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.
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.