The Damned Pirates Society

Welcome to Tortuga, a place where Pirates are free to be lecherous, murderous, drunken wretches. Also where we will post our project updates.

# The Damned Pirates Society Present - Voyages V1 

**TL:DR**

Voyages V1 will allow users to mint a FREE NFT - their Flagship. Users will be able to exchange Treasure Maps (TMAP) for Voyages. With a Pirate, a Flagship and a Voyage users can go out and earn chests. We thought it was best to get a light version of the app out there as soon as possible to reduce TMAP emission, get people used to the core concepts and most importantly stacking those chests for the launch of doubloons, support ships & upgrades. 

**Release date is expected towards the end of next week, estimated 4th February.**

### Voyages
Easy voyages make use of our custom random hybrid engine in a number of ways. Firstly when minting a voyage for Treasure Maps (TMAP) the engine will take block data to create a seed. This seed will then be used to generate the type and order of interactions on the voyage. 

If users have multiple Pirates, it's about choosing the right Pirate for the voyage. It's better to send a Pirate with high luck on a Voyage containing lots of chests, but what if those chests are behind a series of enemies?

![](https://imgur.com/8pzfdWD.png)

### Flagship
Flagships are required to go on voyages. Each Pirate will be able to mint a single Flagship NFT FOR FREE! This is a composable NFT which can be upgraded in future. In V1 all attributes on all ships will be set to 1. You will be able to sell these ships if you wish, but you won’t be able to voyage without one. If you fail a Strength or Navigation interaction your Flagship will be damaged and need repairing. It will be free to repair in v1.

![](https://i.imgur.com/H8qrcGK.png)

### Chests

Chest are the rewards for successful luck interactions. If your ship managed to brave the dangers of the high seas and come across some booty, will your Pirate be lucky enough to win a chest? In future you'll be able to open these chests to receive Doubloons, our in game currency. We may also add other goodies to the loot table, such as NFTs from other projects.

### Interactions

For those not familiar with Ethereum based randomness, it’s hard. As everything is on-chain, bad actors can engineer bots and solutions to guarantee outcomes, this means that fairness is very difficult to achieve. Our hybrid solution takes on chain data to create a seed off-chain, however this is provably fair and can be checked against the values after the fact. 

Each interaction falls into 3 categories, Luck, Strength & Navigation. The higher your level in a skill, the more chance you will have of getting a successful outcome from that interaction. In v1, if you lose either a Strength or Navigation interaction, your ship will be damaged and will limp back to port and all further interactions skipped. If you manage to make it to a Luck interaction, a high luck skill will give you the best chance at earning a chest.

## What’s to come?

We created v1 to get the on-chain game into the hands of users so the first thing to come is v2.

### v2 Gameplay Mechanics

This will add a number of other mechanics into the game.

**Support ships**

Consumables that add skill points (single category) to your fleet's total. They are always hit before your flagship, but are destroyed if they take damage,

**Upgrades**

Six upgradeable parts to the ship. Each upgrade provides extra skill points, depending on the part upgraded.

**Artifacts** 

An artifact provides a skill boost to a single skill. Rarer artifacts provide larger boosts. Unlike support ships, artifacts can't be destroyed.

**Voyages** 

Medium, Hard and Legendary voyages. Higher tier voyages take more time, contain more interactions and yield greater rewards. 

The skill-based element of the game lies in your decisions and strategy. Which Pirate you send on a voyage, how you’ve chosen to upgrade your flagship and which support ships you decide to take will all impact how successful you are on the high seas.

The upgrades and support ships will be paid in doubloons.**

### More Digital Collectibles - Ship Cosmetics

Not only will your flagship have upgradeable skill attributes, it will be upgradeable visually. We will be designing a flagship where you can upgrade the skills and the visuals independently. 

This means there will be clear differentiation between your flagship and others, even if you have the same level.You also won't be locked into using cosmetics you don't like just because they have good stats, something any RPG player is familiar with!

These cosmetics will be limited mints and will come in different rarities, for example in the 1st collection there may be:

Common Sails : 1,000
Rare Sails: 500
Legendary Sails: 100

Common Hull: 1,000
Rare Hull: 500
Legendary Hull: 100

There will likely be six parts that can be upgraded visually. These visual upgrades will be purchasable for doubloons.  

###  Website redesign

Our website is currently designed to be functional and simple, but that doesn’t represent the product we want in future. We are currently looking at options that blend the point-and-click genre with Web3 functionality. The art has been commissioned and UX/UI design is on-going. We’re hoping this will be an interactive and engaging environment for users to Voyage in. The work is further on than below, but here's a couple of teasers.

![](https://i.imgur.com/uGmj2yo.png)

You'll need to visit different stores for your voyage

![](https://imgur.com/vId2Sjv.png)

### Marketplace

With the number of items coming out of the game increasing such as ship cosmetics, artefacts and flagships it’s likely that there will be a lot of trading and having to move to secondary market places to do this will likely prove a frustrating experience.

Creating our own marketplace will give us the ability to streamline this process and will also bring trading fees in house. It would also allow us to split some of the royalties / platform fees into the DAO to help grow the treasury.

### Sprites

Probably our worst kept secret. We believe NFT communities shouldn’t be walled gardens, they should be open, cross-project, cross-chain. Sprites can be used in other top-down 2d projects and we will seek integrations into these projects. Hopefully users will enjoy voyaging and living in the DPS world, but if not the ability to traverse other metaverses will be there. 

