Pirate EP! Smuggling, dueling, live on ship (or build own) and more!
THE WORLD
This would probably be as big as Willow Creek (surrounding water excluded). It is a biggish island surrounded by ocean and a few small islands. The island is mostly covered by trees (a thick jungle), mountains that stretch irregularly across the island and beaches and bays.
GORGEOUS map by @Noirsims requested by kind @suzyl3 :heart:
https://i.imgur.com/se5FEp3.jpg
Ugly map by me:
https://i.imgur.com/ZhDobGb.png
Note: the hidden pirate ship lots become visible on the map when a sim enters the pirate career. These pirate ship lots are editable (obviously), so they aren't traditional hidden lots like the hospital and police station that are fixed. Sims can also own all 5 pirate ships, if they are power-hungry enough, thus the player can transform all the pirate ships into what they want them to be.
Another note: at least one of the opulent mansion lots should be 64x64.
Scroll down comments on first page for details about seasons.
THE TAVERN
https://i.imgur.com/bc98RGy.jpg
To the left of the island, the sea flows into a river that leads to a small lagoon surrounded by a thick palm jungle with a tavern on the lagoon. The tavern is on a wooden pole platform, consists of two storeys, is made entirely out of wood and looks *very* unstable. There are small holes in the wooden floor to illustrate the condition of the building.
Lanterns are strung around and about the outside, as well as the inside of the tavern. It has comfortable red booth cubicles (that are easy to place next to each other in small rooms ), round wooden tables everywhere, a stage, dancing area, bar area and a VIP section upstairs. The upstair section consists of two booths that are curtained for privacy on a loft that overlooks the dancing area and stage.
A tavern is basically a combination between a bar and a lounge, but has serving ladies and men that bring drinks to the table (like waiters), requires the stage object and a dancing area.
https://i.imgur.com/tKmCCJn.jpg
The stage object is a platform on which sims preform by dancing individual pirate dances (or the duet dance) and singing sea shanties (functions like campfire songs) for entertainment to others. The pirate dances (a new type of dance that becomes available when the new "Pirate" music genre is playing) have about 6 dances, 3 of which are individual dances (sims dance it on their own) and the other 3 of which are group dances:
1) A "duet" dance that involves two sims dancing together (choreographed).
2) A dance that involves four to six dancers. They stand in two rows, facing each other (each sim is facing one partner) then they dance with each other in set moves and switch partners.
3) A dance that involves four to eight dancers. The sims dance with arms locked with each other to form a circle and they dance around, rotating the circle, then two sims move to the middle of the circle and form an arc with their arms. The other sims line up and then they run through the arc.
Sea shanties can be sung on the stage. There would probably be about 6 shanties. These shanties tell stories about old legends, heroic pirates, the joys of bounty and sad tales of pirate lovers. Sims who are listening, will thus get an appropriate emotional buff, ranging from sad, to happy to playful etc. It would be cool if the buff includes a short description of the story of the shanty, thus providing an interesting read.
Sims with the "Pirate" career get a bonus interaction where they can sing sea shanties at any time, anywhere without a stage when they click on themselves.
There are cool outfits for the serving girls and men at the tavern: long, rough fabric dresses with revealing chests and sleeves that fall loosely on their arms to expose the shoulders; tight leather pants and rough fabric shirts - overall, the clothes look quite medieval, so the fabric is VERY far from silky, smooth or even very clean. These outfits are available in CAS and can be used in restaurants for assigned staff wear, so you can also create a similar experience.
Players are free to build their own taverns, but the tavern in this world is a special lot with special tools (the holes in the floor, the pole platform on the water etc). Staff can be assigned when creating a tavern (the serving sims and bartender), but an entertainer will be at the tavern by default. When clicking on the stage, though, a sim can hire an entertainer similarly to hiring a caterer.
THE DOCKS
https://i.imgur.com/UEUrNO1.jpg
The docks is a smuggling hotspot. It consists of large caves where the waves meet the mountain that forms the ledge of that side of the island. Rotting wooden platforms on poles in the water around rocks protrude from the ocean.
Little stands selling fish and vegetables pop up here every now and again, but the main trade is behind the scenes.
In this sleazy neighbourhood, you can find a bar/tavern and a "nightclub" - let's call it Dirty Dick's Dancing Dock: where the locals come to shake their pirate booty (pun intended).
https://i.imgur.com/ZRH4U1o.jpg
THE "LIBRARY"
The world has a "library" lot (but it is called an archive because that sounds more pirate-y). The building is on wooden poles because the ground underneath is very irregular.
