Game Reforms!
 

ignoring the bugs and glitches which most of us want fixed i being one of them i'll move on to section 3.

1. to much detail = lag good idea in theory but it would require having multiple npcs on board with total numbers of npcs at sea being greater than the total on land which means most of the servers processing power going to that.

2. good idea but disney couldn't please everyone with that and would have to keep it balanced (most people would want a super weapon but it won't happen as people would get board with the game soon after).

3. necessary but should be done at a slower pace then adding smaller content like new weapons and more ships as they would rush it because people would demand new content. they need a big thing fallowed by stock small things then story quest that way quality would be higher.

4. yes but more npcs would be needed and sand boxing it is a good idea and proves a pirate more then completing quest after quest after quest.

5. more types of ships might work but this game has millions of players and if everyone had a different ship it would take a lot of storage space on there servers.

6. disney has to walk a fine line when it comes to basic members giving them enough to get them to like potco enough to pay but not giving them to much so they have a good reason to fork over $10.00 a month

7. good idea on the bank and message board but thee guild hall would have to have only 5-10 variations on guild halls in the mean time semi hidden areas like the cellar on rum runners

8. infamy is just a way of making people feel good about them self honestly some people would pay to keep that infamy and keeps people active as you loose it if you don't play. it has to be easy to get but require work (and unlimited to keep)

section 4 good idea but they svs and pvp servers should be combined with pvp being french vs spanish major islands should be kept on the server. You should be only able to land at an island suitable to your level (port royal 1-19 tortuga 18- 29 cuba 28- 39 padres 38+ ) the should be no npcs on these islands and when you should chose your side when you launch you ship or press a button before that no pvp or svs. also when you die you go to jail but the would be 2 jails instead of one no combat in jail. also you should be able to teleport to other servers but only after you die or voluntarily walking the jail requiring 2 minuets of no combat and then waiting 5 minutes in jail until you can teleport to another server pvp or otherwise.

I will argue your points tomorrow because i got to sleep because it's really late but i do have time to ask one question. How long have you been playing POTCO? because a lot of your arguments seem like something a new player would mention such as regarding the New story quests being done at a slower pace when it has been 4 years...and nothing new.

since 08-09 also ravens cove is the second story quest enjoy. also the first lasted about three years at this rate chapter 3 will show up in 2012-2013.

- Leadership is completely useless because of the enoumous LAG it causes to the people on board. This provides more drawbacks then benefits.

While they shouldn't rush content, I think it would be better if they released new staves and some form of dungeon/instance. If done properly, this will buy them sufficient time for them to fix these issues. I made a thread of my ideas for a POTCO instance, but the thread has disappeared.

Players like to explore, its what keeps us in game. Instead of having lots of bugs in game for us to find and get to glitched areas, I think the game should create special areas on each island that are hard to get to, and have the entrance unlikely to be seen unless you were looking very hard, kind of like Rift's system. This will allow players to continue to enjoy exploring hidden areas, without having to use a glitch to accomplish it.

Also, POTCO should have an official forum with Gm's that can contact in game devs, like other games. This allows devs to understand what players want most. Many posts have provided great ways to improve the game, but sadly, the devs will never see them, as only a thread's first post by the OP are mailed to the game. And I have my suspicions about whether the devs actually read our mails, as none of the great ideas that would vastly improve gameplay have been made, even if they do not take a lot of work.

Really? Lol a quest that takes less then 4 hours is a story chapter?

Alright, let's see if I can get all my thoughts down together...

I think we all agree with the glitches section, though I did want to refer to this one.

Below I have included my commentary in italicized form.
Again, we'll go with Yes, I agree until I go into quote form again.
I'm a fan of the separate SVS/PVP servers idea. There's a lot of people that would spend all day in there, I'm sure. Why crowd the regular servers with that lag? The problem I see with this one is the work it would take into establishing those servers, and also these:

As annoying as it is when someone runs away from you in SVS, they should still have that ability to run. Otherwise, why have the full map at all? That's what the Edge of the World is for. Besides, I doubt true privateers would have that nice little rocky arena, and would, in fact, have to search for their prey.

I dislike the 1000 bounty idea. If it's the player's ship, it's the player's ship, and they should have complete control over that. Again, it's annoying if it happens, but it happens. It's up to the individual.

Logging in and out of the servers sounds too tiresome and complicated. A player should just be allowed to switch into the servers. People can't teleport into or out of the battle at the moment anyway. If a person wants to get out, they should just have an End Pirate VS Pirate Mode button.

