Current News July 21, '09
 

Scheduled Maintenance Upcoming
http://piratesonline.go.com/#/news_b...nance_upcoming
July 21, 2009

As part of ongoing improvements to our systems, Pirates Online will be performing scheduled maintenance from Wednesday, July 22 at 9PM Pacific Time until Thursday, July 23 7AM Pacific Time. During this time log-in to the website and game will be unavailable, and those in game may lose connectivity.

These are estimated outage times, maintenance may take longer. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you

oh my, I wonder whats coming :D

Just sounds like server maintenance to me. A good system cleaning, a defragmention of the hard disks, maybe hardware upgrades? But it's good they're keeping the foundation of what the game runs on in shape.

Must be important, I really enjoy seeing that red pop up every few minutes! They show it on the site.. I don't think the pop up is really needed..

Right in the middle of the BESTEST GUILD EVAH COMPETITION?!

LOL It would appear so. They're giving you all a 10 hour break to rest your fingers (and get some sleep)! :psmiley35:

Maybe they realized by making everyone rank constantly they are beginning to get even more bored. So in an attempt to stop that there is a "convenient" maintenance.

I have to agree with Sven.

The length of this maintenance window somewhat spells out... hardware maintenance.

Hopefully they can eliminate more instances of any server lag folks are experiencing.

Does seem pretty strange they would do it in the middle of one of their "events" however.

Not really a surprise to me.
Didn't they do a maintenance thing when they had a double gold event?
Anyway, I hope they do at least a bit of these great updates they keep telling us they'll put in. :)

hardware maintenance is always good. maybe they are installing an upgraded game engine.

who knows...but nice to know they are working on things!

I think they will at least put the revive thing in the maintnance update.
It looks like they have been really trying to get it out there. I doubt they will stick the lvl 45 guy in though, at least until they discuss raising your lvl cap. I'm glad they are busy trying to improve gameplay though! Maybe they will make it better for my laptop (the player profile things crash the game when I try to open them and some other random crashes).

hmm, Worst case senario: If this is a, Buggy kraken.....
It does seem like system maitenence, all that good stuff

And right when I'll be at the beach. Great timing on my part.:laughks2:

When was the last time they did maintenance that lasted this long? It must be something that needs to get fixed now(or updated) if they're going to have to do it in the middle of an event.

Or could be something they had to make sure certain staff would be available for, and they took the first available window. May not be much of anything, just annual preventive maintenance for that matter, lets just hope everythings back up and operating timely as posted and that we are no worse off than we were before.

Since I'm not sure what platform the servers would run - and since Microsoft Patches are usually put on after testing (since they were released last week), maybe its possible that this DT is all about server patching...

Just my guess :)

actually it was a update cuz the test server closed longer on july, 15-16 midnight. Hopefully lol :psmiley27: like example this --> http://www.piratesonlineforums.com/f...ad.php?t=12385

Dunno about anyone else, but I was la-g-g-g-ging major league last night - so elements of this maintenance may have already been happening... including getting booted.

Sadly - it occurred during a boss battle!!

But, I'm very much looking forward to any glitch fixes, streamlining, and updating etc. to make our voyages smoother.

Any updates, or maintenance is appreciated as there has been fair amount of lag recently. If some or even just one of the talked about features are put in, then great!
Revive looks like a dead handy tool, especially if your Guild is on the move taking out a few EITC and Skele Boss'. TP from jail is well annoying.
Though whilst it maybe sometime, personally Im eager for ship customization. Personalizing your ship or ships promotes your Pirates character and you on the high seas!

I think that this was all a cover up for a coffee break, but that's just me.

maybe it is to catch up with all the enemies that are getting butchered.

Maybe they started running out of enemies Skirata. They don't grow on trees.

Matters which enemies, Skellies come from... Dead People, Davy Jones' Crew...
i'll just say "Do you feel Death?" EITC come from Rouge Pirates and people not loyal to the Pirate Code.

On the other hand I think Stumps grow on trees... or are they trees? We may never know. :laughks2:

Okay. Here's some side-by-side pics of the same exact pirate I made on Open and Test using the biggest male body type. The current version is more desirable? Seriously? I think the new version on Test does have the same general hourglass figure but it's just not as exaggerated as what we have now on Open.

Personally I liked the ridiculous characters for some of my pirates forming League. While I'm not exactly that buff in real life, it's nice to exagerate a little. I'm thinking that musculature and fat and such could be added in as customizable things. Shoulder width, waist width, etc, could be there too.

That stinks if they reduced my pirates size, I kinda liked looking big and strong.

Question... Is this going to apply to all characters already created or just to newly created characters? Testers did you characters changed? I like Ordo buffed. He can kill a bear with his hands and carry an ox around his shoulders. If he changes he will look more like a trucker. Not that's anything wrong with trucking but my character was intended to look strong.

Personally, I find that where you live may have alot to do with this.

West coast, land of sun, hot weather, fitness, body building, beach goers and surfers...
Midwest folks are a bit stouter in general.

The "Open" physique is much more realistic to me (as far as seeing a strong man), than the "midwest" look that we see on test (stout regular guy look)

I personally have that "midwest" physique... its hard to find clothes that fit ME (they fit most the people out here) properly on the west coast. If you have a waist size over 34-36" you cannot go to the regular department stores on the west coast, not unless you plan on just looking at what all the body builder types with big chests/arms, and small waists are wearing. You have to find yourself having to shop for clothes at not so prestigious places like Target, Walmart, and Kmart, your typical clothing stores dont carry stuff for that "stout" look. Not even the big chains Sears, JC Penny, etc carry stuff that fits (they quickly refer you to their catalog ordering counter).

When I visit the midwest, I find clothes that fit at every store that sells clothing! Why? Majority of the regional population has a different body type, than those on the west coast.

Not sure what to say is realistic.
Other than that... this is a game, its a fantasy at that.
Id rather have the big muscle bound looking like guy on Open, than the test one.
If I wanted realistic, id turn off the computer and go to the park and do something. ;)

The pictures above to me.. represent...

Open - Fit/Body builder/strong
Test- Everyday middleaged stout/chunky guy.

When I selected my body types in the game, I did so on Disney's advice picking what I wanted, and how I wanted to look. Now they are going to change that? Technically that just took existing players right of having their own customized avatar away by replacing it with what Disney thought was best. Major foul.

You want to see chunky? I'll take screenshots of the next body type down from that one. That one actually has a rum belly!

I can agree there though I didn't make Sven look the way I actually wanted him to look. At the time, none of the body types really suited him. I chose the skinny lanky body type because I felt the bigger ones were too over the top.

If Disney really wants us to customize our avatars, then they should let us fine tune more details about them. We can already customize the faces, jaws, etc but the torsos not so much. Although I can see a reason why they wouldn't want to do that. More vertices and polygons.

My original pirate on test hasnt changed to match the new body types he is still the same as when I made him although making another that looks similar is now out of the question.

Most games that I have found that involve creating full body avatars have more control over it than POTCO allows. They should simply add more models, more choices/selections, and not change what currently is in the game. If they added more models to give a larger variety of body styles then that would hopefully not be too many vertices/polygons, etc.

Are these new models to improve performance? or to improve looks? Not sold on the looks side of things at all, to be sure. At least not on the more normal and larger sized models.

Now I have seen some 'stick' figure pirates, where the models could maybe give them a bit more flesh on thar bones!