The archive is also a very unsteady mostly-wooden building which looks like it is going to topple over any moment. The inside of the archive is very disorganized and untidy: it is strewn with bookshelves, piles of stackable scrolls, globes, maps, piles of leather-bound books etc. and an occasional leather chair and desk buried under piles of paper and scrolls.
As you can imagine, this pack comes with a LOT of untidy decór, especially things like wall maps, desk maps, rolled-up maps etc, heaps of scrolls, scrolls held down by weights, leather-bound books, piles of leather-bound books with papers sticking out etc. Many decorative bottles are also included, such as "nectar" bottles (full, empty and half-full for atmosphere), pretty glass bottles of different colours, heights and shapes, ships in bottles (as a new type of collectable) and messages-in-bottles (also a new type of collectable). Treasure chests and chests filled with scrolls go without saying :)
The archive also has special scrolls (there are some at the museum, too) that are hidden between the decorative scrolls. These scrolls are the diary of Princess Cordelia! They contain little stories about her life, and can be collected and displayed. Collecting them all, unlocks an achievement.
https://i.imgur.com/FuXYzSd.jpg
THE MUSEUM
The museum is an unsturdy wooden building on the mountains that contains a bunch of ship models, old maps, ancient scrolls, pirate portrait paintings, paintings of the ocean etc., mounted fish, belongings of Princess Cordelia and statues of the most famous pirates in Sim History, as well as a big statue of the Mayor who "wiped out" the villainous pirate plague that hindered the peace of the island. Pirates have a special interaction to toiletpaper the statue of the mayor, but they can be caught and get kicked out of the museum.
Some of Princess Cordelia's dairy scrolls are hidden around the museum as well.
https://i.imgur.com/WcLP6gO.jpg
BEACHES
There are various beautiful cliff-backed beaches where sims can enjoy themselves tanning, swimming in the ocean and playing in the sand.
https://i.imgur.com/xEEyccz.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/QEpsPCE.jpg
SMUGGLING POINTS
A smuggling point is specially for the Pirate career. To a normal sim, a smuggling point appears as a normal lot, but when a sim joins the Pirate career, the hidden "smuggling point" lot tags appear. Be warned, though: some smuggling points are infamous and known to be a place of smuggling. If a pirate smuggles here, they have a good chance of being caught for not being careful enough.
A smuggling point is meant to look like a normal lot, but is a secret trading place for pirates. The only requirement for this tag, is a smuggling crate or smuggling desk. These objects function as sort of "stands" where pirates will go during the day or night to look for jobs or trade things.
Smuggling boxes are used outdoors, but smuggling desks are used indoors.
Note that smuggling desks are rare and will only be found at the archive, one or two smugglers' houses and is a special unlockable item in the higher ranks of the Pirate career. Smuggling desks are thus not public, so need no skulking to deal.
The following interaction is available for normal sims on the box:
-play cards
(The smuggling box doubles as a card-playing table. The reason for this, is to make smuggling more difficult: potential customers will start playing cards at the box and then code words must be dropped, but normal sims can also play cards and thus it is more difficult to figure out who is an actual customer and who is a normal sim. If a code word is said to a normal sim, they will either be confused and think you're a weirdo, get offended and fight, or catch onto you and call the police, which may result in your sim getting arrested and sent to jail.)
The following interactions are available to sims with the Pirate career:
- loiter
(This makes the sim hang out near the object to look for customers. Customers will walk up to the box and start playing cards, then you can join the game. You can join the game without loitering, but loitering hightens the chance of an actual customer arriving at the box instead of a normal sim and immediately makes the sim aware that someone has approached the box via a notification )
-play cards
(Your sim will play cards. Normal sims or potential customers may join the game. You will have to converse with them to find out what their intentions are.)
-drop code word
(This interaction appears in the conversation panel after conversing for a while. If the sim is normal, they may react according to what I previously explained. After a "drop code word" interaction, a notification will appear that states the sim's reply.
Ex. of a confused sim's reaction: "My middle ear? It is fine, I guess..."
Ex. of a offended sim's reaction: "My middle ear is fine. What, do you think I'm deaf?!"
Ex. of a suspicious sim's reply: "Middle ear? Is that a code word for something? Hey, you're a pirate!"
Ex. of a customer's response: "My middle ear is fine. How's your appendix?"
In the above examples, the code words were "middle ear" and "appendix."
After code words are exchanged, the "suggest business proposal" interaction becomes available)
-suggest business proposal
(Opens up a panel with the particular case's information that the pirate has to do).