Also, I'm not fond of the level 40+ idea. Yes, higher level players do need more for them, but that's why we have things like the Queen Anne's Revenge and the Bounty Hunters. I don't think it would provide a very high incentive for leveling up if players were able to search for PVP anyway. If there's going to be fairness in fights between levels, make certain servers level restricted. Server A would be for 1-20, B would be 20-40, and C 40+ (Just shooting out numbers here, not real giant ideas).

And there's my very long, drawn out 2 (it might have made it all the way up to 10, actually) cents. Cheers! :buds:

I agree with a new SvS server. But the server should only have 4 SvS islands. One where tortuga is, another where Port Royal is and One where Ravens Cove is. All wild islands will be PvP islands. Still same name but beside the name is PvP. For example:


Rumrunners Isle(PvP)

In order to get there you must have hull at half health.



There should be new islands, with new ships, with new enemies. And a couple of new ports. and add the old port royla back. Cuba needs redone! What it needs is a small town center like old tortuga had. There should also be a cave there for little pirates to go in and fight.




One wild island should be behind padres. It should have enemies lv20-30 outside on beach. Lv 30-40 enemies in a cave. Connected to it is a small little town that has a path from the beach. It should have a couple high rise apartments that we pirates can go in. A ship wright, 2 gunshops, 2 sword shop, a tailer, a barber shop and a office. Also there will be a place we pirates can work for gold. An auction place where we could trade items for gold like lets a pirat name mark wants to auction his cutlass. People bid thier gold for it. I bid 200. Another bids 250. Then I bid 400. And so on but you half to have a rare item to aucion. Then there should be a fort of lv40-55 Navy and EITC soldiers.

It would look like old port royal too.(The town Center and the Fort that you dont half to go through door.

And then a Port where you can work. Like jobs like these:

1.Bartender
2.


Well i dont want to write anymore ill continue tonight

i agree with you on cuba (not enough there) but port royal is fine. THe island you described could be fit into the current major islands (and tormenta). and its the 17th centary they didn't have high rise apartments. i believe kingshed has a few higher level enemies but any new high level enemies would have to would have to be out of the way or low level pirates would complain

Let me start off saying that I agree with some (Example:Ship Customization) and disagree with others (Example:More Basic Acess), but will not write them all down. With alot of your points, you say, for example: sure new skills would be easy to think up, but do you think they would be easy to make? It would take alot of coding if you wanted more than just 1 or 2 more, this is also a problem in many other of your points. That is (part of) my opinion.

Interesting!
 

The Way I'm gonna do this is by adding my writing in Red...


A last comment. Anyone who does not see or disagrees that the game is in critical condition is blinded by their like/love for POTCO, is showing invalid support for the Developers or is in denial. The game can be way better and i think if we work together by giving the developers the truth, ideas, solutions... it can happen that the game will get better...:Pirate7:

All comments are welcomed and respected, Please continue sharing your opinions, ideas, solutions, etc.:12_1_138:

Well, the devs actually fixed one major bug, which is the flagships flying off to the other side of the world. Since that took 3 years to fix, this might take 20.. lol

My writing in green.

I agree with the Cuba part. I think if any island needs a makeover, it's Cuba. It has some major potential too. I know it doesn't look very big on the outside, but they could make up some kind of story about a volcano or plates shifting under cuba and make it look bigger, then say that the people living on Cuba decided that would be a the perfect time to rebuild it. I'd love to see a forest or two, maybe a cave, a town, and the other kinds of things that most islands have. And it doesn't even have a map. That's another point I'd like to bring up. Some islands are missing maps. For example, KH and Outcast don't have a single map at all. I'm not saying we need them right now, and a KH map would be tricky to build because it has many multiple levels in it's forts. That's all I guess. What do you guys think?

Thats what I mean, you didn't say thats all you want, also that was just an example.

It's worked fine for me.

No. This is simply Disney abiding by the simple laws of physics; two objects heading towards each other at a given speed are bound to collide. And what collision happens, things WILL move. How they move shouldn't even be a concern. I don't see how something like this would make you want to quit sailing for a while; it's a petty feature. Why would you want this fixed? So sailing/SvS would be unnecessarily easier?

Disney isn't going to be that realistic - too much inconvenience. Even though POTCO is a realm of skeletons and staves, there still needs to be room for basic realism somewhere... at least to an extent.

If that's the case then they should fix it to where a LS couldn't possibly move a WF, but if two war frigates collide (or just two things that are around the same size) - NPC or not - they should be able to cause movement.

I agree with you here. The /coin emote should not be taken away when the base cause of the issue was being able to walk through people. After all, you could use /primp for the same means, couldn't you?
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- Yes, please. :]

New skills would always be nice, but if I had to choose between this and a second story quest, I'm choosing the latter.

