The higher the rating of the pub, the higher the maximum level of professionals available.įiring a crew member costs you one prestige, but it is sometimes necessary to make space for someone better or with a skill that has become important.
#Dock it boat game professional#
Each professional has a level (1-10) and you can hire up to your prestige rating in total class levels. You can hire cabin boys or someone with a professional skill sailors, hunters, craftsmen or men of science. The tips screen suggests there is a variety of ways of hiring crew from port, but the only one I’ve found is visiting the pub. You begin at Nantucket on the East Coast of North America.Įach port is rated for crew available to hire, quality of newspapers available, quality of shipwright available, and quality of market for essential goods. There are only seven available whaling ports around the world map. The game has four interlocking parts - things you can do in a port, sailing around the world map, encounters both at sea and on land - and then fighting. You scan the monthly newspapers in port for missions, make money by whaling, build prestige by completing missions such as taking cargo to different ports, locating and evaluating whaling grounds and tracking down ships that have gone missing. You start with a small ship with space for three crew members and a small seed fund in the port of Nantucket.
There are several criticisms that can be levelled at some of the gameplay choices and UI, but the feeling of authenticity behind the period portrayal is very strong. The mechanics and narration are simple, but what saves the game is the strength of the theme which drips from the artwork to the music, the pace and the mechanics. It has relatively simple strategic mechanics of sailing across the oceans, combined with a turn-based combat dice game and some simple choose-your-own-adventure missions. Nantucket is a strategic game of being the captain of a whaling ship, combined with a mission-based narrative of tracking down Mobydick and exacting your revenge against him (and conducting some period-appropriate side quests).
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