To the Bounty Bay Online community,

As you may be aware through the forum we are currently tackling the subject of ‘Merchant’s Alliance Contribution Certificates’.

Merchant’s Alliance Contribution Certificates are linked to the character that collected them but due to a game error these could be transferred to other players.

The maintenance we are carrying out today will make it no longer possible to do this with certificates dropped in the future.

This step was taken to ensure balance between player groups.

We thank you for your understanding,

All the best,
Your Community Team

The temperature is rising but some things are dropping too.

Those monsters just can’t handle the heat and are getting a little careless - at some specific times they’re extremely careless for some reason…! Luckily we managed to find some shady character who let slip a few secrets about the monsters.

Here’s all the information we managed to squeeze out of him.

Friday, 11/06/2010 from 18:00 (5pm) until 22:00 (9pm) CEST/BST is double Drop-Rate!
Saturday, 12/06/2010 from 17:00 (4pm) until 21:00 (8pm) CEST/BST is double Drop-Rate!
Sunday, 13/06/2010 from 16:00 (3pm) until 20:00 (7pm) CEST/BST is double Drop-Rate!

The whole Bounty Bay Online Team hopes you have lots of fun this weekend – Happy hunting!

We will perform a maintenance on Wednesday 09th June 2010 between 11:00 and approx. 15:00 CEST on our support system. During this downtime we will upgrade our current system. By doing this we will be a lot faster in answering your inquiries sent to us. Please do not send new tickets to our support during the maintenance!

The new tool offers you many new features for your convenience. For example: a brand new FAQ with an easy to use search function to look up a solution for your imminent issue. Or looking up your old, new and ongoing tickets you sent to the support. You can also check the status of your latest tickets.

Please note that for now you cannot log into the new tool with your gaming account. To write a ticket you will have to register a separate account on the customer support website. You can obtain the account by signing up there when writing your first ticket. The account details will then be sent to your email address. If you send in a new ticket, you’ll receive some predefined answers. If these answers don’t solve your problem, you have to press the submit button again, otherwise the ticket won’t be sent to our customer support.

The system and FAQ will be visually and content wise upgraded within the next weeks.

Thank you for your understanding.

Together with today’s maintenance we added three new starter packages to our InGame-Itemshop. All three packages are available for 40 points each and include the following items:

Sailor Package

• 1x Compressing Provision Box
• 1x Level 1 skill exercise brochure
• 1x High Wind Spell
• 1x Ships Emergent Repair Tool

Land Battle Package

• 1x Level 1 skill exercise brochure
• 1x First-aid kit
• 1x Recovery Potion
• 1x Automatic skill practice scroll of bare-handed fighting (for 6 hours)

Crafting Package

• 1x Level 1 skill exercise brochure
• 1x Chronometer for Young Plant Island
• 1x Chronometer for Young Mine
• 1x Fishing grounds Chronograph
• 1x Auto-planting Trial Card

Merchant Alliance Battles and Changes to City Sieges

In the last weeks we asked for your opinions on the changes and expansions we have made to city battles in Bounty Bay Online. After having collected and evaluated your feedback we have created the following schedule which will be in effect on all servers starting on Wednesday 31/03/2010.

Aside from moving the times to the weekend we will also activate the Merchant Alliance Battles. Please see the following overview:

Overview of the new cities and the Merchant Alliance Battles schedule

• Possible Friday at 20:00 CET – Merchant Alliance Battles
• Every Saturday at 19:00 CET – Industrial Cities
• Every Sunday at 18:00 CET – Commercial Cities

There will be no change to the bidding period (ends 24 hours prior), the time of espionage (30 min) and the time of the siege itself (150 min).

Finally, a quick overview of the capital cities of the merchant alliances which will be enabled for the Merchant Alliance Battles:

• Islamic Merchant Alliance – Capital City: Alexandria
• Western Mediterranean Merchant Alliance - Capital City: Venice
• Iberian Merchant Alliance - Capital City: Lisbon
• English Channel Merchant Alliance - Capital City: Bordeaux
• Netherlands Merchant Alliance - Capital City: Amsterdam

We hope you have lots of fun with these new battles!