I agree with the Light Frigate part, but everything else, no. Basic Access is just that: BASIC Access. The purpose of it is to give new players a basic taste of what the game entails; having 20% of the story quest available and, not to mention, 5/6 of the weapons at a basic's disposal betrays Disney's intention for Basic Access.

Are you sure? If I couldn't even acquire a dagger or Thunderbolt ammo, I think that Unlimited Access would be tempting.

A sword, doll and pistol is a pretty basic set up for a Basic player, if you ask me.

You know when you sometimes walk in a store and there are salespeople asking customers to taste test their product? Same concept. Disney is only going to give you a set portion of the story quest because they want basics to be able to sample it. Being able to recruit Carver is a sufficient sample; by this point, basic players should have a good idea of what it's like.

A guild hall would be a nice deal. They have something like this in Shaiya, and the way it's set up there is very convenient and makes for a great way for members to neatly collaborate. But, I don't think that Disney should make this a priority yet. This goes for the bank too. A guild message would be great though. :]

Be thankful that we even have infamy. It may be easy for you if you dedicate so much time into SvS/PvP, but for the mainstream player it takes weeks to attain Admiral/War Master.

If you play any game for an extended period of time and are exposed to any of the features long enough, it's just natural that you grow used to it. That's why we have updates; they might not last forever, but that's why they reoccur.
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I'm sure that there were times when even you've manipulated the full map so you can escape for repairs. It's annoying when they run, but not all of them run so they can hide for hours, and the ones (the MINORITY) who do shouldn't be the basis for a reason to punish the ones who use that distance to repair. It's like using a doll in PvP. It's annoying beyond belief, but what kind of pirates would we be if we 'fought fair' and if we didn't manipulate our environment? ;)

If they earned that bounty, they have the right to reap the benefits of what they worked to achieve. If doing that causes "Hatred and drama", then it's simply a matter of immature players who get bent-out-of-shape over someone using their certain rights in SvS. No matter what you do, there WILL be some people who cause drama - even if what you do is minuscule and insignificant. That's life.

So, since we both established that players tend to go after bounty, then wouldn't it make sense to be able to port if you've acquired a decent amount of what you came after?

I like this.

Annnnnnd those are my thoughts.

1.) I completely agree. This is one of many downgrades that's annoyed me, along with the fact that you can't see holes in sales any more. People have compared their performance on WOW from their performance on POTCO and noticed POTCO was sucking a huge amount of energy from the CPU compared to WOW. If Disney fixes this, any downgrade that was implemented could be reversed very easily.

2.) Once again, I agree. The more skills, the more fun and the more replayability. I think if Disney listened to players more often, we'd see much more with the combat system(while still keeping it simple).

3.) I don't know why it's taking so long for a second story quest to come out but if you look in the phase files, you'll notice that the original Kraken model was scrapped. Actually, the original model was given to Cannons of the Deep(I believe that's the name). However, there are two new pictures of some Kraken skin textures. If there's a second story quest, it most likely will revolve around the Kraken.
http://www.piratesonlineforums.com/g...rakenSkin4.jpg

4.) I think the level of difficulty should increase the farther out you get from port royal and tortuga. This is already the case. The farther out at sea you go the higher level the ships and the more difficult the enemies are on the farther islands. I think this trend should continue.

5.) Again, I agree. This should be implemented just for the sake of diversity amoung the way ships look.

6.) Agreed.

7.) This is a must, IMO. There's actually a build in the phase files that's been there for some time now called guild hall. I think it should be put into the game just so guilds are more interactive.

8.) I don't know about that but I think PVP should be more open to players, such as a PVP island. Actually, there's an unfinished PVP_cove in the phase files...
http://www.piratesonlineforums.com/g...-2011-1367.jpg

For svs, they could give a point multiplier that will never reset. For example, a ship that sinks another ship will get an increase in multiplier. So even when the ship sets sail (as svs) the next time with 0 points, if someone sinks that ship, they would get more points then a ship with less multiplier. Ex. Sinking a ship gives you an extra 0.005 multiplier. Every ship starts at 1 multiplier. So a ship who sank 20 ships in a row will have a multiplier of 1.1. So if another ship sinks that ship and gets 100 score, they would get 110 score instead.

This way, ships with high bounty (from sinking tons of other ships) will give others extra bounty and score when it is sank even if it ldocks and launches again.
To balance this, If you are sank, your multiplier decreases by 0.01 (lowest is 1)

In summery, this is pretty much a permanent bonus to points and bounty a ship receives when it sinks another ship. This would solve the problem of people porting to clear their bounty.