RESIDENTS
There are a few very rich families living in opulent mansions on the island and the surrounding small islands, many of which who are involved in piracy. Some of the rich pirate families are Big Bosses of smuggling and have smuggling desks in their homes. They will often be involved in special jobs. The Blackbeard Family is the most notorious.
There are also a few poorer people who live in wooden bungalows on the beach and in the jungle.
Scroll down comments on first page for details about residents.
PIRATE CAREER
The Pirate career is an interesting active career that does not have business hours because you are permanently on the clock as opportunities and events happen at any time.
The career does not have an "activities list" that must be completed by the end of the day like GTW, but rather certain criteria like skills, jobs completed and certain sims that must be befriended in the job panel that must be met to get a promotion.
LIVING ON A PIRATE SHIP
When you start the pirate career, you have to choose one of the three pre-made Pirate organizations. You will be adopted into the crew and be assigned a cabin (With NPC crewmate roomies!) You are not required to be on the ship all the time, but you are required to sleep there often, especially in the lower levels when your sim needs to take watch at a post.
As you get promoted, you get better cabins.
Each ship has the following set population:
- 5 NPC crewmates of interesting personalities
(Your choice of organization determines a "type": one org is mostly slobs, the other is mostly evil and the other is mostly goofball) (btw: crew roomies snore)
- 1 NPC captain
(Eventually gets replaced by you IF you achieve level 10 )
- 1 NPC lieutenant
(Eventually gets replaced by you at level 7 )
- 1 NPC deputy captain
(Gets replaced by you at level 9 )
- 1 NPC caterer
(Cooks for the crew)
Every sim on a pirate ship except your controlled sim is non-playable, thus creating a frustrating horde of sims that do what they want, no matter what you want. Fun, no? :wink:
Level 1-4 is a small cabin with 3-4 NPC roommates. The cabins have small, uncomfortable beds close to each other, a shared clothes drawer cupboard and a shared washing sink. The washing sink has a "wash face" interaction and is a pirate's idea of a shower. Yep, there aren't any showers or baths on the ship, except for in the captain's cabin :P
https://i.imgur.com/9Ceqkrg.jpg
Level 5-9 is a more comfortable cabin with only 1-2 roomies. It has a desk, a bookshelf and two storage chests, as well as comfortable single beds.
Level 10 is a very luxorious captain's cabin with no roommates. It has a luxorious double bed, large closet, bookcases, sofas, a fireplace, a smuggling desk, treasure and maps everywhere, a small room with large windows with the steering wheel and a small en suite with (gasp) a bath, toilet and washing sink.
https://i.imgur.com/0KSDr4v.jpg
The bathroom for level 1-9 is communal and aptly horrifying. Only includes one raggedy wooden bathtub for everyone to share.
The dining hall is also communal and pirates line up to get their plate of slop at the caterer's counter. There is a stage in the dining hall, so pirates can show off their pirate dances and sea shanties.
On the deck of the ship, there are "post" objects on the floor where crew members must sometimes take shifts to watch. There are also "duel platforms" where sims have sword duels and practice sword fighting!
Sword fighting is a 5-level skill that determines a sim's success in duels and allows them to show off tricks.
Winning a duel grants a pirate a fearsome reputation (more on reputations later) and leaves the other sim dazed.
Losing duels have a negative effect on reputation.
Pirate ships do not display on the map for normal sims, but when a sim becomes a pirate, their home ship is displayed on the map and the sim can freely travel to and from it. The ships are usually moored behind a small island, and sims can swim and skinny dip in the shallow water around the small islands, as well as chill on the islands. These islands have hammocks where sims can nap, a special trap door in the sand from which a sim can grab a bottle of nectar to drink on the beach (the sim will simply open the trap door, swipe their hand in the dark opening of the door and their hand will come out of the door with a bottle of nectar ) and sims can sit on the sand.
Sitting on the sand brings up the following interactions:
-Imagine sailing away into the sunset
(Makes a sim daydream and get a buff)
-Imagine fighting sea monsters
(Daydream; gives a buff)
-Play in sand
(The sim will build a sandcastle)
If two sims are sitting on the sand together, they can socialize, cuddle lying down on the sand and kiss while cuddling on the sand.
The animation is similar to sims stargazing or watching the clouds, but in each other's arms and on the sand instead of on a blanket.
BUILDING YOUR OWN SHIP
Once a pirate reaches level 5 of the pirate career, they may start their own Pirate Org.
They will have to build their own ship, hire a crew, hire a cook and set ranks. The sim will be the captain of that organisation.
