This is a map it auto updates every 10min, it list everything you could ever want to know even when a battle starts. Spainish Town was well won by everyone involved(Aka not me). Feel free to ridicule me in Vent I deserve it, I also will be missing Cayo. After that though get ready for 24/7 whining. I will not disappoint.
Good luck to everyone for Cayo, looking forward to see that blue, from my epic link, why on my trip.
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Alot of you guys seem to be on hard or normal training, we have a hard game on Monday I need everyone to be at 95+ energy. We must win this game if we want to have a shot at winning the super bowl that is the CCC. Also please make sure you use your skill points when you level. Once again please try and be at 95+ for the game on Monday, not Saturdays game. Also for contracts, we only made 100k from consessions last game thats after adding 400 seats. Thus we only made 6k more off of those 400 people. That leads to us taking in just over 330k a home game. We need to have 4.5mil by the end of season 2 in order to add to the stadium as such contracts will stay fairly low so that they can be bigger when we need them. Although once you hit lvl 8 hit me up for the extra cash needed for the new gear that goes $2500 per.
-Cerneo 04/04/2008
Victory.
Well done France.
-Cerneo 3/29/2008
All hands on deck for the Port de Principe port battle on Friday night.
Lets try and get alot of sphere on thursday and friday so we can close this out. We have done great so far and victory is right around the corner. We are all getting a bit burned out but that will not be an issue after the map win. We can relax and work on us for awhile.
Ship orders are slowing a bit mostly due to no one sinking in ships that are important. This is no reason not to upgrade that MC Stral you still have at lvl 40+. Ordering a new ship helps us more than it hurts your wallet. We need money for unrest supplys and random production. We do not want to reach a point when we are sinking to much money into a empty hole and get ourselves into trouble.
Keep up the good work on the pvp and leveling. Leveling groups should be easy to find over the next 4-5 days why people work to regain spainish faction due to the loss from fliping to ports. The same should follow for the brits at some point. Its important to note you will be killing dutch, avoid this if you wish to do the missions from them around 45.
Port Battles have been going great. Everyone is getting the hang of strats. This is a dangerous area though. Please be aware that in the prep stage of a port battle vent needs to be relaxed and quite so officers can get info from the scouts. We have not run into this issue yet, but its around the corner. Everyone is free to comment on strats and tactics, just please do so in tells if we are trying to get reports from scouts. Most anything can be accomplished by sending a tell to Furet.
I would also like someone who comes to just about every port battle to help me with a 'Battle Reporter' project. I would also like to get contacts with the brits and spainish and pirates for a server newsletter. Hit me up if you are intersted in this idea. Brits, Spainish and pirates reading this, please send me a pm on the PotBS forums or ingame if you would like a hand in this.
-Cerneo 3/20/2008
We have 8 port battles coming up within 48 hours. Alot of them are at the same time. If you need contention in any of the ports do it asap. Do not wait, just get on and do it.
Have atleast 20 points in all ports. Please try and be online one hour early, also check the website as often as possible to make sure the times have not been changed by the GMs.
Bridgetown NA F(A) vs B(D) (Victory)
Santo Domingo NA F(A) vs S(D) (Victory)
Purta de Plata NA F(A) vs S(D) (Victory)
Spanish Town NA F(D) vs P(A) (No Contest)
Irish Point NA F(D) vs B(A) (Victory)
New Orleans NA F(D) vs P(D) (No Contest)
Charleston NA F(D) vs S(A) (Victory)
Havana NA F(D) vs P(A) (Victory)
Times as of 12:00 PM CST, 3/12/2008
Please try and hop into vent so we get an idea of our numbers.
Plata and Bridgetown are today, lets win them so the loss of two ports does not hurt us.
Cerneo 3/11/2008
The Bet, has been called off untill we are sure we have a full 24 in the battle. This could happen at any british battle. Please try and come to all port battles, they take anywhere from 30mins to 2 hours, try and make one or two every week. Its key we stay attacking and get the first map win.
Other than that good job winning Charleston, we now have just under 200 victory points and have sunk many british 4th rates. The invincible was used in the battle, and was a great joy to watch. Keep your labor running we will need ammo, consumables and ship building mats over the following weeks.
