It’s been a few months since our last update but today we’re pleased to finally release our free play mode custom map editor. With this new feature, you’ll have the option to create your own unique archipelagos using a wide variety of configurable parameters, which can also be shared with your fellow pirate captains using unique seed IDs. The map editor also includes toggle-able options for unlocking all ship customization options and decorations so you can freely build the ultimate pirate utopia!


You can access the editor by selecting free play mode and picking the ‘custom maps’ option.

Begin by selecting one of four presets that will configure all of the parameters to reflect a certain difficulty level:

• Sandbox
  
• Easy
  
• Medium
  
• Hard

At this point, if you’re looking to quickly jump into a new custom map, you can simply hit the randomize seed button, and the editor will generate a new map layout. Map layouts are initially based around the positioning of trading lanes, with islands spawning relative to these lanes. As each map layout has the potential to support anywhere between 6-9 islands, the seed ID is therefore tied to a set of 4 island configurations.

There are 40 unique islands within the generation pool, which means a huge number of potential archipelagos to create and explore!


Once you have your seed ID and its associated map layout(s), you can experiment with more granular customization options by tweaking parameters.

Number of islands: 4 options determining the total number of islands on the map ranging from 6 to 9 islands.
Starting doubloons: 8 options determining starting doubloons ranging from 0 to 1,000,000 doubloons.
Starting building tier: 5 options determining building tier availability at the start of the game ranging from laborers to unlock all.
Production conditions: 3 options determining the production conditions for each island, ranging from easy to hard.
Material deposit quantity: 3 options determining the availability of material deposits on each island ranging from low to high.
Starting material amount: 10 options determining the quantity of starting materials ranging from 0 to 3,200.
Total storage capacity: 10 options determining the total storage capacity at the start of a game ranging from 0 to 3,200
Unlock all ship customizations: Toggle on or off.
Unlock all decorations: Toggle on or off.
Faction island defenses: 3 options determining the strength of defensive ships and towers for each island ranging from weak to strong.
Saboteur behavior: 3 options determining the frequency of saboteur attacks on conquered islands ranging from disabled to frequent.
Hostile raid behavior: 4 options determining how often factions send ships to attack conquered islands ranging from disabled to high.
Starting ships: 8 options determining the number of starting player ships and captains ranging from 0 to 50.
Faction presence: 5 options determining which factions are active. If there are not enough factions to populate the number of islands, independent pirate crews will appear instead. The custom setting also allows you to toggle each of the 7 major factions on or off.
Faction standings: 3 options determining the starting standing of each faction ranging from friendly to hostile.

As you can see, even after seed generation the editor offers a massive amount of additional customizability to enjoy!



Once you’re happy with your choices you’ll be taken through to a preview of the custom map. From here you can check the materials distribution of each island and pick one to be your starting island, and you can even return to the editor if you’re not happy with the layout.


To demonstrate the diversity of map layouts that are possible we’ve prepared a couple of example seeds for you to experiment with:

Custom map 1
Seed: M9US7NjXz55QxMGG5xQ
Number of islands: 6

Custom map 2
Seed: Gs2L6EzKAgfmN
Number of islands: 7

Custom map 3
Seed: 9WO9P9XggXctWn
Number of islands: 8

Custom map 4
Seed: lXDXBoG5xnLLQsAEcS
Number of islands: 9

We hope you’ll enjoy playing around with all the options in the map editor, and if you create a fun map please feel free to share the seed and settings information with other members of the community via the Steam forum.

PQube, Crazy Goat Games, and Agate.

Ahoy there! This is just a small patch that focuses on behind-the-scenes improvements and groundwork for future features. While there aren't any visible changes this time, we’re setting the stage for all the exciting updates to come. Thanks for your continued support!

Today we’re releasing our next free update which adds two brand new maps to free play mode. Both maps were designed to have a different gameplay focus to mix up the free play experience, and feature new geography, starting island conditions, and challenges to overcome.


Overview: The first of the new maps reduces the archipelago’s island count to just seven but offsets the lack of buildable land by arranging the islands in a ring around three intersecting trading routes. You’ll have plenty of opportunity to attack merchants and roving pirates as we’ve upped the spawn rate of shipping along these routes, just be careful when timing your attacks as battles may quickly get out of hand! Your starting island also has access to many rare resources, considering its modest size, with a variety of production condition bonuses that should help you quickly establish the foundations of your republic.