Also, I think each boss should drop a few certain sets of famed items that cannot be found anywhere else (since POTCO does not have enough weapons to have each enemy dropping completely different items like other games). These items will be a little more powerful then normal famed, and should stop the farming of a certain boss.

So SvS is becoming a tad bit more difficult because people have access to the whole map? You'd think that for the more experienced SvS'ers that this shouldn't impede on anything.

Along with your bounty idea infringing upon the right to control the ship - (Seriously, would you want to be told that you couldn't port YOUR ship? A ship that you dedicated money and time for?), what if you have to log off and you're over 1000? To add to this scenario, what if the rest of the crew wants to stop SvS'ing - No one wants to assume control of the ship in your absence? Are you saying that you're going to make every single person on that ship logout because bounty porting is so bad? Well, what if every single person on that ship has somewhere to be (i.e. a guild event) and wouldn't want to bother with the extra loading screens associated with logging out? It would double the time it takes to get where you need to be because of the lag that you already have from SvS.

The bounty idea is an inappropriate fix to an issue that's being over-exaggerated. No one is going to want to stay on a ship forever or logout just because a few people can't tolerate a small number of "plunder and runs".

As for Leadership: I'll take your word for it. You work hard to acquire that skill and if it's going to bust on you like that, it needs to be fixed.

So you're saying that ultimately, the business is failing? How do you know that the lack of freedom for Basics is the reason why they're not buying, leading to POTCO's failure? There are other factors that affect revenue in a business such as advertising success and how the product ITSELF functions; if you're in business that should be known.

Advertising success: Let's face it. How often do you see POTCO commercials? And for those of you who watch Cartoon Network or even more notably, Disney Channel, how often do you see POTCO commercials THERE where the desired audience is most likely to see them? The reason I include this is to point out the fact that I believe you're blaming the lack of business majorly on lack of freedom. Not very many people have knowledge of a game that's not advertised frequently. If it was, I could assure you that this game would rake in a lot more money and have it STAY that way than anything else. If you want to know why I believe Basic expansion is a bad idea, please read my primary post.

Functionality: Lag. Crashes. Not very appealing, correct? Compared to other games, POTCO is a lag metropolis, and there are simple steps that Disney could take to relieve players of this issue. But back to my point, the game itself might be marvelous, but if you're going to freeze and crash on a normal basis (whereas more established games don't have this issue), how many people are going to stay loyal if they just started and are already overwhelmed by lag? Lag in itself is already frustrating for us veterans.

My point is that you can't blame one factor alone for Basics being so turned off; it has nothing to do with Basic expansion. If you ask me, Basics get a lot now as opposed to 2008 when they didn't even have the doll.

I want to contribute to this thread. :) Time to get my opinion out there! Beware: Long speech approaching.

I agree with this, Disney fixed it once, and now it's back again. It needs to be fixed once and for all, as players are cheating with it and making trouble. This bug is worse than the going-through-walls bug with the invisible potion.

I use Leadership all the time, and I haven't had this problem.

Yes, this has happened to me before. What is most annoying is that when I kill the enemy, and they drop loot, I can't get to it because it's behind a wall. I once got a skull chest and couldn't get to it, and that was at Tormenta, so who knows what could have been in it.

Aye, mate. That needs to be fixed. But it be just for being unable to see the ship when looking at the ships to be boarded at the dinghy. It isn't one of the bigger problems in the game.

I use this to get to Darkhart, as the way is pretty long. But those bugs are going to be fixed soon, it's pretty clear. As two of the ways to get to Darkhart have been fixed, at some point we'll have to start going the manual way. I can think of a way to get to El Patron's ship and the mines at Raven's Cove, using this bug. I'm not really a huge fan of that bug, because the ship is meant to be hidden away deep in Raven's Cove. Using this bug removes all the mystery.

I haven't seen this before. Do you mean that you cause damage to your own ship?

What would be more realistic is when a ship crashes into another ship, it does damage, like with ramming speed. It would encourage SvS players to stay off each other...

It's better to go through pirates, because running through players is helpful if there is a large crowd where you are. You'd probably be able to push other pirates around as well, like before, and as you stated above, it would probably be an annoying thing to do. I prefer being able to run through pirates. The coin flip emote is just a small sacrifice to make.

That would be fun, and you could direct your cannons at them. :laughks2: It would generate a lot more lag, though, and with all the ships jumping around because of the lag and everything, it really wouldn't help the game. Though it is a good idea, and I believe you were once able to see other players on their ships...

I think the amount of skills is fine. It isn't one of the more wanted updates, and the game is fine with the skills it has.

Yes, the game needs more quests. I think Disney knows this. We'll just have to wait and see.