A few more port wins to go,
Cerneo 3/06/2008
We, mainly Furet and Foolish Nations, did it.
We now have a Invincible FIRST RATE. As in the best ship in the game, yes even better than the other first rate.
I will be infact singing, on vent, Wends March 6th prime time. We expect out best crowd at the battle bring your big ships.
I'm a little teapot
Short and stout Here is my handle
Here is my spout
When I get all steamed up
I just shout
Tip me over and pour me out
I'm a very special pot
It's true
Here's an example of what I can do
I can turn my handle into a spout
Tip me over and pour me out
Someone kill me,
Cerneo 3/04/2008
Irish point defended, check.
Puerto taken, check.
Side project done in under 2 days, check.
Knowing France owns the server, priceless.*
Well done to all who took part in these great past few days.
*Other than the shit loads of time, money, and my own tears.
Happy to be apart of the team,
Cerneo 3/03/2008
Job well done for the showing for Havana over the past week. It took alot of work and hours and now it is ours.
Our tactics in the battle went well and we were lucky the Spanish decided to attack the way they did. We lost 8-12 ships why sinking 18+, we sank 2-3 Alexanders why losing only one. Now we will work on moving forward towards a map victory.
The economy is working its self out well, we have strong markets for every commonly used item. Everyone needs to keep production running and not waste labor, they key to winning the map is gong to be to stay strong over the next week and half, to do that we need ammo and outfitting so keep up the pace on those items.
Our next target will be picked soon and we will all need to work to get that into a port battle quickly, we can't let the pirates keep forging ahead untouched in victory points. Spain has hit a break wall with Foolish Notions crossing over to France. Its important to refocus on winning the first map and controlling the economy, why random pvp is fun we need to keep working to a higher goal that will see us rewarded as a map win does.
Looking forward to the following weeks with all of our new members, keep working on leveling if you are not 50 it would be nice to shock and awe with a full 24 of level 50s soon. If you need help grinding look into getting in the grind mission we are currently running out of Cayo, ask Lee or Furet for more information. For anything else check the forums.
-Cerneo 2/27/2008
Well done to all who took part in the port battle Wednesday. The French came out and took care of our own, slowing the Spanish assault and forcing them to waste alot of resources getting the port into contention. To all who took part well done.
The Society is fleshing itself out and after a couple small stumbles we are on course to be a strong force on the Kidd server. We have been working very well with other French groups and this will continue. As the lowest pop we need to stay strong and help each other keep moving.
Production wise we are doing well, any and all ship orders should be sent to Furet Duvet. If you want it we can make it. The site will be undergoing some changes over the next 72 hours, please ignore the Cost section and the Application and Sphere Sales parts.
Looking forward to more fun with all of you,
-Cerneo
IN GAME UPDATE
Today we finally got to get a good grasp on what our true production capabilities were. On Tuesday night I dropped our largest production order yet. It encompassed 4 days of labor and effort on the societies part. The end result was breath taking. We Produced a total of :
Thats a total of 169 ships in just four days. Not only were we extremely proud of ourselves but it gave us a great idea of our production capabilities, as well as identified a few problems we are now able to nip in the bud early on.
WEBSITE UPDATE
A new link has been added to the top of the page called Sphere Sales. This now allows players of all nationalities to buy directly from Sphere at a much more fair price then having to play the AH to get what they need. More site improvements are on the way as time allows, as are updates.
~Felicity
Master Chief Officer of the SphereWell Lads and Lasses all I can say is great job, after 1 week of setting up and preparing we have produced quite the number of products to help get the Kidd server's economy off the ground.
We have produced the following in ship numbers :
- 4 'Lexington' Brig Runs
- 3 'Bermuda' Sloop Runs
- 3 'Mediator' Cutter Runs
- 2 'Halifax' Schooner Runs
- 1 'Postillionen' Frigate Run
- 1 'Atlas' Bark Run
- 1 'Stralsund' Frigate Run
- 1 'Cerberus' Frigate Run
We have also produced countless outfittings, munitions and other items for in society use as well as market sales. Though most of our ships never made it to market as they were bought up by members before they ever got there!
