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Just another mod idea.

On de subject o' games... de PotC movie site had de ol' card game o' War ye could play against a character in thar tavern! <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="xD:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" />
 
Gambling like that would be a fun mod... I'd love to fiddle something up for my Catalina de Erauso character model... She was an impossible gambler and would challenge any man to a duel (and then kill him) at the drop of a hat. Working something like that into PotC for the main character would be great...
 
<!--`QuoteBegin-Kieron`+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Kieron)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteEBegin-->no, you're not getting carried away, don't worry <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/happy.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="^_^" border="0" alt="happy.gif" /> a mix of cultures is the best thing a country can possibly have. people who come from areas which are purely one race tend to be `closed-minded`. and you say you're not '`pure-blood`,' but i challenge you to find one person who *is*. except maybe the european royal families. and look what's happened to *them*...

why do you say it's terrible to live in singapore? hasn't it got a higher quality of life than any of it's neighbours? and a very `welfare-oriented` government. and lots and LOTS of cleaners <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/happy.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="^_^" border="0" alt="happy.gif" />[/quote]

Ha, ha... well, I guess '`pure-blooded`' isn't the right word. And the main thing that's terrible, well, it's mainly the word 'money'. Basically we earn as much as you do but our items cost twice the price. Example, you earn $7 per hour and we earn $7 per hour. You buy a game for $25 while the game cost $45 here and so on, plus the taxes here are extremely high - that's what we get for being so clean.

Oh, oh... and if you're working officially, 40% of your pay every month goes to the government and helps you 'keep' them until you're like... 60 years old or so then they'll return it to you.

Ack... not again, got carried away.
 
<!--`QuoteBegin-alan_smithee`+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(alan_smithee)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteEBegin-->I should know the history of my own area... I don't know if you can really determine who founded what based on the `place-names`; they're a mixed bag of French, English, Spanish, Native American &c. There's a Hicksville or two, `honest-to`-goodness, in the area. And then there's Hell, Michigan...

Anyway, more fights. I think gamblers in taverns should start a fight with you if you win too often. Accusing you of cheating with weighted dice...[/quote]
Oh yeah:
Intercourse PA
Bird in Hand PA
Street Road
Second Street Pike
Bethleham PA
Nazarith PA

Gimme a while and I'll come up with a few more.
-Capo
 
Well, I thought I was a 100% pure blooded white european, then I found out I have a tiny tiny little bit of Cherokee blood <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/ib012.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":cry" border="0" alt="ib012.gif" /> <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/ib012.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":cry" border="0" alt="ib012.gif" />: <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":(" border="0" alt="sad.gif" />
But i'd rather be a cherokee (who I think were pretty cool, they just crushed my ambition of being pure white european background) than another eastern european country I have blood (though a tiny bit) from
 
40% is a <i>normal</i> tax rate in europe <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" /> well, for people earning a fair amount of money, it is. i suppose it's true that stuff costs a lot in singapore, though. i reckon it's worth it because of your climate <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="xD:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" />

catalina - ooh, a gambling `mini-game`, there's an idea...
 
Cairo Illinois
NORMAL Illinois (haha!)
Any city named after a saint (Louis, Antonio, Diego, Francisco, &tc)
New York used to be called New Amsterdam - I guess a large influx of English changed that!

Ahhhhhhhhhhhem! <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/icon_wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)" border="0" alt="icon_wink.gif" /> We're `off-topic` a bit! <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rolleyes.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":rolleyes:" border="0" alt="rolleyes.gif" />

In the current game, when you sit down to have a drink with someone, if you continue you USUALLY end up passing out! I haven't done much of the gambling - tried the dice once or twice but was discouraged as it didn't seem very lucrative. Do you end up fighting with someone or do you just play 'till you have no more money and then quit?
 
