Cost of cannon firing and only first day
So, I did some figuring and came up with this as a cost for loading and firing a cannon just once. With current pricing for saltpeter as of about 20 minutes ago from the new guy on britain docks and also in moonglow. It costs about 6936 gold to fire one shot. So to kill a Beacon with an orc ship it took 20 shots. That comes out to be 138720 to kill a beacon and you dont get any resupplies. you do get the cool new boxes to turn in. Mythical box is 10k, Highest reward is 100k so a parrot is going to cost you roughly 1.3 million in ammo supplies. Again you get no resupplies from the becons. I will try the orc ships and merchant ships tomorrow. But I did mention that saltpeter was going to be the issue with keeping people on the high seas. Current price on Catskills at the two new vendors is already 221 per in Britain and 227 in moonglow. Hopefully the Pirates and merchant ships will give boat loads of ammo.
Good luck and happy hunting.
Good luck and happy hunting.
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Ah yeah, I have 1929 luck and I get the big niters all the time. and just got those new sandals so that's...70 more?! (as soon as I remember where I put them)
Just did a quick test and a Gigantic Niter Deposit just gave me 253. So logging in on her, arriving at her mining spot. All of 10 minutes maybe?
I also agree that if you plan to mine saltpeter, make sure you have a suit built for it. High luck and strength bonuses for example.
- I do mine saltpeter with a luck suit. I have done this since high seas came out.
- I did not know that small cannon balls and small charges would convert to the large variety until a day before this went live. I even made a starting supply of 300 of the large just before I found out about his.
- With the loot that I had gotten previously from pirate ships I have about 2400 shots that have converted from small to large. Also about the same amount of grapeshot. I am a pack rat.
I really did want this to draw more people out to the water, I think they missed the mark with saltpeter being the main ingredient and not capping the or slowing the rising cost from the vendors.So now off to fight some of the ships. Oh does the Orc ship still have the damage bonus? I only use that type so was just curious
Beacons go in 10 cannon ball shots.
Orc Ship: 6500 Damage per Cannonball
Pirate Ships and Tokuno Merchant ships have around 70000 hit points (11 shots from an Orc ship, 14 from any other ship).
Gargoyle Merchant Ships have around 100000 hit points (16 shots from an Orc ship, 20 shots from any other ship)
Plunderbeacons (the lighthouse) have just over 65000 Hit Points. This is 11 shots from an Orc Ship, or 14 from any other ship. However, when I say just over 65000 hit points, I mean just over it. You can save yourself a set of ammo with any ship if you shoot 10 cannonballs and then hit it with a spell or arrow 1-2 times.
If it took you 20 shots to kill a plunderbeacon, you may have not been lined up properly against it. Need to make sure the firing cannon is hitting the lighthouse directly, and not just the boat part.
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I was able to destroy a beacon using one small cannon and regular cannonballs.Each hit made 5000 points of damage. Would the large cannon do more damage? Would changing to grapeshot boost the damage?
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