23.19 The Ship Arena

(See HELP SHIPS, HELP SHIP WEAPONS, and everything else in HELP 23!)

Ship Arena is a special place where ships can enter combat with perfect
confidence! No matter who is sunk or harmed, excepting possibly crew(!), in the
end, all is as it was, and you return to Achaea unscathed.

While on a ship you are a captain of and in harbour, you may SHIPARENA COMMISSION while holding 10000 gold in your hands to commission an event.

Once an arena event has been commissioned, you may issue these commands:
SHIPARENA INIT  - initialise an event to be started later
SHIPARENA START - starts an initialised shiparena event
SHIPARENA END   - ends an event that has been initialised or started

Commands available to all players:
SHIPARENA JOIN  - join a shiparena event (enter while on your ship)
SHIPARENA QUIT  - quit a shiparena event
SHIPARENA WHO   - see which ships are currently in the ship arena

Everything else is as it is in Achaea proper: load, fire, board, and enter
combat as you will, excepting that ammunition is not used up, deaths are not
costly, and sinkings are automatically salvaged.

Should your ship be sunk during a battle in the arena, you will be returned 
to the mainland proper.

When an arena match ends, you will be returned to the ship you joined with - provided you are alive.