Ahoy, ye scallywags! Thanks fer yer patience while we’ve been workin’ on the latest treasure! Yer now able to attack other pirates and plunder their hard-earned LOOT coins. The new commands be: !upgrade_stats and !raid @"player".

When ye challenge another, the fate o’ the battle be decided by yer attack, speed, and defense, mixed with yer foe’s stats. A fierce skirmish will unfold, and the victor will claim a share o’ the defeated pirate’s loot! Yarrr, may the best pirate win!

• This is our latest update. We've continued to try and add more command and mechanics to the game. The website and NFT integration has taken much longer than expected but we are still working on that. Meanwhile get ready to fight! See some screenshots below.

• FREE TO PLAY FOR DECEMBER - You heard that right. Thorlock will personally reimburse your 1 hive account setup fee. Just DM me or @ me in the DRIP discord (link below).

Previously

Guys we just added an experience mechanic. There's never been a better time to start playing. You can now earn up to 300 experience points per day! The main setsail command produces 10 experience up to 10 times per day and your role-specific command produces 20 experience per day up to 10 uses per day. This has several benefits:

• It keeps a whale from coming into the game and being about to catch up immediately.
• It incentivizes more playing
• It provides another benefit to early players
• Experience will be required on all future ship upgrades

• leaderboard payouts
• earnings multiplier based on NFT's held ingame
• quests

We just added leaderboard payout rewards. Rewards are paid out based on how many ingame NFT's you hold. The entire top 25 will receive a daily payout. The current payout is 5,000 LOOT coins paid out as follows:

Position	% Payout	Actual
1	18%	900 LOOT
2	13%	650 LOOT
3	9%	450 LOOT
4-8	5%	250 LOOT
9-14	3%	150 LOOT
15-20	2%	100 LOOT
21-25	1%	50 LOOT

Keep in mind, this is just a start. We plan to add chests in leaderboard payouts next. We also plan to be able to increase leaderboard payouts as we add more players. All the hive we've received for signups and LOOT coins bought on hive-engine is currently kept/invested to support the leaderboard rewards. We want them to be sustainable and to increase.

Also we added a !quest command recently and have fixed most all of the bugs. There's thousands of possible outcomes. We also plan to add more outcomes and many other options for answer that will influence the quest.

Here's an example of a quest:

With the bustling port in sight, your pirate crew eagerly anticipates restocking on food and supplies, ready to prepare for their next daring adventure on the high seas.. Do you wish to restock and continue exploring? yes or no?

answer: yes

As your lookout peers through the spyglass, their heart sinks at the sight of an ominous silhouette on the horizon - a rival ship, it’s black flag billowing in the wind. Hostile intent is clear. Do you ready your weapons for a dangerous encounter? Do you attack? Yes or no? Yes

answer: yes

You swiftly board their decks and engage in a fierce battle. Victory is yours and you take a prisoner to work on your ship. Receive 1 NFT. Your quest has ended.

Earnings Multiplier

So every 10 NFT's you hold, you currently earn a 5% bonus with your setsail command as well as your role-specific commands. So 100 ingame NFT's is currently a 50% earnings bonus.

Previous Posts

• Web Play using NFT's
• Quests and Leaderboard added
• New Hive-based discord game - A Pirate Saga
• A Pirate Saga - Exclusively on Drip Discord
• A Pirate Saga Is Now Live

What is it?

"A Pirate Saga" is an epic and immersive blockchain-based pirate adventure game that takes players on a swashbuckling journey through treacherous seas, hidden coves, and ancient maps in search of fame, fortune, and the ultimate pirate legacy. Players are transported back to the Golden Age of Piracy, a time of lawless seas, hidden treasures, and daring escapades. Players step into the boots of a daring pirate captain and embark on a high-stakes quest for the greatest treasure the Seven Seas have ever known.

A Pirate Saga combines the excitement of blockchain technology, NFTs, and strategic gameplay to create an engaging pirate adventure. Players can set sail, collect ships, unlock legendary pirate ranks, and compete on leaderboards to become the ultimate Pirate Legend in this immersive and ever-expanding pirate world.

A Pirate Saga is now Live! - Some Previous Updates

Since going live we've:

• Worked out several bugs
• Added cooldown time to setsail command
• Added a new special command for the Navigator role
• We now have a special command for each of 4 roles: Navigator, Fighter, Healer and Scavenger.
• We added the ability to deposit LOOT from hive-engine to ingame.
• You can now deposit coins to buy chests
• We added a leaderboard
• Upgrade Ship command - spend your experience to add utility to your ship
• Experience System
• Increased leaderboard rewards
• NFT packs with pirates and ship
• Energy system
• Cooking food
• Marketplace to buy/sell/list certain items
• Discord Raid Battles

Coming Soon:

• More mechanics - We're constantly updating and improving mechanics to make the experience better.
• New craftables - All those new items you've been collecting will have a purpose. Experience - We plan to implement experience for running commands. Experience will be needed for future upgrades.
• Quest update
• Playable on more servers
• much more

When you register, you get to choose from 4 classes: Navigator, Fighter, Healer and Scavenger. You also receive 2500 LOOT tokens ingame when you activate your account. Those tokens can now be bought on hive-engine and deposited to game. You can use LOOT to buy chests. Withdraws are now live.

Where and How Can You Play?

Currently the game is only playable on the DRIP discord server.

You need a hive account. You will issue the !register command , the bot will give you instructions and after sending the 5 swap.hive activation fee, you can issue !activate to start playing. You are also given 2500 coins to start with unless you have a DRIP Challenger role for staking 1000 DRIP, in that case you start with 5,000 LOOT coins. You can then play as much as you like for free and start earning LOOT, chests, materials, NFT's.

What Is LOOT?

Tokens or "LOOT" can also be purchased and deposited into the game from hive-engine (https://tribaldex.com/trade/LOOT). Each LOOT token is listed for .001 Hive and it costs 500 to purchase a chest ingame. Chests can contain more LOOT coins, Wood, NFT's. There's a limited number currently on Hive-Engine. Withdraws will be available soon as well to send coins from ingame to hive-engine.

What is Wood for?

Wood is a rare resource and you'll need it for the first ship upgrade.

Much, Much, more to come!

Official DRIP Links

Official Website: https://thepiratesaga.com/ &
DRIP Website: https://hivedrip.com/
PeakD: @hivedrip
Buy DRIP coins: https://tribaldex.com/trade/DRIP
Discord Link: https://discord.gg/rMdAAe4jKp