St. Kitts loot event will run from daily maintenance on February 3rd until daily maintenance on February 6th.
St. Kitts Event
St. Kitts 5 modules are available in the Admiralty, they can be exchanged for Broad Pennants that occasionally drop from 5th rates and higher
Broad pennant will drop from military NPC ships
*Spotlight image from Captain Joe1355 from the December screenshot competition.
Where is my shipment? Event: January 27th - 30th. NPC Raiders on Caribbean Main
Captains,
Where is my shipment? Event will run from daily maintenance on January 27th until daily maintenance on January 30th.
Where is my shipment?
All traders carry increased numbers of crafting resources and rare woods.
NPC Raiders on Caribbean Main server
NPC raiders start to attack clan owned ports on Caribbean Main server starting Friday January 27th
NPC raiders will prefer attacking low tax income ports due to low money for defense
NPC raiders will carry doubloons and some will carry supply of wood to rebuild the towns they capture
Spotlight image from Captain Computer Insurgent from the December 2022 screenshot competition.
NPC Raiders start attacking poor towns on Caribbean Main starting January 27th
Captains,
NPC raiders start to attack clan owned ports on Caribbean Main server starting Friday January 27th
NPC raiders will prefer attacking low tax income ports due to low money for defense
NPC raiders will carry doubloons and some will carry supply of wood to rebuild the towns they capture
*Spotlight image from Captain patQ from the July screenshot competition.
Diana event, January 20th - 23th
Captains,
Diana event will run from daily maintenance on January 20th until daily maintenance on January 23th.
Diana Event
Captains have to find rare ships like Diana, Santa Cecilia and Admiraal de Ruyter in the search areas provided below. These ships may carry a very rare ship notes and special loot coins, rare wood and rare guns:
Gold Ducat
Gold Rouble
Gold Sultani
Gold Thaler
Strange Gold Bar
Rare wood
Rare guns
Coins might be exchanged in the Academy building to receive:
Additional outpost permit
Additional dock permit
Diana permit
Admiraal de Ruyter permit
If you already have the Navy Connection using the item will add even more outposts or docks (up to a total limit).
Search locations
South Antilles
East of Tumbado - area between Cuba and Tumbado
South of Hispaniola
In case of capture of certain ports in the area, the nation of ships will change.
Spotlight image from Captain Malik from the February screenshot competition.
Martinique loot event, January 13th - 16th
Captains,
Martinique loot event will run from daily maintenance on January 13th until daily maintenance on January 16th.
Martinique Event
Martinique 5 modules are available in the Admiralty, they can be exchanged for Broad Pennants that occasionally drop from 5th rates and higher
Broad pennant will drop from military NPC ships
*Spotlight image from Captain MassimoSud from the February screenshot competition.
Where is my shipment? and St. Kitts loot events, January 6th - January 9th
Captains,
Two loot events will run from daily maintenance on January 6th until daily maintenance on January 9th:
Where is my shipment?
All traders carry increased numbers of crafting resources and rare woods.
St. Kitts Event
St. Kitts 5 modules are available in the Admiralty, they can be exchanged for Broad Pennants that occasionally drop from 5th rates and higher
Broad pennant will drop from military NPC ships
*Spotlight image from Captain L3ft4D3ad from the February screenshot competition.
Holiday Gifts 2023
Captains,
Admiralty wishes you Happy Holidays in the 2023! Please accept the following traditional holiday gifts in the redeemables box in the game:
St Kitts Hull
Northern Master Carpenters
Kiritimati Masts
30x 1 Pood Edinorog guns
Gifts were given today (1st January) to all characters that were created before the New Year (23:59 UTC December 31st, 2022).
Redeemables must be claimed before 10th of January 2023. Login any time before that to claim them by going to the Gifts/Rewards section in a port.
Where is my shipment, Martinique and Diana events, December 30th-January 2nd
Captains,
Three loot events will run from daily maintenance on December 30th until daily maintenance on January 2nd:
Where is my shipment?
All traders carry increased numbers of crafting resources and rare woods.
