Friday 20 April 2012

Battle Pirates Cheats Guide - Map Basics


When you first start playing Battle Pirates, the ocean is a dark, spooky place. You have a small circle of visibility around your base, and you might see other bases at the edge or occasionally a salvage fleet. If you're lucky, you might see an oil rig. Everything else is covered by fog of war until you send a ship into it. Once explored though, the fog of war permanently disappears and you can see any part of the map that you've uncovered from then on.
Exploring the map is a big part of the game - discovering what's out there, locating resource mines and salvage fleets, and most importantly, finding your enemies. The barebones basics are explained below.


Basics of Radar and Navigation
Aside from the main map of the ocean, you also have a small circular display at the lower right which shows a slightly larger area. Squares are bases. Triangles are ships. Circles are resource mines (oil rigs, wind turbines, zynthium and metal deposits), and crosses are salvage fleets. Solid red belongs to the Draconians (the computer player). Orange belongs to other players. White is you.
You can move the map by dragging it - faster dragging will make it move faster. You can also drag it to where you want it, then hold it down for a few extra seconds to avoid drift. Or you can click when you want it to stop instantly, and it'll pop up the "explore here" or "move here" sign (if you have a ship selected). You can also hold down the mouse button on the radar map, which is slower but more controlled without all the drifting.


Bases and Mines
Player bases, Draconian bases, and resource mines are at permanent fixed locations on the map, arranged in bulls-eye patterns. Each Draconian base is surrounded by two zynthium deposits up close to it, four energy turbines and four metal deposits, and four oil rigs at the edge of the resource area. Each resource area is then surrounded by a (roughly) double ring of player bases. Some bulls-eyes are right next to each other, while others are separated by vast expanses of nothingness.






Map Coordinates
The overall Battle Pirates world is a diagonal strip of squares 600 wide, running from northwest to southeast, divided into sectors of 600x600. As you move your mouse around the map, the coordinates appear at the upper left. Your fleets can move 850 squares in either direction (NW or SE) from your own base, which means you can visit up to four sectors if you're on the edge of your sector.






Sector boundaries are not marked and there is no obvious difference between them on the map. Each sector has its own separate chat, however, which makes all the difference in the world.


Friendships and Alliances
Early on, Battle Pirates is very much the kind of PvP game you'd expect, where everyone hits everyone else and it's everyone for themselves. Players hit each other's bases and fleets, and fight over mines.
Then friendships and alliances begin to form. Then people complain in the chat about being unfairly hit, and apologize for accidental attacks due to game glitches, and it turns out that most of them are perfectly decent people, just like you.






Sector War
And that's when the sector wars start. Pretty soon you have huge multiplayer fleets hitting each other, trouble with moles, and enemy invasions. While you can only hit a player base that's within five levels of you, any fleet can hit any other fleet - targets for anyone who wants to join in no matter their level. Fleet wars are some of the most exciting parts of the game.






Even if you aren't in your sector's alliances, you still benefit from their defense of the sector, you still get caught in the crossfire during an invasion, and likely they still want you to follow alliance rules about what you do in your own sector. People who would otherwise be bullies in their own sector are often convinced to sail to other sectors for targets instead. 




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