El Patron's Lost Weapons Taken! April 15, 2010
 

El Patron's Lost Weapons Taken! April 15, 2010

Shrouded in fog, Raven's Cove is an ancient outpost of sand, mystery, and danger. Hidden from human eyes until now and home to El Patron's Lost Weapons - Raven Cove houses the most powerful stockpile of weapons ever known!

Jolly Roger wanted these weapons badly ... so did the EITC Commander, Lord Cutler Beckett. But Beckett double-crossed Jolly to get the weapons for himself. When Jolly Roger found out, he vowed revenge. Their forces met on Raven's Cove and fought ferociously. Witnessing the epic battle was the Marceline Guild. They watched the formidable foes fight for two days - ending in a draw but leaving the island in shambles. Both sides walked away with a hefty share of the enchanted weapons. Now they can be found all over the Caribbean, carried by EITC forces, the Undead, and some were even sold to the Navy. Defeating your enemies is the fastest way to get your hands on these powerful weapons. But the question remains - what's the fate of Raven's Cove? Can it recover from such devastation?

This mean there is a new island? or a new island will come....or is raven cove simply a place we wont see, but will/have heard about

Thats a twist in the story. Seems they want it as the next update... or so.

I think they're just keeping the lore going mates. This is the weapons/inventory update. No new islands.

Yeah it's probably going to be the next new update. :)

So does this mean the Rott Quest and the invasions are officially completely over?

The quest, yes, but the invasions are still going :)

It's taking forever for it to update for me. Can't wait to try out new weapons and skills!

Violet, same here. Cant wait till i can play. Already tested these but now there wont be any resets :D

Granted they took all my clothing items, as well as tattoos and jewelry. But this update is pretty good. I am getting the chance to get Notoriety by repeating quests like the grenades, the totems and hopefully the clothing/tattoos/jewelry quests too. That might give me those items back while giving me more quests to do.

My pirates had no more quests... At least my main 2. Now I get some replay action. I like it!

And no, I am not joking or being sarcastic. I genuinely like this new update. I already bought a blunderbuss and a musket.

Personally, I wish they would of fixed the inventory bug entirely (it was a known issue in the notes.. so obviously they knew something was wrong). I like it being on Live, but if they do recover my lost clothing, tattoos, jewelry, and so on.. will I lose them to make room for my new items?

Don't really mind the quests coming back.. just wish my only quest wasn't a useless Tortuga teleport one...

I got all Teleports, and grenades. I will try the rest later.

Finally! * logging on right now*

gee wish i could play it the game gets a pop up that brings me back to desktop so i cant even select my character!

I did live chat with POTCO team and they said they are fixing this glitch.Personally this is my most favorite upate ever for Pirates (granted pretty much the only pirates has made since ive joined.)

I like this update because... well, kind of obvious.

I hope they're able to fix the lost items bug because, I lost some really good stuff, that took me a while to get! I lost the chest SvS quest tatoos, and my red skull hat, and some other quest clothing.

Not fun... Please don't reset the game to fix this, either.

I lost the exact same items, mate. I just think is an opportunity to replay some of those quests. I honestly don't care much about the skull hats or any kind of hats. I am just glad to replay things on my bored pirates.

Well, i lost me lucky hat, me lucky boots, and me lucky belt...none were quest related...;( , but, I love me rare brawlers cutlass...so,,,its a trade off...lol

Hope this island, if actually made will be larger than most of the islands. I also hope it isn't like Kings, but still heavily guarded by the EITC. I would love to see some more clothes to buy, new weapons to buy, and even a level cap raise in case the enemies on Ravens Cove are super powerful.

All my stuff was back this morning. I even had 2 barbossa outfits because I was wearing it when the update first came live. I did sell some clothes finally to make room for new stuff.

That's great to hear! My clothes weren't a big deal because the clothes I was wearing were the only ones I really use. Now tatts... I am happy they're back because o had some really expensive, and some limited time ones like St. Patrick's day clovers.

I know some folks were heartbroken over their wardrobes. Personally, I LOVE finally getting rid of my first outfit! It was terrible, what was I thinking!? NOW - IT'S GONE!! YAY!