<!--`QuoteBegin-Kieron`+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Kieron)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteEBegin-->40% is a <i>normal</i> tax rate in europe <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" /> well, for people earning a fair amount of money, it is. i suppose it's true that stuff costs a lot in singapore, though. i reckon it's worth it because of your climate <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="xD:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" />

catalina - ooh, a gambling `mini-game`, there's an idea...[/quote]

Eh, I mean the taxes are seperate, the 40% the government take is for something else, it's called CPF. So basically, adding the tax, we're losing around 50% or more everytime we get our pay. Interesting fact, do you know? Owning a car in Singapore, first you need to pay to train and get a driver's license (Which is cheap), then you need to pay for the car you want (Which is priced extremely high, easily twice the price you'll get from other country) and you need to pay for another 'car license' (Which cost almost as high as the car you buy), so you need to be pretty rich to own a decent car in Singapore.
 
I stayed the night in Normal, after I visited nearby Sandwich. I got such a kick out of seeing a cop car with "Normal Police" written across the side... but a lot of people were jerks there.

I would love the chance to win a ship at gambling, or lose my own in one big stake and hafta plunder a ton to get another. As it is now, you keep gambling till you win enough that the guy gets sick of it and quits. Once you've won too often, no one will gamble with you because they say you have a rep as the best gambler in the 'pelago. Never a fight, that I've seen. But you do get in fights sometimes when you sit and drink with someone (a terribly pointless encounter with wasted potential, I think)... either with them or with a guard. I've never passed out.

Singapore sounds kinda crappy... one of those places with a `way-overbearing` government, almost of the "Big Brother" variety, that thinks it knows best for everyone and has to keep them in line. But I dunno, are there things people enjoy about that sort of life Perfekt? Low crime, maybe?
 
Hmm... maybe create a 'casino' at pirates' island? Or allow players to own shops which generate income, something like land. Able to secretly build a gambling den somewhere on the other islands, and sometimes the soldiers will raid it and you must fight them or lose your den and be sent to prison. ...maybe this's too much.

Yes, crime is extremely low... since almost every little 'bad' thing you do will get you fined. And the punishment here is... well, have you heard of the American who committed a minor crime in Singapore and received punishments that of a major crime in the USA... Singapore is an extremely stressful country to live in, if you don't have the money. We have long work hours, high taxes, very little amusements. Probably why majority of Singaporeans travel overseas when they have the time and cash.
 
<!--`QuoteBegin-Perfekt`+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Perfekt)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Yes, crime is extremely low... since almost every little 'bad' thing you do will get you fined.[/quote]

but do you really think that's the reason...?
 
Yeah, Michael something was his name, and he got caned. Highly publicized a few years ago. Sounds like a grim life, all in all. Do many people try to emmigrate, as they do from China?

A 'pirate casino' sounds real good. Pirates couldn't wait to spend their loot once they stabbed for it, so they've got to be really itching for an outlet. It could be in the QC brothel...

So, dice and cards are standard period games, but what else?

And I suppose betting your stuff could either be done through dialog, in which you'd agree to bet your ship or an amount of gold; or through a graphical store interface, in which you'd choose items to bet and maybe see what other players have that you could gain.

*afterthought* Heck, I just realized it should be simple enough to code into some dialog files a game of Blackjack, relying on a combo of random values and response choices. In theory, anyway. Someone familiar with code will have to evaluate the idea. And I researched very briefly but couldn't find if this game was played in this period.
 
Eh... what else besides cards and dice... dog race? Chicken fight? Bets on duels? Racing to see whose ship reaches the destination first?

Well, rich Singaporean loves Singapore. The poor wants to migrate, but the government drains almost all of your money before you can even think about migrating. A small apartment here cost around the same as a big bungalow in Malaysia and our car here cost around the same as our small apartment... the poor won't have to worry about migrating.

As for the crime rating, well... the Singapore citizens are extremely afraid of our government. Seriously, they have absolute control over us. They encourages freedom of speech, but if you mention even the slightest 'bad' thing about them (And they hear it), no one will be surprise if the news reports another person being sued by them til the person have to flee the country. We used to have several political parties, you know. Now, there's only 1, where did all the others go? I'll tell you - sued til bankrupt. Honestly, I could get into serious trouble saying all this (Probably getting sued, this is our government's most powerful ability), if the government bothers to check and sees all this.

