As we announced earlier, CASHOUT IS BACK!!!
It comes, however, with a few new changes:
1. Cashout at the end of the month will be limited to 40 Gold Doubloons per pirate. This limit will be calculated *before* the conversion, so any gold pieces that one pirate has that are over the limit will not affect other pirates' ability to cash out.
2. Starting within 48 hours, you will be able to cash out to Silver Doubloons at ANY TIME!!! We are pegging SD cashout at 10,000 gold per 1 SD. This figure is both easy to remember and coincidentally pretty close to the average cashout values from the previous monthly cashouts. Hopefully this will both drive down the GD cashout value and allow pirates to get those extra moves they need or a reset when they're in a pinch. At the end of the month, cashing out to SD will be at the *lower* of the two conversion rates (pegged or calculated), while cashing out to GD will only be at the calculated rate.
3. Since we are back in a cash-conversion system, detecting and preventing cheating is a high priority. Anyone caught cheating will be immediately banned from the game. We have said before that there are rewards for information that leads to catching someone who is cheating. This could be as much as 50 doubloons...possibly more if you can give us concrete proof (like a copy of a script and proof of who wrote it). While still appreciated, sending us suspicions of who you think is cheating without proof will not get you a reward. We will still investigate it, but our position is that all pirates are innocent until proven guilty.
This information will soon be posted on the home page and on the member's area page. The member's area, tutorials and forum FAQs will be soon be cleaned up to match.