Ultimate Bilging

Pauling · Illustrious Forum Tart Joined: 03 Sep 2005 Posts: 433

Thanks, Deeg. How exactly did you do such a nice job recoloring?

Carrol, I dug up the support message from three rings; quotes below.

deeg · Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 9:56 am Post subject:

Hmm not sure exactly why it disappeared on Ara's machine. If you had to rename it as a .png the browser must have changed it to a different format when it was downloaded to your computer. I wouldn't be surprised if it turned it into a .jpg or .gif for some reason. I'll add some instructions to my original post that might help.

In any case, uninstalling and reinstalling YPP can be used as a last resort.

The colors were done by selecting the piece in Photoshop, then opening the Hue & Saturation dialog box. Changing the hue on a selection is like picking a color from the rainbow. All the colors are changed together, preserving their relative hues. When I adjusted the Hue of some of the pieces, like the first orange one it became terribly bright in the game compared to the others. So I went back and dropped the saturation and brightness of that one offending piece until it didn't stick out so bad.
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Pauling · Illustrious Forum Tart Joined: 03 Sep 2005 Posts: 433

I hopped on briefly to test this- the image works! (For Ara too; not sure what was wrong before) But I still stink at bilge.

Anyway, I'd appreciate if the bilgers interested in trying this could let me know if it really helps longterm. If so, I probably will feel obligated to post a description to the YPP tips and tricks forum to spread the joy. Give it a few days, then post yer thoughts!
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Celestra · Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 2:14 pm Post subject:

I LOVE IT!!!! I will post again in a week to let you know if it helped me.

Thanks!!!!
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Sante · Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 11:33 pm Post subject:

Wow, that's fantastic! I love the colours - especially the red. I never realised how hard on my eyes the old ones were till now.

Good job Deeg!
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Spacehog · Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 3:19 am Post subject:

The colours are a massive improvment and do make the pieces far easier to see.

I wouldn't say it's massively improved my bilging technique...but then again I have gone from Master to Renowned, so maybe it has!!!!!
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Pauling · Illustrious Forum Tart Joined: 03 Sep 2005 Posts: 433

Interesting... I'll give it a few more days, and if comments are still generally positive, then with Deeg's permission I'll post a copy of the image to the flag forums to get a larger sample; after a 1-week window for data collection, the results will be posted to the YPP forums. (The flag forum is necessary as an experimental control, to separate the effect of the other comments in this thread from the effect of the image change)

Remember the data I'll need:

1. Pirate name / ocean
2. Bilging rank (normally)
3. Roughly how much do you pillage each week?
4. Have you read any bilging tutorials lately?

And at the end of the week:
1. Pirate name/ ocean
2. Bilging rank (with new images)
3. Comments/ thoughts
4. Did you do anything in the past week, besides changing the image, that changed the way you bilge? Describe.

If it does turn out to have a positive effect, then with the help of our little evidence beavers, who knows- perhaps we could make the new image a part of the game for everyone!
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Sweetman2 · Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 5:08 am Post subject:

Another thing that I have found, to do with bilging,
is a Vegas!
Now personally, I have not got a Vegas Razz

so it
is not needed to get Ulti, but from what I understand,
you need to get, for example, a: 3x3x3x5.
If you can get a bingo, with a 5 for one of them.
Erm, this is kind of hard to explain Razz

Like this:

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
xxxxBxxxxxxxxxx
xxxxBxxxxxxxxxx
xxB A B B Bxxxxx
xxAxBxxxxxxxxxx
xxAxBxxxxxxxxxx

So, it's just a Sea Donkey, with one of the lengths,
being 5 pieces long.
I'm not sure if this is correct, so can you please let
me know if it is wrong.
Next time I'm on Y!PP, I'll get one and screenshot
what it looks like and see if I'm right Razz

Happy bilging Razz

-Sweetmantwo
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udu · Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 8:21 am Post subject:

i got vegas twice in my bilging career. both were 3x5x5x3 kinda like this

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxABxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxABxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxAABABBxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxABxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxABxxxxxxxxx

also i found this on the forums , it has screenies of all kinds of combos:
http://forums.puzzlepirates.com/community/mvnforum/viewthread?thread=7261

Pauling · Illustrious Forum Tart Joined: 03 Sep 2005 Posts: 433

Screwing up my own experimental controls, but I feel the need to point out that the wiki is your one true friend:

http://yppedia.puzzlepirates.com/Bilging

and better combo pictures:

http://yppedia.puzzlepirates.com/Bilging_tutorial
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Celestra · Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2006 7:13 pm Post subject:

I thought I would update this. After changing my colors and 2 weeks of concentrating on bilge for a couple hours a day, I am now weighty/legendary. So that proves the colors will help some.
/me tips my hat to Pauling for bringing up the color change subject.
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Lomky · Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 3:29 pm Post subject:

By Spacehog and faeree's request:

A sea donkey:

before:

after

Faeree · Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 4:41 pm Post subject:

Thanks Lomky! So THAT'S what it looks like! Shocked