The Black Pearl Boss Battle was, I think, designed for players in their early level 40s. The battle has been there before the level cap was raised, so it would seem like it was for lower levels. And it is. Disney are gradually releasing enemies that have levels over 50, as you have probably noticed, because they most likely know what we want.

I couldn't agree more.

The ship types are fine, but I think you should at least be able to pick from a drop-down list of colours and things to make your ship unique. I can't help but feel jealous at those Bounty Hunters... :laughks2:

I don't think this is needed. When I got to level 14 and finished the Basic part of the Black Pearl quest, I immediately wanted Unlimited. The game is mostly made for the paying members, because this site is mostly a tool to get more money.

This isn't on the top of my list. The idea is promising, but guilds are about the pirates, not the power.

Infamy is hard enough to get as it is, in my opinion. I'm still only on about rank 3, and I PvP almost every day. I wouldn't like it if it became harder to attain.

A new SvS isle sounds good, but I don't like the sound of separate servers just for SvS. Andaba is quite a popular server for this, and I don't think SvS is big enough to have its own server(s).

I think one or two servers would be fine, and the idea is very good.

The lower levels wouldn't go to those servers unless they know what they're doing. They would log in once, get beaten quite a lot, realise that they are too low level, and log out again. Also, don't underestimate the low levels. I got beaten by a level 20-something once, and I was about level 46 at the time.

I can't agree with the part in bold. I do not see the game as in critical condition. Every game has its bugs. I'm not falling through the ground every time I run somewhere. I'm not dealing no damage to the enemy I'm attacking. I'm not... etc. Sorry for this mini-rant, but the game is no way in critical condition.

That's the end of my long message. I like your ideas, and most of them should be expanded and then hopefully put into the game. :)

I don't completely agree with this. I think everyone should be able to participate. These "servers"should be made to reduce lag, not limit players. Instead, Svs should be completely removed from the normal servers and added to a single (or 2) servers. The entire server would use a new map. There are no Npc ships, and no other islands, and no other normal ships. The top of the map is the french island, the bottom spanish. The rest is just.... ocean. Maybe allow 35 ships from each team to sail at once. If a ship has not moved for 10 minutes, it is auto ported and the player is returned to a normal server. Players will be able to tp to these servers, which will lead them to either the french of spanish islands. When they look at the public ships, they get 2 tabs: French (which will show only french public ships), and Spanish, which will only show spanish ships.

This should reduce lag by a huge amount for svs, and make it easier to find a svs ship. While for normal sailing, the public ship finder don't have to get clogged up by svs ships.

I agree for pvp. Again, if a player is afk for more then 10 minutes, he's kicked back to normal servers. They could also add the point and bounty system for pvp like svs.

Another pvp idea would be a pvp would be a team pvp, pretty much a land version of svs. You get blue team and red team. When you join, you get to join one of them that you choose. Then you just start fighting the other team. There could also be large rocks to hide behind which ranged weapons cannot shoot through.

My Response...

True, every game has their problems but POTCO has more problems than any other game. You must consider that POTCO is also a pay to play game with the price tag being $10. During The past 6 months, there has not been a month if not a full week that the game has passed without some unannounced shut down or crash. And that is not considering the amount of tech issues and bugs currently in game play. Just recently we had the guild 0 bug and not long before that the game was down and not long before that the same thing...

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The SvS and PVP ideas should be the last concern for everyone as they are just ideas and right now content changes or additions isn't the most expected thing from the developers. The whole SvS and PvP idea was an example to show how the game could be organized based on content to reduce LAG/DELAYS... on other servers as well as in those specific servers. That being said, Please do not take the last part(being Organizing content) so serious or argue it because they are not intended to be added to the game but make a point that the game needs a similar organization of content for it's benefit. Similar to how other games have their Own PVP servers...So please focus more on the first, second and third part than give your own idea of how Content should be Organized on different servers like shown on for the fourth part of the thread.

Also if you want to know more detail about the games Ranking and how it compares to other games, Check this thread- http://www.piratesonlineforums.com/f...ad.php?t=26313

Again, All comments are welcomed and respected. Please continue sharing your opinions, ideas, solutions, etc.:12_1_138:

My idea is that we should add new enemies and flagships.

In the days where you can see the person on thief ships when your on another ship. There was a lot of flagships. Also I'm tired of sitting in the swamp getting my pants wet in Cuba looking at the same boring shipwright and Alligaters. We pirates who stay on Cuba to go to tormenta should see more townfolks.

