Test of Isis Bounty - Revision history

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T5 Import: /* Test Mechanics - Ship Debris */

2011-11-29T23:53:15Z

Test Mechanics - Ship Debris

T5 Import: /* Test Mechanics - Ship Debris */

2011-11-29T23:51:24Z

Test Mechanics - Ship Debris

T5 Import: /* New Mechanics and Content - Winches and Treasure Caches */

2011-11-29T18:16:43Z

New Mechanics and Content - Winches and Treasure Caches

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-The '''Test of Isis' Bounty''' challenges players to find pieces of that legendary ship in Egypt's waters. Pieces can be fished up at a low rate from the shoreline, but to find the final pieces needed to pass, players will have to learn to construct Small Sailboats. Small Sailboats are steerable but subject to prevailing winds and have a chance of breaking up at sea, depositing the player on a random shore. In order to learn to construct Small Sailboats, players will have to work together to research the Basic Shipbuilding technology. After passing the test, players will gain the ability to construct larger, sturdier, and more expensive ships, complete with cargo holds. In addition to fishing up pieces of Isis' Bounty or other ships, fishing will be changed so that other debris -- some desirable and some less so -- can be fished up. Players will also need to scour the seas for Treasure Caches, recovered with Winches, which may contain rare and plentiful booty. Players may continue to seek out even larger and rarer Treasure Caches once they have passed the test, using a Sturdy Winch installed upon their Master's Schooner.
+The '''Test of Isis' Bounty''' challenges players to find pieces of that legendary ship in Egypt's waters. Pieces can be fished up at a low rate from the shoreline, but to find the final pieces needed to pass, players will have to learn to construct Small Sailboats.
-==The Story==
+In addition to fishing up pieces of Isis' Bounty or other ships, fishing will be changed so that other debris &mdash; some desirable and some less so &mdash; can be fished up. Players will also need to scour the seas for Treasure Caches, recovered with Winches, which may contain rare and plentiful booty. Players may continue to seek out even larger and rarer Treasure Caches once they have passed the test, using a Sturdy Winch installed upon their Master's Schooner.
 There once was a band of 77 shipwrights in the employ of the Pharaoh. They were pious men and hard workers as well; day after day they performed the back-breaking labor necessary to construct and maintain the barges of the Pharaoh without complaint. They planed the timbers and masts without complaint, tarred leaks without complaint, and sewed vast sails without complaint. They felt neither exploited nor happy; indeed, the making of ships for the Pharaoh was no less natural nor automatic for these 77 shipwrights than the taking of breath.

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-== Test of Isis' Bounty Draft Proposal ==
+The '''Test of Isis' Bounty''' challenges players to find pieces of that legendary ship in Egypt's waters. Pieces can be fished up at a low rate from the shoreline, but to find the final pieces needed to pass, players will have to learn to construct Small Sailboats. Small Sailboats are steerable but subject to prevailing winds and have a chance of breaking up at sea, depositing the player on a random shore. In order to learn to construct Small Sailboats, players will have to work together to research the Basic Shipbuilding technology. After passing the test, players will gain the ability to construct larger, sturdier, and more expensive ships, complete with cargo holds. In addition to fishing up pieces of Isis' Bounty or other ships, fishing will be changed so that other debris -- some desirable and some less so -- can be fished up. Players will also need to scour the seas for Treasure Caches, recovered with Winches, which may contain rare and plentiful booty. Players may continue to seek out even larger and rarer Treasure Caches once they have passed the test, using a Sturdy Winch installed upon their Master's Schooner.
-The Test of Isis' Bounty challenges players to find pieces of that legendary ship in Egypt's waters. Pieces can be fished up at a low rate from the shoreline, but to find the final pieces needed to pass, players will have to learn to construct Small Sailboats. Small Sailboats are steerable but subject to prevailing winds and have a chance of breaking up at sea, depositing the player on a random shore. In order to learn to construct Small Sailboats, players will have to work together to research the Basic Shipbuilding technology. After passing the test, players will gain the ability to construct larger, sturdier, and more expensive ships, complete with cargo holds. In addition to fishing up pieces of Isis' Bounty or other ships, fishing will be changed so that other debris -- some desirable and some less so -- can be fished up. Players will also need to scour the seas for Treasure Caches, recovered with Winches, which may contain rare and plentiful booty. Players may continue to seek out even larger and rarer Treasure Caches once they have passed the test, using a Sturdy Winch installed upon their Master's Schooner.
+==The Story==
 There once was a band of 77 shipwrights in the employ of the Pharaoh. They were pious men and hard workers as well; day after day they performed the back-breaking labor necessary to construct and maintain the barges of the Pharaoh without complaint. They planed the timbers and masts without complaint, tarred leaks without complaint, and sewed vast sails without complaint. They felt neither exploited nor happy; indeed, the making of ships for the Pharaoh was no less natural nor automatic for these 77 shipwrights than the taking of breath.

