Age of Pirates

[bonefang]

hello people !
I wanted to introduce a simple turn based game that could be playable in the forums.

Brief Introduction :

Spoiler :

Piracy Conquest:

The idea is, each person can start off with any of the factions, each has it's own advantages and disadvantages. This is a turn based game, hence each player will be sending in their actions, I, the GM would be looking after these turn actions and reporting the same.

Factions :
1. Pirates (choose some fancy names)
pro: can acquire ships not destroyed in a fight. can ransack settlements.
con: can not settle down till population hits 500 people, no cavalry
2. Natives
pro: will start with massive population; Infantries are very good fighters; chance to rebel even after being taken over. access to slaves.
con: doesn't have access to gunpowder or horses, hence no cavalry.
+/- works in barter, no money system, or ducats.
3. Empires - (British, French, Spanish, Portuguese)
pro: starts with good ships and gunpowder units. can found settlements with settler unit. can tax the populace. can use slaves.
con: religion. natives tend to revolt once religion is spread.

Specialized Population: Some of them will be randomly generated, some can be purchased. Each is 50 ducats.
Aristocrats - +1 reserach, + 10 tax, officers in Conquered territorry becomes Aristrocats
Officers - + 1 leadership (+att/+ def) (captain*, firstmate* , quartermaster*, boatswain*, gunner*, powdermonkey* , muscician, carpenter**, surgeon**,cooper**, )
Clergymen - + 5 research, +1 to chance of conversion of natives
Capitalists - +10 tax; + 5 production
Clerks - +10 research, + 1% tax efficiency (base at 66.66%)
Craftsmen - + 10 goods production : sugar, bread, meat, rum
Farmers - +20 food production : grain, fish, cattle, fruit, sugercane
Labourers - + 10 raw materials : iron, timber, coal , sulfur
Soldiers - Theirs is not to wonder why, theirs is just to do
Slaves - (purchasable from merchants, pirates, Empires, OR, natives can be conquered to make slaves)

** only for Empire ~
Estate Incomes :
tax: amount of tax that can be collected, based on the number of people in the settlement.
tax efficiency : not all the tax collected is deposited. clerks will do a betterjob. base collection is 66.66%, can't go above 99%
state bonds : can issue bonds, which might be picked up by the people or other factions. if no one collects, a random check is done with a 1d10 dice by GM, 5+ scores needed to indicate that the bond has been accepted.

Inviting players:
Players :
Natives:
Pirates:
Empires:

 

[bonefang]

Reserved for FAQ's

 

[bonefang]

Reserved for Army

 

[bonefang]

Map :

Spoiler :

The name of the areas and the starting locations will be put up once the game is about to begin.

 

[hoplitejoe]

This looks a lot like an IoT, try advertising it on there.

 

[Abaddon]

This looks a lot like an NES, try advertising it on there.

 

[Omega124]

This doesn't looks like an IOT nor a NES, try advertising it on here.

 

[Sonereal]

This looks a lot like an IoT, try advertising it on there.

This looks a lot like an NES, try advertising it on there.

This doesn't looks like an IOT nor a NES, try advertising it on here.

LazyNES?

Nice map, but it isn't clean. The territories don't shade in correctly.

 

[SouthernKing]

This looks a lot like an NES, try advertising it on there.

This. But I would join.

 

[bonefang]

way too confusing ... i am continuing here only.

more takers ?

 

[Red_Spy]

Basically, what the others are saying is that there are two established forums for these types of games. IOTs and NESes.

IOTs are, to quote taillesskangaru "Imperium Offtopicum is often defined as "an empire-building game" that spawned from the Altered Maps threads. It has had many, many variations, but generally speaking: you create or take over a nation of your choice, you expand a little at a time, you can engage in war and diplomacy and conquer the world, and the overall goal is fun.". If you can image, a game of risk with diplomacy, and RPing. NESes are Never Ending Stories. They are like IOTs, but tend to be more "story-driven" with a lot more focus on RPing than IOTs.

IOT Forum
NES Forum

It is fine that you host it here, but if you wanted to attract a larger crowd interested in these kinds of things, it would help to host it there.

 

[bonefang]

surely you are in a better position to judge where this should have been posted .. any advises ?

 

[KaiserElectric]

I would make this an NES, as it's a bit advanced for a simple forum game but not quite the same scope as an IOT. That being said, I'll gladly join your game as you have joined mine.

And since this is the first time I've seen you, welcome to the forums.

 

[Abaddon]

I would join if you placed it in NES.

 

[hoplitejoe]

My intent was only to find bonefang some players, not to try and force him to join the forum.

 

[SouthernKing]

If you placed it in NES, I would most definitely join as well. If you place it in IOT...maybe not.

 

[Sonereal]

Place it in NES. No one would play in IOT since Iron and Blood is IOT as Wal-Mart is to small towns.

 

[Omega124]

Place it in NES. No one would play in IOT since Iron and Blood is IOT as Wal-Mart is to small towns.

Yeah, no. There were IOTs running during the course of the first Blood and Iron. Say what you will about quality, but IB isn't obtrusive on other IOTs.

 

[bonefang]

Ok, placing it in NES group.

Mods, please delete this thread.