Ahoy, me Hearties! System update!
[NEW SYSTEM UPDATES]
Alliance Progress: A New Scheduling System Added for Alliance Features
- The 'Alliance Progress' feature allows you to share schedules with Alliance members and strengthen teamwork.
Setting Up Alliance Progress
- Select a feature to schedule and set the days and times for notifications.
- Recurring alerts and automatic start options can be set for specific Alliance Features.
- Recurring alerts are not available for some features (e.g., Port City Conquest and Port Royal Conquest).
- Automatic start is available only for Mermaid Island Conquest (Stages 1–3) and Assault Defense (Lv. 1–3).
Editing and Deleting Events on Alliance Progress
- Only R5 and R4 Alliance members can edit or delete scheduled events.
Notifications and Automatic Start
- Notifications are sent via Alliance chat 10 minutes before the event and at the event's start time.
- Features set for automatic start will begin at the scheduled time.
- If auto-start is not possible, a notification will be sent via Alliance chat.
Notes
- All schedules follow UTC+0.
- The same feature can be scheduled up to five times per day.
New Tactician: Andrea Reed (Water Talisman)
Andrea Reed (Water Talisman) specializes in PVP combat, significantly increasing bonus damage while applying debuffs to opponents.
- This new Tactician can be obtained via Invitation Letter [Uncommon] or as an Edge of the Abyss reward.
[SYSTEM IMPROVEMENTS]
Empire Invasion Chronicle Adjustment
- The Empire Invasion Chronicle requirement has been reduced from 120 days to 60 days.
- Empire Invasion will be available 60 days after an Empire's opening.
Work Status Feature Improvements
- The Work Status button has been relocated to the center-left of the screen for easier access.
- Tortuga Brawl [My Empire], Battle of the Storm, and Nightmare of the Abyss have been added to the Status menu.
New ‘Battle Status’ Page - All Battle Information in One Place!
With the new Battle Status Page, you can now monitor Alliance and personal battle information in real time.
- The 'Work Status' button will be reintroduced as the 'Battle Status' button.
- When an Alliance Rally is requested, the bell icon will shake to provide a real-time notification.
- Battle Status Page Overview
- Rallying: View current Alliance Rallies available for participation.
- Battle: Track current Alliance battles and the resource collection status at the Alliance Fortress.
- Captain: View detailed battle data for each fleet under your command.
**When Rally participation is available, the Rally page will be displayed first, and the Auto-Rally feature will be immediately accessible.
Special Missions Balance Adjustment
- The point acquisition criteria for leveling up Douglas Hunt has been adjusted from Gold to Cutthroat Amulets.
- The points earned from using Pirate King’s Logbook in Daily Event, Secret Missions, and Urgent Missions will be adjusted to be the same as when used in Special Missions.
EITC Defense: Concentrated Fire Adjustment
- The Tactician choices for EITC Defense Concentrated Fire will be replaced with Lily Brown (Light Talisman) and Tier V Captain Enigma (Dark Talisman).
UI Improvements
Caribbean Takeover UI Improvements
- The Caribbean Takeover UI has been improved to display Port City Conquest and Port Royal Conquest information.
Port City
- Port Cities are now sorted by population.
- A new feature will allow you to view Conquest start times.
- You can check the current Conquest status at a glance in Caribbean Takeover.
Port Royal
- You no longer need to manually search for Port Royal at sea—it can now be viewed directly.
- A new feature will allow you to check 'The Legends of Port Royal' details directly from the Caribbean Takeover UI.
Edge of the Abyss Improvements
- Difficulty selection has been added.
- Previews of the Edge of the Abyss stages are now available without sailing Ships to the island on the map.
- However, Ships must still sail to and arrive at Edge of the Abyss to begin challenges.
Cave of the Abyss Exploration Improvements
- Leader Skills of Unique Ships are now displayed during fleet formation.
- Availability status of Unique Ships and deployment status of the Ex. Fleet are now visible during fleet formation.
- Rewards are now immediately obtained by simply clicking the icon above the Gate when the Exploration Rewards are full.
Flying Dartsman UI Improvements
- Multiple ongoing darts can now be viewed simultaneously.
‘Tactician Battle’ Added
- Terms used in Battles are now explained in the Guidebook.
EITC Defense and Cave of the Abyss Exploration rewards are now displayed with a green gauge background like the one for Compass Expedition
- Previous: Gold border effect for EITC Defense, pop-up icon for Cave of the Abyss Exploration
- Updated: same pop-up icon with a green gauge background
Account Management Improvements
- Alliance and Empire information is now displayed along with the Captain's name in Settings > Account.
The corresponding Buffs given for Gibbs’ Daily Quest final rewards are now displayed as icons for the last Daily Quest milestone
Other System Improvements
- Captains can now enter the Cutthroat Cove even while participating in a Rally.
- A Consecutive Upgrade feature for Ship Equipment has been added.
- A limit of 1 million Turret Parts for EITC Defense has been set; additional parts cannot be acquired beyond this limit.
- Additional parts cannot be obtained during Waves or from Defense Rewards if the limit is reached.
- However, purchases from the store will still be possible even if the limit is exceeded.
- The Auto-Merge feature for EITC Defense items now supports up to 60 minutes of cumulative use.
- The number of Auto-Merge items dropped by EITC Ships attacking the gate has been reduced.
- Probability information for all random items is now disclosed, including Animal Companion Skill drop rates.
- An error message has been added for insufficient materials during Tactician Upgrade.
- The scroll position will now be retained when returning from the ‘Manage Animal Companions’ submenu.
- The position will reset when returning to the main screen.
- Background colors for Tactician, Ship Tactics, and Animal Companion Items are now differentiated by Tier.
- Mermaid movement counts have been reduced for certain levels in Mermaid Island Conquest:
- Stage 1: 0 movements
- Stage 2: 1 movement
- Stage 3: Unchanged
- A feature to access Animal Companion Street directly has been added for Animal Companion Invitations in the inventory, like the one currently available for Tactician Invitations.
- The messaging regarding Ships not being available during Gibbs’ 'Repair Ship' quest has been updated:
- Previous: There are no Ships within the Territory.
- Updated: There are no Ships to repair.
- 'Shansa’s Cave' story mode tutorials in Gibbs’ quests have been streamlined.
Thank you, Captains!