When hiring a crew for your ship, a panel appears with available NPC sims AS WELL AS sims your sim knows, thus you can create a crew of strangers or a crew of your friends and even your household. Any sims that are part of your household when hired, will remain playable on your ship, but those that were not playable when hired will remain NPC.
When building your own ship, you may build it exactly like you want, as long as all the required objects are there and it has enough beds for 9 sims, so you may choose to create a luxurious ship for your rich pirate legacy (with en suites for everyone!) or an even more unpleasant ship than the originals :trollface: You will have to assign beds for all sims, so you can control who shares rooms and who has their own cabin etc.
You can also set a menu for your ship, so feel free to serve only the fanciest lobster, salmon and angel food cake, make a vegetarian crew who fights against evil meat-eating sims, or just force your sims to eat gruel. (This is fun :naughty: )
Also, when you have your own ship, you control who gets promoted/demoted on your ship through your Captain sim. This avoids sims getting shuffled around confusingly when you control more than one sim on your ship, so you can choose not to promote sims even if their work experience if maxed for that level, or demote a sim for no reason, just because you can. (Either of these won't make the sim very happy, though.)
Your Captain can also "retire" at any time and choose a successor who will be the next Captain. If you retire, though, you can still keep on living on the ship and visit it at any time for the rest of your sim's life.
Scroll down comments on first page for details on fleets.
WORKING AS A PIRATE
https://i.imgur.com/2XPZyJO.jpg
1) SPECIAL JOBS
In the Pirate career, you will often get special jobs/missions. These involve sims and have specific tasks that must be followed in order to finish the job. They do not nessecarily have to be finished in an exact order, but certain tasks rely on a former. To better explain this, I'll give an example of a special job.
Special Job "Carmen":
-Befriend Augustus Blackbeard
-Influence Augustus Blackbeard to throw a party
-Go to party
-Kidnap Carmen Blackbeard
-Ask Blackbeard Family for ransom
-Time limit: 2 weeks
The pirate will have to do all this in 2 weeks. If the job is not completed by then, or is he/she is busted, an immediate demotion will follow. Pirating is very strict and can be difficult. The risk of arrest is also always there, since Pirates can be caught out if they are not careful or smuggle in daylight in front of a normal sim.
2) SMUGGLING
Pirates will have to deliver and collect packages around any world that the player has, as long as the world is connected to the ocean.
Smuggling jobs have short time limits.
Example: Smuggling job "Thorn":
-Collect package from Alister Thorn at Archive, 12am
-Deliver package at docks to Magnolia Reed, 10pm
The pirate will have to find Alister Thorn at the Archive, drop code words and take the package, travel to the docks and search for Magnolia Reed, drop code words and then deliver the package, all keeping timing in mind. Timing is very important. Some pirates may leave if you haven't approached them directly by the appointed time, while some might leave earlier and some may even arrive late, stay for a short while and go. It is thus the responsibility of the pirate to be early and alert, for no notifications help you find the target sims and if they leave the lot without having delivered/collected the package, it's mission failed and you get a big performance hit.
3) RAIDS
Pirates will have to raid other houses or boats from time to time. The raid will have a specific goal, like to steal the Captain of the opposing organisation's ruby gem, or to steal Augustus Blackbeard's golden sink.
The opposing crew will fight with your crew via the dueling platforms. If your sim loses the duel, he/she will be dazed for the remaining duration of the raid. If he/she wins, you may press on and search for the raid goal object. The moment that 4 sims total on one crew team lose duels, the other crew surrenders and the raid is successful or unsuccessful. This relies on the sword fighting abilities of the crew, so you will have to practice and encourage your crew to practice often.
4) DUELS
Duels are important during raids and for building reputation. Pirates are required to duel or practice dueling often and build up their sword fighting skill.
5) STANDING WATCH
Pirates have shifts for standing at posts to stand watch at night, as other pirates may attack randomly and try to raid your ship. Standing watch alerts your sim about a sim hour before attack and thus gives the crew time to take position. If the sim on watch is slacking, asleep or not at their post, the crew may only realize that they are under attack after the opposing crew has already entered the ship, which loses time for the defending crew.
If your sim is caught to be not at their post, they get a very big performance hit.
6) REPUTATION
There is a 5-level reputation system for pirates, ranging from laughable to feared and famous.
Pirates build up their reputation by dueling, successful raids, successful smuggling, successful special jobs and a rank of "captain." A higher reputation makes other pirates less likely to attack your ship and makes other pirates respect and fear you. If you reach the highest pirate reputation, a new sea shanty will be unlocked that honours your pirate's most famous accomplishments. This shanty will be sung to honour you if you go to a community lot with a stage. It results in a confident buff.