![](https://imgur.com/lQTQmI3.png)


### Secondary Collections

Once v2 has been rolled out and we are happy with the balance and the economy we will look to onboard new players via a secondary collection. New players are key to growing the project in both awareness and demand. As previously mentioned these players will not generate TMAPs. 

Secondary collections will not be parrots and will be a larger collection than the original. 






The Damned Pirates Society Present - Voyages V1

TL:DR

Voyages V1 will allow users to mint a FREE NFT - their Flagship. Users will be able to exchange Treasure Maps (TMAP) for Voyages. With a Pirate, a Flagship and a Voyage users can go out and earn chests. We thought it was best to get a light...

 The Damned Pirates Society Present - Voyages V1 

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### Rocky Launch

When launching 1.5 we had a deadline, due to the team's personal schedules it meant that we had a tight launch window, start of April or the start of May. We pushed as hard as we could and everything in the test environment was working well. The game was playing hard but with everyone sitting on huge stacks of doubloons we figured they’d have the resources to overcome that difficulty. 

Unfortunately, we ran into problems on launch, Moonriver had blockchain issues that were unexpected. Metamask gas errors meant lost chests (all safely recovered) and working overtime on bug fixes to ensure it didn’t happen again.

### Player Feedback

During this period, the overall consensus was that the game is too difficult. Only pirates who had accumulated thousands of chests during V1 were able to upgrade their flagships enough to have profitable voyages. 

Easy voyages were too punishing. 2 and 3 chest voyages simply weren’t profitable once support ships and flagship repairs were taken into consideration. Due to the low chance of success on each interaction, flagship repairs were needed almost every time. 

New Players were losing doubloons on voyages so they couldn’t make any progress. As we look to onboard new collections and communities in the future, it’s critical that easy voyages provide a way for players to get started and earn doubloons. 

Artifacts also felt somewhat underwhelming. Considering the rarity of artifacts, we gave them a buff so they have a much larger impact on your chance of success. 

### The Answer - V1.51

1.51 seeks to address this imbalance as we’ve been working through our 41 variables to tweak the game until it’s satisfyingly rewarding, without being mindlessly easy. 

Easy voyages are now easier, with a higher base chance of success and 4 chests on each voyage, but you’ll only be able to take one support ship. 

Higher difficulty voyages are still satisfyingly challenging and do-able, as long as your flagship is upgraded to a high enough level and you are using support ships. 1.51 is more punishing to people who go on higher difficulty voyages without upgrading their ship. If you do that, you’ll get rekt. 

Caravels and Galleons have been buffed, providing a higher skill boost than before. This allows you to compensate for your pirate’s weaknesses better, but if you lose a support ship it has a larger impact on your chance of success later in the voyage. 

Sloops are now cheaper, providing newer players with the ability to take extra damage while on easy voyages. For higher level players, their minimal impact on skill points will make them less useful. 

A higher level pirate with a fully upgraded ship could have a very high success rate on easy voyages, but legendary voyages should still be more profitable, and way more convenient. 

Whether due to terrible luck, going on a voyage that’s too difficult or choosing the wrong set of support ships, there’s still a chance to lose doubloons on a voyage. But that will happen less frequently than with V1.5. 

Many players have left their Pirates in the Tavern during this stormy period, others have managed to find solutions with high level flagships and strong pirates. 

We’re excited to see more pirates taking to the seas again! Cheers! 🍻

### Summary of changes 

![](https://app.subsocial.network/ipfs/ipfs/Qmcs14F3Ngt812XdpdPHKjGpp3kmRHZqsk7PaNL8UWi5AM?type=.png)

Increased Chest rewards

Easy  -  45
Medium - 65
Hard - 85
Legendary -105

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Rocky Launch

When launching 1.5 we had a deadline, due to the team's personal schedules it meant that we had a tight launch window, start of April...

Community update #4 - V1.51 - Calmer Seas

### What is $RUM?

Rum has been requested by the DAO and have agreed a portion of the next NFT collection as a specialised reward for people who provide liquidity for Damned Pirates Society assets. Incentivised pools will start Thursday 18 May 2022.

### What is $RUM used for?

$RUM holders will be able to redeem $RUM for other Pirateverse assets such as our Secondary Collection. A specific amount of future collections will be set aside for purchase only by $RUM, not only ensuring Liquidity providers get on the allow list, they also exchange $RUM for an effective free mint. 

The DAO has requested 6% of the Pirates 2 Collection to be made available for purchase by $RUM holders only. Once the collection numbers have been finalised we will be able to finalise the exact $RUMcost per mint. $RUM rewards will be split between the following two pools.

Mints will cost 200 RUM each.

**TMAP <-> Doubloon - 20,000 $RUM**


**Doubloon <-> MOVR - 100,000 $RUM**

The rewards will be issued over a 6 month period. The more $RUM you earn the more you can mint for free. 

In future we will aim to provide cosmetics only purchasable for $RUM in future. $RUM is going to be exclusive. 

### Why not just offer $TMAP and/or $Doubloons?

By giving liquidity providers $TMAP or $Doubloons as rewards you create downward sell pressure on assets as people look to convert those rewards into cash. By offering a different asset we look to protect the value of these currencies. 

### Why should I provide LP?

As we grow as a project we want people to have an easy on ramp to the game. The goal is that Doubloons are the currency of the Pirateverse and having a Doubloon <-> MOVR pool gives players an easy on ramp. From there they can purchase TMAP from the TMAP <-> Doubloon pool to go on voyages. Using any spare doubloons to acquire upgrades and support ships. 

