In Facebook Browser Game Pirates, you can claim the bounties you set. For most higher level pirates this is standard practice. This is done usually in an effort to gain more keels and make the Infamous List, or because you’ve upset them and they want you dead! Most pirates don’t mind this. Some do.

Note: This guide was posted by LisaPiper of Zynga Forums.

You can also collect bounties on crew. Some pirates prefer that crew collect an un-friendly bounty that is placed on them – *someone* is going to collect it, and those pirates prefer that the gold stay in the crew. Other pirates will be offended if you collect a bounty on a crew member. Best to figure out who is which before collecting the bounty set on a crew mate!

PIRATES BOUNTY LISTS:
There are approximately 20 bounty boards; there is no way of knowing if you have a bounty on your head unless a crewmate sees it and tells you or it is posted on the bounty board you can see. You will only appear on your own bounty board if the person who placed it is on the same server as you.

WHY CAN’T I PLACE A BOUNTY ?
The pirate you are trying to bounty is either dead, or already on the bounty list. If a pirate logs off with zero health, or is keeled after logging out of Facebook, they will be “dead” until they log back on.

WHY BOUNTY ME AND CLAIM IT YOURSELF
Most pirates will do this for various reasons, you attacked them, you sword dueled them or smacked their pet (usually gets you more than one keel) , you set a bounty on them, you posted a new ‘ ADD ME ‘ thread just for you instead of using the Official add me thread, or they are trying to get on the Infamous list for most keelhauls/most deadly/ best fighter

PIRATES RULES ON COLLECTING BOUNTIES:
There are none! Some players prefer to collect their own bounties, and will retaliate if you “steal” it from them. Some players are offended if crew collects, other prefer it. In addition, if you are trying to collect on a higher level player, you will show in their newsfeed and should expect a keel from them!

GETTING HIT BY HIGHER PLAYERS:
Yes this is possible – and extremely likely if you make yourself known to them by doing things such as hitting them on bounty lists, attacking them in a sword duel or attacking their pet. If you get hit by a higher level pirate, the best course of action is to remain calm and lay low (without retaliating) until they get bored. If you are a vengeful pirate (and what pirate isn’t), bookmark their page and come back at them when you are stronger than they are.

PIRATES SWORD DUEL
A sword duel is a waste of a strength point, neither you nor the victim get experience points (XP) and it does not count in your wins/loss stats. It also irritates the victim to the point that many now keel all duelers that show up in their feed up to 10 times per poke with sword.

HOW TO KEEL:
When you attack, the damage on both sides is between 0 and 25. If your opponent’s health is between 20 and 25, and you inflict greater damage than their health, they’re keelhauled. If your opponent’s health goes below 20, but doesn’t hit 0, you can no longer attack, and you will get the message that they are dead/too weak to fight. To properly finish the job and get the keelhaul you have to set a bounty on that person and attack from the bounty board to get the keelhaul. It’s called finishing what you start.

I WON THE FIGHT BUT GOT KEELHAULED, WHY?
You need to pay close attention to your own health level during all fights. This is easier, now, with the meter on the fight page, but if you didn’t, this can still occur. It happens when you manage to hit the other pirate hard enough to knock them down to zero, but as a result of the final fight the damage you sustained was sufficient to put you down to zero as well.

PIRATE WITH NO ATTACK OPTION ON PAGE
The pirate whose page you are checking is a member of your crew, you only have the sword duel and bounty options on your own crew (but you shouldn’t use them).

ABOUT FIGHTS:
You can be attacked until dead (0 health) / too weak to fight (under 25 health, but not bountied). If you are giving out gold the attacker may leave you alone and come back to hit you again for more gold. You can be keelhauled only once after you log out and after you are keelhauled no one can attack or keel you again until you log back in to Facebook. You can and will show up on the fight list any time of day, logged in or not.

FIGHT LISTS:
Until level 70, fight lists are level specific, with the range of levels expanding above and below you within a few levels. When you reach level 70 (commonly referred to as ”open waters”), you are visible to all pirates above that level. If you show up on a higher level players newsfeed or fight list before (or after) you hit level 70, expect to be hit. If you whine about it, expect to be hit even more.

USING ITEMS WHEN FIGHTING:
The amount of items/abilities you can use in a fight is limited to the amount of people in your Crew. You can only use 1 offensive, 1 defensive, and 1 Ship ability per Crew member. Until you reach the maximum crew requirement at 501 crew members. There is no limit to the number of crew you can have, but you can only fight with 501 of your crew. Adding crew after 501 is valuable, if you want to obtain more 18/18 items or islands (the weekly specialty items).

HOW DOES FIGHTING WORK?:
There are three factors that determine who wins a fight: Crew size, weaponry (attack weapons when attacking, defense weapons when defending), and personal Attack/Defense stats that you’ve allocated with your skill points.
LM posted the following:-if the system applies my offense and defense stats to each of my crew as a base stat, then does a total based on:

##total offense = (my offense stat + offense for offense item + offense for defense item + offense for movement item) * number of crew
##total defense = (my defense stat + offense for defense item + defense for defense item + defense for movement item) * number of crew
The game will automatically choose which items are used.

Other players have speculated that the total value for the items used it added together and that value multiplied by your stats and number of crew is the fight value. Other players have also speculated that your personal attack and defense stats are added together and the total value is your personal “strength.” All these arguments seem to have merit, but no one outside of Zynga knows exactly how it works – and they’re not telling!

DAMAGE:
Is random between 1-25 (not including the new Captain and Commander damage “bonus” effect)
Winner appears to get the lesser and the loser gets the higher damage, but in some cases the winner of a fight has taken more damage than the loser and still won (like when pet take a hit for ye).

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