Comment your ideas!
This would probably be as big as Willow Creek (surrounding water excluded). It is a biggish island surrounded by ocean and a few small islands. The island is mostly covered by trees (a thick jungle), mountains that stretch irregularly across the island and beaches and bays.
GORGEOUS map by @Noirsims requested by kind @suzyl3 :heart:
https://i.imgur.com/se5FEp3.jpg
Ugly map by me:
https://i.imgur.com/ZhDobGb.png
Note: the hidden pirate ship lots become visible on the map when a sim enters the pirate career. These pirate ship lots are editable (obviously), so they aren't traditional hidden lots like the hospital and police station that are fixed. Sims can also own all 5 pirate ships, if they are power-hungry enough, thus the player can transform all the pirate ships into what they want them to be.
Another note: at least one of the opulent mansion lots should be 64x64.
Scroll down comments on first page for details about seasons.
THE TAVERN
https://i.imgur.com/bc98RGy.jpg
To the left of the island, the sea flows into a river that leads to a small lagoon surrounded by a thick palm jungle with a tavern on the lagoon. The tavern is on a wooden pole platform, consists of two storeys, is made entirely out of wood and looks *very* unstable. There are small holes in the wooden floor to illustrate the condition of the building.
Lanterns are strung around and about the outside, as well as the inside of the tavern. It has comfortable red booth cubicles (that are easy to place next to each other in small rooms ), round wooden tables everywhere, a stage, dancing area, bar area and a VIP section upstairs. The upstair section consists of two booths that are curtained for privacy on a loft that overlooks the dancing area and stage.
A tavern is basically a combination between a bar and a lounge, but has serving ladies and men that bring drinks to the table (like waiters), requires the stage object and a dancing area.
https://i.imgur.com/tKmCCJn.jpg
The stage object is a platform on which sims preform by dancing individual pirate dances (or the duet dance) and singing sea shanties (functions like campfire songs) for entertainment to others. The pirate dances (a new type of dance that becomes available when the new "Pirate" music genre is playing) have about 6 dances, 3 of which are individual dances (sims dance it on their own) and the other 3 of which are group dances:
1) A "duet" dance that involves two sims dancing together (choreographed).
2) A dance that involves four to six dancers. They stand in two rows, facing each other (each sim is facing one partner) then they dance with each other in set moves and switch partners.
3) A dance that involves four to eight dancers. The sims dance with arms locked with each other to form a circle and they dance around, rotating the circle, then two sims move to the middle of the circle and form an arc with their arms. The other sims line up and then they run through the arc.
Sea shanties can be sung on the stage. There would probably be about 6 shanties. These shanties tell stories about old legends, heroic pirates, the joys of bounty and sad tales of pirate lovers. Sims who are listening, will thus get an appropriate emotional buff, ranging from sad, to happy to playful etc. It would be cool if the buff includes a short description of the story of the shanty, thus providing an interesting read.
Sims with the "Pirate" career get a bonus interaction where they can sing sea shanties at any time, anywhere without a stage when they click on themselves.
There are cool outfits for the serving girls and men at the tavern: long, rough fabric dresses with revealing chests and sleeves that fall loosely on their arms to expose the shoulders; tight leather pants and rough fabric shirts - overall, the clothes look quite medieval, so the fabric is VERY far from silky, smooth or even very clean. These outfits are available in CAS and can be used in restaurants for assigned staff wear, so you can also create a similar experience.
Players are free to build their own taverns, but the tavern in this world is a special lot with special tools (the holes in the floor, the pole platform on the water etc). Staff can be assigned when creating a tavern (the serving sims and bartender), but an entertainer will be at the tavern by default. When clicking on the stage, though, a sim can hire an entertainer similarly to hiring a caterer.
THE DOCKS
https://i.imgur.com/UEUrNO1.jpg
The docks is a smuggling hotspot. It consists of large caves where the waves meet the mountain that forms the ledge of that side of the island. Rotting wooden platforms on poles in the water around rocks protrude from the ocean.
Little stands selling fish and vegetables pop up here every now and again, but the main trade is behind the scenes.
In this sleazy neighbourhood, you can find a bar/tavern and a "nightclub" - let's call it Dirty Dick's Dancing Dock: where the locals come to shake their pirate booty (pun intended).
https://i.imgur.com/ZRH4U1o.jpg
THE "LIBRARY"
The world has a "library" lot (but it is called an archive because that sounds more pirate-y). The building is on wooden poles because the ground underneath is very irregular.