NFT projects are a collective effort by all involved, just like guilds in WoW or ESO. By offering $30 or $50 of LP, you help lower slippage and create a better experience for all. When everyone is working together for the long term health of the project, the project is much stronger. 

### What are the risks?

The main risk when providing liquidity is impermanent loss. When you provide liquidity to a pool you take the current swap rate and provide assets in that ratio. As the price fluctuates you will be able to withdraw more of one than the other. 

E.G If you add 100 $TMAP and 3000 $Doubloons and the $Doubloon Prices increase vs $TMAP, when you come to remove liquidity you might receive 150 $TMAP and 2000 $Doubloons. 

### Dao Owner Liquidity

The DAO will be utilising its assets to provide liquidity to the pool for two reasons. 

1. Deeper liquidity providers less slippage for players and a better game experience.
2. The Freemints from $RUM rewards will allow the treasury to collect NFTs that can be auctioned or used as giveaways for the community and is the first step in generating revenue for the treasury. 

If anybody wishes to donate small amounts of $TMAP, $Doubloons, $RUM or $LP to the treasury it would be greatly received 

(Treasury Address: 0x85E3A9A05d5e37778ee4559673F7c4F3ACb831b1).

## How to Add LP 

1. Go to https://app.solarbeam.io/exchange/pool
2. Click Add
3. Choose asset 1 as Doubloon
4. Choose asset 2 as either MOVR or TMAP
5. Select the amount of Doubloons you wish to add
6. The DAPP will select the appropriate amount of MOVR or TMAP for you
7. Approve Tokens
8. Confirm adding liquidity
9. Next go to https://app.solarbeam.io/farm
10. Search for Doubloon
11. Select the appropriate farm and approve 
12. Add Max liquidity and confirm
13. Stake that liquidity to start earning $RUM
14. Wait for that $RUM balance to grow! 


Now go out there and get your rum, ye scurvy dogs!


What is $RUM?

Rum has been requested by the DAO and have agreed a portion of the next NFT collection as a specialised reward for people who provide liquidity for Damned Pirates Society assets. Incentivised pools will start Thursday 18 May 2022.

What is $RUM used for?

$RUM holders will be able...

The DAO requests you earn your rum! 

Davy Jones

# Welcome the Plunderers Guild

A quick thank you to the community members who’ve volunteered their time to help us test V1.5, and to the community as a whole for playing the game and providing great feedback. 

When the markets took a turn for the worst and the dao season ended in a bloodbath, a lot of us felt the impact. It was incredible to see the community remain positive and supportive. Just another reason why the DPS community is up there with the best. Cheers 🍻

So, on to V1.5 stuff.

We’ve been busy testing, breaking, almost launching and breaking things to get ready for V1.5, our biggest update yet. 

Play 1.5 here:
https://feature-v1-5.dc52peywkmhcz.amplifyapp.com/mypirates

Finish v1 voyages here:
https://www.damnedpiratessociety.io/mypirates

### What can you expect in this version?

TL;DR: 

* It’s harder
* Doubloons
* Batch buy Voyages
* Plan and launch up to 3 voyages at once
* Claim all voyages (max 10)
* Upgrade your flagship
* Repair your flagship
* Honestly, It’s a lot harder
* Buy and use support ships
* More voyages types - short, medium, long and legendary
* Additional chest tiers (higher tier chests give more doubloons)
* Rare artifact drops from chests
* Rebalanced difficulty to account for new ways to boost your skills
* Gas optimizations

We’ll go into more detail to explain the key aspects of the game that are new, or have been changed significantly:

### Chests & Rewards

Chests are the reward you’ll earn for successful luck interactions on voyages. Harder voyages yield higher tier chests. Higher tier chests will contain more doubloons and have a higher chance of dropping artifacts and, in the future, other rare items. 

Once you’ve earned your chests, you’ll need to hand them over to the Plunderer’s Guild so they can break the locks and let you get the treasures inside. 

Chests have a small chance of dropping other rare items. Right now artifacts are the only other loot we have in the game, but there may be others in future (other collection NFTs, tokens for whitelist spots and so on). 

![](https://imgur.com/A0uFVwH.png)

### Artifacts

Artifacts give you a boost to one skill. Unlike support ships, they cannot be destroyed. While you’re free to use them as many times as you want to, you can only take one on a voyage so you’ll need to choose carefully. 

There are multiple tiers of artifact:

Common (small boost)
Rare (medium boost)
Epic (large boost)
Legendary (... even larger boost)

Higher tier artifacts have a lower chance to drop. There’s no fixed amount, but the drop rate is low enough that we don’t expect to see the market flooded with legendary artifacts (or any artifact). 

You’ll be able to sell these on the secondary market - artifacts are a great way for lower skill pirates or new players to give themselves a boost on harder voyages. 

![](https://imgur.com/3tv2nnr.png)

### Doubloons

The plunderer’s guild will open with V1.5, meaning you can finally open your chests and extract those precious doubloons! 

Doubloons will be our primary in-game currency. To start, they’ll be used to repair your flagship, upgrade your flagship and purchase support ships. In the future they may be used to purchase cosmetics, other in-game items, land and more as the DPS universe expands. 