We would like to extend a welcome to other societies on the Kidd server to get in touch with us and work directly with us in growing our economy as well as preparing for the conquest of our enemies ports. For those daring and brave captains who wish to apply to join the Sphere you may by do so simply by clicking here clicking here!
We'll see you on the Sea
~Felicity
Master Chief Officer of the Sphere
Sphere SS is well underway and growing steadily. We have picked up a few choice captains to add to our fold over the past 3 days of the preboard, and our production lines are well underway. Tonight we produced our first 6 Lexington Brigs, which I am happy to say were all purchased by society members, making us that much stronger. Within the next 3 days I suspect our goods to begin to flood the AH and begin establishing Sphere SS as an economic power in France.
To those who have been submitting applications, please be patient with us we get several applications to look at and interview daily we will get to you I promise.
Web Site News
A donations button has now been added to the main site allowing Sphere SS members to help cover financial costs of our ventrilo server, and thanks to our generous members we will be soon switching our site to a dedicated host/ip and a dedicated domain. All I can say is thanks guys!
Fear the Sphere
~Felicity
Master Chief Officer of the Sphere
In just 1 Hour the pre-boarding party kicks off Sphere SS will be there loud and proud on the Kidd server beginning the voyage that will lead us into the heart of the flames in this which we call the Burning Sea. We would like to welcome every captain of every nation and our pirates to the server and we look forward to good times with you. Those of you who are sailing for the honor of France and are still looking for somewhere to settle in Sphere will be accepting a few more applications over the next week.
For those independent contractors out there if you'll notice at the top we've added an "Offer a Contract" Link allowing you to setup a constant sell order of your goods to us. Later we will be accepting Purchase Contracts as well and we will publish contracts of our own that we need filled to allow others to fill them. Our contracts are not limited to France, however Frenchmen will get the best deals, as well as first dibs to all contracts until we build up a good relationship with you, if your from another nation.
TO EVERYONE: Welcome to the Burning Sea, and may the Sea be gentle when she embraces you!
~Felicity
Master Chief Officer of the Sphere
Welcome to the Sphere Societies Website. We are pleased to announce that we will be setting up shop on the Kidd server at the launch of PotBS as Frenchmen.
Alot of folks have asked why we chose to play as France, and after the explanation was given they no longer thought it was such a bad idea to play as France themselves, in fact so far no one who has actually interviewed with us has disapproved of playing as France once it was explained, thus we felt it a good idea to explain it here. One of the main reasons we have chosen to play as the French is to avoid the bandwagon that will occur when the game goes live, we want to have a very mature and adult oriented society and hopefully be a part of a very adult oriented nationality. When the game goes live a large majority of the younger players and the (for lack of a better word) asshat players will join whichever nation sits on top of the population polls as that will ensure them a higher chance at victory. As has already been proven in beta this will be Britain and Pirates, coming in third will be Spain, and last but not least France. This creates a number of benefits for us, as we have a smaller nation and thus can be more organized within that nation as a whole, building up our economy to benefit the nation as a whole and not solely lining our own pockets, as well as having more targets to shoot at than targets put out there to be shot at.
In short do not shy away from us just because your scared of the French come of have a chat with us first about it and you might change your mind, not to mention we do plan to play across servers as other nationalities /wink. If you are interested in coming on board with us during the pre-boarding party you may submit an application via our forums. Good luck to all and we will see you in the Burning Sea!
~Felicity
Master Chief Officer of the Sphere
Today we enter our final day of the open beta in PotBS, and it has been a good beta. To the friends we've made it's been a blast, to our enemies, we say "Good Fight, and much respect." We now anxiously await the pre-boarding party January 7th to begin our epic story of conquest.
Recruitment is still open up until January the 8th, as we solidify our member base and get things lined out and ready to go. So if you are interested please familiarize yourself with our Mission Statement and Guidelines via the link above, and pop on to our forums to submit an application. We will hopefully have an application form posted on the site instead of the forums asap.
Societies that are interested in dealing with us upon launch may contact us via our forums as well, we are hoping to have a good relationship with other societies on the Kidd Server, and to help create a unified France!
~Felicity
Master Chief Officer of the Sphere
