POTCO - ignoring the obvious problems?

[ruisen2000]

While there has been several small updates that are nice, I find that they seem to be ignoring the real problem in the game. In addition to the Panda 3D issues posted by Leo, there are also a major lack of quests. The combined rep from questing and the rep from defeating enemies required for the quest only gets you to about level 35 (or level 40 for some players who also grind enemies while they are at the enemy area.)

As you already know, there are 50 levels in the game, and I find it ridiculous that you have to kill enemies to get from level 40 to 50, and the only lv 40+ area in the entire game, Tormenta, has 0 quests. There doesn't need to be more islands, there are tons of islands in the game that I'm sure took POTCO months to develop, just to have only 1 quest or even 0 quests of its own and the player is finished in an hour. I do not understand why they spend months making something to let players play for a day or 2.

The top part of Kingshead could be remade with lv 45+ enemies, as well as a few quests given by smugglers who want you to save his mate, kill some guards for revenge or steal some weapons. Ambitous navy soldiers could also hire you to kill the navy soldier 1 rank above him so his rank could increase, then turn on you when he is finished to get his gold back.
Raven cove's remaining ghosts could give you quests to explore Cave of Lost souls (which is not even introduced in the game).

And there is the second problem. A lot of features, the game just expects you to know that they are there and what the heck they are, such as potions, cannon defense, fishing, cave of lost souls, QAR, treasure fleets, etc. They give the lore when they release it on their web, but who reads all that when they first start the game?

The third problem is that almost all quests give the same XP. It makes no sense that a level 1 quest gives the same Xp as a level 20 quest. I remember doing the Black Pearl story quest and several other quests in PDF and just going "huh?" when I realized all the quests give 100 XP unless its the last part of the quest chain. Higher level quests should give more XP then just 100, regardless if they are the last part of the quest chain or not.