Martinique Event
Martinique 5 modules are available in the Admiralty, they can be exchanged for Broad Pennants that occasionally drop from 5th rates and higher
Broad pennant will drop from military NPC ships
Diana Event
Captains have to find rare ships like Diana, Santa Cecilia and Admiraal de Ruyter in the search areas provided below. These ships may carry a very rare ship notes and special loot coins, rare wood and rare guns:
Gold Ducat
Gold Rouble
Gold Sultani
Gold Thaler
Strange Gold Bar
Rare wood
Rare guns
Coins might be exchanged in the Academy building to receive:
Additional outpost permit
Additional dock permit
Diana permit
Admiraal de Ruyter permit
If you already have the Navy Connection using the item will add even more outposts or docks (up to a total limit).
Search locations
South Antilles
East of Tumbado - area between Cuba and Tumbado
South of Hispaniola
In case of capture of certain ports in the area, the nation of ships will change.
*Spotlight image from Captain Gustavus Adolphus from the February screenshot competition.
New Season Starts - Season One
Captains!
Test season is over and New Season Starts today.
Caribbean Server Only
Naval service medals that are already earned will be kept and all investments already made will remain on player account.
All experience points, ranks, money, assets, buildings have been reset
Tutorial progress have been reset for the Caribbean server
Season one will run for 3 months until 3rd of April.
Patch Content
Looting is changed to completely eliminate loot stealing. After sinking a ship you will have around 10 seconds to open the hold for others. If you do not open it - only you or you enemies will be able to access the hold. Your allies will not be able to loot vessels you sank. You will also be able to open ships you sank for allies using Map function (press m in battle) and right clicking on the ship you want to share with others.
Basic Brig is now a starting ship. This will allow new players to experience the game on a stable gun platform providing more enjoyable experience.
Ship crafting XP and its levels overhauled. Number of ships required to level up have been increased
Ship crafting costs in reals have been significantly lowered. Resources in ship blueprints have been changed.
Cost of woods have been changed. Cost of all woods except of oak and fir have been lowered. Cost of rare woods have been lowered.
Cities of the Caribbean will no longer allow building of resource production buildings without corresponding investments - (to reduce alt influence). On War/Peace server - if a player have a resource production building he will have investment card for that building unlocked automatically.
Several buildings had their max production on lvl 3 lowered : Hemp and Stone
Rewards for Hunts and S&D quests have been adjusted.
HP and Speeds have been changed for several light 7 rates.
Perk system have been changed - You will get 11 perk points by max rank and will get additional 12 more perk points if you continue to receive XP further. Total number of perk points possible is now: 23 perk points
Sextant perk cost reduced to 1 point.
Forthcoming features for the Season One.
In game player poll - finally will be here.
Caribbean Cup - player sailing race
National Ship Auction - you will be able to buy ships from any port (cost will depend on delivery distance)
More perks and rewards coming soon too.
Paints will be stackable.
Christmas and New year gifts will be announced soon and given to players at the end of they year. They will include rare woods, upgrades and guns.
Seasonal Greetings and First test season end date.
Seasonal Greetings Captains.
Happy Holidays!
We wish you a Merry Christmas and Happy New year. We hope new year 2023 will bring you joy happiness and prosperity.
Continuing our annual tradition, new year gifts will be provided to players by the end of the year (after seasonal reset). List of gifts will be posted shortly.
First test season information and New season start.
Caribbean server Only
First test season will end on Monday 26th of December. Caribbean server will experience its first seasonal reset.
Naval service medals that are already earned will be kept and all investments already made will remain on player account.
All experience points, ranks, money, assets, buildings will be reset.
War server and peace server will remain as is
New Season One will start on the 26th of December and will last till end of March 2023.
Features that come with the patch on 26th of December
Basic cutter is gone. Welcome Basic Brig. Better stable platform for new players allowing to experience square riggers right from the start of the game.
Ship crafting XP and its levels overhaul based on current ship HP and DPS data. Cost to craft ship will also change and will be reduced significantly for 3rd rates and below.
Resource production and ability to open resource production buildings in regions will change to provide more incentives to investment use and resource trading.
Detailed patch notes will be posted on 26th of December.
New features that will come in January
Caribbean Cup
Ship racing cup - Caribbean Cup - with special prizes will come in January 2023.
Global ship auction.
Ship auction is now too fragmented and new players don’t see the whole selection of ships that they can buy. To fix this we are introducing the global ship auction available for shipbuilders. Once feature is added ships place to ship auction by shipbuilders will be visible and available for purchase in all national towns and free towns, Price will be adjusted by distance between city of purchase and city of auction.
