Brigand Kings can Invade Islands!

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By Ravenhawk | May 26, 2007

Puzzle Pirates has released a new patch that has added a variety of awesome new features. First one I went and tried out was the new tournament system. Basically you can now have double elimination tournaments so you get prizes for 2nd 3rd and 4th place. Apparrently you can go even further but I haven’t seen anyone do it yet. I consider making a tournament with a prize of like 20000 poe.. for whoever gets 7th place. (Or 4th if thats the lowest you can go)

The horror of the really good sfers at the fact that, in order to win the big money, they’d have to throw a fight.. Ah, beautiful. Might be a nice way to climb the rankings, actually. Sabotage the higher up people by offering them money.

The next (and probably most imporant) item added is the fact that Brigand Kings can now blockade and potentially take over islands. For those of you not up on the Puzzle Pirates lingo, Brigand Kings are the Boss npcs. They never run out of moves when you fight them and now, they have nice big navies under their command which float around on flotillas next to islands.

These flotillas, if not properly pruned by players eventually are the fleet used to blockade the island. If the Brigand King succeeds in taking the island, the release warns of negative effects on the economy. I assume this means tax hikes. Personally, I’m not worried as I do all my shopping on an Ocean Master controlled island. So, I doubt the Brigand Kings will ever effect my shopping. At least directly.

My hope is that the Brigand Kings will invade some islands controlled by the super powerful flags. The same stupid flags have been dominating the viridian ocean for a very long time, something needs to screw with them.

They also added a new puzzle in which you are able to pull up treasure from sunken ships. Treasure Haul, as it is called, is basically a matching game where you slide your tiles around, trying to make 3 in a row, then those three disappear and new blocks come in.