With every chest opened by a user an additional 5% will be minted to the dev treasury. These doubloons will be split as follows:

* 40% development fund - For funding development of the game — paying developers, artists and other administration costs.
* 15% Founder Wallet - Used to pay the founders on completion of project milestones
* 25% Marketing and LP - Used for marketing purposes (dao requests)  and increasing liquidity.
* 20% Rewards - Used to fund additional rewards to include in the the loot pool
* 

### Batch buy voyages

You can buy up to 10 voyages at a time! Yay! They also generate in a much shorter time frame around 1 minute.


### Plan & launch multiple voyages

To speed up the voyaging process without ruining the experience, we’re allowing up to 3 voyages to be planned and launched simultaneously. Once your voyages are completed, you’ll be able to ‘claim all’. 

### More voyage types

We’ll also be introducing medium, hard and legendary voyages. These voyages will debuff your skills and contain more interactions. The chests you earn from more difficult voyages will not only contain more doubloons, but have a higher chance of dropping rare loot. 

I know what you’re all thinking, “I’m going straight to legendary!” But don’t be so quick to sail out on that legendary voyage! Increased difficulty means that you’ll need to take more support ships and upgrade your flagship to have a chance at completing a successful voyage.

If you set sail on a more difficult voyage underprepared, not only do you risk losing your support ships, or spending more TMAPs on a voyage that’s too hard, you’ll need to wait for your pirates to limp back to port if your flagship is damaged part-way through. 

It’ll be interesting to see pirates weighing up risk/reward when it comes to choosing a voyage to go on!

![](https://imgur.com/pjTQmhU.png)

### More depth to voyage planning

Until now you’ve only had to think about which pirate to send on the voyage. With more voyages to spend TMAPs on and artifacts, flagship levels and support ships all contributing to your total ‘fleet skill’, there will be a lot more depth when it comes to allocating your resources to get the most out of your voyages. 

### Flagships

In V1.5 you’ll be able to upgrade your flagships. There are 6 upgradeable parts, and each one relates to a specific skill:

Cannon (strength)
Hull (strength)
Sails (navigation)
Helm (navigation)
Flag (luck)
Figurehead (luck)

Each part starts at level 1, and can be upgraded to a maximum level of 10. Upgrading a part gives a small but permanent boost to the related skill. How you upgrade your flagship will depend on your strategy - do you upgrade everything evenly, or focus on one area to compensate for your pirate’s weaknesses?

This is intended to be the first long-term goal when it comes to player progression so expect to earn enough doubloons to upgrade your ship gradually. 

### Support Ships

Support ships serve two functions, taking damage (allowing you to lose more strength and navigation interactions) and providing a skill boost to your fleet. 


![](https://imgur.com/Waa5RuT.png)

### Buying support ships

There are two stages to buying a support ship, choosing the type and choosing the skill. These are the three types of ships:

Sloops (small boost)
Caravels (medium boost)
Galleons (large boost)

Once you’ve chosen a ship type, you’ll choose whether that ship will give you a boost to your strength, navigation or luck skill. You can mix and match different support ships to take on voyages. You’ll get support ships back at the end of the voyage, as long as they weren’t destroyed. 

Example; you could take 2 navigation sloops, 1 luck galleon and 1 strength caravel on a legendary voyage. 

### Losing support ships

When you lose a strength or navigation interaction, your fleet takes a hit. If you have a support ship, one will be destroyed at random and any skill boost that ship was providing will be removed, reducing your chance of success for the next interaction of that type. 

Example: if a luck galleon is destroyed, your chance of succeeding on the next luck interaction will be lower. 

If you don’t have any support ships, your flagship will become damaged and you will limp back to port. You’ll still need to wait for the full length of the voyage before you can send your pirate out again, but you won’t have any more interactions. You will keep any rewards you’ve earned up until that point. 


I hope you’re as excited as we are to crack open those chests and set sail with our upgraded flagships in search of rare plunder! 

### Rebalancing

The game in v1 was made easier for a number of reasons, there were no support ships, upgrades or artifacts to boost your skills. If you failed a navigation or strength interaction, it was game over! We increased pirates’ chance of success by around 30% for V1. 

Now V1.5 brings lots of new ways to boost your skills and long-term progression in the form of upgrading your flagship, that buff is gone. You’re in dangerous waters now!

We also needed people to earn chests to kickstart the doubloon economy, we estimate between 10-15m Doubloons will enter the market within the first week of v1.5 going live.

With overall higher difficulty, planning voyages will be important to get the maximum doubloon rewards from your voyages. We expect players who put extra thought into the planning process to increase their doubloon yield vs those who don’t. 

Rebalancing will be an ongoing process as we collect live data and community feedback. 

### Migration

We need to migrate Pirates to new contracts because of all the changes and features added to v1.5. As old contracts cannot be changed after deployment a whole new Tortuga is required! 

In order to migrate pirates to v1.5 we will need to pause voyaging on v1. This will give you a chance to finish your voyages, grab your pirates and Flagships and head over to 1.5. There will be a limit of 60 days to migrate over to v1.5 or we might have some deflationary pirates! 

### What’s to come

We will be rolling out visual updates, quality of life improvements and other UI/UX fixes as feedback arrives from the community. 

When bugs have been squashed and users have migrated we will continue work on v2. Version 2 is all of the functionality of 1.5 but with a complete visual overhaul. You’ll visit the different stores in Tortuga to prepare for voyages, meet the other characters and immerse yourself in the new world we’re building. 

