ability to move around the mob you are facing to practically teleport around it

Tactical - Allows you to gain 60% dodge and also the ability to jump back a few steps by using S (Good for kiting)

The passive you get from traits enable you to gain momentum and later on use the passive, you can momentum by attacking a mob

Events

To join events you use the verb Join in the event tab by doing this whilst an event is being hosted, you cannot use this if the event hosting has been completed and the registration is closed.

Join allows you to join the event that is being hosted but it may not work if some events have a certain amount of people for example CTC which needs even numbers of people

Watch allows you to view from the screen of the other members that are participating

Ancient Texts

Gods Texts allow you to gain a unique class that allow you to use a variety of skills varying from elemental to melee

There are 4 types of ancient texts that are STR, AGI, SPI and Random, The power/skills you get from them are all different

Example of texts

You can get texts from drops of mobs that are LVL 50 or higher, drop rate scrolls don't affect text drop rates.

Leveling Guide

This is only a suggestion, it is your choice whether you want to follow it or not.

1-30 : Basic leveling, just follow the quests

30-40 : Beach Boars level 15

40-100 : Snakes level 60-80 (Snake Cave)

100-150 : Crabs level 110-130 (Star Island

150-200 : Turtles (Mydd) level 180 - 220

200-500 : The rest is quite basic, you will see creatures in Mydd that are up to level 300 after that just go to cress island which is above star for levels.

Subscribing

Allows you to receive monthly benefits at the price of $6 a month

You also receive the ability to use the race Lycan

Trade Chat

Trade chat is the communication available to use by CTRL clicking on items to sell them

You can turn the trade chat on and off if you wish or not wish to see it

Important keys

ALT+ Click to abandon quest.

SHIFT + Click to quit profession.

CTRL +Click on item in inventory to post item on OOC

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you obtain a gods text?

First of all, to obtain a gods text you achieve it from killing mobs that are above level 50 and are at least 30 levels within your level range to receive the drop.

Whats a gods text?

A gods text is a unique class that is obtained from the reading of a ancient gods text, it enables you to have a class that is different from those that are mastered.

Is this a One Piece game?

No this is not a one piece game, though the games previous version may have been it has completely changed although this game may seem loosely based on one piece It is not, this game is a completely original, fun, pirate game!

Is there a map?

No, Finding Islands and everything else is part of a pirates adventure! You don't need no map!

I will update this guide as this game updates.

Thanks for reading!

Credits to those random people i took screenshots of ^_^

And also to those who reminded me of things and corrected me c:

Henryx3

Raise the anchor, Hoist the sails! Were going on an adventure.

Sun, 11 Dec 2011 05:20:22 +0000

Open Testing continues!

First! I would like to thank you ALL of you who have helped us test so far, The bugs you find and report help us to improve the game so much faster. Please continue doing what your doing.

I have been indisposed but i was able to throw this update together on my free time away from work and school..I should be back to daily updates Thursday., Ships are to make an appearance on Rise of the pirates. Though a lot of their customization content will be left for later updates. Well lets get to it.

Current ship features

Deck editing
This option will open a menu for you with deck editing options,(furniture and other objects have been left out for a later update,)

Once this menu is open things get pretty simple.

Drag your mouse along the tiles to select them, Click individually tiles to be precise.

Then click on the tile you want it to become,in your ship editing menu

Go Crazy!

Though there is a lot room for improvement with this system, I chose to implement it and learn what I can do better from your reports and opinions.
Combat!
Ah, The combat I was able to build in a short time.. I hope to improve It In ways even I'm not sure of yet! {Here is where i welcome your opinion}

When you buy the ship you are given 2 default cannons, You will be able to buy more later as the game progresses into an official release.{Date still unknown}
You are able to interact with these cannons! Controls are explained In game.

Interaction with the cannon will give you a birds eye view of the ship. Your cannon will shoot only in its direction. So if the giant sea monster..GIANT SEA MONSTERS! yes, If the giant sea monster is to your left, You may want to use the cannon that shoots in that direction Which also depends on your ship's current location and angle.

Don't forget to yell at your navigator, if a quick escape is needed!

Smaller updates within the game are posted on the forums. Don't forget to join.

http://s11.zetaboards.com/Rise_of_the_Pirates/index/

Don't worry, The larger cooler ship is not just a prop. Were saving that one for the official release.

Cuban you have been keeping up with me and that's rare, I am glad to have you as a partner in this project. Thank you.

Rise of the Pirates Trailer!

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 23:57:10 +0000

Ty Valoesdte for the recording.