Nantucket - seafaring strategy/RPG based on Moby Dick

[RNGsus]

Me and Hunter Nathan always shared a special bond, our bodies burn with desire for each other.

"Is there room for one more?"

 

[Burning Bridges]

The homoerotic potential of whaling is off the scale - Raimund Harmsdorf as "Der Seewolf"

 

[RNGsus]

 

[Burning Bridges]

From the point you get a second whaleboat the game becomes pure RNG madness.

I also read some shit by the developer that they did not try to create a sandbox mode. Before that I had difficulty understanding what actually was the point of the game. Now it's clear they made a weak story based RPG with the mechanics of a good management game. = crap. The player should decide if fights are hard or easy, by choosing hunting area etc. But as it is, once your level improves the game increases difficulty 4 times, culminating in an end boss that is probably not possible to defeat without repeated save scumming.

Game was fun for about 1 day when I made money hunting whales with my starting sloop. Until the difficulty became silly, and usually somebody dies by round 3 (unless you enounter one of the ancient whales who kill entire boats in one run).

 

[Astral Rag]

 

[Burning Bridges]

What an elaborate video but once you stop looking at the surface and really start playing it, the game is not really good. I hate it when reviewers talk about a game like a teacher talks about classworks, always stressing the positive, and ultimately arriving at the verdict that their pupil has "passed". No, I doubt that many people play this for more than two sessions, and this is really dissappointing for a 20$ game. Another point is that you could also play this game without a computer, all you need is paper and a dice. Except from going to the whaling areas in the right time there is nothing that you're doing really. The fact that this game has pretty long, annoying "loading times" though it contains nothing more than a few bytes (there was probably 100 times more going on in the C64 version of Pirates) is the icing on the cake.

 

[Pequod]

From the point you get a second whaleboat the game becomes pure RNG madness.

No and let's be honest here - you just completely and utterly suck at this trivial flash game.
There are 2 medium ships and you pick the one 2 boat ship has no oil extraction compartment? You are a retard, since every harbor shows the price for oil to be double the price of blubber and you go and spend 5k for a medium that cant extract oil?
Also, combat has a Retreat button that can even be pressed after you see the enemies and your first Roll!

Not that the game is any good but critiquing it for the wrong reason is as moronic as praising it.

The ship balance is crap. The game has only 2 actually usable ships. We don't count the one you start with.
When you first encounter whaling combat, you realize that to increase your chances of victory, you need more boat since its 1 attack per boat.
So you need a medium ship with 2 boats. There are other ships that have only 1 boat with marginal stats differences but they cost around 3k while an actual upgrade to 2 boats is 5k. Buying a 1 boat ship is retarded.
Once you bought the medium with oil extraction, a single whaling run ideally can earn you about 60 dollars*100 oil= 6000 dollars and basically almost buy you the next ship upgrade to 3 boats. While previously you earned about 1k if you are lucky.
And that large ship that you buy is the Clipper which is faster but hauls less cargo than the other large ship, but at that point you dont care about cargo anymore.
So the ship upgrades go:
Starter - Medium Oiler - Clipper
and thats it...

There are other issues with the game that I'll write about later, gotta run. RNG is one of them.

 

[Burning Bridges]

WTF is this I dont even

 

[Burning Bridges]

He seems to have written the unofficial strategy guide himself, which consists of 2 pages. 1 buy an oiler 2 then a clipper. Forgot to add that food is an even better income than blubber because you must pay nothing to your crewmen, and the price is usually better.

 

[Pequod]

Prestige rises far too quickly. Early on every fight is a +1, so when you reach 25 Prestige required to make the main quest journey to Honululu, you will still be in a crappy single whaleboat ship.
Not to mention that there is hard cap of days required to even use larger ships because of the required research that completes in x days.
Here is basically where the RNG actually can make you suffer. There is a shark encounter when you follow the main quest and when you dont have a doctor on board and are a bit unlucky and the AI (which does not exist in this game) focuses on you, the hunting captain, you can simply die. Two old whites do about 9+9+4+x=22+ damage and can kill you easily all while the retreat button is off... Thats how my second ironman run in the game ended. I had 3 lvl5 dudes and a single whaleboat.

AI does not exist in the game. Dice roll are random and I believe the AI target selection is random too. They dont focus fire you. Thank God...

Your crew does not need money...............
They literally are free to use for years if you dont hunt for whales and sell blubber/oil. There is no fixed pay for them.
This leads to a funny economy late midgame when your crew takes about half of your profits in lay. Because Lay is based of sold blubber and oil, if you dont sell blubber and oil, they dont get anything but you can still sell food...
So if blubber sells for 30 and the crew takes 50% leaving you 15, its more profitable to sell food for about 18. So much for whaling.

Despite having different stats and build available to your captain, there is only 1 single build that makes sense and its the full-on Hunter with the +1HP per level perk. The other stats and perks are comparative garbage.
This is it... There are passive sailing Skills but I have not reached them yet, to see if they trigger if you use your Hunting dice. Like, one of them prevent your from going overboard.
You can potentially make him into an emergency medic lategame.

Different Crew jobs have shit balance. Crafting dudes are pointless shit for example. Cabin boys are completely retarded.
Hunter > Doc > Sailor
Your optimal boat will probably be 2 hunters and 1 doctor.

I also dont get how Morale works. I am running a teatotaler crew without any Grog and they are still ~60 morale plus, so Grog as a ressource is pointless money sink.

Scaling is shit. You can fuck yourself by hiring high level non hunter crew and not developing harpooning...

 

[Burning Bridges]

On Steam people now write Moby Phallus because Steam censors out "Dick". This decade is the greatest joke in human history.

 

[Stavrophore]

On Steam people now write Moby Phallus because Steam censors out "Dick". This decade is the greatest joke in human history.

It's nothing in comparison to what i will tell you. In polish language we have a word "pedał" which means "bicycle pedal" or a "faggot". Facebook banned this word en masse on bicycle enthusiast subgroups . So they replaced the word bicycle pedal with gay. There was multitude of topics called "how to oil my SPD gays" or "best SPD gays under 100 dollars"

 

[Pequod]

Spoilerinos

With rolls like that, poor Wasco didnt suffer long.

Didnt do a single point of damage either... So much for random.

These fuckers arent tough shit either (cept when they buff each other...30+ dmg per attack...) but you ought to bring 1 or 2 antihuman hunters...

I hire a boat-protection specialist just for Moby Cock. Will put 2 best hunters and him into the boat so it wont get turned by Moby ever.

First attempt at Moby, on 3rd ironman attempt. Palm sweaty, spaghetti.

Motherfucking fuck. Stunned and am I gonna die in a first Turn?....

But we get lucky and save ourselves with a 1/6 chance!

It also turns out that Moby is immune to damage and the spear you are collecting in quests before removes his unique ability.
The interesting thing is that we roll it in the second turn. Scripted? Another 1/6 chance. Fucking lucky.

Third turn, one of our guys rolls a stun. Decent chance at that.

But even with Stun, the current enemy attack hits. 25 dmg to whole boat.

Very poetic. Epic spear kill, noscope.

Trash, I mean Flash Game.
Less than five hours of lolz.
I'd buy it for 5 bucks.

 

[Life of the Party]