Port Hope
This page is about the Merchant port town, called "Port Hope" formerly known as "Port Hode".
Port Hope is a coastal merchant town located -190,-2550 on Hope island. Port Hope is a town under the British Empire and will therefore only accept citizenship to Players with a legitimate British Passport. Port Hope offers shops to rent, where merchants from around the seas can buy and sell their wares. While being a trade town, crime has always been a problem for the city to cope with, therefore the KOS(kill on sight) wanted board was set up in Nov. 2014, to bring criminals to justice. To aid in the hunt of criminals, the order of the protectors were established dec. 2014 and has since then been fighting the criminals who threatens peace in Port Hope. In oct. 2014, Port Hope won the BOTM(build of the month) competition due to it's prestigous and well crafted structures.
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Etymology
When the island was first sighted it was named Hode, pronounced "Hoad", and coming from the norse word "harðr", or "hard" in english. It was named this way because of the heavy resistance of natives resisting to let go of their home, so due to the hard circumstances for the settlers, the Island was named Hode Island or "hard/rough Island" and soon after the settlement was named Hode too.
During the reformation of the settlement, transforming it into a merchant town, many native german speakers would confuse the name with the German word "testicle", therefore putting the town in a awkward situation since many travellers were from German origin. To solve the situation the town council decided to rename the town and island, all hand in hand with the swearing of fealty to the Royal British Empire. Port Hode would no longer be known as "Hode", but "Hope" instead, Hope that everyone would forget about "testicle town" and hope towards future prosperity within the British Empire.
Early history
The earliest historical records of Port hope dates back to May 2014, when the first settlers arrived on what is today called Hope Island, or Hope Point. The Schooner "Thor", the original expedition ship used to find Hope island can still be found in the towns old harbour.
In the early stages of landfall Survival was though, and the Settlers had to rely on fish caught in the current old harbour basin.
June 2014
Several houses had been erected and the town Began to thrive better, as there had been built a storage house as well as small farms to sustain life in the long term. This was also the time the old tavern building first opened its doors to welcome the thirsty and worn down settlers. The little settlement was far from safe though. It met heavy resistance from local tribes people who had originally inhabitted the island so a temporary wooden palisade was build around most of the buildings to protect from future attacks.
August 2014
More buildings began to pop up as the numbers of inhabitants increased, but the settlement lacked order so it was desided to begin the contruction of a Town Hall in order to make the settlement more organised.
The "Hode Church" was also finished this month to bring faith to Hope Island. The church was later renamed to "Hope Church" following the name change of the town. As the settlement grew larger and began to look more like a city, there were also growing interest from the outside and several people, incl. Hotpotatoe, dagster, Sk8rgirl and the imfamous Eisflo, immigrated to the settlement and built homes for themselves to live in.
Along with new immigrants came also hostile raiders. One particular figure, known as Unicornjunk(later Javainvader) stole several ships and planted his "murican" flag on Hope Hill. Starting a lengthy conflict on getting the flag removed from Hope Hill
The first shop in Port Hope Opened late in the month and was to contest the already strongly established shops in the oceans, known as /warp Shop and /warp Skyshop. Port Hope did not yet have a /warp making it harder to compeed with the much larger shops, but against the odds the shop opened and started selling basic materials and minerals to travellers passing by the little port.
The reformation of Port Hope
Following the growth of the settlement there was great will into developing it into a triving merchant port. The founder of the settlement and only merchant residing, called Bislo1, had a wish in turning the city into a town full of trade with many different shops that sold all kinds of different goods from all the corners of the sea. With much time and resources spent on building house to accomodate all of the potential new merchants, Bislo1 now stood ready to open the flow of trade into the settlement and developing it into an actual town. /warp trade was aquired, making the settlement a very interesting place to move into, as there was profit to be made in a place everyone had access to.
Many Merchants were interested in buying land of their own in the city, so much that the plots were sold before any buildings could even be completed. This also helped Port Hope become a more respected settlement among the community of the pirate seas. Buildings where raised, some where remodelled numorous times to fit demand, old building were demolished to make room for larger, more colorful buildings.
Wogworld
With the arrival of the merchant, known as Wogworld, Port Hope saw its most significant increase of trade flowing into the Town. popularity rose as Wogworld's wares were often hard to optain, yet reasonally priced, to let the majority of the traders be able to bid in. This was something that hadn't been seen before, with the old /warp shop selling rare items, but often at a rather steep price. Wogworld intended to change that and contested the established shops prices on all levels, soon making his shop the most popular to trade with. The prices were constantly being adjusted and goods were added on all floors to keep the interest high.
The Trade Empire Wogworld had created did not last forever though. He and the rest of the merchants in Port Hope, saw decline in sold goods when the new /warp wolf was introduced. In the start this new contester would not seem to be much of a challenge for Wogworld, but This new Powerful redstone expert, known as Ma_c_hi, soon dicovered that he too could gain profit by copying the same strategy Wogworld had success with. This did not stop Wogworld's operations, although it gave him frustrations about the future of his profit.
Port hope, managed by Bislo1, kept expanding its assets in the light of the popularity Wogworld had brought to the Town, buidling, selling and leasing property to new merchants arriving.