Thanks so much for playing! And for the detailed review.
Each letter on the maps and screen are the different factions. I should've explained it better in one of the help screens. H for humans, S for skeletons, G for ghosts, C for crabs, O for octopus, M for monkeys, F for fish, P for parrots, and R for crocodile. R stood for reptile. Every faction is hostile to every other faction, so you'll see them fighting amongst themselves. Your own faction won't fight you. Also all ports are friendly to land at.
Yeah you beat the game with 4 amulets of Yendor. Maps to those pop up randomly in ports, but ports change out their stock every 100 moves or so. If a map doesn't say Yendor in the name then it is just gold. I found the maps are often a bit too confusing for people, and sometimes the treasure is placed very far away from where they bought the map. The world map was listed under treasure maps which is kind of funny.
For mouse movement if there are no hostiles nearby you'll move all the way to the click point. Otherwise you only move one tile because you could die super fast if an enemy gets within range. Only problem is that is buggy on land.
Again thanks so much for playing!