Also wouldn't it be cool having quicksand. Let's say ur on tortuga talking. Well if you stay there for half a day, you would be going in the sand OR like if you go in certain sandy places, you would have 5 minutes calling for help. There would be an animation of a friendly pirate handing you one end of his belt. You have to click and hold for 10 seconds to get out.

This is just an idea to make the game exciting.

Cuba does need redone though. It needs to look a little more like old Port Royal. And lots of Flowers. That would make my satisfaction.

Well, to be honest, the quicksand thing might not be a good idea. There tend to be more rude pirates nowadays and that means if you're falling in, some of them will just laugh at you saying, "Noob." and let you go under. But, it would be funny if you saw them go under when they said that. :laughks2:

They really need that. The problem starts when players can defeat these in 20 seconds. It's just not "exciting" enough for players to keep playing. Months of hard work from disney turns boring in 1 week. Take a look at some new WoW firelands bosses, and you quickly understand what I mean.

No. If there was a desert island, then yes. You don't get caught in a quicksand on a beach. And it really isn't something worth the weeks for POTCO to make specificly. It doesn't keep players in game. If Potco had lots of time, they could make it on a new island as a part of the island's special features. But Potco does not have that time.


I hope you do not misunderstand me and think I am putting you down intentionally.
But again, i disagree. Cuba really isn't an important island. People go there to reduce sailing distance, not to actually stay there. Its like spending 2 weeks making an inch long mouse in game hidden in some remote area look so real it actually looks real. People aren't going to pay attention to it. Unless tons of quests and bosses are added to make it a central hub for leveling (which they did not do when they remade islands), it really isn't worth the time changing.




I think POTCO should start moving forward, instead of changing the past. Did I want to play more and pay when they redesigned islands? No. They could have taken the chance and remade the main islands into central hubs for leveling, chatting, etc. But they did not. Which means hard work to waste.
However, if they had made 3 entire new islands instead, with new items, would I play more and pay? Yes.

I really believe that the devs of Pirates Online should be more focused on fixing bugs/glitches within the game often rather than continuing producing new content that is usually short and sometimes have "unplayable" settings (The lag).

I also think they should make new content have some kind of long grind to max out an activity such as PvP Infamy or SvS Infamy or fishing, etc.

Players max it out the first day, and that's just not good. The new content they spent weeks creating is boring after the first day. They have to re-work their grind system for these activities.


Bug fixes and performance issues should be addressed first before new content in my opinion.

Time for ol' Davy to say something to this thread! I've seen a lot of good points thrown around on this thread, from various perspectives. Before I go on, you should all take into account that there aren't very many situations that are one definite answer. Remember how many factors need to be taken into account for things, such as choosing whether or not to give basics more freedom or prioritizing bug fixes over new content. Anyway, onto some quoting. It isn't really in any particular order. Just picking some posts and quoting.

I do agree with the others... as for Bounty Porting, people should be able to do it. It is their ship and they should be able to do something with it. And if something comes up and they need to log out, well, not everyone trusts their ship with others. I know I don't, unless its friends or guildmates. I think people should be able to port with their bounties... but how about instead of the Bounty going POOF!, it is given to the person who has the next best score? Let's say the Shadow King has a score of 1000 and a bounty of 500. The Shadow King decides to port with all their bounty. The Dark Phoenix has a score of 900, right behind the Shadow King, and a bounty of 300. When The King ports, its bounty (or at least a good chunk of it) is passed on to the Phoenix. This makes it so that the bounty stays in play, but is just moved.

As for running... honestly, it does get annoying, but I think that people should be able to run. Perhaps I could see some sort of boundary, but not a tiny one. It would probably stretch from Tortuga to Devil's to Kingshead or something. That way you don't have Privateer Battles at Raven's Cove. As for those that have all the hatred: its just immature on their part.

While I don't usually encounter this with Leadership, it happens to me A LOT with all the other skills, especially Full Sail, Open Fire, and Ramming Speed. This doesn't bug me so much in SVS (then again, I don't SvS regularly) as it does in casual sailing. If I'm sailing to escape a Bounty Hunter right on my tail and my Ramming Speed doesn't work, chances are I'll get a full broadside and take some heavy damage. This is a must fix, I agree.

This is an interesting topic... again, there are many things to take into account. While basics should have enough to get a taste of the game, you want them to be limited enough to want unlimited. I am quite neutral on this, actually. But if I were to pick a side, perhaps they could give them just a bit more. Maybe instead of limiting them to crude items, limit them to weapons with X attack or less. Add in the Light Frigate... hardly any Unlimited access players use it anyway. Allow them to get to level ten on the weapons they DO have, but they cannot use weapons that require level 9 or 10. Other than those, I'd say leave it as is. Quests are fine, and shouldn't be altered. Same with weapons they can use.