The archive is also a very unsteady mostly-wooden building which looks like it is going to topple over any moment. The inside of the archive is very disorganized and untidy: it is strewn with bookshelves, piles of stackable scrolls, globes, maps, piles of leather-bound books etc. and an occasional leather chair and desk buried under piles of paper and scrolls.
As you can imagine, this pack comes with a LOT of untidy decór, especially things like wall maps, desk maps, rolled-up maps etc, heaps of scrolls, scrolls held down by weights, leather-bound books, piles of leather-bound books with papers sticking out etc. Many decorative bottles are also included, such as "nectar" bottles (full, empty and half-full for atmosphere), pretty glass bottles of different colours, heights and shapes, ships in bottles (as a new type of collectable) and messages-in-bottles (also a new type of collectable). Treasure chests and chests filled with scrolls go without saying :)
The archive also has special scrolls (there are some at the museum, too) that are hidden between the decorative scrolls. These scrolls are the diary of Princess Cordelia! They contain little stories about her life, and can be collected and displayed. Collecting them all, unlocks an achievement.
https://i.imgur.com/FuXYzSd.jpg
THE MUSEUM
The museum is an unsturdy wooden building on the mountains that contains a bunch of ship models, old maps, ancient scrolls, pirate portrait paintings, paintings of the ocean etc., mounted fish, belongings of Princess Cordelia and statues of the most famous pirates in Sim History, as well as a big statue of the Mayor who "wiped out" the villainous pirate plague that hindered the peace of the island. Pirates have a special interaction to toiletpaper the statue of the mayor, but they can be caught and get kicked out of the museum.
Some of Princess Cordelia's dairy scrolls are hidden around the museum as well.
https://i.imgur.com/WcLP6gO.jpg
BEACHES
There are various beautiful cliff-backed beaches where sims can enjoy themselves tanning, swimming in the ocean and playing in the sand.
https://i.imgur.com/xEEyccz.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/QEpsPCE.jpg
SMUGGLING POINTS
A smuggling point is specially for the Pirate career. To a normal sim, a smuggling point appears as a normal lot, but when a sim joins the Pirate career, the hidden "smuggling point" lot tags appear. Be warned, though: some smuggling points are infamous and known to be a place of smuggling. If a pirate smuggles here, they have a good chance of being caught for not being careful enough.
A smuggling point is meant to look like a normal lot, but is a secret trading place for pirates. The only requirement for this tag, is a smuggling crate or smuggling desk. These objects function as sort of "stands" where pirates will go during the day or night to look for jobs or trade things.
Smuggling boxes are used outdoors, but smuggling desks are used indoors.
Note that smuggling desks are rare and will only be found at the archive, one or two smugglers' houses and is a special unlockable item in the higher ranks of the Pirate career. Smuggling desks are thus not public, so need no skulking to deal.
The following interaction is available for normal sims on the box:
-play cards
(The smuggling box doubles as a card-playing table. The reason for this, is to make smuggling more difficult: potential customers will start playing cards at the box and then code words must be dropped, but normal sims can also play cards and thus it is more difficult to figure out who is an actual customer and who is a normal sim. If a code word is said to a normal sim, they will either be confused and think you're a weirdo, get offended and fight, or catch onto you and call the police, which may result in your sim getting arrested and sent to jail.)
The following interactions are available to sims with the Pirate career:
- loiter
(This makes the sim hang out near the object to look for customers. Customers will walk up to the box and start playing cards, then you can join the game. You can join the game without loitering, but loitering hightens the chance of an actual customer arriving at the box instead of a normal sim and immediately makes the sim aware that someone has approached the box via a notification )
-play cards
(Your sim will play cards. Normal sims or potential customers may join the game. You will have to converse with them to find out what their intentions are.)
-drop code word
(This interaction appears in the conversation panel after conversing for a while. If the sim is normal, they may react according to what I previously explained. After a "drop code word" interaction, a notification will appear that states the sim's reply.
Ex. of a confused sim's reaction: "My middle ear? It is fine, I guess..."
Ex. of a offended sim's reaction: "My middle ear is fine. What, do you think I'm deaf?!"
Ex. of a suspicious sim's reply: "Middle ear? Is that a code word for something? Hey, you're a pirate!"
Ex. of a customer's response: "My middle ear is fine. How's your appendix?"
In the above examples, the code words were "middle ear" and "appendix."
After code words are exchanged, the "suggest business proposal" interaction becomes available)
-suggest business proposal
(Opens up a panel with the particular case's information that the pirate has to do).
