11-Dec-2012 - Player-Owned Ports

[chenw]

Taken directly from Jagex RS Wiki:

 

Life Boat: An effect that can be used to protect your crew from death. While it is only applied to a single ship, the effect is permanent. However, if a crew mate dies on a voyage, the effect is removed.

 

Fortune of the Seas: An effect that can be used to boost your rewards (or penalties) by 10%. While it is only applied to a single ship, the effect is permanent.

 

Rose-Tinted spectacles: An effect that can be used to boost your crew's XP gain by 50%. While it is only applied to a single ship, the effect is permanent.

 

 

The most ambiguous one of the lot is life boat, which I highly suspect that if a crew dies on a boat besides the one with life boat, life boat self destructs, which makes no sense...

[Kaur]

Taken directly from latest patch notes:

The Fortune of the Sea effect now deactivates as intended, allowing further effects to be correctly activated.

 

 

The permanent effect can be deactivated? Does not make sense.

[strilmus]

those statements were edited in later by players reflecting that situation, which has now changed

 

i doubt any of these powerups were meant to last that long

 

not that i care about anything other than rerolls and trade goods

[So Rowdy]

Off topic from the boats and FoS, but I'm not sure what just happened but I had the whaler off on a mission with the assassin in port. Didn't wanna do any of the assassin (was just 20k xp and 20 spices) so I re-rolled visiting adventure and it put the whaler back in the port with a new set of missions, but it still says the mission from before (from the whaler) is taking place. Not sure what's gonna happen but I re-rolled a 600 jade voyage so hell yea

 

E: Also, sent off a boat on a mission with the FoS post-todays update and it's coming back in 17 minutes. I'll post if it stays on the boat or not..not expecting it to though

[So Rowdy]

Yep it came back with the 10% reward but then it seems to have disappeared. Just to clear that up

[Thai_tong]

Yes that's what he means, you can only have 5 captains, either dismiss one so you can get another. Don't though, that's a bad captain.

Oh, I didn't even realise those things off to the left were captains :oops:

[nattylite4me]

Been very casually logging into Runescape over break, so I just now made it to the Hook Region. And oddly enough I was able to get a 10k Chime captain. (which I just had enough chimes for). I was very surprised as I had heard how rare these captains were, and was also under the impression that it wasn't even possible to get one until you go to The Scythe, which I guess isn't true.

[cruseder4]

[Emaxganis]

Second scroll voyage failed in a row...getting annoying to lose 12 hours :(

[loreal]

Random thought.

 

I wonder if I should delay trade good missions and storyline missions and do as many scroll voyages as I can. Scroll voyages lengthen as you unlock more regions so to save time, it would make more sense to accomplish as many as you can while you're in the early regions. As far as I can tell there's no benefit to the scroll voyages that are completed in further regions as opposed to nearer ones.

 

 

Storyline missions always the same amount of time (for any one adventurer, each subsequent story mission takes a set amount of time regardless of what region you're in).

 

Scroll missions take 12 hours in the bowl. If I wait until the pincers, it will take 24.

[Sylpheed]

Random thought.

 

I wonder if I should delay trade good missions and storyline missions and do as many scroll voyages as I can. Scroll voyages lengthen as you unlock more regions so to save time, it would make more sense to accomplish as many as you can while you're in the early regions. As far as I can tell there's no benefit to the scroll voyages that are completed in further regions as opposed to nearer ones.

 

 

Storyline missions always the same amount of time (for any one adventurer, each subsequent story mission takes a set amount of time regardless of what region you're in).

 

Scroll missions take 12 hours in the bowl. If I wait until the pincers, it will take 24.

 

This is exactly what I'm doing. I'm 90% done with the Scythe and I'm only doing scroll voyages or plate reward voyages.

[Noobzy]

Random thought.

 

I wonder if I should delay trade good missions and storyline missions and do as many scroll voyages as I can. Scroll voyages lengthen as you unlock more regions so to save time, it would make more sense to accomplish as many as you can while you're in the early regions. As far as I can tell there's no benefit to the scroll voyages that are completed in further regions as opposed to nearer ones.

 

 

Storyline missions always the same amount of time (for any one adventurer, each subsequent story mission takes a set amount of time regardless of what region you're in).

 

Scroll missions take 12 hours in the bowl. If I wait until the pincers, it will take 24.

 

This is exactly what I'm doing. I'm 90% done with the Scythe and I'm only doing scroll voyages or plate reward voyages.

 

you can still focus on the lower regions and get plate missions - I wonder how big the effect of totems and other port upgrades will be: will you get half plate missions per day? I doubt it, but the effect must be decent in order to have effect. In the end it should of course still pay to do the higher area missions - more challenging, more reward?

[Saradomin_Mage]

I'm worried that you might need multiple jade statues (trade good reward boost) to get even 1 extra good from the trade good missions, given how the cherrywood tree (resource reward boost) gives a miserable 1% boost. If the effect is so small that you'd need 4 statues to get +1 plate on a 8 plate mission, I can't see myself saving 15k jade just for that.

[Emaxganis]

I'm worried that you might need multiple jade statues (trade good reward boost) to get even 1 extra good from the trade good missions, given how the cherrywood tree (resource reward boost) gives a miserable 1% boost. If the effect is so small that you'd need 4 statues to get +1 plate on a 8 plate mission, I can't see myself saving 15k jade just for that.

