Calling All Testers: New Merchants and More - November 23, 2010
 

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Test Servers have been updated to include new merchants selling all-new outfits on Port Royal, Tortuga, Padres del Fuego and Cuba! Keep an eye out for new Pirates with a Merchant's icon and see what deals these suspicious sellers have in store for you.

We'd appreciate all Pirates with Test Access to login and help test the following:

- New Merchants and brand-new clothing styles are now available.
- More high level enemies in a new recently discovered cave on Raven's Cove. Hint: The new cave entrance is a trapdoor in the Firebat cove on the way towards the mine shaft elevator.

Please report any bugs you encounter using either the in-game feedback form (look for the '?' icon) or submit any issues here.

Known Issue: A few of the new clothing items may not be added properly to the inventory. If you encounter this issue, please note exactly which item you were attempting to buy and submit a bug report.

WOOT! It'll only be a little while before these hit live i hope! And new enemies on Ravens Cove? AWESOME!

EDIT: Yo testers, make sure to get some screenies, I wanna see the new content :D

Woot! Ill start testing, lets get this thing to live!

I wonder what the cave will be like!

Oh my! Disney just loves to add in these little surprises now, aye? A new cave, the GM-transfer thingy.... not wonder it took a little longer than expected!

Muchos kudos Disney! Keep up the good work!

Actually it doesn't say new enemies it says "More high level enemies".

LULZ oh well :D I read it wrong. But could you get screenies anyway? THANKS! :P

I would really love to see the new cave of Raven's Cove. Higher Level Enemies might be the latest sign of Notoriety Increase coming soon

Aye, same here *hint hint* :piratetongueor4:

OMGGGG THE CLOTHES! THEY ARE...... * tunes out *

How much are those clothes all together...? AND I LOVE THAT DRESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS i might even have to come back to get themmmmmm ZOMG SO PRETTYYY

nice clothes lol

OMG !!! Awesome!!! Can't wait to see the enemies. And the clothes look great also!

Theres to different 1's

Haha, you look funny in the new clothes charles xD

Whoa. Edward, do those pictures say what I think they say...?

can someone go to the new ravens cove bad guys? lol

Got a little rum effect there, Rope? Right now I have to sit and let the thing update. -sigh-

The ravens cove cave isnt all that good. And it isnt nesicarrily a cave, its more of an underground tunnel(And there are 2 tunnels) there are only about 6 or 7 enemies in the cave, and none of them are above the level 40

Ok, so they might have gotten rid of the Coin Flipping Emote. I, my friends, will now begin to cry. Heavily.

*Note: They also removed the Emerald Duelist Clothing.

Whooaaazerz! This looks amazing!!! And it looks like you can now transfer leadership of your guild. Thats great!

Cool..............

Aww man... no green clothes! D:

THEY REMOVED THE /coin EMOTE??? NOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU HAVE SHUNNED YOURSELVES DISNEY!!! SHUNNED! :(

nice!!! i like those french style hats on the royal commador! ill use it for the brigade i just hope i can fit all these clothing pieces!!! the emerald duelist hat is also really nice

Ooh! giving away leadership! All of this looks so awesome! - Runs to test server -

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OMG i cant wait for ghost that can at least think about thinking to defeating me. i hope these ghost know how do take a couple of steel shots. and i will be doing this in style.

P.S is that all the new clothes? plus, can u describe the enemy's?

Can someone give us a picture of the New Raven's Cove Cavern and its enemies? I would like to see how tough they be.

what are the new ghosts? anyone got screen shots?

Aye, I too would like to see these new caverns!

The cave is weird, it doesn't have aminimap either, it gets confusing. They also lied about "new" enemies as far as I can tell, no new enemies. Another big thing is taking out the /coin emote. What will the Abassains do?

One thing they failed to mention in this update was that graphics were downgraded once more. Textures look less realistic on high. If you have past screenshots of tortuga, compare them with what you see now and you'll see a small, but noticeable change.

An example would be the "mountains" around tortuga have less framerate, and look more boxy, and when you get farther away from a building, it will literally look like a paper building. There will be little to no detail other than a flat color surface with some lines on it.

I believe they did this to enhance the details on cloths. Compensation, maybe? Anyways, I'm happy with this update other than the textures looking less realistic than they did two months ago. But hey, eventually they're going to go so low people will have enough of it and demand better graphics. No everone owns a windows 98.

The people on Abassa shall dance instead. From morning to night...


Which means even MORE lag. :degen:

Yea, that cave is a total waste. Its puny and has 10 firebats and four or so ghosts... kind of a useless add. Its cool though.

