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May 18, 2006
Puzzle pirates description
1 of 2 found this helpful This is a persistent world MMOG. Unlike other MMOG's, your success is determined by player skill, not by loot gathered. At any skill level -- even dirt bottom -- the game will scale difficulty to the players involved.
The basic game operation is the "Pillage". This is where several players go out on a ship, play puzzles to make the ship perform, and then fight (computer controlled) brigands.
Ship operations -- sails to make the ship move, carpentry to repair damage, and bilging to remove water from the hold -- are played with puzzles. Carpentry, for example, is pentaminoes (covering holes with 5-spot pieces).
When two ships fight, there is a tactical board game where the ship navigators place pieces for movement and guns; the performance of the duty puzzlers determines how many of these pieces the navigator has. It ends with the ships grappled for a team fight.
The team fights currently are like Puzzle Fighter; an upcoming release will add a second class of enemies that fight like Puzzle Bobble.
In general, the better your puzzling ability, the better quality of brigands you face, and the more money you earn when you win.
Winnings can be spent on swords, clothing, furniture, etc.
Additionally, the entire economy (producing swords, clothing, furniture, your ships, etc) is player run. Crafting puzzles for three industries exist; the other 4 industries are abstracted, without puzzles.
What I like: Your skill has a bigger factor than your gear.
What I dislike: Very little.
The boxed game has a free month for the online game, a special item that cannot otherwise be obtained, and an offline story / adventure along with 4 of the game puzzles that can be played and practiced offline.
Aug 26, 2021
Does the job. Quite useful. Sufficient customizability. Needs customizability.
As a dyslexic, I do not like the default fonts. However, it's easy enough to install a (single) user reading font.
The default font size is also "meh", but using Calibre, convert to old mobi format (not new/both), and font size 21.5 works just fine.
In comparison to the keyboard (3rd gen):
1. This model can reduce page clears to every 6th page, which makes page turning significantly faster (good)
2. There is no audio / reading a book aloud (not-so-good).
For whatever reason, Kindles do not show the cover of your current book by default when the kindle is "off" / book is closed. This is probably, oddly, one of the worst things about the kindle.
Kindles basically do their job, and do it well. If I had a real complaint, it's that (1), there is no way to locate it when you lose it, and (2), I wear them out in about 12-18 months (max).