By the end of the bowl you maybe do? :P

 

Im failing a lot of more missions now, and they got really tough. 14k single stat req for 250 jade, double 9k req for 380 one

[Saradomin_Mage]

28% to the Pincers and I've collected about 11200 jade throughout, so it's possible I guess. Small matter of backtracking to get more cherrywood though :razz:

[aerendil]

jesus christ the jade reqs..... they really

 

bowl me over

 

 

anyway badpuns inc aside I find myself being gutted by the reqs and time on bowl missions... been spending jade on getting jade crewmembers, but not sure which ones i should be buying...

 

Are the jade golems worth getting?

Is it a good idea to get 2-3 of each sort of crewmember (judge of dice/basic seaf/morale/combat) and then work on getting 10k jade/trade goods? or just go straight for 10k jade?

[Saradomin_Mage]

I got 3 of each basic crew member, 2 judges and the hull of glory upgrade, and since then have just been saving for the 4th ship. I've got 3 10k captains, all specialised in one of the three main stats, so speed usually isn't an issue (getting 6:57 consistently, except on the 14h voyages). You could consider getting a jade golem as that gives a better total stat increase than a standard crew member, plus it works well with the judges' solidarity.

[Sufem]

Like while migration to every new region. Basic new region crew are good at around lvl 3 in compare to lvl 7 old ones. Ruder first is also a must to have, reduction of time travel is crucial.

 

Golems are always nice as they give 2 stats and in case of bad luck they can save crew member ( dont know if that perk affect captain ? ). Unlocked Judges but they cost way too much for now as jade isnt easy to get, Baucaneras ( or how spell theres name ) are fine for now .

[Vezon Dash]

"Hull of Glory" I just noticed that. Too bad I am still in the Hooke region though. =/

[Emaxganis]

28% to the Pincers and I've collected about 11200 jade throughout, so it's possible I guess. Small matter of backtracking to get more cherrywood though :razz:

I read the first time as if you were with 72% of the bowl completed already and I was like O.O

Im sitting at 24% now with 6 crewman of each stat + 2 judge of dice + 5k in stock, "lucky" for me what I keep failing are trade/scroll voyages.. not jade ones.

This is going slooooooooooooow

4th ship is going to focus on lower regions for building upgrades until all ship parts unlocked, then all ships are going lower end to complete every single upgrade possible up until now.. then wait until Pincers arrival I guess :P

Edited January 15, 2013 by Be Stinson

[Emaxganis]

jesus christ the jade reqs..... they really

 

bowl me over

 

 

anyway badpuns inc aside I find myself being gutted by the reqs and time on bowl missions... been spending jade on getting jade crewmembers, but not sure which ones i should be buying...

 

Are the jade golems worth getting?

Is it a good idea to get 2-3 of each sort of crewmember (judge of dice/basic seaf/morale/combat) and then work on getting 10k jade/trade goods? or just go straight for 10k jade?

Going straight to 10k jade is going to pwn you when reqs start to raise..

[Saradomin_Mage]

Reqs are raising and I'm getting:

 

16k single stat

9.5k double stat

8k triple stat

 

But they're usually still doable with like 70%+ success.

 

Though it is tempting to shell out on deck item upgrades, they're only worth at the most +400 in a stat over the previous region's items, which is a +2.5% boost to the single stat mission success, and I'm not willing to choke up 1500 jade on each one yet. I only bought the Hull of Glory upgrade so that I have a morale-based hull that is at least close to the combat and seafaring hulls.

 

 

72% to Pincers isn't that unreasonable lol, Woox is currently expected to reach the Pincers today :razz:

[Emaxganis]

Reqs are raising and I'm getting:

 

16k single stat

9.5k double stat

8k triple stat

 

But they're usually still doable with like 70%+ success.

 

Though it is tempting to shell out on deck item upgrades, they're only worth at the most +400 in a stat over the previous region's items, which is a +2.5% boost to the single stat mission success, and I'm not willing to choke up 1500 jade on each one yet. I only bought the Hull of Glory upgrade so that I have a morale-based hull that is at least close to the combat and seafaring hulls.

 

 

72% to Pincers isn't that unreasonable lol, Woox is currently expected to reach the Pincers today :razz:

Well, that is because he cheated(abused bug, system was wrong, whatever you want to call it he still got an unfair advantage) rest of us mortals are below 50% I guess.

I hope to get some luck today only i've failed 3 out of the 9 daily bowl voyagse with 85+ success rate. Based on luck I guess I can get the new ship by weekend

[Sy_Accursed]

The further I get into ports the more the arrangement of hulls bugs me. At first it looked like morale hulls and combat hulls, in actuality all 3 have hulls but they are sporadically spaced. I don't see why we couldn't just have a nice neat 3 hulls per region or at least had some logical pattern to it.

 

I mean morale has its nice 450 Golden Hull in Skull, then nothing until Bowl and Pincer for the 1200 and 1400 hulls

Combat meanwhile has a hull every region but Bowl, again ending of 1400.

Whilst seafaring skips Skull and Pincer and finishes on 1200.

 

I mean if they WERE going to be uneven surely seafaring deserves to have a 1400 considering it doesn't get a look in at all in the ram/figurehead category, which allows up to 800 boost for combat/morale, and couldn't the gaps of been smoothed over better so that Morale hulls aren't left hanging until bowl for anything more than a basic upgrade.

[Alistair]

30% through Bowl, slowly plodding along.

 

I want the daily voyage rerolls reduced back to 12 so I don't feel as bad leaving so many undone at the end every day >_> Too much effort to do voyages from lower regions.

 

I suppose with regular voyages offering 600 Jade at around 20% into Bowl, you can theoretically get 10k jade from then in 2 days if you're lucky.

 

I like the way the hull specialism is randomly spaced. It makes making decisions on upgrades more interesting. As painful as going through two regions on a subpar morale hull is, it makes getting the Hull of Glory that bit more worthwhile.