Thursday, December 13, 2012

RuneScape's Player Owned Port



Okay, the total objective is to get a safe voyage and collect resources. The game engine is geared towards this. Everything from crew members to buildings to captains to ship upgrades is designed to get your ship to be able to accomplish the mission completely and safely with as much resources as possible.






Buildings:






Buildings will do one of two things:


1) attract better crews/captains (which allow for safer voyages and more booty)


2) allow for better booty...






The more you upgrade, the better chances you have for successful voyages and greater rewards






Crew:






The crew you have can be used for certain missions. Some missions require morale, some require combat, some require seafaring, and some require a combination of two or three.






Some crew members have special abilities that help out with voyages






You can "purchase" 15 crew members daily. The better the bar is, the better stats the crew members come with.






There is a color coding system too for each crew member. Red is combat, blue is seafaring, and green is morale.






After completing voyages, your crew members have a chance of leveling up their stats 10 percent (or more, I'm not positive yet)






Ships:






Again, your mission, or voyage, depends much on anywhere from one to three factors: Morale, Combat, and Seafaring. When you have crew members, ship add-ons, and captains, your stats will change with each change you make.






for example, if you have a voyage with 4000 morale required, your ship will have x amount of morale points, the crew you have will have x each, and the captain will have x as well. You can see each option when you click shipyard. There will be Rams/Figurehead, Deck 1, Deck 2, Rudders, and Hull






Each of those will have different stats you can purchase from material you've collected through voyages. Changing those will increase or decrease different stats, depending on what you've purchased.






Meg:






Talk to her whenever she's back from her adventures, it's well worth it, trust me.






Visitors:






You will get new visitors daily.






There's a guy you can buy materials from, do it, it's worth it.






You will get two other visitors daily that are required for special voyages.






Since you have 90 in all the required levels for the port you will have the chance of unlocking all 6 visitors. These will open those special voyages I mentioned. When you do special voyages (there's a tab with the special voyages in the voyages menu), you can receive extra items and better chances of special items.






Voyages:






Each and every day you get a set amount of voyages including the special voyages if you've unlocked the visitors.






My suggestion is to do the easy voyages first. This will allow you to buy upgrades to make the harder voyages easier. Try to get at least a 90% chance of success (some days you will get only 60%). This will be difficult in the beginning since you have limited resources and lower tier crew members. At times you may have to chose between upgrading crew members and upgrading the ship, use your discretion.






Also, if you don't succeed in your voyage, you might lose a crew member.






I think this is all, if you have any questions, post a comment anytime.