Lol, I say the same thing my starter clothes were hideous when I got my wardrobe back they where the first to go.:laughks2:

I was more worried about having to get rid of my old weapons just to make room for new weapons. Clothing/tattoos/jewelry can disappear for all I care. But all my weapons... The pride I had when I worked hard to get the to that next level so that I could buy that gun. Now I had to sell some of them weapons.

Nothing special about the weapons you previously had, but I could live without losing certain items in my inventory.

Some of that stuff used to cost a good buck, and you can't even sell them for decent price if you were planning to get rid of them anyways.

did they take back the old quests?

Why are people getting anxious over a bug? It is a known issue, and im sure they are working on it. They would seriously only make a bad impression if they cant fix they bug and had to leave everyone without their old weapons/outfit/tattoos/jewellery, and receive alot of complains on live chat. So as a good impression always counts for D, im sure right now they are trying to fix things that does not involve a reset.

Everyone regained all of their items... if not, sell some of the items you have, to leave room. When you do that, if you have another item, it takes the place of the removed one.

....I was on menta and found a holy repeater pistol, rare...and lost it cuz I didn't wanna trash anything,,,and I didna want to leave to sell...and the chest disappeared after the full items message...while i hesitated....arrr.....lesson learned...

Guess I'm 1 of the few that's not happy with this. Don't like this new update, it messed up all my baby Holiday themed pirates that I made for Xmas, Easter, Valentines & etc. I only use those pirates like 1 month each year when I dont feel like leveling but just wanna hang out & give friend's crew rep, so they're basic. I made those pirates using the OLD inventory, all their Starting Outfits unfortunately got categorized as Unlimited Only now =( All my holiday pirates have the perfect themed colored outfits & now they can't wear any of them cept the default white shirt/tan pants combo/"undies? lolol". Only way to fix this is if I remake those holiday pirates so I can pick wearable clothes from the New Inventory from the Make-a-Pirate stage, but then I'd lose my friend list =( So old pirates get punished coz we can't wear Starting Outfit at all but new pirates get to wear their starting outfit, sheesh.

Lastly, this inventory expansion wasn't big enough, ik ik lol I guess I'm in the minority, but I got more clothes than the new update, game even says I should remove some items to recover lost items lolololol. I got so much clothes because I had a full closet before I did the clothes quests, so I had 2 pages/7 items each category, (8 shirts coz of the V-day shirt & 8 hats coz of the Red/Gold skull bandana) & stuff. I can't see everything I own now with the new inventory box. The old box, you had pages you could flip thru so you could see everything, now I gotta trash stuff to see the rest of my inventory =(

Well, very little ppl are expiriencing what you are, cuz...

1:Most of us are either unlimited or basics wear their starting clothes

2:Most of us had only 1 Page of clothes before the update.

Your pirates are rare, and that's all I can say :-P

Has anybody found any sailing items yet????? Ive mentioned this three times now!

I got a gun.

No, I have not yet seen any sailing charms (or what ever they are called) on any of my pirates.... yet.

No, I have found many chests, skull chests, and loot pouches at sea. But alas no sea charms at all.

I want to find a rare dagger based on the costello, the most powerfull broadsword, and blunderbuss as well.

I have found such a dagger on test before. It heals and gives a boost to Eviscerate. The Broadsword I would enjoy to find, but I don't care for Blunderbuss weapons to be truthful.

Raven's cove IS an Island and we will see it in the future. It will be out behind Cuba and the area will swarm with level 60+ Navy and EITC ships.

I have seen pictures of it and there is a rumor spoken of in hushed tones that Raven Cove has mysteriously appeared on test only long enough to trigger a total shutdown as soon as it was realized... It was described as being a largish island with fortifications.

Cool....! Hope we will see it soon.

I'm assuming you're kidding because you don't seem like the type of POF user to fall for things like this.

copy and post the pics here. I would like to see it too. If this is true.. then

SSSWWWWEEEEEEEEEEET

Unlikely. The only pictures of Raven Cove, or any new islands out for that matter, are mysterious looking, with fog surrounding them.