### Glossary of Terms

![](https://imgur.com/DXTyG8N.png)


### Ways to play

![](https://imgur.com/bSEbQai.png)

Good luck out there - Davy Jones

Welcome the Plunderers Guild

A quick thank you to the community members who’ve volunteered their time to help us test V1.5, and to the community as a whole for playing the game and providing great feedback.

When the markets took a turn for the worst and the dao season ended in a bloodbath, a...

Community update #3 - Enter the Plunderers Guild

# Community Update #3 
## All hands on deck

It’s been just over 3 weeks since v1 of the game went live and the team are simply amazed at the amount of people playing and the amount of time they are spending on the high seas. 

Over 70k voyages sailed! 🤯

Alas, it hasn't all been smooth sailing!

## Feedback

First and foremost, I want to thank everyone in the community who has been so positive about the game. We launched the basic version to get feedback, to help us iterate and make changes before the 'final' product (“progress over perfection” - jRock). 

The main feedback was as follows:

* Enable multiple voyage buys
* Enable multiple finish voyage
* Enable sort functionality
* Speed up planning for multiple pirates
* Reduce number of clicks
* My pirate is always drunk

The custom random engine we designed was great at being provable and mostly on-chain but the tradeoff for this is the limited throughput and only allowing single transactions per block. The current block speeds mean that single purchases slow down the ability to play drastically, and what is designed as a mostly idle game (with a little planning time) is more time consuming than expected. 

In V2 we’ll move the random engine entirely off-chain, however it is provable on-chain (to make sure we aren’t cheating you or for ourselves). This will allow us to enable multiple voyage buys and claims, drastically reducing the number of clicks and gas for those with several pirates. 

In certain circumstances, such as “finish” we can’t offer an all option due to the amount of gas needed within the contract, we will however push this to the absolute limit and allow you to finish as many voyages at once as technically possible. 

If your high skill pirate is too drunk to successfully complete the first interaction, well there's not a lot we can do about that!

## Improvements

Buying multiple voyages in the same block would have resulted in identical voyages on the previous engine, but with the new engine they will be different, so you will be able to purchase voyages in bulk up to a limit.

When launching voyages, our talented UI/UX team has worked tirelessly to find a way to launch multiple voyages at once while preserving the experience and the feeling of playing a game/being part of the DPS world. We’ve settled on allowing players to plan and launch three voyages at a time. 

To streamline the voyage planning process, we'll add filters to sort through your pirates, flagships and voyages. This will be especially useful for those with large fleets / who like to mint a lot of voyages at once. 

All the above should reduce the number of clicks and transaction costs. We’ve also implemented the option to purchase multiples of an item wherever possible throughout the rest of the game.


## Wen game?

More settings and options, the RNG-engine re-write and the changes to the number of transactions have all been added to the original contracts. This has meant substantial re-writes and the developers have been working non-stop since v1 release to get them ready. 

We are now in the final stages of preparing the contracts for deployment and testing should begin next week. 

The UI/UX team have also been working on the project for 6 weeks now and the high-fidelity designs are almost complete. A select number of users have been helping them by testing and providing feedback on the new design. It’s almost complete and we've already started building the V2 of the website based on their designs. 

You’ll also get to meet a host of new characters. 

## What functionality will be included at launch?

Upgrade flagship skill points (non cosmetic)
Support Ships
Artifacts
Open Chests
TMAP <-> Doubloon exchange
Four Voyage lengths
Five Chest Types

## Sprites

Sprites have been created for the original Pirates free of charge. These will be available to download in spritesheet or GIF form shortly. They were created for a proof of concept,can we take high fidelity art and turn it into something that could be integrated with other games and projects in future. They were designed to work in WEB3 and based on the Sprites from the Forgotten Runes Wizard Cult. These are two metaverse projects we would love to integrate with in future (nothing has been discussed as of yet.) 

We are super happy with the pixel art and that means that if projects with other art-styles such as Skybreach approach us we can convert and provide an accurate representation of your NFT. If you download asperite you can work with these Sprites to make miniature animations of your own.

![](https://imgur.com/Q6nDHyv.gif)
## What’s next?

The launch of v2 concludes the main launch objectives of the project. An on-chain idle style game with a functioning in-game economy. There are more objectives we want to achieve in the short term:

* We want to introduce composable Flagships and other cosmetics. Cosmetics will eventually become a core pillar of the economy, driving demand for doubloons and providing both new and veteran players new goals to achieve and items to collect. 
* Assisting the DAO with liquidity incentives for TMAP and Doubloon trading pools. 
* Our own marketplace to generate funds for the DAO and to contribute to the ongoing project costs. 
* Secondary collections to help on-board new players and grow the player base increasing value of cosmetics, NFT and demand for doubloons.

From there the team needs to formalise plans for the specific long term goals, many are laid out in broad strokes but specifics on funding and implementation need to be decided. 


Community Update #3

All hands on deck

It’s been just over 3 weeks since v1 of the game went live and the team are simply amazed at the amount of people playing and the amount of time they are spending on the high seas.

Over 70k voyages sailed! 🤯

Alas, it hasn't all been smooth sailing...

Community update #3 - All hands on deck

***Randomness, expanding the team & Pirate King elections***

It has been super hectic since our launch and we feel it’s about time we did our first community update. The vision for what the Damned Pirates Society and the associated Pirateverse was conceptualised well before launch and bringing those ideas into reality takes time and effort. The following should give some insight into what’s been happening behind the scenes.

