Test Release Notes - August 2, 2010
 

Release Notes - August 2, 2010

• Fishing is now available! Head to the docks of Port Royal, Tortuga, and Padres Del Fuego and talk to the Fishmaster to get a rod and start fishing.
• New Daggers and Throwing Knives have been added and can be found in Loot Drops.
• A new Guild rank has been added! Members can now be promoted to Veterans and invite other players into their guild.
• Guild Officers are now restricted to 5 member removals per day.
• Guild Members will be notified when a member has been invited or removed from a Guild.
• Fixed a crash in Cannon Defense when players enter a game where mines had already been shot into the field.
• Fixed a bug where players could move around while injured if they had just taken Ghastly Visage.
• Fixed a bug where a players voodoo bar was not refilling properly upon login.
• The starting Voodoo Doll, Dagger, and Staff items should now be purchasable from stores.
• Fixed various collision issues with walls, crates and barrels
• Moved Genevieve and Marcos Verde in taverns.
• Common treasures should be attainable in loot containers.

Please report any issues you encounter using this feedback form.



Known Issues - August 2, 2010

• Members may have trouble logging onto Pirates via the web browser after a server crash. Clearing the cache and cookies and restarting the browser should correct the problem.
• Ray Fishlander, the Fishmaster on Tortuga, may appear to be floating off the docks.

Please report any issues you encounter using this feedback form.

After fishing for ten minutes, I love it.

Better than toontown's and I see how it fits into the pirate theme. It's fun, and a good gettaway from enemies.

Also theres a NEW ISLAND by Isla Perdida you can't land it because of fog. :piratewheelgo2:

Please post a fishing screenshot.

With the new 5 removals a day and the notification options large guilds can survive and now immature people can no longer destroy guilds, they can only slightly damage it by removing only 5 people which means that they would need at least 20 other people to seriously damage a guild.

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Nice screenies..... And nice instructions But does fishing help ur pirate in anyway? (But not the fact that it gets you gold)

Proof please.

I'm too busy fishing. xD

Whats the level for? there are 6 empty slots that seem to unlcok something when you reach a certain level

Here's what I have so far at level 4:

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Something's telling me in about three years people here are going to be posting, "Remember when fishing came out?"

Just for the record, your skills get better as you level up your rod. While heal stinks at first, it gets better as you level up.

I'm only a level 9, but things get real interesting the farther you go.

Here ya go ( it would not let me port here )

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Oh.. it let me "port" there :D

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Thanks.^

The fishing boats are cool, too. Boy, this update is cool.

Why in the heck is it foggy? HHHMmmmmmmmm........

What are we supposed to do with the fishing boats? I sailed up to it.. nothing happened.

UPDATE: Nevermind.. I figured it out... HA

Oh.. and did you see THIS??? OMG


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Posted that in the other thread.

The Ship Of The Line looks like this:
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This update makes me more gitty by the second. More ships!?

Haha, Kat, you need some money mate! Can't go sailing around in a light sloop while there be SotLs about! And Sven, you're still buying me a Rev.

I call First Mate on your ship, Crest!

If anyone can post a picture of a Fishing Boat if it looks any different from what we can now buy, please post it, because I'm interested.

Also, the Jaws theme song would be PERFECT for sailing around that new island...

The fishing boats are randomly picked(I believe!) and cost 1000 for rent.

They're without broadsides and only have fishing nets. Enemies will NOT attack you, so don't worry. You're friendly, basically.

Also, something tells me the new ships were a mistake for the update, because there is no cap for them and weren't in the release notes. I understand the island no being in the notes, but not the ships, so we might say good bye to them tomorrow morning.

That's an awesome ship Sven!!!!

And yep.. I'm pretty broke.. even too broke to go fishing. I went out on this public fishing boat ( Helga's ) and this is what it looks like. But the fish are much harder to catch out here and I lost all me lures. LOL. ( Same darn thing in real life too )

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Does anyone know if all the fishing boats are sloops or are the frigates and galleons as well, and are they all the same size sloop? (not that I see why there would be a frigate or galleon fishing boat...)

Kind of like the first sightings of those fishing baskets...
Or the weird sightings of the Navy Bastions that replaced the Navy Panthers in their time....

Look at the statistics of the new ships. All of them seem messed up except the ship of the line.

It's my beleif that all of these ships are probably real, only this was a mistake, just like the first time we saw fishing nets.

While I hate to say it, it's probably just a little hint that they didn't mean to give us. It will probably be gone with the next update, but I think we'll see them all again soon.

And the only actually bug I've had with fishing is, you know how the amount of feet are shown by the health bar? Sometimes that disappears.

wierd that you caught a yellow fish, but the fish in your bucket is blue... colour changing fishs... interesting..

I thought fishing is only on test? Why is there a basic pirate at the back of the boat fishing? Thought you had to had unlimited to join test..

That Picture. Is it a sign we can actually sneak behind enemy ship lines by being their ship?

new islands, POTC IS serious. Also with veteran ranks this will be VERY HELPFUL!

I think The new island would be released with new staffs? So far POTCO has released 2 things at once. The swords came with firearms, dolls came with cannon defense, daggers came with fishing.
Also has anyone found any new daggers? Please post pics or discriptions if you did!

I wonder why that wasn't in the release notes.... Maybe I should stop spending my gold on thing I don't need.

Any screenshots of the new ships?

And why do you have to be sailing level 15 for warships, but not a sotl????? Maybe they were released early like fishing was with the other update. I am going to go look before they take them off.

Also I am very excited about the new guild ranks. Fishing... I'll have to try it and see. And my test pirate is too low level for daggers, but I'm sure my open will love them.

And wow it takes a long time to update! 9% in the time it takes to write this post!

has anyone bought a ship of the line?

I go to sleep and this is what D gives us? Man, I missed A LOT.... LoL:D

I want that ship of the line!!! Anyone wanna give me gold?:D LoL

Very Nice Job Disney. I do hope though since that this is a big update that they let us explore the new mysterious foggy island before it hits live. :) :/ :bookishfj7::piratewheelgo2:

Am I the only one that is about to have a stroke out of excitement?

A New Island, New Daggers, Fishing, ****NEW GUILD RANKS****, and new ships?! All I can say is my Test pirate is gonna be pretty busy today! :D

I wonder if we will be allowed to own more than three ships now, although I would be happy to sell all my warships to get a SOTL and a light sloop.

Wait we cant dock if its foggy o_o...

Anyway fishing looks interesting :P another way to level up and get noto! I like the new guild updates hopefully this will prevent more mass guild deletions.

EDIT: NEW SHIPS NO WAY! :O

Yes way - the prices range from 120,000-200,000 - 120,000 being the cost of the new Kingfisher ship, and 200,000 being the cost of the new Ship Of The Line.

Could someone help me earn gold for them? I currently have no help at all - and most of my friends rarely come on.... RARELY......

So, anyone got the SUPER EXPENSIVE ship of the line??

Omg i just found a skeleton playing blackjack....

lol same here. When can we land on the foggy island? I hope before it gets to live? :'( :( :/ :bookishfj7::piratewheelgo2:

Pics Please!

Thank you for this great info! : )

Here you go, mate:

Thats so weird.... Ty

ROFL, a skeleton playing blackjack.

That's not weird at all... even Skellies need gold...
... to buy that perfect tombstone!

So thats where old Darky gets his gold...

I'll play Dark at the blackjack tables! I mean, Sven said I couldn't shoot the Conquistador, so I'll shoot Dark instead, hahahaha.

Anyways. Why would they add skellies at the tables? It doesn't make sense to me.

Because they want to >.> (I think) :cards: :cards: :cards: :cards: :cards:

FINALLLY, more ships!

I noticed that, in addition to the new ships, there are now two sets of War Class ships listed (same prices, same stats) when you go to a shipwright to purchase. This is probably just a glitch, but has anyone been brave (or silly) enough to purchase from the second set to see if there are any differences? If I could, I would buy as many of the new ships as I could as quickly as possible ;)

Some notes on Fishing

• Each fish type has a unique personality - how they react to lures and how they struggle once you hook 'em
• Different fish types give different rep - some "easy" fish give pretty good rep - this may be adjusted
• All Fishing ships are sloops
• Fishing ships can be damaged by NPC ships (crossfire). Ship repair is same as regular.
• Basic members can only get to Fishing level seven (Journyman Rod)

Once you get access to the Test server, if your Live Unlimited account switches to Basic so will the corresponding Test account.

A skeleton playing Blackjack? I wonder if he's good at playing? That reminds me of this skeleton from the early Port Royal.
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Has anyone bought the Ship of the Line yet?

I'm wondering if the phantom ship is... actually a phantom, which would explain the low statistics for it.

I'm wondering why there's no cap for them, either, and also why Disney hasn't taken them from the game, unless they're actually supposed to be there.

Disney does like to put things in without telling us, such as the new teleportation animation and swimming animation.(which look good, actually)

Let's just cross our fingers and hope these ships are for real. And since there's no cap, I think any tester should try their hardest to get the amount of money needed for one of these ships.(their all frigate type ships, so maybe this means a new set of galleon and sloop ships will be coming?)

Wait, so even the Kingfisher and Cerberus ships are frigates? Shouldn't they be sloops?

No, all the images appear as frigates. The ships themselves are not.

I must say, I'm impressed. This is perhaps the first thing they've done that I've actually been giddy about. Looks like they were just saving it for now! Keep up the good work Disney!

This is one BIG update! New guild ranks finally more ships,fishing this should keep us busy for a while and there selling the ship of the line?!?!. I wonder how much cargo it holds.

According to the statistics, 24.

Someone should post a screenshot of the statistics of all of the new ships available.

How about a picture aboard the Ship of the Line so we can see how it looks on position of cannons?

Where are all the fishing locations (aside from the boats)? I've seen them on Port Royal, Tortuga, and Padres. I didn't see any on Cuba.

None at Cuba, and here's a legendary fish battle!
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That was hard, big fish i failed miserably...

Those are the only locations.

has anyone gotten any new daggers? fishing is cool, but i want to see some new daggers, mates!

I TOLD YOU ALL IT WOULD BE FOGGY!! I was right!

so... I guess the new ISLAND will come in the next update??

no, new ISLAND. it will be out soon, i think.

Test just went down for maintenance. I was experiencing a bug where fishing skills disappeared, so I logged out and it won't let me back in.

I'm assuming that either small bugs will be fixed, and that the new ships will be taken out.

So far fishing itself doesn't seem to have too many bugs, although at the docks pirates that fish seem to be floating in the air, and so is the fishing master. Other than that, all the bugs seem really minor.

New Ships?
 

While on the test server fishing a humongous Navy ship came in range but began doing battle with a Storm Reaper !!! It had a pirate name ! I haven't been on the test server for awhile so this was definitely news to me, LOL. Will these be ships we can buy??? Very cool !

:)

That was another player who already bought the ship of the line probably.

Yes, you can buy a phantom, for about 180k, although now that test is back up, I'm not sure if they took the ships out of the game to buy.

I'll tell you now since I'm on that, the new ships you could buy at the start of the update are GONE. You can no longer buy them. They were either an unwanted hint, or a huge mistake.

Darn. Well, at least we know that there's SOMETHING on the horizon. Ah well. Does anybody still have them from when they were bought or were the completely removed?

So you cant buy the ships?

Nope, another update will bring them to test...

Aww, what a let down.

That's why I said, "If I could, I would buy as many of the new ships as I could as quickly as possible ;)" if I was Unlimited Access, I would have definitely bought a skele ship. Not sure how unwanted of a hint making the new ships briefly available was ;)

It still lets me level up after I mastered fishing at level 20, but whenever I level, it crashes me.

I'm unlimited access on test, but I'm not the type of person to play test often, because it's not open. That's really it, because it feels pointless to me to go on test, when it's not open, where I'm 'competing' with other players.

I didn't see any off the ships at sea, though. I've heard people say, "Yes, I bought this ship, and my friend bought the phantom" but I didn't see them out in open waters.

I agree that if you could actually buy and sail these ships, it probably wasn't a bug, or if it was, an extremely rare bug. Either way, it was really interesting to see those new ships pop up.

But why would we be able to buy a skeleton ship? For a certain quest, or what? I wouldn't be sure, but I hope we see them again, sometime.

As for fishing, there's another bug where once you're at level 20, if you level up again you crash.

I guess this is a let the cat out the bag thing? It could be disney trying to say they will be out soon.

Sigh.... I spent all dayat Darkhart trying to get gold for nothing? I really hope the ships come back on test, then to live soon. And really they were THE Warlord, THE Phantom, etc. I thought they were new classes just with those names as a coincidence. :piratewheelgo2:

I just caught Speedy Lou, one of the Legendary fish.

Here are some shots. But first, to get the fish, first you'll need to click extremely fast, and there will be a rod GUI, so the faster you click, the closer you get to green, and once you get to green, you need to move the mouse in a circle motion to "reel it in".

It took a while, and I was afraid he was gonna get away, but I got him!

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You also get to wave good bye to the fish, and see him swim out. It was too much of a happy ending. I wanted to fry him up and eat him.

Nice, right after I read this, I encountered Speedy Lou (for the second time - failed the first time). That brings me up to two...


edit: Just encountered Fogbell (the one that someone made look like an island before). It happened after Speedy Lou (much like it did the first time for me), and it escaped immediately at the clicking part. Since that happened twice, i'm assuming it's a bug.

edit2: I have level 21 fishing... they're gonna spend time fixing that soon I guess.

I already caught Speedy Lou and Fire Dragon.

The key seems to be leaving the lure down at the ocean and stall as time passes by.

A little bit fun, but it is definitely not anything that could keep me from canceling my subscription. I do advise this is just another click and tell game, still looking for more and would not advise paying to play it.

it seems that whever a legendary fish is caught, you wave goodbye and take a scale, am i right?
i wouldn't know, don't have test access.

Yes, that's all that happens (other than the short story, rep, gold, and possible loot).