If these group of(I believe the number to be seven) islands ever enter the game, this is what they will look like on the map while the above pictures are what they'll look like while sailing.
http://www.piratesonlineforums.com/g...5-2010-518.jpg

These islands are not large, by the way. If anything they're just there as distractions while we need to search for Raven Cove itself, which will be bigger.

That second island looks very familiar.

MacIronhawk, where do you get that information and those pictures??

He got those pics from the Phase Files.
Nice they are, and I knew they would be Fog Bound. But why only one island for this long a wait? We need loads more islands, and the Caribbean to be widened and not so congested. Also ships need to move properly among islands. Then only the game would feel big and an actual sea, much like it used to a few months ago.

I'm just voicing my opinion, actually.

For all I know, all of these new islands could be set in place as the other islands for when new players come in. As in, Tortuga looks like a mysterious island, but once you visit it the fog goes away.

Or these islands could be a whole new set of islands for a big update. All of them are probably accessable, but if Raven Cove is involved, only one of the islands will be "important".

Or perhaps all of the islands are "Raven Cove" and that's just some name the set of islands were given.(probably not)

There's a lot of things that they could be, but I wouldn't even expect them in game, ever. The developers do weird things of taking things in and out of the files.

That is a compliment. Right?

All I know is what I was witness to. The only screenshots I have are of random level 60+ Navy ships in the area.

And the Island could have been a major weird reflection sort of a glitch but the ships were definitely out there until the server was shut down and returned...It all happened just before the second reset during the Great Test Server Inventory and Progress Destruction Event of Spring '10.

I think i remember sailing while on Test and saw some 60+ ships in Uncharted Waters.

I may be mistaken though. I was a low level and couldn't get close enough.

Yes but only on test after a little update yesterday. This morning was only when i started getting sea charms D:

so they'll hopefully be on live soon as well.

Did they look like this?

Aye, that was the type of ship too. Looked like a colossus.

Yeah, it was a compliment. It's just, the way you typed it, and the way you usually type I thought, "Wait, really?"

And now that you showed the Navy Baston picture, yeah I believe you.

It's very likely that the developers are showing things like this to test them. there are elements on the toontown test server that sometimes look odd, and we end up seeing them later.

Or they just put them there, and it's obvious, and they don't tell us what they're for. Like new street props on the toontown test server. They didn't say what they were for, but they released them.

Why they do this is beyond me. Release it for an hour or so to see if it won't cause any bugs by just being in the game? Beyond me, but it seems silly that they didn't even say in their release notes why there are these higher level enemy ships.

I for one hope these new higher level(or just one new higher level) enemy ship doesn't end up giving us a new level cap, because I like having enemies that are higher levels than me. I always feel good beating something that's supposed to be stronger than me.

A friend and I were hoping to find a GM and ask what the Cove actually looked like ( apparently Crew Up Days are no more?) but the above descriptive account settles some of my question.And the reasons behind me asking wondering about the island are my geographical interests and also if Raven's Cove will arrive in the game.This description ,for me, almost seems to confirm that the Cove will be coming with the same update that gives us those Fort Cannons:The next content update I would assume.I also have the feeling that harder enemies may make an appearence to match these new weapons.

I have a sickening feeling that Raven Cove may be unlimited only :(

Honestly I hope it is. I feel sorry for all my basic friends.

Don't. It's our fault that we don't pay, lol.

Even if Raven Cove wasn't, if we will need the BIG weapons to deal with it - then the basics are going to be way overmatched.

probably, but there aren't many basics that would mind.

Basics are easily satisfied, aye? If Raven Cove were members only, it would be like the Black Pearl Island. If it's in open waters, I can't imagine them having you come up, clicking the anchor button, and saying, 'Oops. Sorry Mate'. That's not Disney. Unlike other games, Pirates Online has always had its areas open to basic access, if not the items, upgrades, etc.

If a new island was added, it shouldn't be available to paying members only. Basics should have the option to go there, although, they should also realize it will be very difficult. Take Tormenta for example. Basics are allowed there, however, there isn't much to gain from it.

...mebbe it'll be like Brigadoon...appearing outta the mists every hundred years...or mebbe like the Black Pearl Quest,,,you only go after a long, arduous quest is finished?

Brigadoon, ROFL!
That's what i mean, I hope it's in the open water, and not a boss battle or something.