**New team members**

Not only are we progressing with the Voyage Contracts (more on that later), we are also looking to overhaul the site to become much more interactive. We want to set up a world where you will interact with your ships, voyages & more. To further this endeavour we have brought on two new members to the team, both working on the UI/UX side of things.

This brings the team up to 8 people now:

* Davy Jones - Lead 
* Long John Silver - Balancing and Optimisation
* Benn Gunn - Developer
* William “The Ghost” Fox - Developer
* Anne Bonny- UX / UI 
* CryptoRoad - DAPP developer
* Buccaneers - Artist 
* Lost Bones - Artist

We look forward to building on this project together and will be constantly expanding as the Pirateverse grows.

**Elections and community funds**

Whilst adding people to the team is important, so is ensuring proper community relations. We have now completed two rounds of the Pirate King Elections, seeing Masterrulax and Adam Steeber take up those positions. The Kings are the liaisons between the team and the community ensuring that our users are properly represented in the decision making process. 

They will also be signatories for the community treasury (which currently stands at 25 MOVR). The use of these funds is to be decided on by the community and could be invested, used to tip community members, or to further the project. Time will tell, but your votes will be important on whatever the Kings bring forward!

**How do you solve a problem like on-chain randomness?**

The quick answer is by using the Chainlink VRF oracle. It provides genuine (and non gameable) randomness needed for projects like ours. Unfortunately it has not yet been deployed on Moonriver. So until that happens we have tasked our devs with creating a pseudo-random solution that would be verifiable and as secure as possible.

On-chain randomness in general is prone to botting, especially where rare or valuable rewards are at stake. Even famous projects such as the Wolf Game can succumb to these attacks as explained here https://twitter.com/punk3155/status/1462073799281557509?s=20. With our planned future NFT drops we need to take randomness seriously.

Moonrvier (MOVR) is chain with PoS-like security, fewer transactions with a low number of collators. This means that the number of random on-chain “seeds'' we can safely use is also lower. This makes attacks potentially easier since people could use custom contracts and collator collusion to generate favourable voyages (yes yes, unlikely at the moment, but theoretically still possible).

To make things more complicated our idle style approach to our game requires our Voyages to last multiple hours. Since on-chain block values are only accessible for the last 250 blocks, we would have only been able to have a max voyage time of an hour or so (assumption being that MOVR is moving towards a block every few seconds). This made pure on-chain randomness impractical and so we developed a hybrid approach. 

At time of minting or starting a voyage we decide which specific future blocks will be used to provide random values for interactions. Examples of interactions are things like an enemy encounter, a storm, or a chest reward.

Once the block with the specific number is produced, our api (which has access to a full archival node) returns info from that block that will then be used as a seed on-chain. We use values such as block timestamp, first and last transaction hashes and a few others. They are all then signed with a signing address so that the on-chain contract knows it was our trusted api that provided them.

This means that the values that this api provides to our random function all come from on-chain data and can be verified by anyone using Moonscan or other block explorers. This will enable players to check that we are not generating ‘secret’ random numbers which the team can exploit.

As randomness plays a huge part in how voyages work this was a big hurdle to overcome. Now that it’s solved for V1 we can move forward on to finalising the Voyage contracts.

**Stack too deep and progress**

When making an on-chain game, a lot of the time is spent making the concept fit within the limits of the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM). This requires expert coding and optimisation. The dreaded “stack too deep” error rears its head daily as we push the EVM to its absolute limits.

We have managed to overcome a lot of those limitations and have minted our first random Voyage. 

Being able to do this is a huge step forward for us. We are now focusing on turning them into fully playable and deployed contracts. The first goal is to test them with direct contract interactions before making them easy to use via our dapp. 

Exciting times ahead!


**Summary**

We hope all this gives you a good overview of what's been happening behind the scenes and where the team has focused their efforts. Stay tuned for our next update, and, until then, #BeMorePirate!



Randomness, expanding the team & Pirate King elections

It has been super hectic since our launch and we feel it’s about time we did our first community update. The vision for what the Damned Pirates Society and the associated Pirateverse was conceptualised well before launch and bringing those...

Community update - #1

***The Contracts, Dapps and future artwork***

It’s been a busy period for the team since our last community update, the developers have been working tirelessly with the aim of releasing sailable voyages before the new year, unfortunately that’s not going to be the case.

We always knew the contracts would be difficult to create but they’ve required more time to integrate with each other than expected. The latest iterations of the Contracts can be seen below, they are not yet optimised but should give people a sense of what we’ve been working on.

We have deployed on the Mumbai testnet for ease of use:

**DPS: Testnet pirates**

https://mumbai.polygonscan.com/address/0x1B298Ee39Ea4b5d2A4bF76620D2c5158EED5DFD4

**TMAP: Testnet Treasure Maps**

https://mumbai.polygonscan.com/address/0xc79924fE561cD921322490150BE018a5E4069D7a

**DPSCartographer: **

Responsible for issuing and configuring Voyages in exchange for TMAPS. For V1 you’ll be able to acquire an easy voyage, but for V2 and beyond there will be medium, hard, legendary and seasonal voyages!

https://mumbai.polygonscan.com/address/0xA64E622943DF15C9c0AbD6a76162Bad5601FCC21

**DPSFlagship: **

The Flagship is the core of your fleet and each Pirate is able to claim these upgradeable NFT’s for FREE! They are required to go on voyages and can take damage.

https://mumbai.polygonscan.com/address/0xe81eAd19eDC43bB6f2eAC7C7654551e33ad94966

**DPSShipyard: **

If your Flagship has taken damage you’ll need to repair it before you can sail again, so head to the Shipyard to get her fixed up. In future you’ll be able to acquire support ships here to help boost your voyage stats and increase your chances of success.

https://mumbai.polygonscan.com/address/0x4c8770A46Ed59B5FB6E566CF0037BA88b5d4bE63

**DPSDocks:** 

When you’re prepared to go you’ll head to the docks. This contract is responsible for letting you lock in items and start voyages (pirate, flagship, support ships, etc in the future etc). 

