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| Voyage Century Online | |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Snail Game |
| Publisher(s) | IGG |
| Released | December 22, 2006 |
| Genre | historical MMORPG |
| Mode(s) | Multiplayer |
| Ratings | 8.1 mmorpg.com player reviews |
| Platform(s) | Windows: Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows ME, Windows XP, and Windows Vista. |
| Media | Download |
| System requirements | Intel Pentium III 500 MHz, 2.5 GB Hard Drive Space, NVIDIA GeForce 2 MX400 or above |
| Input methods | Keyboard, mouse. |
Voyage Century Online (航海世纪/王者世紀) is a free nautical MMORPG published by IGG, the distributors of Myth War Online. It is set in 17th century Earth and features accurate historical representations of several coastal cities. Players are not required to choose a career path at the beginning of the game. This gives players a rather varied gameplay in which you can either specialize in one skill and trade for resources, or make use of all the skills. (i.e. You are strictly a tailor and want to make clothing. You can pay someone who can fight to gather wool for you, or you can learn to fight and gather it yourself. etc.) Combat occurs both on land and on the sea, where players risk the threat of pirates when venturing further from the more populated areas. The game profits off of optional cash shop items that are available for players to purchase with real money. Unlike many other MMORPGs where players can only succeed through battle, Voyage Century Online gives players the option of embarking on several unique professions.
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History
Prior to its English launch, Voyage Century Online was available to players in China, South Korea, and Germany. An alpha test open to 1000 players began on the English version on December 8, 2006 and an open beta version was launched on December 22, 2006. A warm-up event was staged the day before the open beta launch where players could take pictures of their characters with the GMs. The game's full version was released April 8, 2007.
Merchant system
The merchant system is subdivided into three jobs: vendors, who gain money primarily by selling goods; investors, who profit through purchasing goods at low prices and selling them at high prices; and traders, who increase their wealth through trading goods between ports.
Ranks
The table below shows what ranks are achievable in Voyage Century Online. It also includes what nation, reputation, and silver is needed to gain them. 
Logistics system
The logistics system is full of players who produce raw materials or craft goods that can be sold for a profit. These professions include: miner, woodworker, farmer, fisher, blacksmith, tailor, alchemist, and shipbuilder.
Skill/Stunt system
Like Runescape, skill levels, or the sum of them, determine a player's level. Each skill is currently capped at 101, and skills, with the exception of Voyage, is capped at level 31 unless promoted into the second phase. Players can promote skills for a maximum of seven times, after that, players must obtain a skill promoting book (either from the item mall or other players) to promote other skills. Stunts are subskills within a skill. List of skills and their stunts: Voyage
-Alert -Full Sail -Pursuit
Sea Battle
-Cannon Fight -Grappling -Ramming
Eloquence
-Purchasing -Negotiation -Vendition[?]
Battle system
While any player can wield a weapon, the battle system creates characters that excel in combat. This system includes combatants on both land and sea, and also consists of pirates. There are 4 ways to fight a sea battle:
Cannon fight
In arming your ship, there are several types of cannon to choose from, each with their own strengths and weaknesses. The normal cannon gives a balanced range of attributes, whereas others are more specialized - The howitzer cannon has the greatest firing range but smallest firing angle, the buckshot has the widest firing angle but low range, and the quick-firer has the highest firing speed but lowest firepower. The higher the cannon fight level, the higher level cannons one can equip.
Grappling battle
Grappling in battle means boarding an opponent's ship. The screen will be switched to a scene of a grappling battle where players attempt to eliminate enemy sailors and captain, damage their mast or cut yourself loose. If a player fails to grapple the enemy’s ship, there is a 20 second delay before another attempt at grappling is allowed.
Ramming
The simple process of ramming another ship to do damage. A ram must first be bought from the shipyard boss and equipped. Larger ships and faster sailing speed will increase ramming damage. Ramming does damage to the hull only, and it is very useful when taking out a lower level ship in one blow.
Mines
Mines have the potential to do high amounts of damage to massed enemies, but can also do damage to friendly ships. There are many different kinds of mine, each with different attributes. There is a 20 second delay after the placement of a mine before it detonates.
Land Battle
There are four different types of weapons you can use for land battles, bare hands,swords, axes, falchions and guns. Each has it's own special abilities and advantages, one is often suited for one type of battle more than another. Guns lower your defense significantly but high in accurecy and are therefore bad for boarding because your stats affect your assisting sailors' stats but are good when fighting in a group because you can cause a lot of damage without getting hurt etc. Experience is gained by causing damage to enemies and a bonus is given for finally killing the enemy. Choosing melee weapons will convey 80% on the experience towards the skill bare-handed.
Exploration system
The exploration system is one part of the game which has a lot of content and a huge scope for the player to explore. The exploration system is the long, vast, ocean inside Voyage Century Online. Thus, the exploration system holds a large amount of the file. This is because the ocean is much larger than the land in Voyage Century, a more realistic figure compared to other MMORPGs which may have little or even no seas. Voyagers may come across islands, passages, and many other interesting obstacles while sailing the seas. Some of these obstacles are storms, pirates and even other players. The ocean is actually a scaled down map of the earth's oceans with some variations.
Discoveries
In order to get discoveries, players need to sail on the high sea and look for sparkling spots near the shore, which means that something special is hiding nearby. Players can begin their exploration by clicking the explore button in the operation menu and input the number of sailors dispatched. Equipping higher level telescopes will help to find more findings. Players will acquire the discovery logbook of their findings if they find something. By giving the discovery logbook to the authenticator, the players can get some money and boost their reputation. Higher level discoveries offer more money and reputation, reputation is your social standing in the world. Reputation is used to gain higher noble titles, higher level noble titles allow a user to wield equipment that is stronger than a regular equipment. For example, an ensign command falchion that requires 11 falchion and level 2 noble title, is much stronger than a weapon that requires 17 falchion.
Reputation
Reputation plays a great part of Voyage Century. Reputation is achieved by log books (from discoveries), treasures (from treasure maps), completing various quests, and sinking pirate ships. Reputation is used for getting a higher rank. Higher reputation will also cause your name to become more blue than others.