Starting island size: Medium

Starting island beaches: 2


Overview: In complete contrast to Bandit’s Crossing, this map features a huge rain-lashed archipelago consisting of twelve islands. You’ll discover that each island has limited building space so you’ll need to be extra careful with how you manage and grow your local workforces. Your starting island’s production conditions unfortunately leave a lot to be desired so you’ll need to start thinking about expansion sooner rather than later. Finally, we’ve added some new environmental features and stormy weather effects to really get you in the mood for the challenge that lies ahead!

Starting island size: Medium

Starting island beaches: 2

Both maps are available in free play mode now, so why not put your pirate utopia-building skills to the test once again?


As outlined in our last post, we’ll be looking to add more content including a new free play map generator system to Republic of Pirates in early 2025. We’ll have more details to share on this additional content in the coming months so stay tuned!

As always if you have any feedback or suggestions, please do add these to the relevant thread. We review everything and will do our best to respond if we can.


Until next time,

PQube and Crazy Goat Games.

It's been a few weeks since our last free update where we introduced a new captain and fleet management system, the ability to scuttle ships, and swap captains between vessels.

We wanted to give you a quick update on our plans for future content as we look ahead to the next few months of development.

Improving replayability: Additional maps and map generation

Having been working through your requests in our backlog, we identified that a lot of feedback centres around replayability. Right now Republic of Pirates features a lengthy narrative-driven campaign and 2 x free play mode maps but to improve replayability we are now looking at the following FREE content:

• More bespoke maps with unique geography, production conditions, and faction distribution to the pool of existing free play mode maps.
  
• The possibility of a free play mode map generation system that will allow players to craft their own maps using a set of predetermined parameters e.g. starting island size, number of islands, island production conditions etc…

We’re hoping to release additional free play mode maps over the coming months, and the map generation system in early 2025.

Quality of life: You can never have too much!

Alongside the aforementioned content we will also be continuing to work on QoL improvements. We have plenty of requests in our backlog so we’ll do our best to address as many of these as possible in the next few updates.

We hope you’ll enjoy the next wave of content we have planned and we’ll be in touch with further details soon.

PQube

Continuing on from the improvements we made in our last update, this latest batch of new content focuses on enhancing captain and fleet management by introducing a fleet overview UI, the ability to salvage ships, swap assigned captains between ships, and fire unassigned captains. Our ultimate goal here is to give you more freedom when customising and optimising your fleet, while allowing you to develop your favourite captains over the course of a campaign or free play mode session.


We have added a new Captains tab to the menus UI which provides a detailed overview of your fleet. From here you can check each captain’s:

• Currently assigned ship name
  
• Currently assigned ship class
  
• Current level and accumulated experience
  
• Proficiency bonuses (NOTE The % buffs reflect the captain’s unlocked specialisations in relation to their currently assigned ship)
  
• Specialisation tiers

You’ll also be able to perform the following actions:

Dismiss: Fire the captain if they are not currently assigned to a ship to free up an additional slot in the captains pool.

Quick select: Immediately jump to the location of the captain if they are assigned to a ship.

This view should give you a much better snapshot of your fleet, help you optimise the placement of your captains, and find specific ships that you may have misplaced on the map!


As many of you will know, your fleet cap is limited to the number of Captain’s Inns that you have built, with new Captain’s Inn spots being unlocked as you expand and conquer new islands from your rivals.

However many of you were frustrated by the fact that it wasn’t possible to manually destroy a lower tier ship (like a cog or ketch) to free up a spot for a bigger and better vessel (such as a frigate or brigantine). On top of this, captains were permanently assigned to potentially suboptimal ships until death e.g. A captain who specialises in piloting mid-high tier ships being permanently assigned to a lowly cog!

To combat this we have added a new ‘scuttle ship’ option to the radial menu which allows you to manually destroy a ship in your fleet returning the assigned captain back to your pool. You can then assign this captain to any new ship that you build.


We appreciate that some players will prefer more agile UI options so to pre-empt this we have added a new feature that allows for the swapping of two assigned captains between ships that are in close proximity.

To do this click the ‘Captain Transfer’ button next to the captain’s portrait in an individual ship’s UI, this will then display a circle around the selected vessel. While this proximity marker is active any friendly unit within this circle is considered in-range, and by right clicking on a target you can immediately swap assigned captains between the two vessels. This should allow for much greater fleet micromanagement on the fly.

See the full list of patch notes below:

New Features

• New captain and fleet management system: This new UI will show you which captains have already been assigned and their respective ships to allow for faster and more efficient management.
  
• Salvage ships: An additional radial menu option which allows captains to be saved and added back to the pool when their ship is demolished.
  
• Swap Captains: You will now have the option to swap captains between two ships within close range of one another.
  