RESIDENTS
There are a few very rich families living in opulent mansions on the island and the surrounding small islands, many of which who are involved in piracy. Some of the rich pirate families are Big Bosses of smuggling and have smuggling desks in their homes. They will often be involved in special jobs. The Blackbeard Family is the most notorious.
There are also a few poorer people who live in wooden bungalows on the beach and in the jungle.
Scroll down comments on first page for details about residents.
PIRATE CAREER
The Pirate career is an interesting active career that does not have business hours because you are permanently on the clock as opportunities and events happen at any time.
The career does not have an "activities list" that must be completed by the end of the day like GTW, but rather certain criteria like skills, jobs completed and certain sims that must be befriended in the job panel that must be met to get a promotion.
LIVING ON A PIRATE SHIP
When you start the pirate career, you have to choose one of the three pre-made Pirate organizations. You will be adopted into the crew and be assigned a cabin (With NPC crewmate roomies!) You are not required to be on the ship all the time, but you are required to sleep there often, especially in the lower levels when your sim needs to take watch at a post.
As you get promoted, you get better cabins.
Each ship has the following set population:
- 5 NPC crewmates of interesting personalities
(Your choice of organization determines a "type": one org is mostly slobs, the other is mostly evil and the other is mostly goofball) (btw: crew roomies snore)
- 1 NPC captain
(Eventually gets replaced by you IF you achieve level 10 )
- 1 NPC lieutenant
(Eventually gets replaced by you at level 7 )
- 1 NPC deputy captain
(Gets replaced by you at level 9 )
- 1 NPC caterer
(Cooks for the crew)
Every sim on a pirate ship except your controlled sim is non-playable, thus creating a frustrating horde of sims that do what they want, no matter what you want. Fun, no? :wink:
Level 1-4 is a small cabin with 3-4 NPC roommates. The cabins have small, uncomfortable beds close to each other, a shared clothes drawer cupboard and a shared washing sink. The washing sink has a "wash face" interaction and is a pirate's idea of a shower. Yep, there aren't any showers or baths on the ship, except for in the captain's cabin :P
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Level 5-9 is a more comfortable cabin with only 1-2 roomies. It has a desk, a bookshelf and two storage chests, as well as comfortable single beds.
Level 10 is a very luxorious captain's cabin with no roommates. It has a luxorious double bed, large closet, bookcases, sofas, a fireplace, a smuggling desk, treasure and maps everywhere, a small room with large windows with the steering wheel and a small en suite with (gasp) a bath, toilet and washing sink.
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The bathroom for level 1-9 is communal and aptly horrifying. Only includes one raggedy wooden bathtub for everyone to share.
The dining hall is also communal and pirates line up to get their plate of slop at the caterer's counter. There is a stage in the dining hall, so pirates can show off their pirate dances and sea shanties.
On the deck of the ship, there are "post" objects on the floor where crew members must sometimes take shifts to watch. There are also "duel platforms" where sims have sword duels and practice sword fighting!
Sword fighting is a 5-level skill that determines a sim's success in duels and allows them to show off tricks.
Winning a duel grants a pirate a fearsome reputation (more on reputations later) and leaves the other sim dazed.
Losing duels have a negative effect on reputation.
Pirate ships do not display on the map for normal sims, but when a sim becomes a pirate, their home ship is displayed on the map and the sim can freely travel to and from it. The ships are usually moored behind a small island, and sims can swim and skinny dip in the shallow water around the small islands, as well as chill on the islands. These islands have hammocks where sims can nap, a special trap door in the sand from which a sim can grab a bottle of nectar to drink on the beach (the sim will simply open the trap door, swipe their hand in the dark opening of the door and their hand will come out of the door with a bottle of nectar ) and sims can sit on the sand.
Sitting on the sand brings up the following interactions:
-Imagine sailing away into the sunset
(Makes a sim daydream and get a buff)
-Imagine fighting sea monsters
(Daydream; gives a buff)
-Play in sand
(The sim will build a sandcastle)
If two sims are sitting on the sand together, they can socialize, cuddle lying down on the sand and kiss while cuddling on the sand.
The animation is similar to sims stargazing or watching the clouds, but in each other's arms and on the sand instead of on a blanket.
BUILDING YOUR OWN SHIP
Once a pirate reaches level 5 of the pirate career, they may start their own Pirate Org.
They will have to build their own ship, hire a crew, hire a cook and set ranks. The sim will be the captain of that organisation.
