[Concluded] Forthcoming Updates

[Warrior]

I see something called credits balance has been added and something called Exchange has been added to my bank. It says I need lvl 10 or higher to exchange credits... What is the exchange rate anyway ?

[Sir Henry Morgan]

The banker will set the price of the exchange. The details will become much clearer once the system is activated. Right now, it appears the devs are simply putting things into place, so when the ship market comes on line, the credit exchange is up and running, as I believe the ship market will depend upon credits.

[Captain Jack]

The time to activate this has come:
9)Captains Check change
Announced on 19 Oct 2015, this change will take place after December 19 2015 following players request on an extra delay.
Captains check will from now on take place when you try to put a ship in a fleet. If you do not have the required amount, the ship will remain outside.

It will be activated on the same time with Ships Market. No more time extensions can be given. 7 players are affected by this.

[Captain Jack]

Added to forthcoming updates:

Gold Bars requirement for some ship types at the Shipwright
The change will take place shortly after ship market release.
-Large Merchantman will require 10 Gold Bars each.
-Ship of the Line will require 100 Gold Bars each

[Roberts]

It will be activated on the same time with Ships Market. No more time extensions can be given. 7 players are affected by this.

Just saying, surely more Players would be more effected then seven, I am sure most players have more Ships then Captains... Lets say X has 200 Captains yet 215 Ships, he would be affected, would he not?...

[Captain Jack]

From the active players, 6 of them now have more ships than captains. 3 have a big margin, the rest 3 are near to the captain count.

They can use loans to fund their captaincy or they will not be able to add more ships in fleets. Their current fleets will continue to operate normaly.

[Roberts]

From the active players, 6 of them now have more ships than captains. 3 have a big margin, the rest 3 are near to the captain count.

They can use loans to fund their captaincy or they will not be able to add more ships in fleets. Their current fleets will continue to operate normaly.

I am pretty sure, the Players with a big margin - Do not need Loans to catch up to there current Captain count... One of them has a nation, one of them is a billionair...

I would like to see, the first player that actually buys the 1000th captain... I would pay good money to see that... ( Gold Coins )

[Captain Jack]

Forthcoming
Implementation proceeds well. We now have Academy, Fishing tweaks and Ship specialization to do in order to complete all currently announced forthcoming updates. Once this is done, we will discuss and plan ahead the next patch of big features, like we have done before.

Version planning
Academy building and Fishing Tweaks will keep the game to 1.6 version. Ship Specialization is a huge feature and it will mostly take place in 1.6 Version. Due to its huge nature though, it will advance the game at 1.7 at some point (with one of its big chapters additions) and more additions will keep getting added in 1.7. Ship Specialization feature is comparable to the largest features ever introduced to the game (voodoo, nation control).

Next priority
Next up front though is Academy. This is your last chance to get your ideas into place as we are already workin in full strength to release the Academy as soon as possible.

[Roberts]

Oh yes! More Fishing! Love it! In my eyes, Ship Specification has been talked about too much - I would prefer if this was made first, then Academy then fishing... But hey...

Question : When will the Archive Battle come out?

[Captain Jack]

Academy is in fact another part of the big puzzle called ship specialization. Fishing is again another part of the same puzzle as it adds a special ship into the game - a ship like no other.

Ship specialization is so big and steps that we need to take are so many. Therefore we prefer to eventually go with the safest ones first. We are not in a big rush regarding specialization depth. This kind of depth will be added gradually. There are so many other features waiting to be implemented in between. Some small features too, like the one you mentioned.