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As the map becomes more widely explored. It will cover geography, politics, events and history on the server. We also hope to organise and plot the astoundingly varied geography and political geography of the server, and implement acceptable universal classifications on the server, which are not already in place. We hope to release 'articles' about the server, covering distinct topics in each one, whenever they're ready we'll release one, please do write your own as well and private message them to Palmerageddon or TheAgentGamer, where we will try to fit them in. We will also work at moving said information into the wiki where it can be accessed in game. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ We welcome all to contribute to the efforts, great or small and to discuss openly.
Topic: PirateCraft Oceanic Map
For the last few days, me and @palmerageddon have been discussing over DMs on discord about making a map of PirateCraft containing all oceans, seas, their names, and canals connecting them. Attached is the map I made from compiling everything me and Palmer discussed, as well as information I found through the wiki.
There are 2 major seas that still need naming, and thats what I have partly made this forum thread for, to try and find good names for some of these regions not yet named. Also, if anybody suggests idea for the changing of certain sea names thats fine, however I probably won’t be changing the names of the 3 major oceans, just the outlying seas.
After this, one thing I was also thinking about was dividing up the 3 major oceans into various connecting seas, as I have found on the wiki that some people have named certain sections of the major oceans as various seas. I may do that on smaller maps containing just an ocean, with all the seas making up the ocean.
When finished, ill put this on the wiki, probably as a Image Map where you can click on each sea or ocean and go to the page describing it.
Basically, I want feedback, and help with some naming.
Map Key: Darker Areas = Oceans; Lighter Areas = Seas; Grey Lines = Canals
TheAgentGamer
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Topic: State of the Economy
“The economy is broken”, “Everything is too cheap”, “X is ruining the eco”
We’ve had these messages for years now, I made two posts about the economy last year, not gonna go too in-depth this time – not got the time. But… I will clear up a few things for you… because the economy is *spoiler alert* not broken.
Gonna be using Bread, Apples, and Gold as examples.
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Explaining Inflation/Deflation
Every item and thing has a value, and it is largely determined by:
- How much there is
- How easy it is to get
So for bread: it’s easy for anyone to make, and there is a lot of it; so its value is very low.
And for gold: it can be hard to find, and there isn’t too much of it; to its value is high.The same thing applies to any currency; whether its £ pounds, $ dollars, or in-game money. We will ignore how easy it is to get money and focus instead on how much there is.
A common thing people ask in the real world is “well why can’t I just print more money” – but that would make the money more common, and decrease its value. In the short term you’ll be able to buy lots of stuff but as more and more of that money goes into the economy, it becomes worthless. Vice-versa, the less money you have in the economy, every $ is worth more. Its ‘purchasing power’ has increased.
[A different way of thinking about it is to picture a pie: you want to buy some bread, and in return, you have to give 10% of your pie. So you make a bigger pie, but you will also end up paying more. The real value of the apple hasn’t changed, but because you made more pie, it means you will have to pay more. In the real world, everything you buy is a small percentage of the overall money in the economy. ]
This concept very much applies to piratecraft
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Falling Prices
What PMC is experiencing right now is deflation – the value of every $ is now higher, so less $ is needed to buy something – which gives the illusion that prices are falling. So while you lot are complaining about prices falling, it’s actually the value of our currency increasing! And no, I didn’t pull that out of my ass – there are reasons.
Back in 2015-2016, loads of people joined, and money came in. More money in the economy means its worth less, so the prices of everything increases. Among other things, its why things seemed so much more expensive in the past. From 2017 onward (after I made those posts), Gods has tried to remove money from the economy again because several players were now at max /bal. We did this by selling elytras, renting shops, and shulker boxes.
$100 now is worth almost twice as much as it did 2-3 years ago, and its value is increasing every day.
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Recent Events
Recent events over the past few weeks and months have affected the economy. I’m speaking of the few people who spawned in money and items, totaling over $3,000,000, out of a total of ~$10,000,000 in the economy currently. That’s a lot of ‘printed’ money.
The people involved in this were often willing to pay more for items, and as such their value seemed to increase, somewhat offsetting the effects of deflation.
What we (as staff) have done to combat this is to remove as much of the spawned in money as we could by confiscating bought items, and wiping the /bal of a few people. So in theory, we should be back to ~$7,000,000 before this money issue.
In short: expect prices to keep falling again, but their value has not changed.
