Extended Piratez general FAQ/Strategy Guide

[Zharkov]

yeah the ninja base radar range is huge, and can be quite the pickle.

This works both ways. It makes the ninja bases easy to locate.

[Zharkov]

What are the different colored shields and what are they good for? (I am sure there was an BootyPedia entry about this, but I cannot find it.)

[Mathel]

Several entries, in fact. One per each shield.
You will find it in Mysteries: Personal Shields   and the following 4 segments. (Gold shield, Blue Shield, Purple Shield and Red Shield)

[Gremlion]

Temporary health which can regenerate and has resistances different to your armor.
In most cases gold is the least useful shield (piercing and concussive damage ignore it, pretty much most grenades and guns), red blue and purple are about the same in terms of protection.

[ontherun]

M3 introduced new starting bonuses, dependin on in which country/part of the world player will enstablish first hideout, but these are one tme and startin-only or are supposed to spawn from time to time?

[Solarius Scorch]

M3 introduced new starting bonuses, dependin on in which country/part of the world player will enstablish first hideout, but these are one tme and startin-only or are supposed to spawn from time to time?

They are one time only, and only apply to the first base.

[Berggen]

They are one time only, and only apply to the first base.

Are those bonuses listed somewhere, I can´t find them in the pedia or when starting a new game, or Am I doing somethong wrong?

[Iazo]

Country bonuses:
Your starting country is researched for free
The Confederation: 1 govt pistol, 3 big iron, 50 big pistol rounds (6 shots), 10 glamour, -150 infamy
Eurasian Autonomy: 1 baby nuke, 1 uranium weapons documentation, 1 govt fine
Iron Tribe: 8 junk piles, 30 necroplane parts, 50 chemicals, 50 scrap metal
Eurosyndicate: 6 super maids, 6 maid outfits, 9 gothic raygun clips, 3 energy weapon parts
Blackmarch: 1 gnome
Romanica: 6 crusader SS armors, 6 peasant nun outfits, 6 olde swordes, 6 quarterstaves, 1 golden cup, 1 golden cross
Nordfederation: 5 young ubers
Central Province: 75 sectoweed
Fuso: 3 fuso swords, 3 sudoku blades, 6 fans, 30 fuso knives, 20 glamour
Death Realms: 20 chitin plates, 10 animal poison, 10 spider silk, 20 demon skulls -75k dolaros
Hidden Expanse: 3 flak tower kits
Ghostgates: 24 slaves, 24 slave maids, 4 slave gladiatrices, 4 slave lashers
Rogue Fields: 5 govt fines
Theban Hive: 12 assault clone licenses, -600 infamy
Kingdom of Canada: 50 cultural wealth, 15 personal databases, 10 glamour, 3 govt personal codes, 1 exquisite lingerie
Cali Republic: 50 mutant porn, 50 glamour, 50 crack, 50 hideout cleaning bills
Dark Dominion: 3 arcane books, 2 esoterica
Latin Empire: 1 old earth books, -50 infamy
The Technocracy: 20 optronic parts
Pirate Straits: 3 hoes
Turan: 3 turanian gals
Steel Pact: 10 metal ores, 1 prepper box
Red Revolution: 10 workers
None: 2 lokk'naar scriptures, 3 grrrl guides, 1 of 6 free techs: animal poison, spider pilk, monster teeth, monster eye, luxury fur, chitin plates, +50 infamy

Continental bonuses:
Arctic: 6 tribal outfits, tech human polar outfit, +450 infamy
Antarctica: 6 tribal outfits, tech human polar outfit +700 infamy
Siberia: 8 luxury furs, tech ushanka, +200 infamy
North Atlantic: 6 tribal outfits, tech sea transport, +450 infamy
Europe: 3 rare earth elements, tech rare earth elements, -50 infamy
North America: 5 vodka,tech uber wheat, +200 infamy
South America: 10 each of red pepper, devil's pepper, egglant, orange, coconut, tech what do?, +450 infamy
North Africa: 6 beer, tech swag items (golden ankh, amphore, golden cup, golden cross, crown, ol' coins, diamond), -50 infamy
South Africa: 3 blowpipes and 24 blowpipe darts (3 shots each), tech monster hunting, +200 infamy 
Central Asia: 777 capitulatory tax, tech necropirate, +200 infamy
South East Asia: 10 each of mutant fish, mutant egg, pumpkin, tech mutant egg, +200 infamy
Australasia: 20 explosive cannonballs, tech sea adventure, +450 infamy
Pacific: 1 hero, tech the deep ones, +700 infamy Continental bonuses:


Thank mr. Torchwood

The continent bonus is gained in the frirst few hours, the country bonus is gained in the first few days.

