Topic: Economic War Treasure Maps: A change equals More booty for all

[Herr Burt]

With their Empires shattered, honest merchants are finding themselves easy prey for multiplying bands of corsairs.  Desperately they've been cartering their own bands of mercenary ships and even bribing naval officers starved for gold.  The convoys are getting harder to attack with safety and sometimes it's hard for an honest pirate to slit a throat and steal a purse.

However, the shattered empires built a lot of toys while they were fighting their war.  In the chaos that has followed quite a few of them are simply lying around, waiting for someone to find them.  As pirates ply their trade and crows pick the bones of the empires, you begin to uncover clues that might lead you to a secret weapon that would make you the most dangerous ship in space.    Let the Empires struggle to fend you off.   Let the overlords bicker over who controls the black market.  You won't care, you'll be *unstoppable!* 

Fabulous riches await.  All you've got to do is make that blubbering merchantman give you the first clue to set you on your path.  Sharpen up your cutlass, you blackguard.   That should be easy.

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Arrr...... when it comes to treasure maps in the blackness of space, I've had a bit of a...... well, a change of heart.

Quiet in the back there, you scalawag!  I'll hear no more loose talk of, "that means you'll have to  grown one!"

That's no grog tonight for the whole crew!   And they can all thank you for their lack.  Arrrrrr!
My plan was to have eight treasure plots running, one for each original cartel.   The first buccaneer to solve each mystery would get the treasure, and the rest would go hungry.  But I've decided there is a bit of a consolation prize to be had.  So now, everyone who follows the clues and finds the big black "X marks the spot" will get something.  Of course, pirates who find treasure often take most of it with them, so don't expect to find all that much if you lie abed late and show up last.

-Herr Burt  (Arrrrrrrr!)

[Hexx]

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so like what are the chances of a fully-loaded Lyran BCV(with ZYBms& packs) being buried at the X?

Or is this some wuss prize of prestige or an autographed photo of Chutt..

[Herr Burt]

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so like what are the chances of a fully-loaded Lyran BCV(with ZYBms& packs) being buried at the X?

Or is this some wuss prize of prestige or an autographed photo of Chutt..

Well, you know, Chuut does shake a mean booty, and I do have pictures.  (don't ask)  They aren't autographed, but.......

<ahem>   ARrrrrrrr!!!!  Apparantly some of you lot have been out  to sea too long!

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Actually, given the plot of the server, gold (in the form of piracy points) would make the most sense.   However I'm of the strong opinion that a "treasure" found during a game should give you something that you can use in the game.   This being the D2, I'm pretty much limited in what that can be.  There aren't special passed I can give you to unlock hidden areas of the game.  So, secret weapons it is.  I won't say more; you'll have to unriddle the maps first.

Prepare to become a figurehead of fear

-Herr Burt