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The pros and cons of Deflation
Positives:
- The value of your money is constantly increasing
- Favors deckhands and people with not much money
- More buyers, fewer sellers – which is what we need right now (we’ve always had too many sellers)
Negatives:
- The rich are getting richer
- People think the value of things is falling – it’s usually not
- Undercutting can be more extreme
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In short
Prices may be falling, but the value of everything is increasing. Great for buyers, bad for people looking to buy claimblocks. The economy is more active than ever (record number of rented shops and transactions), it’s all fine, go make some money.
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@XeronAdded to videos page https://piratemc.com/videos/
I wanted to test out how much time it would take to make a build of the month winners video in a cinematic way, this is all learning on the day of shooting to get these results, I’m extremely happy with how it came out, if I were to get the time to make another, I would change a few things, speed of pans, disable chat completely, make sure I’m in gm3 to not bump into things. But as a proof of concept I’m extremely happy with how it came out for a first attempt.
The time required is exorbitant for recording & editing, so this will not be something I can do regularly on top of everything else, I do hope you like it.
I didn’t put winners in order and I didn’t label the winning builds, that will be separate from the video, the purpose of the video is to showcase these builds only.
We annoying ended up with 6 winners, 2 Tied for first place, 2 for second place and 2 for third place, which made the video double the work to create and finish! This thread is only for the video content and not about the BOTM competition itself, that will have its own separate thread.
A Storm is Brewing… For The Queen shall return…
Yes that Queen… One of the most famous players in all of PirateCraft decided to quit this great server, and sail away to their next Great Empire.. I’m talking about The Elven Queen Reptaria. The legacy shall continue as once foretold..
These private messages are exact quotes from The Queen that were recieved during conversation with me today.
“If you really want me to return you will do exactly what I’m about to ask you. Spread the word to the elves, to your friends far and near. If they want the queen to return they will support my rise. Restore order to the world, and most of all, to re- establish one of the most powerful empires in history.”
“I need solid proof that I will have help enough to rise up or I will not come back.”
“A new era just may come, and the queen, may be closer than you think.”
“Very well. Spread the word, ‘A storm is brewing’”
“When I return, I will build up slowly with my allies. Plan, and act. The world has fallen into chaos, now it’s time for the true queen to fix it. As this was foretold long ago, the prince of princess that was promised will bring the dawn.
And I will take what is mine , with one thing my family has held true to since the beginning of our reign. Fire and blood.”
“Will take time. To prepare, but when it’s time. The empires will strike back and reclaim the land that was rightfully theirs. Restoring order to our waters and world once more. I need more supporters. I need armor, land, more. Search.”
LONG LIVE THE GREAT QUEEN REPTARIA FOR SHE HAS RETURNED!!!!
Zackbacon
Prepare for the worst, Hope for the best.
A Storm is Brewing… For The Queen shall return…
Yes that Queen… One of the most famous players in all of PirateCraft decided to quit this great server, and sail away to their next Great Empire.. I’m talking about The Elven Queen Reptaria. The legacy shall continue as once foretold..
These private messages are exact quotes from The Queen that were recieved during conversation with me today.
“If you really want me to return you will do exactly what I’m about to ask you. Spread the word to the elves, to your friends far and near. If they want the queen to return they will support my rise. Restore order to the world, and most of all, to re- establish one of the most powerful empires in history.”(3 hours ago)
“I need solid proof that I will have help enough to rise up or I will not come back.”(3 hours ago)
“A new era just may come, and the queen, may be closer than you think.”(3 hours ago)
“Very well. Spread the word, ‘A storm is brewing’”(2 hours ago)
“When I return, I will build up slowly with my allies. Plan, and act. The world has fallen into chaos, now it’s time for the true queen to fix it. As this was foretold long ago, the prince of princess that was promised will bring the dawn.
And I will take what is mine , with one thing my family has held true to since the beginning of our reign. Fire and blood.”(1 hour ago)
“Will take time. To prepare, but when it’s time. The empires will strike back and reclaim the land that was rightfully theirs. Restoring order to our waters and world once more. I need more supporters. I need armor, land, more. Search.”(1 hour ago)
LONG LIVE THE GREAT QUEEN REPTARIA FOR SHE HAS RETURNED!!!!
Zackbacon
Prepare for the worst, Hope for the best.
We need builders and people with ideas for what to do with /warp shop7 (Brand new warp) I completely tore down what was here before so we can start from scratch on a new street of shops.
- I created /warp shop7 on the live survival to advertise people to see the space.
- Map location (opens in new tab)
Used to be where the orange shops were, blank canvas. we can completely re-do all the terrain around it too. All ideas welcome.