I would like to suggest that skirmish points be available to buy from the game in the Account status page. This could offer admin another way to get cash-ola for game play. Another suggestion is to have players who don't use their skirmish point sell them on the voodoo market. I realize there may not be a demand for this, but somewhere down the line it will be useful. I want your gold bars Avonmora....... :mrgreen:

+1 to both buying and selling skirmish points.

interesting idea! +1

well as someone who almost never skirmishes I wouldn't mind having some use for them. and selling them off would be a pretty useful thing to have. although, I'm not sure there would be enough buyers for such a feature. I fear the market would be STUFFED with tons of skirmishes being sold, and few being bought. maybe if you make it to where there is new limit for skirmish points, some sort of hard limit. you gain points until you reach 72, but you can buy more to exceed that. maybe 300? that way if someone wanted to store up for a bunch of skirmishes they would have to buy some to reach the limit.

+1 to the idea, although i think there needs to still be the max skirmish points in place. it is too dangerous to let someone accumulate so many skirmish points. still only be allowed to have max 72 skirmish points at one time, although you can buy more to refill once you drop below that

John jacob astor wrote:+1 to the idea, although i think there needs to still be the max skirmish points in place. it is too dangerous to let someone accumulate so many skirmish points. still only be allowed to have max 72 skirmish points at one time, although you can buy more to refill once you drop below that

you need to remember all the other limits already on skirmishes Sir John. a person can only be hit 5 times in a day, they have a chance to flee, and it still costs 4 turns and your fleet still gains danger. with all these limitations, its no wonder why skirmishes are not used as often as plunders by most players(in my experience at least). so making a hard limit beyond 72 would not be very dangerous. at 300, you could skirmish 60 players 5 times each. not all that damaging honestly on an individual level.

Gold bars, dear. Gold bars. And you touch pirates who think they are untouchable. I took a while to come around to skirmish, But now, I be its king. I like what I see and it can be used effectively.

Lefty wrote:Gold bars, dear. Gold bars. And you touch pirates who think they are untouchable. I took a while to come around to skirmish, But now, I be its king. I like what I see and it can be used effectively.

Yes skirmish does have its advantages, but I still think having a higher hard limit would be useful. also I am not shooting down this idea. I give it a BIG +1 since I can use it to sell my unused points. I just think their will by tons of people selling, and not a whole lot buying, and those who want to sell their unused points would have to either sell for pennies or wait and hope they get lucky. but perhaps I am mistaken. I rather hope I am since i could benefit from selling unused points.

Lefty wrote: I realize there may not be a demand for this, but somewhere down the line it will be useful.

Yes, you are right. With the amount of non skirmishers versus skirmishers, there would be the unfortunate example of supply with no demand.
But to have an implementation of selling/buying in place... is step one. Sliming down the allotment or hard limit is ... step two. Skirmish is undervalued in my humble opinion ( been playing the game since before voodoo ). Of course, I could be high off the paint fumes in my garage.

Lefty wrote:

Lefty wrote: I realize there may not be a demand for this, but somewhere down the line it will be useful.

Yes, you are right. With the amount of non skirmishers versus skirmishers, there would be the unfortunate example of supply with no demand.
But to have an implementation of selling/buying in place... is step one. Sliming down the allotment or hard limit is ... step two. Skirmish is undervalued in my humble opinion ( been playing the game since before voodoo ). Of course, I could be high off the paint fumes in my garage.

well I do hope this idea gets implemented. it would be a good step toward skirmish points being more useful for everyone.