When hiring a crew for your ship, a panel appears with available NPC sims AS WELL AS sims your sim knows, thus you can create a crew of strangers or a crew of your friends and even your household. Any sims that are part of your household when hired, will remain playable on your ship, but those that were not playable when hired will remain NPC.
When building your own ship, you may build it exactly like you want, as long as all the required objects are there and it has enough beds for 9 sims, so you may choose to create a luxurious ship for your rich pirate legacy (with en suites for everyone!) or an even more unpleasant ship than the originals :trollface: You will have to assign beds for all sims, so you can control who shares rooms and who has their own cabin etc.
You can also set a menu for your ship, so feel free to serve only the fanciest lobster, salmon and angel food cake, make a vegetarian crew who fights against evil meat-eating sims, or just force your sims to eat gruel. (This is fun :naughty: )
Also, when you have your own ship, you control who gets promoted/demoted on your ship through your Captain sim. This avoids sims getting shuffled around confusingly when you control more than one sim on your ship, so you can choose not to promote sims even if their work experience if maxed for that level, or demote a sim for no reason, just because you can. (Either of these won't make the sim very happy, though.)
Your Captain can also "retire" at any time and choose a successor who will be the next Captain. If you retire, though, you can still keep on living on the ship and visit it at any time for the rest of your sim's life.
Scroll down comments on first page for details on fleets.
WORKING AS A PIRATE
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1) SPECIAL JOBS
In the Pirate career, you will often get special jobs/missions. These involve sims and have specific tasks that must be followed in order to finish the job. They do not nessecarily have to be finished in an exact order, but certain tasks rely on a former. To better explain this, I'll give an example of a special job.
Special Job "Carmen":
-Befriend Augustus Blackbeard
-Influence Augustus Blackbeard to throw a party
-Go to party
-Kidnap Carmen Blackbeard
-Ask Blackbeard Family for ransom
-Time limit: 2 weeks
The pirate will have to do all this in 2 weeks. If the job is not completed by then, or is he/she is busted, an immediate demotion will follow. Pirating is very strict and can be difficult. The risk of arrest is also always there, since Pirates can be caught out if they are not careful or smuggle in daylight in front of a normal sim.
2) SMUGGLING
Pirates will have to deliver and collect packages around any world that the player has, as long as the world is connected to the ocean.
Smuggling jobs have short time limits.
Example: Smuggling job "Thorn":
-Collect package from Alister Thorn at Archive, 12am
-Deliver package at docks to Magnolia Reed, 10pm
The pirate will have to find Alister Thorn at the Archive, drop code words and take the package, travel to the docks and search for Magnolia Reed, drop code words and then deliver the package, all keeping timing in mind. Timing is very important. Some pirates may leave if you haven't approached them directly by the appointed time, while some might leave earlier and some may even arrive late, stay for a short while and go. It is thus the responsibility of the pirate to be early and alert, for no notifications help you find the target sims and if they leave the lot without having delivered/collected the package, it's mission failed and you get a big performance hit.
3) RAIDS
Pirates will have to raid other houses or boats from time to time. The raid will have a specific goal, like to steal the Captain of the opposing organisation's ruby gem, or to steal Augustus Blackbeard's golden sink.
The opposing crew will fight with your crew via the dueling platforms. If your sim loses the duel, he/she will be dazed for the remaining duration of the raid. If he/she wins, you may press on and search for the raid goal object. The moment that 4 sims total on one crew team lose duels, the other crew surrenders and the raid is successful or unsuccessful. This relies on the sword fighting abilities of the crew, so you will have to practice and encourage your crew to practice often.
4) DUELS
Duels are important during raids and for building reputation. Pirates are required to duel or practice dueling often and build up their sword fighting skill.
5) STANDING WATCH
Pirates have shifts for standing at posts to stand watch at night, as other pirates may attack randomly and try to raid your ship. Standing watch alerts your sim about a sim hour before attack and thus gives the crew time to take position. If the sim on watch is slacking, asleep or not at their post, the crew may only realize that they are under attack after the opposing crew has already entered the ship, which loses time for the defending crew.
If your sim is caught to be not at their post, they get a very big performance hit.
6) REPUTATION
There is a 5-level reputation system for pirates, ranging from laughable to feared and famous.
Pirates build up their reputation by dueling, successful raids, successful smuggling, successful special jobs and a rank of "captain." A higher reputation makes other pirates less likely to attack your ship and makes other pirates respect and fear you. If you reach the highest pirate reputation, a new sea shanty will be unlocked that honours your pirate's most famous accomplishments. This shanty will be sung to honour you if you go to a community lot with a stage. It results in a confident buff.
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