While I can see where you're coming from, there are again many factors to take into account. I won't try to argue you, because you may be right, but I would really like to see specific reasoning as to why you think this.

In this case, they should add a few more SVS isles. Otherwise we'd have a huge map with only a small part of it being used.

I say that we have a few islands that are PVP, with one that is a regular island with places for people to restock ammo. That way there are more maps to explore and battle in. When they respawn it should be in a simple area that is inaccessible to fighters, so you don't have "spawn killers."

I say just being able to get in and out of the servers by being in a certain area of the server. Having to log in and out is too much of a hassle, and isn't really necessary.

There should just be several servers instead, each one allowing a different level set. As for the motivation, there should instead be less islands in the lower level map and more islands (meaning more maps to explore) in the higher level maps. Perhaps even throw in a few enemies on the maps to be another obstacle. That wouldn't hurt.

Now onto things without quotes:

Lag was brought up. I agree wholeheartedly when I say that the developers need to fix the lag. I know nothing about computer programming, but from what I have heard it is that they have very Out of Date hardware (software too, perhaps) and don't have their servers very "modernized" and whatnot to make them perform better. They are running the game on servers that are designed to run on computers that existed four years ago. I may be wrong. This is what I am assuming.

I've seen a bit about how Cuba should be redone. I am neutral to this, but it wouldn't hurt. I at least would like them to add a minimap to Cuba and the other islands that don't have one. If they did redo Cuba, I could easily see it looking like a town that is a bit dumpy, with a nice and bad side, and then a part that's half submerged in the swamp. Again, I really could care less about what they did with Cuba.

Back to some more quoting. I realize I haven't covered everything. ;)

This glitch should be fixed, but I don't think it should be a priority one to fix. There are other ones that are more harmful to player's game play than this one.

YES. YES YES YES YES YES. YES. This must be fixed! When I go to level at Tormenta bridge it gets VERY annoying when a Kelpbrain falls off a cliff and attacks me from the bottom, where I cannot see or hit him. Even worse are those Spineskulls that never seem to disengage. This is a huge problem with grenade using enemies, as they try to keep away from you so they have space to throw their 'nades. This is a must fix. It honestly cannot be that hard.

Agree. It should be fixed.

I do agree with you that getting rid of these would help make POTCO a glitch free, shiny game, but it is again one of those glitches they don't need to prioritize. At least players are able to use it for something descent (getting to Darkhart, for example). Fix the ones that harm players first. This is a pretty innocent glitch. And if they fix it, they should make an easier way to get to Darkhart. Going through the Quarry and El Sudoron gets tiring.

Yes, the contact should be a bit smoother. Sometimes I have other ships inside my War Frigate when they crash into me. It is annoying. I've heard others say that it should do damage, but just imagine the wondrous griefing that would cause. I go sailing on my quite damaged ship with full royals, along comes a griefer and he rams me, sending me and my royals to the depths.

We should be able to go through each other. If we couldn't, imagine a crowded invasion, a GM event, Abassa Tortuga, a guild party, etc. It just doesn't work out. Instead, make it so that if you are doing an emote, you get your personal bubble back. Otherwise people can go through you. That will not solve everything, but it will greatly minimize things.

Grape shot was fun in SVS when that still was in game. They should make the game less laggy first, though. As DP said, it will generate a lot more lag (more things in one area will take up more physical memory on your computer, which can lead to bad performance if it is bad enough). I do want this back though. It was fun giving a little shout out to a pirate that just saved you from a ship that was going to sink you. Or telling them to let you be if they are stealing your kills. Off-topic, but I remember a time I was leveling cannon (parking ship and shooting at enemies) and a light galleon pulls up and the guy on board starts spamming me crew requests (there was no time where you had to wait after someone declines). After I told him to let me be several times, a Storm Reaper I was going to shoot at sunk him. Good times.

Yes. This also gives more motivation for people to go all the way to level thirty weapons. Perhaps also when you master your weapon, you get a quest to get a "super skill" which is a very powerful move. Or perhaps you can choose a certain move. Either way, more skills would be nice. At least two per weapon. I wouldn't mind a Hex Eater Grenade.

I agree. We have been waiting a long time for another Story Chapter and haven't gotten it. We should get another good Story Chapter. Raven's Cove is a story quest, but not a Story Chapter, for those of you that keep insisting it is. And if it was a Story Quest, it was a pathetic one, size-wise. We should also get more smaller quests that will offer rewards such as gold, rep, skills, clothing, etc.