You'll also be able to check how your voyage is progressing.

https://mumbai.polygonscan.com/address/0x353419Ac4dD684AEd9E741903cd45fb55ca0640D

**DPSVoyage:** 

This is where your voyage is created.

https://mumbai.polygonscan.com/address/0x71a863e2116eeF89c6D1412b75727D1a0B247dae

**DPSChests:** 

Chests can be acquired in successful voyages. We will later build in a chest opening dynamic, which will contain Doubloons and other rare rewards! 

https://mumbai.polygonscan.com/address/0x3d444E703132921B58aaE407abd71276D7D32D13

**DPSGameSettings: **

Various game settings to let us control the game dynamics and economy.

https://mumbai.polygonscan.com/address/0xc7701D5c6957A1AF33cc18C95e44e73f3E0DBDeB

**DPSRandom:**

Does all of the randomisation for the game. This is explained in more detail on our Community Update #1.

https://mumbai.polygonscan.com/address/0x09e8f21494e1ee1e166adb740811dd6dc648ea42


**DPSPirateFeatures: **

This is where we store the skills for each pirate on-chain. We have already done this for your pirates on MOVR so you will not have to run transactions to move IPFS traits on-chain. 
We need traits on-chain to determine the outcomes of your voyage interactions.

https://mumbai.polygonscan.com/address/0xD9d2bA613068f17A70880Ef63F048d94550B1742

**Dapp updates and testing**

We are now working hard to wire up all the ways you can interact with the new game contracts into our app. So far we have the basics of getting a flagship and buying a voyage done and are working on combining our randomness api/function to be able to display status of each voyage.

Once we have a playable version (which may not be as pretty as we want, but we are prioritising functionality and will iterate on visuals after) we will have to test voyages and outcomes thoroughly to make sure there are no bugs or unintended consequences for the game economy.

This basic version should be released in early January for testing and, if all goes well, a public release of this lite voyaging should be live before the end of January.


![](https://imgur.com/3vrCptR.png)

![](https://imgur.com/fO3ZLDZ.png)

**Artwork**

The website is due a complete visual overhaul and we are working hard to ensure a good user experience on launch of v2 as well as ensuring we maintain our Artstyle. 

We will likely be able to introduce you to the rest of the Characters in Tortuga with the Artwork being completed in the same style as Steven Seagul. Here’s a concept for one of the characters.

![](https://imgur.com/zvhwbvO.png)


The Contracts, Dapps and future artwork

It’s been a busy period for the team since our last community update, the developers have been working tirelessly with the aim of releasing sailable voyages before the new year, unfortunately that’s not going to be the case.

We always knew the contracts...

Community update - #2

Here's is a teaser of a Damned Pirate with basic traits. Each will have a base Parrot background model, with 7 different traits randomly generated. 

Teaser artwork

# Yo-ho, ye scurvy dogs. The seas be callin’. Voyages V1 are here! 
 
Voyages V1 arrrrrr here! In this post we’ll go into detail about what’s new, how to go on your first voyage and give you a sneak peek at what’s next.
 
Oh, you’re a lazy pirate and can’t be bothered to read? Here’s the TL;DR of what’s new in this update:

* All pirates can claim a tradeable flagship for FREE
* Take your pirate + flagship on our shortest  voyage type
* Earn and stockpile chests ready for doubloon launch
* Repair your ship for free if it gets damaged
* Launch of our custom hybrid on-chain function
 
**What do you need to go on a voyage?**
You won’t get far on the high seas without these things.

**🦜 A pirate**
Don’t have one? Buy one on Moonbeans
Remember that navigation, strength and luck skills all impact your chance of success on a voyage!
 
**🏴‍ A flagship**
All pirates will be able to claim one flagship. This flagship will be free to claim. To mint a flagship, go to ‘My Pirates’ on the DPS website and hit the ‘claim flagship’ button.
If you buy a pirate who claimed its flagship prior to listing, then you’ll need to buy one on Moonbeans.
Flagships are not bound to pirates. They can be sold separately, and any flagship can be used on a voyage with any pirate.
 
**🗺️ Treasure map (TMAPs)**
TMAPs are exchanged for voyages. Current price is 1 TMAP > 1 Voyage.
Pirates generate TMAPs passively. When V1 goes live, TMAPs will be generated at a rate of 1 per pirate per day.
Pirates on the secondary market may already come with some TMAPs. Where you see the pirates’ traits, select the ‘TMAPs’ tab to check.
To claim your TMAPs, visit the ‘My Rewards’ page of the DPS website to be able to exchange them for voyages.
 
**⛽  MOVR for gas**
You thought ships only sailed using wind?
 
# How to go on your first voyage

We’re assuming you’ve already got everything you need to go on a voyage. If not, what the hell are you doing here? Scroll back up!