Gee... this is getting way off topic.
 
<!--`QuoteBegin-Perfekt`+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Perfekt)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Gee... this is getting way off topic.[/quote]<img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="xD:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" /> You may not have noticed before, but this kind of thing happens a lot... <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/icon_mrgreen1.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":cheeky" border="0" alt="icon_mrgreen1.gif" /> As long as the question has been answered or the topic attended to, it's okay to go off on a tangent, I think... <shrug> Sometimes it's difficult to control... <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rolleyes.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":rolleyes:" border="0" alt="rolleyes.gif" />
 
Geez, that sounds almost communist/dictatorial. And it doesn't sound like even the press has independence... are newspapers commonly state organs, or mouthpieces at least? How about other types of industry?

And this is perfectly `on-topic`, really. Contrary to the popular image, pirates were very `well-educated` people who enjoyed political discussion... it was how they settled disputes. Boarding parties were not so much `hack-and`-slash squads as they were debate teams.

And punishment was cruel... if you `back-talked` your captain or stole some grog, he took away your Chaucer!
 
<!--`QuoteBegin-CatalinaThePirate`+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(CatalinaThePirate)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteEBegin--><!--`QuoteBegin-Perfekt`+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Perfekt)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Gee... this is getting way off topic.[/quote]<img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="xD:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" /> You may not have noticed before, but this kind of thing happens a lot... <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/icon_mrgreen1.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":cheeky" border="0" alt="icon_mrgreen1.gif" /> As long as the question has been answered or the topic attended to, it's okay to go off on a tangent, I think... <shrug> Sometimes it's difficult to control... <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rolleyes.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":rolleyes:" border="0" alt="rolleyes.gif" />[/quote]
`Tee-hee`-hee.

<!--`QuoteBegin-alan_smithee`+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(alan_smithee)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Geez, that sounds almost communist/dictatorial. And it doesn't sound like even the press has independence... are newspapers commonly state organs, or mouthpieces at least? How about other types of industry?

And this is perfectly `on-topic`, really. Contrary to the popular image, pirates were very `well-educated` people who enjoyed political discussion... it was how they settled disputes. Boarding parties were not so much `hack-and`-slash squads as they were debate teams.

And punishment was cruel... if you `back-talked` your captain or stole some grog, he took away your Chaucer![/quote]
Hmm... newspapers under government? Heh, heh, what do you think after hearing what I've said? The only place you'll hear people talk about our government is in forums, or whispering to close friends in public. Honestly, no offense intended, we're something like a old Germany under nazis rule and worst of all, our government keep claiming we're base on democracy.
 
And how closed off is Singapore to outsiders, like Western reporters? We hear all about North Korea being completely closed off, as are all proper communist countries... is Singapore the same?
 
I do see pretty much of Singapore's news on USA news channels... but then again, it's only when there's something interesting to report about. I doubt people really want to know about Singapore's news... what're not as big as the other major nations.
 
perfekt, obviously you know more than me, living there, but isn't that a bit exaggerated? yes, the government is rather `heavy-handed` and has a heavy fine system, but on the positive side singapore does have a strong welfare system, of the type many european countries would be proud of - germany and france, just for example, also have very strong socialist structures... against that, i would say probably too much of the housing in singapore is organised by the government. but unlike communist countries, singapore is democratic, and it is <i>very very</i> westernised, and there is a high standard of living there, especially compared to the `third-world` countries surrounding it. and, lots and lots of singapore's news is reported in the press of the surrounding countries, including australia (when i was in australia it was possible to keep track of `goings-on` in singapore via the australian press).
 
Maybe other countries get Singaporian news... The only things that have ever reached us here were the caning and the gum ban thing, and that was only on the "news of the weird" page. But I wonder if it's because outside journalists aren't allowed much access, or simply a fat lazy `self-centred` American lack of interest in everyone else?
 
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