Yes please. It would be nice for players to be able to pick their own figurehead, masts, sails, hull color, etc. Perhaps they could even give the ship certain skills based on what they give. For example, Figurehead A gives a broadside boost. Figurehead B gives a Hull Boost. This would be nice. It's probably going to come with new ships, which may come soon (I hope).

Guild Halls I don't care too much about, but I think the Bank and Message board would be nice. I don't feel like going into detail, but they could have some sort of limits based on your rank in the guild (ex., Members/Veterans can only withdraw X amount of gold per week; You must be a veteran or up to post on the message board). It would be quite nice for guilds to have this. The one problem is that then certain people wouldn't have to really gain gold anymore. As in, Bob Joe doesn't need to save up for his War Frigate because there is already 100,000 gold in the guild bank. He just needs to get permission to take some out of it.

The Infamy points are fine. Most people have a hard time getting past level three Infamy. Best to leave it as is.

That is my two (hundred) cents on this thread. If you read the whole thing, I will buy you rum.

Here's what needs to be fixed.

-The phantom spirit glitch (where you drink phantom spirits, dance than walk off your ship. Although it is fun)
-Swiftfoot glitch (drag swiftfoot to drink potion. Than quickly right click to drink another swiftfoot potion.)
-tortuga flying and underground glitch.
-port royal empty fort Charles glitch/ underground glitch.
-tormenta rock glitch.
-Padres shortcut to black hart.
-jumping/PvP glitches (Potco tried to fix the PvP glitch but pirates keep finding another way. Sometimes it gets you to The island!!!
-Ravens Cove shortcut to El Patrons Mine. (useful to people who don't have key).
-Galleon/War Frigate inside glitch.
-Not on public, but a person could get on your ship.
-Staff glitches(fire skull is the only one I know)

-Kingshead and fort Charles flying glitch.
-disconnected glitch


That's pretty much all bugs/glitches I know. I think theres more that needs added to this list.

Jumping is high on the list for me. The squeaky wheel gets the oil. Keep submitting feedback in game and via Disney web site.

I sent the link to this thread as feedback to make sure the development team can see what the community thinks about the game's current state and what needs to be improved on.

This game has a lot of potential, I believe that.

I truly believe many of the new items in the game came from the end users asking for it. Some items are out of our control and some of the game changes could solely be based on the development team.

I remember all the complaints about inventory, gold cap, more islands, more quests, more weapons etc. Well we got all of the above. Some things obviously cause major glitches and take more time to be implemented. Some items may never come to the game.

However, we.... as the paying users have to submit feedback. I even called support last night with questions and feedback. I am certain it is taken into account. Strength in numbers.

I will be fearful of this game's survival until something as big as a second story quest along with a Kraken boss battle are delivered.

Minor updates are fine and ship customization would be great but we need something to keep us busy. More islands are useless without quests and new quests are useless without new islands. I'm sure the developers will come through eventually but I fear the game will go down hill unless a second story quest is released before or during the fifth year anniversary.

I mailed them the link to this thread, got a copy and paste message (without the extra input they sometimes give about your idea).
Wouldn't be surprised if the gm back there just hit the "delete" button...

I certainly hope that's not how they handle feedback. They know about this Forum.... and they also know a nice % of their paying members are registered users. Not to mention the non-forum members that view threads for info.

Without paying users the game would either go free with pay for items as others have or cease to exist. Unfortunately I think it would be the second of the two. They need all of our feedback..... Via email, chat, in game and phone. So long as we are paying, we have every right to tell them what we want and how we feel.

Many new products and updates (regardless of what it is) are based on what the consumer wants.

Excellent video.

just thought i would clear something up.....Jumping in pvp isnt a glitch. all your doing is jumping.

now SWIFT FOOT Glitch in pvp. yes that needs to be fixed.

The game went through an unexpected maintenance last night. Not the first time we have seen that happen since ravens cove and other content after it. Lag has always been bad and has increased as time passed and more content was added. Now D is working on something that looks like a major update that we think is ship customization and a new ship.

What do you think of the side effects that this most recent update will have on POTCO's game play?

Do you think their Servers will be able to continue without crashing? Or will D have a plan to solve their problems with this update?

Am I right in thinking there are a few abandoned ships floating about again? A la that weekend of frozen pirates we had earlier in the year?



Kat Truewalker
Grim Englishmen Guild

'Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all.'
Johnny Depp

Aye...... It's back. Or it never quite left completely. I called support and they openly admitted it. They could not provide any time frame for a fix. I certainly hope it is resolved prior to the next update or the Caribbean will be full of abandoned Brigs. Lol

I started a thread about this issue a couple of weeks ago. If you can't find it PM me and I'll send it to you.