<span style='`font-size`:25pt;`line-height`:100%'>Topics for `4-19`-04</span>
1)Bringing back the Game Idea
Youl all guessed right, I am bringing the game idea back into the light.
I have done a lot of research lately, and discovered why I have had so many problems. It seems that it is very difficult to do research on the 1600s, due to that the 1600s was the tail end of the Renaisance and the ship itself was evolving to it's next stage, the age of Ships of the Line (Basically, from 1650 to 1750 was when most of the ships we all think of came into use, including the Frigate, Ship of the Line, Sloop, Schooner, Sloop of War, and a few more. Basically these are the ships we think of when talking about the Napoleonic Wars. I wrote a little about this on a earlier topic).
Originally, I planned for the game to start in the 1660s, but most of the ships back then were still majorly the fat and slow ships. I think some were in between 1700 and 1725 would be good. This would also help with organizing the Naval Artillery (Note I don't say cannon due to that can also be a name for a particular Naval Artillery Gun). I will have a new thread up on the subject by Saturday. Also, if the old one could be locked, that would be good, due to that one is out of date with my ideas.
2)The Tide is turning on the "tables" forum
Now it seems that there is a good chance that there won't be a new forum for our threads. My plan now is that after this is decided, I will transfer my operations to a fresh thread, somewhere or another, and have this one locked. I would have a link on the new one to this one. I would do all this at one time, so I'll pm a moderator when I want to do this.
3)The Favorite Topic
I think I'll forget about voting for a favorite topic, due to I'm not getting much feedback. If I get some feedback in the next few days as in nominations, I'll continue it, but if not, I'll cancel it.
4)Research
I have been saying that I have been doing research. I'll be more specific on that. I have made a private collection of data on many items on the 1650s to 1750s. After collecting a lot of data on the Internet, I sort of formulate it into my own translation of words I can understand easier. So far I have done:
-Ship Types
-What Average Sailors Wore
-Edged Weapons
-Firearms Weapons
Future research I am going to do is:
-Wars in Europe
-Card Games of the 1650s to 1750s
-Territories in the Caribbean
-Naval Artillery
-Money exchange and Common Trade Items
I might redo the ship section
The last three on the future research list are going to be the hardest to do. Now, I am going to make with the new game page, a research page. The links to where I have gotten all of my information from before I ask for help on anything.
5)Overal Plan
I have discussed many things here. To make it easier, I made a outline
1. Move Captain Python's Table to a new thread
2. Start a new thread on my game idea on Friday or Saturday
3. Start a new thread on my research on Friday or Saturday
4. Put the links to both game and research threads on Captain Python's Table.
5. Pray to God I haven't confused and annoyed you all to the point of tying me to my own chair and gaging me for a while.
6)Odd Calculation
You probably know that the statistic that by 1715 to 1725 that there were 2,000 pirates sailing the sea in the Caribbean. That statistic might seem odd to many, but let me expand on it.
I am guessing that the number of pirates is a little off. I am guessing that there are probably many pirates people didn't know about. I am guessing that there are 2,000 to 3,000 pirates operating in the Caribbean (both land and sea) during that time.
We also must remember that most pirates were poor and the most common ship pirates sailed were small Sloops, Schooners, Cutters, and other small ships like that. There were probably only 3 to 4 big pirate ships with crews of 150 to 200. Also, beggining pirates that were poor would start in boats, and probably crews of pirates in boats made up probably 1/3 of all pirates. Usualy a crew was around 50 men each. So lets do some math:
With the common statistic of 2,000 pirates. 2,000 divided by 50 is 40. Let's take 9 groups of 50 and have that represent the 3 big pirate ship crews of 150. We are left with 31 groups of 50. Lets take one third of the 40 groups of 50, and we get a odd number we will round to 13. We are left now with 18 groups of 50. Each of those small groups would have their own small ship. Here is what was sailing the Caribbean according to the 2,000 pirates statistic:
3 Big Pirate Ships
18 Small Pirate Ships
13 groups of pirates in boats
Now lets try and do what we just did with a number of 3,000 pirates, and 4 big pirate ships with crews of 150 for that statistic:
4 Big Pirate Ships
28 Small Pirate Ships
20 groups of pirates in boats
So with those calculations, I think a better view on how many pirates were in the Caribbean from 1715 to 1725 would be:
`3-4` Big Pirate Ships with crews of 150
18 to 28 Small Pirate Ships with crews of 50
13 to 20 groups of 50 pirates in boats
So when you see that statistic of 2,000 pirates from 1715 to 1725, remember what that really means, with the statistics above.