[JamTheDane]

Well, restarted a few updates ago, but havent gotten far enough to have a plane that can actually shoot down something, so i guess it's time to restart again

[Berggen]

Country bonuses:
Your starting country is researched for free
The Confederation: 1 govt pistol, 3 big iron, 50 big pistol rounds (6 shots), 10 glamour, -150 infamy
Eurasian Autonomy: 1 baby nuke, 1 uranium weapons documentation, 1 govt fine
Iron Tribe: 8 junk piles, 30 necroplane parts, 50 chemicals, 50 scrap metal
Eurosyndicate: 6 super maids, 6 maid outfits, 9 gothic raygun clips, 3 energy weapon parts
Blackmarch: 1 gnome
Romanica: 6 crusader SS armors, 6 peasant nun outfits, 6 olde swordes, 6 quarterstaves, 1 golden cup, 1 golden cross
Nordfederation: 5 young ubers
Central Province: 75 sectoweed
Fuso: 3 fuso swords, 3 sudoku blades, 6 fans, 30 fuso knives, 20 glamour
Death Realms: 20 chitin plates, 10 animal poison, 10 spider silk, 20 demon skulls -75k dolaros
Hidden Expanse: 3 flak tower kits
Ghostgates: 24 slaves, 24 slave maids, 4 slave gladiatrices, 4 slave lashers
Rogue Fields: 5 govt fines
Theban Hive: 12 assault clone licenses, -600 infamy
Kingdom of Canada: 50 cultural wealth, 15 personal databases, 10 glamour, 3 govt personal codes, 1 exquisite lingerie
Cali Republic: 50 mutant porn, 50 glamour, 50 crack, 50 hideout cleaning bills
Dark Dominion: 3 arcane books, 2 esoterica
Latin Empire: 1 old earth books, -50 infamy
The Technocracy: 20 optronic parts
Pirate Straits: 3 hoes
Turan: 3 turanian gals
Steel Pact: 10 metal ores, 1 prepper box
Red Revolution: 10 workers
None: 2 lokk'naar scriptures, 3 grrrl guides, 1 of 6 free techs: animal poison, spider pilk, monster teeth, monster eye, luxury fur, chitin plates, +50 infamy

Continental bonuses:
Arctic: 6 tribal outfits, tech human polar outfit, +450 infamy
Antarctica: 6 tribal outfits, tech human polar outfit +700 infamy
Siberia: 8 luxury furs, tech ushanka, +200 infamy
North Atlantic: 6 tribal outfits, tech sea transport, +450 infamy
Europe: 3 rare earth elements, tech rare earth elements, -50 infamy
North America: 5 vodka,tech uber wheat, +200 infamy
South America: 10 each of red pepper, devil's pepper, egglant, orange, coconut, tech what do?, +450 infamy
North Africa: 6 beer, tech swag items (golden ankh, amphore, golden cup, golden cross, crown, ol' coins, diamond), -50 infamy
South Africa: 3 blowpipes and 24 blowpipe darts (3 shots each), tech monster hunting, +200 infamy 
Central Asia: 777 capitulatory tax, tech necropirate, +200 infamy
South East Asia: 10 each of mutant fish, mutant egg, pumpkin, tech mutant egg, +200 infamy
Australasia: 20 explosive cannonballs, tech sea adventure, +450 infamy
Pacific: 1 hero, tech the deep ones, +700 infamy Continental bonuses:


Thank mr. Torchwood

The continent bonus is gained in the frirst few hours, the country bonus is gained in the first few days.

Oh! Thaks a lot, Where did you find them?

[Iazo]

The discord channel.

[ontherun]

A new game in m4 (but lowered difficulty fomr 3 to s in april 2601) im in may 2601 and still miss the workshop, but in feb i spotted a strange vessel, maybe are the ninjas?

About those guys, now jack in the early game give some clues about their intention, fine. Oh and the gravball league...dont'knowwaht was the inspiration screenshot for the bootypedia...Also noticed that Now robots in front of wathctowers seems to be more though, need atr least 30+ damage to blow up.

Edit: also, don't miss Iazo's thread for some other hints!

[ontherun]

How do I produce glamour? And what are its utility and purpose?

[legionof1]

Doing certain missions fast, useing bikes or V8 craft, certain outfits, makeing normal slaves, some events, ect. It is used to produce some voodoo outfits, advance bounty hunting ranks, part of building casino and a few other buildings, and some slavery/recruitment types need it.

[ontherun]

Jall right thanks; just wanted to say that eurasian autonomy seems to offer enough disavantages, exept for that uranium documentation which might become useful only in the later game,so that bonus story sure needs more balancing; anyway playng on "john silver" game seems quite balanced, while in "blackbeard" player should not miss much misison otherwise score will drop significantly maybe some more tolerance on that level wiuld be appreciated i did not try the asian country/areas, maybe in the future...In the meantime ive seen also that in "blackbeard" a black powdre bomb is enough yto destroy those ninja turrets in their airfield whenassaulting a base of theirs, so it is just a matter of cannon fodder 

Here we go again in jan 2601, let's cross our fingers...