What GM transfer thing??



edit: nvm saw it on the release notes on the test launcher

The Royal Commodore from EE looks good for Jason. I was always going for the regal captian thing, anyway...

Wow... right when I was getting a little faith, they disappoint again.

Lame. ONE set of clothes, across ALL merchants??? I was expecting a selection - thats how they made it sound. What a complete and total LET DOWN.

And, why remove the coin flip?? Way to lose Disney, now I remember why I quit playing before. It was my standard AFK animation. NOTE TO D - IF PEOPLE USE SOMETHING, AND IT WORKS, DONT REMOVE IT.

Back to not renewing monthly - this update isnt worth $10 a month.

I actually think that they will each get a new set of clothes every month or so, or every update. Also, I think they will add different clothes to test as time goes on... if not, then your right, this update may be a waste.

Maybe the cave will forshadow something or be a place for a boss battle? I doubt it, but it had some secrets that I'm yet to figure out, and it was evry mysterious. ^They definitely will add another set every month, because there used to be a January out and it says to the left of the screen something like "November 2010" Plus they said they would have rotating selections.

I was hoping for an ongoing shop with unique selections - perhaps 'shuffling' from time to time re: availability. Maybe a rare item here or there, first come first serve, like a real store. (Could be run like the drops - so many available, get it while you can)

But this, one outfit per month???? Lame as heck. Oooh, first day of the month, buy the outfit. Merchant now unnecessary for the rest of the month. Wow.. epic fail.

Cmon Disney - have them have an assortment!!! Shuffle items! Bright colors! Black clothes!

Uh.... anyone have the screenshots of the caves? LOL. Ya ya, they are disappointing but I'd still like to see what it is like lol.

the cave looks the any other cave... small, long, rocky...
It's fairly small, I've only found 2 passageways so far, one with ghosts (the exact same ones you see in the mines) and the other end with fire bats.

Screenshots? lol :D

Ya! the Boot R better than Barbossa's for alll u pplz who dress up as eitc ppl

I think the new caves are to make a place for people who haven't done the quest yet. :P Seems useless if they just winged it...

Nelly I think they will have more clothes than just per month but i think they wanted to just put one pair out there thats all

I'll try to get you guys some screenies of the caves. I took 5 or so, tried to get the majority of the cave in, but I forgot to take a picture of the little entry way. Tomorrow I'll get the screenies out. I'm tired right now.

This update isn't great. This new system of new clothes per month is interesting, but nothing what we expected. We expected tons of clothes released with these merchants. A Trading system, a pirate/guild lair for storing items, complete change of Treasure system to actually collectible objects, and new skills, would have definitely sufficed to go with this update.

The GM Transfer thing was needed for so long, and I wonder why they brought it out only now... But good anyway.

The cave sounds interesting because of the fact that it means more area to explore... But some more unique enemies prescribed for them would have been better. Based on this I'd like to suggest to them a back-side to the Cove, and a fog bound (haunted) crossing called Desolate Pass to reach there.

All-in-all, this update is one of D's stalling updates. Like those mini-game ones? I can only hope for something great by January... new staves, new ships, you name it.

Going on Test to look for the caves. L-server - 1 hour max.

Then pay $80 a year, that saves you $40. By the way, a new set of cloths comes out once a month, so over the period of one month at least 12 new clothing sets will come out, or more depending on what sort of events they have out.

There are hundreds of clothing items in the files that don't even exist in the game, so the one set they have on test is just the beginning.

I'm hoping the merchants all having the same outfit is merely a test. After all, do we need 4 guys to sell one outfit?

On the coin thing, just do /BORED. :)

My guess is that they are just putting out that one outfit out on test just for testing purposes. When it comes to live, im pretty sure they will add more..... because it didnt take them two months just for one outfit and a small tunnel

The caves are disappointing, I would at least appreciate some new names for enemies, even inferno bats, who are exact same as fire bats but are higher lever and new names, and a boss. They ghosts could also have new names like rebel ghosts? exact enemy, same name and level, put in different location and they call it "new high level enemies"

^ You are right. I wish I can take screenies. But you have to charge Compaq to use the option. -_-. But the cave is boring looking.

Ill try and get some screenies of the cave for you guys...

Here they are, btw they aren't all of caves. :turkey5: :tg20: :tg21: :turkey3:

EDIT:I only have room for one, is there a way to take ones that I already posted down?

ill add some screenshots....

Hmm... just looks like the rum cellar with a hole in it..