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 {{Sidebar Test
      |prefix = Test of
-     |name = Isis Bounty
+     |name = Isis' Bounty
      |discipline = Body
      |level = -1

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      |name = Isis Bounty
      |discipline = Body
-     |level = 25
+     |level = -1
      |released = no
 }}

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      |name = Isis Bounty
      |discipline = Body
-     |level = ??
+     |level = 25
      |released = no
 }}

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	== Test of Isis' Bounty Draft Proposal ==		== Test of Isis' Bounty Draft Proposal ==

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 The use of pieces of Isis' Bounty is detailed below. Pieces of Ordinary Ship Debris have two uses:
-*777 pieces of Ordinary Ship Debris are needed to unlock Basic Shipbuilding at UBody. Once the tech has been unlocked, any player can learn Basic Shipbuilding 1.  (This is a change from the earlier draft -- my calculations indicated that the previous number 7777 would require approximately 2000 man-hours of fishing to acquire;  this means basic shipbuilding might never have become unlocked.)
+*777 pieces of Ordinary Ship Debris are needed to unlock Basic Shipbuilding at UBody. Once the tech has been unlocked, any player can learn Basic Shipbuilding 1.  (This is a change from the earlier draft -- my calculations indicated that the previous number (7777) would require approximately 2000 man-hours of fishing to acquire;  this means basic shipbuilding might never have become unlocked,  particularly if the test isn't released early in the telling.)
 *Once a player has learned Basic Shipbuilding 1, pieces of Ordinary Ship Debris can be turned in at the UBody where the tech is opened in exchange for knowledge. The scientists will examine the piece of ship debris and offer to instruct the player further on building simple ships -- each time the player does so, his/her Basic Shipbuilding skill will raise by 1, up to a maximum of 49.

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 *1 3-output Gearbox, determined by the Schooner
-Winches allow the recovery of Treasure Caches. Treasure caches are spotted while at sea and appear as a shimmering surrounding a dark spot; other visual representations are fine, but they should be easy to discern against the water at any time of day. Treasure caches should spawn in any reasonably large bodies of water;  they should not spawn in puddles, but at minimum, should spawn in the Mediterranean, the Red Sea, the Nile, the long river in the Southeast part of the map that joins the Nile, and the long river that runs through what used to be the Desert of Shades.  They should have a relatively short visible range of around 10 coords. There are a couple of methods of finding Treasure Caches; the most straightforward is just to happen upon one. It is also possible, however, to narrow down the location of a Treasure Cache using an already-found Fragment of Isis' Bounty.
+Winches allow the recovery of Treasure Caches. Treasure caches are spotted while at sea and appear as a shimmering surrounding a dark spot; other visual representations are fine, but they should be easy to discern against the water at any time of day.  They should have a relatively short visible range of around 10 coords. There are a couple of methods of finding Treasure Caches; the most straightforward is just to happen upon one. It is also possible, however, to narrow down the location of a Treasure Cache using an already-found Fragment of Isis' Bounty.
 A player with a fragment of Isis' Bounty in their possession may examine it at any time. It will display one of three messages: