How realistic should POTCO get?
 

I wanna hereyou ideas on what would make POTCO better by adding somethings realistic (like weather and such) post them right here would like to here them :pirate6:

I would love to have some weather storms that affected our sailing

i would like to do to davy jones locker :)

I want to sit down/ lay down...... and it want RAIN

Rain, storms, hurricanes, heck, even snow during the holidays. Yes, I know it doesn't snow in the Caribbean, but for the holidays it may be fun. Also, being able to hold a blocking stance would be nice.

I agree... :) :D xD
 

Aye I agree with you said mate, and what others have said. We definitely NEED weather in the game as soon as possible so it gets/ and feels more realistic. :bookishfj7: :piratewheelgo2:

we need virtual reality suits that take us to another demonsion so we never have to live real lives :D

Storms. Sea Monsters (Oh wait, you said REAListic). Real "Parry" and "Blocked!" stances. Ragdoll physics XD. Be able to SHOOT NAVY and EITC. Instead of "jail" when killed by skeletons, having to escape "Davy Jone's Locker." I could go on. :P

when you shoot a pistol, it doesnt fire at enemy, it fires at the sky...
I agree with weather... huge blizzards during winter?
The graphics are unrealistic... even with graphics set on high... and if you do that, LOTS of lag...

it would be nice to have storms roll in when you are out at sea, make it a lil more interesting, get caught in the rain during invasions lot of other things

During the curse, pirates look more like clay people then skeletons...

I actually don't mind the graphics that much. They are simple, which I like, but not blocky if you know what I mean.

they could up the graphics a bit, but yes i agree with you davy

I'm sure we all know this, but most game engines can apply physics to clothing so... how about in a decade they do that with our pirate clothing? I mean, I want to see wind blow my shirt and pants, and even affect how my pirate runs.

Eh... maybe that's too much for Disney, they're probably not willing to do that until everyone's computers can run lightning fast.

But still, anything to add realism to the game will make me happy.

Disney should make a brand new ocean system, like when a ship sinks, waves come from the ship causing ships in vicinity to shake, and when sailing, waves should come off bow and have bow splashes. And I'm down with the new weather idea. We should also have new walking animations, where we walk and to run, we hit Shift. Add explosions to ships when they sink and cause them to rip apart. Maybe also add wind sounds and effects

I thought I remembered some release notes they had a while back saying that they introduced lightning and fog, but I never saw that. Anyone seen that?

you can see lightning on top of skeleton ships (although it looks nothing like lightning, it it just well... a blob of white light.) Fog? havent seen that yet...
Anyway, I would also like to see ocean getting improved, from both the shore and while sailing. Like matthew said, there are no waves at all, at sea and on shore. Ships look more like flying above water then sailing above water. The ocean while sailing also looks fake... looks more like land that got covered blue.

they gotta lot to do when making it realistic

Are your Graphic Settings on High? A lot of that is there, but only when the High Graphics setting is turned on.

Due to an unexpected occurance, i can't set my settings on high or i lag everywhere however i do remember what it was like with high grahpics it is not much different then normal or medium graphics high graphics just make it so you can see everything w/o having to be up close, well from my perspective

You mean these release notes?

Release Notes - December 10, 2009

New Game Features and Improvements:
Ships and Sailing have undergone several improvements.
You may see a boost in performance while at sea and slight changes to ship design and sail animations, depending on your graphics settings.

A new lighting and fog system gives more atmosphere to the environments based on the time of day.

Yea! That! Thanks James. Was never able to notice the lightning and fox system though...

i never saw the fog, just the lightning of sorts over undead ships

I would lol if PO added storms and a tough 1 sunk my ship...

but i would NOT lol if it sunk my ship again...

Part of the issue is simply a matter of - the more detailed, the slower it goes. They are simply trying to make work on as many PCs as possible as fast as possible.

Now, obviously they could ratchet it up some but must be willing to lose the older slow PC customers in the trade-off.

I would upgrade PC's in a heartbeat, we need some content