Jason, to take pictures you have up, down, go to User Control Panel, then on the left hand side, at the bottom, there's something called Attachments. From there, you can delete what you don't want/need.

I would recommend signing up for TinyPic or Photobucket or something, and just posting the IMG code for the picture you uploaded. :P

The cave looks alright, but I personally GUARANTEE you it was because of lower levels moaning about how they can't go to the mines (where they have NO business without a guild or crew...) and Disney made it. I wouldn't complain too much since it was made for them.

Finally, guilds no longer have to be leaderless!
:tg20:

I am happy to see more cloths But instead of fliping coins every one will have to dance a jig
It is good a guild master can give the leader ship to someone else so guilds don't end up leaderless.

Oh new clothes awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

On a further note, the Rough Tricone hat is now back in stores.

I'm surprised no one has commented on the new Privateering Ship List panel thingy whatever-you-call-it.

Um... Elaboration, CT? I'm rather interested in this..

whoa Edward nice screenies especially the replacement GM one

although the new clothes do look rather Navy-ish

I gasp at the drastic shortage of cave screenies. I guess I'll have to get some myself....

EDIT: After exploring the place for myself, you guys are doing us all a favor by not posting the screenshots. (No sarcasm there!)

:D :D :D :D :D Nate is excited :) My test is updating right now

hmm........... on test server, they added the "Treasure Hunter" outfit to the merchants. Its for December 2010

sigh... the caves do NOT exceed any expectations for me. Only a couple firebats and Mutineer ghosts. And the cave system is SMALL :(

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well, just because they didn't make a cave filled with high levels doesn't mean its completely useless. you can use it for guild meetings and such. as for the clothes, well i finally have some thing to show off my wealth besides the jewels i loaded my avatar with. :turkey5:

Thanks for telling me how to delete attachments, here are some pictures of the new updates if you want them so bad...

The third picture is a glitch in the new cave, you could glitch through a certain wall and be able to walk on some weird white sandy area, it also gives you the idea that the cave is bigger and more complicated then it looks.

:turkey5: :tg21: :tg20: :turkey3: :pilgrim: :turkeydanceani: :turkeytalk:

where is that third pic looks like a glitch

that just means that the cave might be expanded some time in the future

"The third picture is a glitch in the new cave, you could glitch through a certain wall and be able to walk on some weird white sandy area, it also gives you the idea that the cave is bigger and more complicated then it looks."

That's what he said.

There are enemies in the glitch area?

I think it just fell through and stated attacking me when I got close enough.

the new cave is very dissapointing it has normal lvl enemis so its not worth going to for much i went there on test and i killed and killed and killed the highest i saw was a lvl 47 but the rest were normal lvl there was never 2 enemies over lvl 40 at any given time so its stupid

say... how do you glitch into the sandy area?

I didn't do it myself, but I think James did, I just telelported in.

the "new cave" should of came out with the raven cove update, from what i have heard from you guys it's not all important or BIG for that matter, and if it's made for those who haven't finished the quest will i see level 1's wandering around in the caves now? quite the update for the lower levels i guess good luck to the level 1's who wish to try the luck at the caves

Level 1's don't even try to explore Ravens Cove. They have no idea that it's even a "new" island, and most of them just stick to what the storyline tells them to do. They hardly even bother with leveling on purpose.

I didn't find it actually, there are several weird glitch's or bugs in the new cave/'s

They have added the emerald duelist outfit to merchants again. This might mean that potco will add one outfit every third day........ thats just abot 10 outfits a month

Captain Luke, that just means that the update will probably come in January, not December.

and James, i meant James o Martin

I don't know about you, but I really hope that they expand inventory capacity...

Yeah, i only have a little bit of room for clothes...

I have no room left. Also, does anyone know how much these outfits are costing?

To much mate...

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Igor say yes Igor see a HUGE lack of space for all the great new items and clothing!!!! Igor has had this problem for a long time with the cannon rams now it is spread to cloths. Igor think we all need to send feed back stating just that!! Igor know Igor has been. Igor loves the new work Disney has done but should Igor not be able to keep all Igor's treasures in a Sea Chest? IGOR NEED MORE ROOM!!
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I definitely agree that they need to expand the inventory capacity. I am sure they will do this in the near future, would only make sense!


The prices range from 300-3000 thus far. Not bad at all if ye ask me. :)

I'm With Igor Too!

Agreed Igor!

I agree Igor! I'm pretty much full! I need more space! At least 1 1/2 times as much!

I have to sell some of my fancy looted clothing drops. Thats not cool!

Totally agree Igor!

I agree!! i hope they will add more space.