Bounty Bay Online is a free nautical MMORPG published by Yusho GmbH<ref>Although Yusho are German, the game has an English version</ref>. It is set in 17th century Earth and features accurate historical representations of several coastal cities. Players are not required to choose a career path at the beginning of the game. This gives players a rather varied gameplay in which you can either specialize in one skill and trade for resources, or make use of all the skills. (i.e. You are strictly a tailor and want to make clothing. You can pay someone who can fight to gather wool for you, or you can learn to fight and gather it yourself. etc.) Combat occurs both on land and on the sea, where players risk the threat of pirates when venturing further from the more populated areas. The game profits off of optional cash shop items that are available for players to purchase with real money. Unlike many other MMORPGs where players can only succeed through battle, Bounty Bay Online gives players the option of embarking on several unique professions.

Merchant system

The merchant system is subdivided into three jobs: vendors, who gain money primarily by selling goods; investors, who profit through purchasing goods at low prices and selling them at high prices; and traders, who increase their wealth through trading goods between ports. Traders can sail from one side of the world to the other, carrying high level goods to receive very large rewards. If the item
is needed by the city, the player will receive even larger rewards.

Ranks

The table below shows what ranks<ref>Japanese "Thing Head" has since been changed to "Shogun"</ref> are achievable in Bounty Bay Online. It also includes what nation, reputation, and silver is needed to gain them.

Logistics system

The logistics system is full of players who produce raw materials or craft goods that can be sold for a profit. These professions include: miner, woodworker, farmer, fisher, blacksmith, tailor, alchemist, and shipbuilder. Each profession has their own benifits, like shipbuilding where you can repair your own ship and tailor where you can repair your own uniforms. Some of these can be hard to level, and can require much work, but can grant rewards<ref>If a trade is a "trend trade" the user recieves higher rewards</ref>.

Battle system

While any player can wield a weapon, the battle system creates characters that excel in combat. This system includes combatants on both land and sea, and also consists of pirates.

Sea Battle

There are 4 ways to fight a sea battle:

Cannon fight

In arming your ship, there are several types of cannon to choose from, each with their own strengths and weaknesses. The normal cannon gives a balanced range of attributes, whereas others are more specialized - The howitzer cannon has the greatest firing range but smallest firing angle, the buckshot has the widest firing angle but low range, and the quick-firer has the highest firing speed but lowest firepower. The higher the cannon fight level, the higher level cannons one can equip. Different types of cannons are available at different levels in NPC shops, while some have to be player made.

Grappling battle

Grappling in battle means boarding an opponent's ship. The screen will be switched to a scene of a grappling battle where players attempt to eliminate enemy sailors and captain. If a player fails to grapple the enemy’s ship, there is a 20 second delay before another attempt at grappling is allowed.

Ramming

The simple process of ramming another ship to do damage. A ram must first be bought from the shipyard boss and equipped. Larger ships and faster sailing speed will increase ramming damage. Ramming does damage to the hull only, and it is very useful when taking out a lower level ship in one blow.

Mines

Mines<ref>Mines can only be used on Merchant Ships</ref> have the potential to do high amounts of damage to massed enemies, but can also do damage to friendly ships. There are many different kinds of mine, each with different attributes. There is a 20 second delay after the placement of a mine before it detonates.

Land Battle

There are four different types of weapons you can use for land battles, swords, axes, falchions and guns. Each has it's own special abilities and advantages, one is often suited for one type of battle more than another. Guns lower your defense significantly and are therefore bad for boarding because your stats affect your assisting sailors' stats but are good when fighting in a group because you can cause a lot of damage without getting hurt etc. Experience is gained by causing damage to enemies and a bonus is given for finally killing the enemy.

Exploration system

The exploration system is one part of the game which has a lot of content and a huge scope for the player to explore. The exploration system is the long, vast, ocean inside Bounty Bay Online. Thus, the exploration system holds a large amount of the file. This is because the ocean is much larger than the land in Bounty Bay, a more realistic figure compared to other MMORPGs which may have little or even no seas. Voyagers may come across islands, passages, and many other interesting obstacles while sailing the seas. Some of these obstacles are storms, pirates and even other players. The ocean is actually a scaled down map of the earth's oceans with some variations.

Discoveries

In order to get discoveries, players need to sail on the high sea and look for sparkling spots near the shore, which means that something special is hiding nearby. Players can begin their exploration by clicking the explore button in the operation menu and input the number of sailors dispatched. Equipping higher level telescopes will help to find more findings. Players will acquire the discovery logbook of their findings if they find something. By giving the discovery logbook to the authenticator, the players can get some money and boost their reputation. Higher level discoveries offer more money and reputation, reputation is your social standing in the world. Reputation is used to gain higher noble titles, higher level noble titles allow a user to wield equipment that is stronger than a regular equipment. For example, an ensign command falchion that requires 11 falchion and level 2 noble title, is much stronger<ref>Noble weapon strength varies depending on the its bounses</ref> than a weapon that requires 17 falchion.

Reputation

Reputation plays a great part of Bounty Bay. Reputation is achieved by log books (from discoveries), treasures (from treasure maps), completing various quests, and sinking pirate ships. Reputation is used for getting a higher rank. Higher reputation will also cause you name to become more blue than others.

Refrences

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External links

Official English Site

Publisher's Website

Developer's Website