Dubloon Disaster
Written by exclamationpoint91
Controls:
UP FORWARD
DOWN BACKWARD
LEFT SPINS YOUR BOAT LEFT
RIGHT SPINS YOUR BOAT RIGHT
Coins:
Bronze 2 pts
Silver Skull 5 pts
Silver X 10 pts
Silver Moon 20 pts
Silver Clouds/Skull 50 pts
Gold X 100 pts
Silver X/Gold Ring 200 pts
Game Explanation:
Dubloon Disaster is simple all you really have to do is steer the
little boat around the mines which are always moving toward you.
They also move faster toward you as they get closer to you. You
are trying to collect as many coins as possible. They will pop up
one at a time. You don’t have to run over the coin to get
it just get close.
Whirlpools: These are deadly, they will try to suck you in. Try
to swim away as far as you can from the whirlpool when it pops
up. Some will not do anything and will sink back away but some
will suck in everything on the screen. This can be an advantage
if you are along way into the game and need a break as there is
no pause. But it can also be very annoying if you just got all
your mines up and grouped together, when it pops.
Strategy: Basically you drive in circles trying to herd the group
of 9 mines as close together as possible. The mines “pop
up” in random places, until nine mines are reached. There
will never be more than 9 mines on the board at one time. This is
important to know because once you have nine mines on the board
you will not have to worry about one popping in front of you. Try
to keep the mines from exploding on each other. I go run to a
corner and move back and forth between corners to
“herd” the mines away from the coin. Then just go in
circles around the group collecting them. If there happens to be
an extra wide space between 2 mines you can run your boat between
them to group them closer (caution doing this practice a bit with
your boat before hand or you could end the game in an unsightly
fashion). It does take a lot of practice to get the group to do
what you want it to do. It can be really hard to get some coins
if you have the mines too spaced out.
Practicing: One thing you can do to practice is to get 2 mines on
the board and practice running around them and between them to
“herd” them where you want them. You can also go play
the 2 player board which has no mines only you against a friend
or no one so you can get the hang of controlling the boat.
World Challenge: This is a good way to make a lot of neopoints.
At least when I started I could get near 12k neopoints per map
piece, the map pieces are tradable, you also can trade in all 16
map pieces for a very nice item. I’ve heard of really
expensive paint brushes being given for a whole map. If you are
really good at the game you can get a lot of map pieces.
I’ve made about 500000 np from map pieces. Good luck all.
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