* Visit the Port at www.damnedpiratessociety.io
* Connect your wallet to the Moonriver network
* Head to My Tortuga
* Navigate to ‘My Voyages’
* Click ‘Buy new’ and grab a rum whilst your voyage generates
*  A voyage will appear on the page
* You’ll be able to see the composition of the voyage, which important for planning
* A skull represents a strength interaction, a Chest represents a luck interaction and a compass a navigation interaction.
* Click ‘Plan voyage’
* The voyage details are visible on this screen, too
* Select the best pirate and flagship for the job by clicking on them
*  Hit ‘go on voyage’ and confirm the transactions
* On your first voyage, there will be a total of 4 transactions to launch the voyage
* 3 of them are approvals, and only required on your first voyage
* For each future voyage, there will only be one transaction at this stage

**Checking your voyage status**
Under where your voyages are stored, you’ll see ‘my ongoing voyages’. This is where you can look at your voyages in progress, and how they’re going. 

Even if your ship is damaged on the first interaction and can’t sail any further, you will still need to wait for the full ‘time till claim’ timer to expire before you can send your pirate or ship out again. 

**Ship Damage**
Ships have two statuses - ‘OK’ and ‘DAMAGED’

 If ships are ‘DAMAGED’ then they can not progress any further on the voyage, and your ship will need to limp back to port before being repaired and declared sea-worthy again. 
 
You will keep any rewards earned before your ship was damaged.
Don’t worry - your flagship can’t be completely destroyed(burned) by the game. 
 
**What to do after the voyage?**

If you’re a skillful – or lucky – pirate, then your ship may come out of the voyage undamaged. In which case, you’ll be able to immediately go on another voyage.

If your ship is damaged, you’ll need to repair it. Repair it by heading to my Tortuga > my flagships. Alternatively, you can repair the ship directly from the ‘Plan voyage’ screen.

On both screens you’ll find a ‘repair all’ button. Handy for those with an armada of flagships and pirates.
 
**Voyage Interactions Explained**

Your success at each interaction type is affected by your pirate’s skill.

**🧭 Navigation**
Navigation skill impacts your Pirate’s ability to sail through hazards without getting damaged. If you fail a navigation interaction, your ship will be damaged.
Thunderstorm
Ghostly Fog
Maelstrom
Rough Seas
 
**💪 Strength**
Strength impacts your Pirate’s ability to come face to face with dangerous enemies and emerge victorious. If you lose a strength interaction, your ship will be damaged.
Megalodon
Enemy Pirate
Royal Fleet
Pirate Hunter
 
**🎲 Luck**
Luck will determine whether you find treasure throughout the voyage. If you lose a luck interaction, you will not earn a chest.  
Flotsam
Old Cache
Buried Chest
Shipwreck

# What’s Next?

We’re aiming to launch V1.5 in 4-6 weeks. That’ll include
Opening your chests to receive doubloons
Flagship skill upgrades
Support ships 
Different voyage types
Chests with different values
More details to come! 



# ❓ FAQ ❓

**I just bought a pirate on the secondary market and can’t claim a flagship**
The pirate you bought had probably already claimed its flagship. In which case, you’ll need to get a flagship from the secondary market, on Moonbeans.

**My first voyage had a lot of transactions, why?**
Your first voyage has a few extra transactions during the ‘plan voyage’ stage. These are approvals, and all future voyages will only require 1 transaction at that stage.

**Will we have more voyage types? What will be the difference?**
When V1.5 launches, we’ll have a total of 4 voyage lengths to choose from. Longer voyages will contain more chests. The longer the voyage, the more doubloons a chest contains. But longer voyages will also contain more enemies and navigational hazards, so you’ll need to take a stronger fleet if you want to stand a chance. As the game progresses, we hope to build on the voyage system even more!

**Will repairing my flagship always be free?**
No, repairing will cost doubloons in V1.5.

**My 290+ skill pirate just lost an interaction, wtf?**
The higher your Pirate’s skill, the higher your chance of being successful. But even the most infamous, feared pirates on the seas make mistakes. We’ve capped the max success chance to ensure no voyage is completely risk-free.

**What’s in chests?**
Chests will only contain doubloons to begin with. As the project moves forward, we hope to add additional drops to the loot table including cosmetics, artifacts (helpful in-game items) and other NFTs.

**Why can’t I open my chests?**
You’ll be able to open your voyages and collect your doubloons in V1.5

**Wen doubloons?**
We’re planning to launch V1.5 with a soft target of 4-6 weeks.

**What’s the utility of doubloons?**
They are our in-game currency. You’ll be able to use doubloons to repair and upgrade your flagship and buy support ships. Eventually you’ll be able to buy TMAPs with doubloons, and cosmetics when they are introduced. As the project grows, doubloons will have more and more utility. 

**Why can’t I buy multiple voyages in one transaction?**
Due to the way our randomness works, if we made it possible to purchase multiple voyages at the same time it would result in you receiving the same voyage.  There’s no limit to how many you can buy, but they must be bought one at a time.
 


Yo-ho, ye scurvy dogs. The seas be callin’. Voyages V1 are here!

Voyages V1 arrrrrr here! In this post we’ll go into detail about what’s new, how to go on your first voyage and give you a sneak peek at what’s next.

Oh, you’re a lazy pirate and can’t be bothered to read? Here’s the TL;DR of...

Yo-ho, ye scurvy dogs. The seas be callin’. Voyages V1 are here! 

Here's a link to our initial vision with an article written by Lawpez

Our Initial Vision

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The Damned Pirates Society

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