• Fire Unassigned Captains: You will also be able to fire unassigned captains to free up more space in the captain pool.
  
• New ship names: We have added 20 new ship names to the shipyard name pool.

We hope you’ll enjoy using these new features and, as always, thanks for your continued support and enthusiasm. We are still actively monitoring the feedback thread so please continue to post your feedback and suggestions.

Until next time!

Crazy Goat Games & PQube

Get ready to set sail once again – our second post-release update is live now!

Following on from the roadmap which we shared earlier this month today’s update focuses on improving the functionality of the captain’s inn, polishing the visuals of every captain’s portrait, adding more audio options, and addressing some of the balancing, QoL issues and bugs reported by the community.

Captain’s Inn Improvements

This new update will give you much more flexibility when choosing which captain is worthy of joining your fleet. When visiting the captain’s inn, you will now be able to re-roll the current offer of captains, with a 2-minute cooldown between each selection.

New Captain’s Portraits

To more closely match the painted art style that is used elsewhere in the game, we have reworked every captain’s portrait. Here’s a little sneak peek of the new painted versions that you can expect to see!

See the full list of patch notes below:

New Features

• Captain re-rolling in the captain's inn with a 2-minute cooldown after each re-roll
  
• New captain’s portraits
  
• Volume sliders for shanties
  
• Volume sliders for battle music
  
• A warning message has been added to the input menu when attempting to reassign an input
  
• Borderless window lock options - can now move the cursor out of the window bounds to access other applications, such as Discord or Twitch

Bugs fixed

• Fixed an issue with button prompts displaying incorrectly on the input menu (Russian)
  
• Fixed a text issue with the Free Trader reputation tooltip having the wrong values for sinking trading company ships (German)
  
• Fixed an issue with the spawn location of the ships supposed to be attacking Hell's Gate Island
  
• Fixed an issue where players were unable to unlock new buildings
  
• Fixed an issue where worker needs were stuck at 99%
  
• Fixed an issue with the brass bar icon during trades

Balance changes

• Dried herbs production condition increased to 150% on Galley Island (Campaign)
  
• Dried herbs production condition increased to 150% on Arrecife Verde (Islas de Sangre free play map)
  
• Dried herbs production condition increased to 150% on Isla del Sable (Volcano Isles free play map)

Stay tuned for more news regarding future updates – our next one is due to launch in early September and will introduce a new captain and fleet management UI which will allow for ship salvaging and more detailed captain management!

Thank you all for your support and constructive feedback, we hope you’ll enjoy the new content and as always please do continue to post your comments in the feedback thread.

Fair winds and following seas,

Crazy Goat Games & PQube

Ahoy there pirates!

It’s been just over 3 weeks since the release of Republic of Pirates and we’d like to start off by thanking you again for all your comments and for supporting us on this journey!

We have now reviewed our backlog and have created a priority list to address the most commonly reported pain points and feature requests, and so today we can reveal our short term roadmap to show you what we’ll be working on in the next few months.

Update 2 - Captain’s Inn improvements and additional QoL

Following on from the quality of life features added in update 1, the next update will mainly focus on improving the Captain’s Inn functionality, but will also introduce some additional visual polish and quality of life changes:

• Captain’s Inn Improvements: Captain re-rolls will be added to the Captain’s Inn. Additionally, in this update we will make adjustments to how captains are generated and replace the existing character portraits with new painted versions.
  
• Audio Options: Volume sliders for shanties and battle music have been added, as well as new audio alerts signalling when you’re under attack.
  
• Keybinding Options: Keybinding for mouse buttons and general QoL improvements.
  
• Borderless Window Lock Fix: Players can now move their mouse outside of the confines of the window when playing.

This update is planned to go live on 1st August.

Update 3 - New captain and fleet management system

For update 3, we will focus on introducing a host of new features for captain and fleet management:

• New captain and fleet management system: This new UI will show you which captains have already been assigned and their respective ships to allow for faster management on the fly.
  
• Salvage ships: We will implement an additional radial menu option which allows captains to be saved and added back to the pool when their ship is demolished.
  
• Swap Captains: You will now have the option to swap captains between two ships within close range of one another.
  
• Fire Unassigned Captains: You will also be able to fire unassigned captains to free up more space in the captain pool.

We are planning on releasing this update in early September.
We’ll keep you updated on any additional content and hotfixes in the next few months and will of course give you a more detailed overview of each update as it releases.

On a final note, we have decided to leave our demo live and keep updating it for the foreseeable future so that new players can get a feel for the game before deciding whether or not to purchase.

Until next time,

Crazy Goat Games & PQube