Every month (or most months anyway) the ringers come out with a new sloop for us to blow our hard earned POE on. And the truth is, it’s a lot of POE when you get right down to – each ship works out to usually be 90K plus 40 dubs (which these days works out to around 96K). So that’s quite a bit for something a little bit fancier than the usual ship. And I have 15 of these Limited Edition sloops (along with 3 sloops that are less expensive but require plans that cost trinkets, a longship that needs extra plans, a war brig that requires extra plans, and a limited edition cutter). Even the one regular sloop I have has been custom painted and outfitted with cannons, helm, and figurehead that you can’t get anymore – making it a limited edition of sorts as well. That’s almost 4M (that’s 4 million) POE spent on these ships. And I don’t even take them out.
So, they decide that for this month they’re offering what they call the “Serpent” class sloop in honor of the Chinese year of the serpent. The ship looks like a bad mixup between snakes, a sloop, and a junk (another ship you can buy). In fact, I think a junk would have made a far better choice for this months LE ship, but no.
So did I get it?
No, I bought this little cutie instead. 75K and 75dubs – so it actually ended up costing more (close to 250K total) – but I think I’ll end up using this more than any of those sloops I bought.
I just have to think up a nice name for it…