How to Share/Link POTCO Accounts - MACs

[jason davy]

With the June 2nd 2009 updates, players can no longer tab between linked accounts.

To play multiple pirates on one MAC-

1. Follow the steps In The Setup Multiple Accounts For PCs (Click Here)to set up a linked Basic (free) account on Disney's piratesonline.com

2. Open the Pirates Online application. For this guide I will assume you have the Pirates Online launcher in your dock. Sign in using your Unlimited account's ID and password.

3. You will need to quit the Pirates Online launcher application, and this process is a bit different on a Mac than it is on a PC. You can do this in one of several ways.
** Right click on the launcher icon in your dock and select "Quit" **
** Press Command+Option(alt)+Esc and force quit the launcher **
** Click on the launcher icon in the dock, and simply X it out **

Now, you must restart the launcher. This, again, is a bit different than doing so on a PC. If you try to restart it by simply clicking on the launcher icon in the dock, you will notice that.... nothing happens. The steps to restart the launcher are as follows-

-Open your Finder.
-Select Applications
-Right click on Pirates Online, and select "Show Package Contents"



-Expand "Contents" and then expand "MacOS"
-Scroll down until you see the "Launcher"



-Double click to open it up, you should get a window that says "Terminal - Launcher" and the little Pirates Online launcher box.
-You will need to click in that little box to actually get the launcher to start loading
-Log in using the account ID and password of your linked (Basic) account



Now you should be set to play both pirates. When the pirate-select screen loads, you should be safe to exit the finder and the "Terminal - Launcher" window, as well as the Terminal icon on your dock (YELLOW below).

In order to access your Unlimited pirates from the linked Basic account, click the arrow in the top left corner, RED below.



On my Mac, using both pirates rarely causes me to lag. However, if I go to a busy server of if I SvS, I usually log out or minimize one pirate.



If you plan to use this a lot, there is a quicker way to play two pirates. As you can see on my dock and in my applications folder in the screenshots above, I have three Pirates Online launchers. One is for TEST, but two are for open. To do this, I put my first launcher in the trash and downloaded the game again. I then got the game out of the trash and put both launchers in my dock, and they open as different, separate programs. This (I think) is the only way to get two launchers in your dock, because you can't put the Terminal - Launcher from the Pirates Online Package Contents in the dock. (Well, you can, but it won't work unless you open it directly from the applications... weird...) I tried to do this (trash game, download again, get two launchers) on my PC and it didn't work at all.