I have made a large number of screen captures, to help illustrate the various sections, and have endeavored to remove all identifying information contained therein. The purpose of this guide is not to give away other players information.
So I will start with the opening page. Some of the really important stuff is in the top part of the page:
Now, to explain what you see here.
Across the very top are various links to provide additional information about the game.
Settings will allow you to set various options for the game.
Invite friends will allow you to invite current friends to play the game as a Captain for you.
Leaderboard will show you how you rank against all your Captains in many categories.
Forum will take you to the Kano forum, where you can learn a great deal about the game, and ask questions.
News will give you links to recent news items from Kano, and also the Loyalty bonuses that come out weekly.
Help will take you to a screen in-game to get a little information about many topics.
At the left near the top is the link to open the World Chat. In there you can find other players looking for captains, Bosses you can help on, and Armadas seeking new recruits.
Along the bottom of the artwork, there are 2 buttons visible here.
The Active Bounty is where you will find any pirate who has been listed to be killed by another pirate. Bounties are a way to strike at opponents when you cannot attack them directly yourself. A bounty is visible to all players in the game, and many pirates will attack hoping for the kill and a nice bag of coins. This button will only appear when there is an active bounty. Be careful hunting for bounties though. Once you attack a pirate, they can retaliate against you for 24 hours.
The other button is for travel. In yellow, it tells you what world you are currently on. You can travel between all worlds you have unlocked here.
Across the bottom will be your main information in the game.
Gold is the amount of gold coins you currently have on hand.
Health, Energy and Stamina will show you how much of each you have, followed by your maximum in each category, like this 1000/1500.
In the top right, is your profile window, and gives you a series of additional links and more information.
Underneath that, you will see [Guild]. If you join an Armada, this will be replaced by the Armadas tag, which is up to 4 characters and can be letters or numbers.
Level is your current level, the bar underneath shows your progress to the next level.
The Hoard is where you can put money for safe-keeping. Again, more on that later.
Profit is the amount of money you are making per payment. They refer to it as 'hourly' income, though many character types get a payment more often.
The icons in the bar beneath all of that are as follows, from left to right:
Captain Alerts - clicking in this will open a window that looks like this:
The tabs allow you to sort your Captain Alerts in several ways.
Message Center is the next icon. All messages will be sorted into Clan (your Captains) and Public (non-Captains). Messages to and from Captains are limited to 200 characters. Public messages are limited to a maximum of 3 canned phrases. These phrases are pre-built and cannot be changed.
The third icon is available only if you are part of an Armada. This is the Armada Feed, and is a valuable tool for everybody. In the feed you can find messages from the Armada Leader and its Officers, invitations to Boss battles, requests for assistance, and general banter. Every Armada is different, so you may want to take a couple of days and watch what others have to say here. You do have up to 500 characters for a message in the feed.
Next is the skill center. It will open this window:
This is where you will assign skill points received from gaining levels and achievements. Gaining a level will always get you 5 skill points, and achievements will get you 1 or more skill points. Generally, the higher the achievement, the more skill points you will get.
Next is the Gamer Points window:
You receive Gamer Points for various actions in the game. Most Armadas will require you to get all Gamer Points (DGPs) every day. As you can see, it is 16,000 per day. A day in the game starts at Midnight, Pacific time. And the window not only shows you your progress in each category, but also what you need to do to get DGPs in each category.
The last icon is the Rivals List. This is where any pirate who has attacked you in the last 24 hours will be listed. It lists them in order of most recent at the top, and shows the name and level of the pirate, what kind of attacks they have made, how long ago, and options you have for both offensive and defensive operations. You can also hide them so that you do not accidentally attack a much larger opponent.
All of the icons will be grey unless there is something new to see in the window. The Captain Alerts and Message Center and Rivals icons will be white, with a number in a red box in the top right corner of the icon. The Clan Feed will turn orange. The exceptions are the Skill Center, which will turn light blue when you have skill points to be assigned. And the Gamer Points icon will be purple until you have completed your DGPs.
Next, you will see a brownish-gold bar, with the main menu areas.
These are the various sections of the game where most of the action takes place. Home is the default when you load the game initially. The other sections I will briefly describe, and go into more detail later on.
Adventures - Adventures are missions, each has requirements and offers bonuses.
Bosses - Are monsters to battle. Many will require some help, and offer many bonuses as well. The number of boss battles you are involved in will be displayed in brackets.
Battle - You will find other Pirates to fight here.
Rule - How you will make money. It is property to acquire, each with its own cost and benefit.
Clan - This is where you can buy ships, matey's and weapons to arm your fleet. And the blacksmith to improve items you may have.
Davey Jones - This is where you can buy Davey Jones points (DJ points) and use those points to acquire things like Hired Captains, Stamina/Energy/Gold boosts and various special items. The number of DJ points you currently have is displayed in brackets.
Captains - Where you can invite additional Captains, find and use boosts sent to you, and can also hire additional Captains.
Profile - This is your Pirates main information center. Again, more on that later.
As we proceed down, beneath the menu bar, you will see a banner for new character types, and various special items you can buy with DJ points.
The next important thing you will see is your main news feed. It occupies the right side of the screen.
At the top of the News Feed, you will see two drop-down menus:
These are very powerful tools. The events menu will sort your newsfeed on one of many different categories.
Friend Messages - messages posted by your friends in-game
Adventure Help - you can help on 30 adventures per day
Requests (Gifts) - gifts your captains are asking for
General Updates - your Captains levels/achievments
Battle Updates - kills made by your Captains
Pistol Whip Help - requests for help pistol whipping other Pirates/Vikings
Shares (Boosts) - find battle boosts
Battle Help - bounties placed by your captains and requests to help fight other Pirates/Vikings
Elite Captains - find Elite Captains
Boss - bosses posted by your Captains
World Boss - calls to attack World Bosses
Challenge Help - use this a lot - each is worth 1% of your level XP's up to 50, XP return drops after that
Armada - recruiting notices for Armadas/Guilds
The other menu, Group, will sort the news feed again, by different categories your Captains may fall into. I use All Pirates as my default, but other categories include Captains, Friends, Inner Circle (Yours), Inner Circle (Theirs) and Armada.
To the left of the main news feed, you will see a variety of small banners. These are live links to other areas of the game as well. After 12 o'clock noon PST, there will be a link at the bottom of these for the lottery. You get one free ticket every day, and can win coins, experience points and even DJ points.
Just beneath the banners is a list of you top 500 friends in the game, and where you fit in that list.
That pretty much covers the first page you see when you load the game. Now we will get into the various different sections and help you learn to actually play the game, and even offer tips and strategy.
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